The world is ignoring the worsening humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen, the senior UN humanitarian official in the country has warned. Nearly two years of war between a Saudi-led Arab coalition and the Iran-allied Houthi movement has worsened the plight of millions of Yemenis. Even before the start of the conflict in March...
Militants linked to Islamic State (Isis) have come into direct conflict with Israeli forces for the first time in the terror network's history on Sunday (27 November). Terrorists in Syria's south opened fire on a military patrol on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights and fired several mortar shells, before an Israeli...
Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured the largest rebel-held district in eastern Aleppo on Saturday, (26 November) Syrian state media reported. In a statement, the Syrian army said along with allies, it gained control of Masaken Hanano housing district, which is located on the north- eastern front line of...
Egypt’s public prosecutor is to bring nearly 300 suspected Islamic State militants before the country’s military judiciary in one of the biggest trials of alleged violent extremists in recent years. The accused include members of Isis’s networks in Egypt and Saudi Arabia who plotted to kill the Egyptian...
ANKARA — Turkish-backed rebels are just 2 km from the northern Syrian city of al Bab and are expected to take it from ISIS quickly despite some resistance, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. The rebels said on Tuesday they had taken Qabasin, several km northeast of al Bab, to set the stage for an...
Four Americans have been killed in a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan along with 17 wounded. The Hill reported: Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the bombing killed two U.S. service members and two U.S. contractors. In addition to the 16 wounded Americans, the blast also wounded a Polish soldier who was participating...
NASHVILLE — Navy seaman Morris Dennis faced no Nazi gunfire when he landed at Normandy beach on D-Day in 1944. Instead, he came face to face with a thin French girl, who told him, in perfect English that her grandparents were dying of hunger. “She waved for me to come to her,” the 90-year-old World War II...
Two U.S. troops died and two more were wounded in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, after they came under fire from the Taliban while on a mission with Afghan forces. "The service members came under fire during a train, advise and assist mission with our Afghan partners to clear a Taliban position and disrupt the...
The leader of the Islamic State group rallied his militants, especially those in Mosul, to obey orders and remain resilient in a new audio recording, according to a jihadist monitoring group. The man purporting to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi also called on extremists to launch attacks in Turkey and Saudi Arabia in a message lasting...
Vladimir Putin will take advantage of the political hiatus in Washington during the presidential election to launch a full-scale assault on the Syrian city of Aleppo, according to intelligence sources. The Russian leader hopes the distraction will enable him to secure a victory in the rebel-held city by the middle of January,...
An ongoing attack by the Islamic State group in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk has killed at least 46 people, mostly members of the security forces, as Iraq ramps up an offensive to take the terror group's Mosul stronghold. "We have 46 dead and 133 wounded, most of them members of the security services, as result of the...
Russian and Syrian warplanes have suspended air strikes in the Syrian city of Aleppo ahead of a humanitarian pause on Thursday, Russia has said. Mr Shoigu urged rebels and civilians in the besieged eastern area of the city to use humanitarian corridors to leave. Russian warplanes pounded the rebel-held areas of Aleppo shortly...