The United Arab Emirates launched airstrikes Tuesday against the Islamic State group from an air base in Jordan, marking its return to combat operations against the rebels after halting the strikes late last year. The Gulf federation’s official WAM news agency quoted the General Command of the UAE Armed Forces[…]
OPINION-The crisis in Syria is more protracted and dangerous for Jordan than the incident of the burning to death of pilot Maaz Al-Kasaasbeh. This latter crime was hideously carried out on purpose in order to stir an Arab and international uproar and provoke the Jordanians in general. The crime reflects[…]
The bodies of 230 people killed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group have been found in a mass grave uncovered by their relatives in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, a monitoring group has said. The discovery brings the number of members of the Shaitat tribe killed[…]
US President Barack Obama condemned as “pure evil” the Islamic State’s beheading of American aid worker Peter Kassig after the group released a video showing his body Sunday. Kassig’s parents said they were “heartbroken” by their loss after IS made public the recording in a warning to Washington as it[…]
preliminary deal between Baghdad and Iraq’s Kurdish region on long-running financial disputes has reduced a threat to national unity, the oil minister said Friday. Baghdad has long opposed the three-province autonomous region’s independent export of oil, while Kurdish leaders have criticised Baghdad for withholding budget payments. In a first move[…]
Eight Iraqi soldiers were killed in fighting with jihadists south of Baghdad as the army battled to secure the route used by hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims, officers said Saturday. Pilgrims taking part in Ashura commemorations, which mark the death of Imam Hussein, one of the most revered figures[…]
Senior US officials have said they are considering an Iraqi request for more American military advisers to help Iraqi security forces in their campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. The request came up in meetings that Antony Blinken, deputy national security adviser, and other[…]
Kurdish defenders of the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane awaited reinforcements Wednesday after weathering another onslaught by Islamic State rebels. Fighting appeared to have diminished after a fierce attack begun by IS fighters almost 48 hours earlier, including suicide bombers, witnesses and monitors said. IS rebels in east Kobane[…]
Three US girls were detained in Frankfurt and sent home, amid speculation they were travelling to join Islamic State rebels in the Middle East. They were sent back to their families in Denver, Colorado at the weekend, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Tuesday in Washington.[…]
The American military airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies Sunday to Kurds fighting the Islamic State group in the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobane, in a move that could anger ally Turkey. It is the first time the US has made airdrops to Kurdish fighters defending Kobane and it represents[…]
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