During and after the crimes on the Syrian coast, two voices were raised. One was the voice of the people (yes, the people- without quotation marks), and it broke into several sharp sectarian voices, ...

U.S. officials seek to curb the militants’ attacks on ships in the Red Sea, but the group was not deterred by strikes in the ...

Challenges include uniting a patchwork of rebel groups, gaining control over multiple regions and rebuilding relations with ...

A retired Chemical Corps major defended freedom on the Korean Peninsula and served in the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

The number of voluntary Syrian returns has reached 145,639 since December, when longtime dictator Bashar Assad fell, ushering ...

The Yemeni group pledged support for Gaza and militant group Hamas after the war broke out on October 7, 2023. After this, ...

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US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces eliminated ISIS’s second-in-command Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known by his alias “Abu Khadijah,” on Thursday in western Iraq, the organization ...

A senior Islamic State (IS) group leader in Iraq and Syria, Abdullah Makki Muslih al-Rufayi, also known as Abu Khadija, was eliminated in an operation by Iraqi security forces. The operation was ...

ERBIL — A senior Islamic State (IS) leader, identified as Abdullah Maki Muslih Rafei, also known as "Abu Khadija," was killed in a joint operation by Iraqi forces and the US-led coalition, Iraqi Prime ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A delegation from Iraq's Ministry of Electricity will soon visit Turkmenistan to finalize an agreement to import 14 million cubic meters of natural gas, an official from ...