The Orlando nightclub gunman, 29-year-old US citizen Omar Mateen, who voiced his allegiance to Islamic State, was able to legally purchase an entire arsenal of guns and perpetrate the massacre despite several FBI interrogations over alleged links to terror suspects. Following the deadly shooting spree in Orlando, Florida, local FBI[…]
Air strikes have killed at least 27 people in rebel-held areas in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, a monitoring group has said. At least 21 people, five of them children, were killed in raids, including on a marketplace, in Idlib city, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.[…]
About 700 women and girls are among the 5,000 Tunisians who have been recruited by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other armed groups. As they travel to countries such as neighbouring Libya, they leave behind their families who quickly become distraught about their loss. “There’s[…]
At least 53 people, including children, have been killed in government air strikes in Syria’s Aleppo city, activists have said. Dozens of barrel bombs – oil drums or cylinders packed with explosives and shrapnel – were dropped by military helicopters on the heavily populated al-Qatriji neighbourhood, the Syrian Observatory for[…]
Reports say at least 130 Iraqi soldiers have been killed in a series of attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group near the city of Fallujah in Anbar province. The first attack happened at dawn on Wednesday when 10 suicide bombers belonging to ISIL, also known[…]
Iraqi special forces have launched an assault on one of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group’s strongholds, Fallujah, facing stiff resistance with the group launching suicide attacks. The assault was launched in the early hours of Monday morning. “Iraqi forces entered Fallujah under air cover from[…]
Iraqi forces have surrounded Fallujah and completed the first phase of their assault to retake the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) armed group, officials have told Al Jazeera. Hundreds of people fled the besieged city about 60km west of the capital, Baghdad, on Friday[…]
US Special Forces operatives have been photographed fighting alongside the Kurdish militia in northern Syria in a drive against the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa. The Pentagon insists the Americans are there in “advise and assist” capacity only, however. A photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) took pictures of the American[…]
Russia has called for a temporary truce to begin in two towns in the Damascus countryside after multiple attacks in northwestern Syria killed at least 150 people. The Russian defence ministry wants the truce in the towns of Daraya and Eastern Ghouta to begin on Tuesday and last for 72[…]
World powers are ready to consider demands from Libya’s new unity government for exemptions from a UN arms embargo and militarily equip it in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) and other groups. The joint decision, announced by US Secretary[…]
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