Israel, Hamas exchange rockets as tension soars to new heights
Militants from Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel and Israeli aircraft carried out strikes in Hamas-ruled…
Browsing Tag
militants
Egypt’s Mubarak testifies in ousted president Morsi’s retrial in jailbreak…
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak testified on Wednesday in the re-trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi…
Palestinian militants agree truce after exchange of fire with Israel
The Israeli frontier with Gaza fell silent on Saturday under what Palestinians described as an Egyptian-mediated…
Officer killed, three soldiers seized in west Iraq: sources
An army officer was killed and three soldiers were captured in western Iraq after militants attacked their vehicle,…
Islamists militants attack African military base in Mali
Islamist militants armed on Friday with rockets and explosives raided the headquarters of an African military…
Egypt condemns deadly attack on Libya’s Electoral Commission in Tripoli
Egypt condemns deadly attack on Libya's Electoral Commission in the capital of Tripoli
Britain’s May tells troops in Cyprus that Islamic ‘caliphate’ crushed
Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday told British forces in Cyprus that they should be proud of helping to crush…
Yemeni army pushes Houthis from outpost in southern Yemen
The Yemeni army and allied fighters on Friday drove Houthi militants from a town that was one of the last…
Ministry: Egypt security forces kill 11 suspected militants in raid
Egyptian security forces have killed 11 suspected militants in a shootout near the Sinai, the interior ministry…
Sisi pledges sacrifices of Western Desert police victims of terrorism ‘will not go…
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the sacrifices of Egyptian security forces killed by militants on…
Philippine president declares Marawi liberated as battle goes on
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared the southern city of Marawi liberated from pro-Islamic State…
Russia accuses U.S. of pretending to fight IS in Syria, Iraq
Russia accused the United States on Tuesday of pretending to fight Islamic State and of deliberately reducing its…
Syria’s deadliest month of 2017 claims 3,000 lives
Syria's war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the deadliest month of the conflict…
Russia says Syria government seized most territory from ISIS
Russia's military said Tuesday that Syrian troops have liberated about 85 percent of the war-torn country's…
A number of Egypt’s policemen killed and injured in North Sinai attack
A terrorist attack by militants on a police convoy near Arish city in North Sinai on Monday has killed and wounded…
10 militants dead, 9 policemen wounded in Cairo shootout: report
Ten militants were killed and nine policemen were injured on Sunday in a shootout in central Cairo's Agouza…
Syrian army, allies seize oilfield from ISIS in east: state TV
Syria's army and its allies recaptured an oilfield from Islamic State near the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on…
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 declare offensives on ISIS at Syrian border
The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with…
Battles between Philippine extremists, government-backed separatists kill 25
Fighting between government-backed separatist rebels and pro-Islamic State militants have killed at least 25…
Lebanon’s army prepares to clear border area of ISIS militants
Lebanon’s U.S.-backed military is gearing up for a long-awaited assault to dislodge hundreds of Islamic State (IS)…
US says aircraft to help Philippines fight pro-ISIS militants
The United States has been providing the Philippines with surveillance capabilities, training, information and…
Turkey warns new military moves in Syria imminent
Turkey's president reiterated Saturday that new cross-border operations into Syria are in the works as the country…
After Mosul, Islamic State digs in for guerrilla warfare
Islamic State militants began reinventing themselves months before U.S.-backed Iraqi forces ended their three-year…
Lebanese PM says army to carry out operation at Syria’s border
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Tuesday the army would carry out an operation in an area of the…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
Syrians say militants shoot escapees, air strikes kill civilians as Raqqa battle…
Islamic State militants in Raqqa are passing themselves off as civilians to try to avoid intensifying air strikes…
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…
Revenge for Sinjar: Syrian Kurds free Islamic State slaves
Islamic State militants enslaved Noura Khalaf for three years, dragging her from her small Iraqi village across…
Suspected al Qaeda militants attack Yemen army camp, 12 dead
Suspected al Qaeda militants made a car-bomb and gun attack on an army camp in southeastern Yemen early on Monday,…
Afghan civilians killed as US soldiers open fire after bomb attack: official
Three Afghan civilians from one family were killed early on Monday morning when American troops opened fire after…
Philippines says militants had planned much larger-scale attack
Philippines troops thwarted an original plan drawn up by the Islamist militants now holed up in Marawi City to…
Philippine troops find stash of banknotes as fighters pull back
Philippines troops found bundles of banknotes and cheques worth about $1.6 million abandoned by Islamist…
US-backed forces capture IS-held town near Syria’s Raqqa: monitor
U.S.-backed forces took over a town west of Raqqa from Islamic State on Friday as they advance towards the…
Egyptian army kills three militants in central Sinai raid
Egyptian soldiers have killed three highly dangerous militants in a raid in the central part of the Sinai…
Philippines deploys helicopters in battle to retake city from Islamist rebels
Troops backed by attack helicopters battled dozens of militants linked to the Islamic State group holed up in a…