Protesters in Afghanistan stormed the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday, carrying the coffins of seven civilians from the Hazara Shiite minority, recently beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorists.
The Russian government provided the United Nations with an 18-month plan to end the Syrian civil war. Syrian opposition groups resist the plan, as it makes no mention of a transition process for President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump spoke in praise of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin during Tuesday night’s Republican debate in Milwaukee, insisting that he was “all for” Moscow’s actions in Syria against ISIS.
Dr. Ben Carson, a GOP presidential frontrunner and retired neurosurgeon, expressed foreign policy aptitude during Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate.
The Assyrian Army is in dire need of military support from the United States to protect Christian communities in Iraq and Syria against the genocide they are facing at the hands of the barbaric Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to a decorated American military veteran advising the force.
Ongoing Taliban infighting between two rival factions in southern Afghanistan has left at least 50 terrorists from both sides dead, Al Jazeera learned from a police chief.
Arab allies have largely abandoned the U.S.-led air campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria as America gets ready to escalate airstrikes against the jihadist group, reports The New York Times (NYT).
Abu Osama Al Masri (also referred to as Sheikh Osama al Masri), has been identified by intelligence sources as the likely mastermind behind the attack on a Russian airliner that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in late October, killing all 224 passengers on board.
After the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) captured Sinjar, the surviving Yazidis fled onto Mount Sinjar. A year later, those forced from their homes will do anything to take back everything stolen by the terrorist group.
For just a $30 fee, security measures can be completely waived for passengers traveling through the Sinai’s Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, from where a Russia-bound jet took off in late October and crashed a few hundred miles into its route, killing all 224 people on board.
The war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has reportedly presented an old gun shop in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital of Erbil with opportunities for new streams of revenue.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has issued a report accusing Shiite militias in Iraq of using child soldiers to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The terrorist group is widely known for also using this practice.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, while addressing the Reagan National Defense Forum, said the United States needs “much more than airstrikes” to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) showed Reuters a report that claims the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and another rebel group in Syria used chemical weapons.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) launched a relatively rare attack behind Kurdish lines in northern Iraq, briefly occupying a local government compound located in the vicinity of several oil-producing fields.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly 9 out of 10 airstrikes launched by the Russian military in Syria have hit so-called moderate rebels opposed to the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, killing civilians as well as destroying hospitals and shelters in the process, a senior U.S. State Department official told lawmakers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s Arab allies have discussed deploying their own ground forces to Syria to combat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), a senior U.S. State Department official told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Contents: US, Britain suggest ISIS bomb brought down Russian plane in Egypt; Plane bombing threatens Russia’s Syria strategy
10 Downing Street issued a statement suggesting a bomb might have caused the destruction of a Russian plane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
According to U.S. officials, satellite imagery shows a heat flash immediately before a Russian plane crashed into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. This evidence could disprove the theory the plane was shot down by a missile.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon lacks a reliable system to gauge whether the Afghan security troops are an effective fighting force capable of holding its ground against the enemies of Afghanistan, such as the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports a congressionally appointed watchdog agency.
Contents: Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) continues plan to exterminate Shias; Pakistan’s LeJ anti-Shia terror group may have links to ISIS; History of sectarian violence in Pakistan since Partition
The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization published a new video Sunday in its latest anti-Jewish propaganda series of clips, threatening to go to war against Israel and Jews as a whole.
Contents: Erdogan’s party in Turkey wins landslide victory; How Turkey changed in five months
