Egypt recovers 13 looted artefacts from UK, Germany
Egypt has recovered 13 ancient artefacts from the United Kingdom and Germany, including a limestone funerary stela,…
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Ancient Egyptian royal tomb unearthed in Sohag
An Egyptian-American archaeological mission from the University of Pennsylvania uncovered a royal tomb from the…
U.S.-led coalition reports recent air strikes on ISIS in Syria
The U.S.-led coalition in Syria conducted air strikes last week that destroyed facilities used by Islamic State,…
Iraq carries out air strikes on ISIS in Syria
Iraq carried out Thursday air strikes on Islamic State positions in Syria a week after Prime Minister Haider…
Egypt’s Sisi discuss Syrian crisis with Russian Putin, confronting terrorism
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discussed the latest developments in the Syrian crisis in a phone call with…
Iran President Rouhani declares end of ISIS
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani declared on Tuesday the end of the so-called Islamic State militant group. Rouhani…
Qatar suggests Gulf rift hurts fight against ISIS
Qatar’s foreign minister suggested Tuesday that measures taken by Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states in their…
Syrian army encircles ISIS in al-Mayadin: source
Syria’s army and its allies have encircled Islamic State in the city of al-Mayadin, southeast of Deir al-Zor, in…
ISIS submits to ceasefire in Syria-Lebanon border fight
A ceasefire took effect on Sunday in an Islamic State pocket straddling the Syria-Lebanon border, where the…
Iraq starts offensive to take back Tal Afar from ISIS
Iraqi security forces launched on Sunday an offensive to take back the city of Tal Afar, their next objective in…
Lebanese army, Hezbollah launch offensives on ISIS at Syrian border
The Lebanese army launched Saturday an offensive against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with…
Iraq collectively punishing ISIS families: HRW
Human Rights Watch has accused Iraqi security forces of forcibly relocating at least 170 families of alleged…
ISIS tightens grip on village near Mosul after defeat
Islamic State has captured most of a village south of Mosul despite losing control of its stronghold in the city,…
Egypt’s Interior Ministry kills 6 militants in Asyut, ISIS ideologists
Six militants were killed in an un-populated area of Upper Egypt’s governorate of Asyut for terrorist related…
Iraqi PM formally announces victory over ISIS in Mosul
Iraq's prime minister declared Monday victory over Islamic State in Mosul, three years after the militants seized…
Iraqi army says Mosul victory imminent,ISIS vows ‘fight until death’
Islamic State militants vowed to "fight to the death" in Mosul on Saturday as Iraqi military commanders said they…
U.S. strongly condemns Egypt’s deadly Sinai attack
The United States said Friday it was strongly condemning the attack in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that killed at least…
Iraq forces battle ISIS in Mosul after PM fetes ‘victory’
Iraqi forces battled the last Islamic State (ISIS) militant group holdouts in Mosul on Wednesday, a day after the…
ISIS fights fiercely in shrinking Iraqi, Syrian strongholds
Western-backed forces edged into the final redoubts of the two capitals of Islamic State's self-declared…
Trump’s road to MENA stability runs through an increasingly rocky Egypt
With the world's attention focused on perennial Middle East hotspots like Iraq and Syria, foreign policy experts…
ISIS blows up historic Iraq’s Mosul mosque where it declared ‘caliphate’
Islamic State militants on Wednesday blew up the Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul and its famous leaning minaret,…
Philippines says Islamist fighters trapped in corner of besieged town
Islamist militants holed up in a southern Philippines town have been cornered and their firepower is flagging,…
Russia says may have killed ISIS leader; West and Iraq doubtful
Moscow said on Friday its forces may have killed Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air strike in…
Philippines says arrests senior member of ISIS-backed Maute group
The Philippines military said it arrested one of the Maute brothers on Thursday, a senior member of the Islamic…
Three US troops killed, one injured by Afghan soldier: officials
Three American soldiers were killed and one injured on Saturday when an Afghan soldier shot them in eastern…
U.S. joins battle as Philippines takes losses in besieged city
U.S. special forces have joined the battle to crush Islamist militants holed up in a southern Philippines town,…
Egypt’s Azhar supports severing relations with Qatar
Egypt's Al-Azhar declared its full support for the decision to boycott states that support terrorism,…
US-backed Syrian force starts battle to capture Raqqa from ISIS
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday it had begun a battle to capture Raqqa, Islamic…
Iraqi forces seize four districts in Mosul’s ISIS-held enclave
U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Friday captured one of the four districts making up the Islamic State-held enclave in…
Senator McCain says Putin bigger threat than ISIS
U.S. Senator John McCain said Russian President Vladimir Putin is a bigger threat to global security than ISIS,…
Saudi Arabia saves no effort in supporting Egypt’s fight against terrorism: King Salman
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, in a phone call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, reaffirmed that his…
Pope of peace denounces barbarity during Egypt visit
Pope Francis, making a two-day visit to Egypt, urged Muslim leaders on Friday to unite in renouncing religious…
PM Ismail extends state of emergency in Egypt’s North Sinai
Egypt's Prime Minister Sherif Ismail ordered on Wednesday the extension of the state of emergency in designated…
ISIS claims responsibility for firing missile into Israel from Sinai
The Islamic State (ISIS) militant group has claimed responsibility for firing a grad missile from Sinai into…
Seven suspected ISIS followers killed in Egypt: security forces
Egypt security forces have killed seven suspected Islamic State (ISIS) group sympathisers thought to be planning…
Egypt stocks plunge after two church deadly attacks
Egyptian stocks dropped on Sunday, hurt by two deadly bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in the…
ISIS claims responsibility for two Egypt church bombings –agency
Islamic State was responsible for two church attacks in Egypt occurred earlier on Sunday that killed at least 36…
Muslim Brotherhood involved in forming ISIS: Egypt’s delegation in US
The Egyptian Popular Diplomacy delegation met with the U.S. Congress judicial committee on Saturday to assess a…
ISIS beheads 2 for sorcery in Egypt’s Sinai
Islamic State's (ISIS) branch in the Sinai Peninsula posted a video on Tuesday depicting the beheading of two men…
ISIS counter-attacks to defend north Syria stronghold
Clashes raged around a key northern Syrian town on Tuesday after the Islamic State (IS) militant group launched a…