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The Battle for Mosul, in One Image

23 October 2016

By SARAH ALMUKHTAR and TIM WALLACE Raging fires and smoke marked a satellite image on Thursday of Mosul, Iraq, revealing the main thrust of the battle to retake the Islamic State stronghold. Iraqi and Kurdish forces pushed toward the city on three fronts, aided by […]

Report: Fadel Shaker Wants Security Agencies’ Assistance to Run to Qatar

5 September 2016

Singer turned salafist Fadel Shaker, an affiliate of detained extremist cleric Ahmed al-Asir, has requested the security apparatuses to facilitate his travel to Qatar, As Safir daily reported on Monday. “Repentant singer and fugitive Fadel Shaker has asked the security agencies (in Lebanon) to facilitate […]

48 Dead, Dozens Hurt in IS-Claimed Blasts across Syria

5 September 2016

Bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens in mainly government-controlled areas of Syria on Monday, a day after IS lost the last stretch of the Syria-Turkey border under its control. The deadliest in the wave of blasts […]

Report: Man Threatened to Kill Obama, Burn Mosque

30 August 2016

Officials have arrested a Massachusetts man after he allegedly threatened to burn down a mosque and to attack President Obama. According to the local reports, 40-year-old Joseph Garguilo, of Holliston, will appear in Boston court Monday on the charges. Officials say he told a friend […]

Lebanese army arrests Islamic State suspects – security sources

6 August 2016

BEIRUT: The Lebanese army arrested several members of Islamic State in a raid that erupted into a firefight in the north of the country on Thursday, a security source said. Local media said one suspect died of his wounds. Four men, two Syrians and two […]

Azzi says international community should help turn displaced Syrians to Syria

5 August 2016

NNA – Labor Minister, Sejaan Azzi, on Tuesday said that the international community and associations concerned with the displaced Syrians must work on turning back displaced people to their homeland by finding a peaceful location for them in Syria so as to avert a clash […]

Lebanon to introduce biometric passports

5 August 2016

BEIRUT: Lebanon will introduce biometric passports in August, a statement issued Thursday by the Lebanese General Security said . A biometric passport, also known as an electronic passport, contains embedded information that can be used to identify a traveler such as his fingerprints, retinal scan […]

How an Elite New York Police Unit Rehearses for a Terrorist Attack

31 July 2016

In the winding hallways and stuffy rooms of an old factory in Brooklyn, under bulbs flickering as if in a horror movie, an elite new police unit prepares, over and over again, for the attack it knows is coming. Day after day, the officers comb […]

Soldiers Calm French Nerves, but Are Paying a Steep Price

25 July 2016

Day in and day out for the past 18 months, two or three French soldiers have been posted by the doors of a small synagogue on the Rue St.-Lazare in central Paris, where they have become as much of a fixture as the bar on […]

String of Attacks in Europe Fuels a Summer of Anxiety

25 July 2016

Nearly every day seems to bring a new horror to the streets of Western Europe, leaving innocent men, women and children dead or broken, fueling political and social tensions and creating what some are already calling the summer of anxiety. Death and injury have been […]

As ISIS Loosens Grip, U.S. and Iraq Prepare for Grinding Insurgency 152

25 July 2016

The Islamic State’s latest suicide attack in Baghdad, which killed nearly 330 people, foreshadows a long and bloody insurgency, according to American diplomats and commanders, as the group reverts to its guerrilla roots because its territory is shrinking in Iraq and Syria. Already, officials say, […]

Turkey: Soldiers thought it was an exercise

17 July 2016

678 soldiers and ten officers, led by a colonel, were arrested at Ataturk International Airport. Under interrogation, many soldiers stated that they had no idea they were taking part in a coup, rather that they were taking part in a military exercise. Nevertheless, the authoritarian […]