Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials have disclosed that the coalition airstrikes have killed seven senior Islamic State…
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“Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it’s one of the least ‘brave’ or courageous modes of warfare…
United Nations (UN) Security Council has given its backing to Libya’s new government of national unity, a move it hopes…
A middle-aged American citizen who had been fighting for al-Shabab in Somalia has fled the group after angering its leadership…
A prominent Nigerian bishop has said Muslims need to stop denying that Boko Haram terrorists have nothing to do with…
Jihadists killed at least 31 rival rebels in northern Syria as clashes raged on a new front in the country’s brutal war, a monitor said Sunday, citing insurgents and medics. Fighting flared on Friday between rebels and forces loyal to the Islamic State…
A newly formed Syrian rebel alliance has declared war on the powerful Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and joined other opposition groups in battling the extremists. “We, the Army of the Mujahideen, pledge to defend ourselves…
Al-Qaeda-linked militants were on Thursday in control of more than half of the Iraqi city of Fallujah and parts of Ramadi, a security official and witnesses said. “Half of Fallujah is in the hands of ISIL (the Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and…