At least 11 Iraqi security personnel were killed Saturday in a quadruple suicide car bombing near Baiji that the Islamic State (ISIS) group said four of its foreign fighters carried out. Police and army sources said the four car bombs were unleashed on security targets in Hajjaj, which lies on the road between Tikrit
A Syrian rebel alliance has pushed Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists further away from one of its key supply routes from neighboring Turkey, a monitoring group said Saturday. The Islamist rebels ousted ISIS from the village of Al-Bal, which it captured on Tuesday, threatening the Bab al-Salama border crossing, just 10 kilometers (six miles)
UNESCO on Friday condemned the destruction of ancient houses described as a "jewel" of Islamic urban landscape in an alleged Saudi-led air strike on the Yemeni capital's old quarter that killed five people, AFP reports. The incident occurred before Yemen's warring factions are to meet Sunday for UN-sponsored talks in Geneva. The coalition
Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas inaugurated a Palestinian embassy in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Thursday, the Ma’an news agency reported. Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic as well as several Arab ambassadors and the PA ambassador to Serbia attended the opening. After the meeting, President Nikolic reportedly announced that Serbia "would like
World powers are prepared to accept a nuclear agreement with Iran that does not immediately answer questions about past atomic weapons work, American and Western officials said Thursday, according to The Associated Press (AP). After a November 2013 interim accord, the Obama administration said a comprehensive solution "would include resolution of questions concerning the
The Islamic State (ISIS) group Thursday released a propaganda documentary marking a year since it captured Mosul and recounting its surprise at how easily it took over Iraq's second city. The film glamorizes the founding moment of the "caliphate" ISIS proclaimed less than three weeks later as an epic conquest but it also further
A new research article citing Arabic media sources reveals that Qatar is backing Jibril Rajoub, who was behind the recent failed Palestinian Authority (PA) effort to ban Israel at FIFA, as a replacement for Mahmoud Abbas as PA chairman when - and if - he steps down. Pinhas Inbar made the revelation on Tuesday in
Syrian Kurdish fighters advanced towards the Islamic State (ISIS) group-held town of Tal Abyad on the Turkish border on Thursday, backed by US-led coalition strikes, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) forces backed by Arab rebel fighters "stormed the town of Suluk and took control
Following Islamic State's (ISIS) gruesome tradition, an affiliate of the terrorist group operating in the Sinai Peninsula has released a flashily produced execution video of an alleged "Israeli spy" being forced to dig his own grave in the desert. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, the Sinai terror group that last November pledged allegiance to ISIS and
Turkey on Thursday said it was taking measures to limit the flow of Syrian refugees onto its territory after an influx of thousands more over the last days due to fighting between Kurds and jihadists. Under an "open-door" policy championed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has taken in 1.8 million Syrian refugees since
