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Egypt FM: Arab League labeled Hezbollah ‘acts’ terrorist, not group
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stated Sunday that the recent Arab League resolution had labeled certain…
UAE jails 11 for life over ‘terror plots’
A top court in the United Arab Emirates has jailed 11 people for life Sunday after convicting them of Islamist…
Syria forces retake Palmyra in major victory over IS group
Syrian troops backed by Russian forces recaptured the famed ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State group…
Syria army retakes Palmyra citadel, IS group number two ‘dead’
The Islamic State group suffered a double setback in Syria Friday as army troops recaptured half of the ancient…
Suicide bomber kills 26, wounds 71 south of Baghdad
A suicide attacker detonated an explosive belt in a park outside Baghdad on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding…
IS tells civilians in Syria’s Palmyra to flee
The Islamic State group called on the 15,000 or so civilians still living in Palmyra to leave the famed ancient…
Iraq launches operation to retake second city Mosul from IS
Iraqi troops and militia launched a long-awaited operation on Thursday to recapture second city Mosul from…
Syria regime forces close in on IS group-held Palmyra
Syrian pro-government forces were poised to launch an assault to retake the Islamic State group-held city of…
IS group: ‘black days’ in return for aggression against it
Islamic State claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks that killed at least 30 people in Brussels on Tuesday,…
U.S. strikes al Qaeda training camp in Yemen, killing dozens
The U.S. military launched an air strike on Tuesday in the mountains of Yemen against a training camp run by al…