Hassan Shami, Iraq - A decade after Islamic State group extremists rampaged through northern Iraq, Moaz Fadhil and his eight children finally returned to their village after languishing for years in a displacement camp. Their home, Hassan Shami, is just a stone's throw from the tent city where they had been living,...
IS attack on bus kills 23 Syrian soldiers: monitor
Despite losing their last piece of territory in Syria in 2019, IS has maintained hideouts in the vast Syrian desert from which it has carried out ambushes and hit-and-run attacks. Its members in recent weeks have increased their attacks in Syria's north and northeast.
US, Saudi Arabia urge Western nations to repatriate IS militants
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Riyadh and Washington urged Western governments Thursday to repatriate citizens who joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, where thousands still languish in prisons or camps. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said it was "disheartening and absolutely unacceptable" that some wealthy countries had not...‘Suspected IS attack in Syria death toll rises to 68’
The death toll from an attack blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria has risen to 68, a war monitor said, the deadliest attack in over a year. "A total of 61 civilians and seven soldiers have been killed in the attack," said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the...
More than 50 killed in Syria attack blamed on Islamic State
In one of the deadliest attacks carried out by the IS this year, some 53 people were killed on Friday in an ambush in central Syria. According to the director of Palmyra hospital, those killed were 46 civilians and seven soldiers. State television said that the slain were truffle hunting...
IS claims deadly attack in Egypt Suez Canal city
Three Egyptian policemen were killed in the attack, the first of its kind in nearly three years in mainland Egypt, which has largely been spared the deadly insurgency in the nearby Sinai peninsula.
10 oil field workers killed in Syria attack, says state media
BEIRUT, LEBANON - An attack in eastern Syria killed 10 oil field workers, state news agency SANA reported on Friday, a day after Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced an offensive against the Islamic State. In addition to the nearly dozen dead, "two others have been wounded in a terrorist attack that targeted...
Rockets target US Syria base in latest strike: Centcom
Beirut, Lebanon—Two rockets targeted a US patrol base in northeastern Syria late Friday, the third such attack in nine days, US Central Command said. Centcom did not indicate who fired the rockets but said, in a statement, that they aimed at "coalition forces at the US patrol base in Al-Shaddadi, Syria"....
US to return 3,500-year-old ‘Gilgamesh’ tablet to Iraq
It was seized by the US Justice Department in 2019, two years after US billionaire David Green opened a museum dedicated to ancient Christian history.
