Almost 100 people were just indiscriminately killed near Syria's capital —...
The death toll from an airstrike by the Syrian government on a market in Douma, northeast of Damascus, neared 100, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday, a day after one of the single...
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While many lone-wolf terrorists and supporters of the Islamic State are depicted as isolated loners, the terror group has been stunningly efficient at radicalizing seemingly smart and well-adjusted...
View ArticleThis family is heading the Yazidis' fight against ISIS
DUHOK, Iraq — Harbiya Hassan learned how to shoot when she was just 10 years old.Growing up in the treacherous environment of Iraq’s Sinjar district, her father thought she should know how to defend...
View ArticleAssad's army is gaining ground in Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces recaptured four northwestern villages on Tuesday in a counter-attack on insurgents threatening strongholds of President Bashar al-Assad, a monitor...
View ArticleWe are witnessing 'a better recruiting tool for ISIS than any propaganda'
While many in the West focus on combating the Islamic State's online propaganda, some are overlooking the most effective recruiting tool the group has — atrocities committed by the regime of Syrian...
View ArticleISIS executed the top archaeologist in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra
Islamic State (IS) militants beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site, Syria's antiquities chief said on...
View ArticleHow designers around the world photoshopped this model when they were told to...
UK based Superdrug Online Doctor hired female graphic designers in 18 countries to retouch the same portrait of a woman to become more attractive to their culture. The shocking responses show the...
View Article10 experts give their opinions on the war on ISIS
In August 2014 the United States joined the war against the Islamic State (IS).The massacre and enslavement of the Yazidi population in the Sinjar district of Iraq’s Ninewa province prompted Washington...
View ArticleIsrael just launched strikes into Syria
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rockets hit an Israeli village near the Lebanese border on Thursday and Israel struck back in the Syrian Golan Heights, saying the rare salvo had been launched there by an...
View ArticleIsraeli jets pounded Syria after after cross-border rocket fire
AMMAN/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said it killed at least five Palestinian militants in an air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights on Friday, after cross-border rocket fire from Syria prompted the...
View ArticleA US airstrike killed ISIS' No. 2 in command
OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) — The Obama administration says the No. 2 leader of the Islamic State militant group is dead, killed in a U.S. military air strike in Iraq earlier this week.National Security...
View ArticleGreece is running out of places to shelter its refugees
Greece ferried hundreds of refugees to its mainland on Friday to relieve the pressure on outlying islands that have been overwhelmed by thousands of people arriving by boat to flee Syria's civil war.At...
View ArticleSyria's Assad is unleashing 'a systematic campaign of attacks against hospitals'
In an absolutely horrific drive to undermine Syrian rebels at any cost, the regime of President Assad has launched a concerted and systematic campaign of airstrikes against hospitals in...
View ArticleTeenage Chechen girls found a simple way to undermine ISIS recruiters
Last month, it was reported that a group of teenage girls in Chechnya catfished their ISIS recruiters.The girls tricked their jihadist suitors into sending them money online on the false premise that...
View ArticleISIS has reportedly blown up one of the most important temples in the ancient...
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Islamic State militants on Sunday blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country's...
View ArticleUS and Turkey to launch 'comprehensive' anti-ISIS operation
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and the United States will soon launch "comprehensive" air operations to flush Islamic State fighters from a zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlut...
View ArticleRussia's war against terrorism isn't what it seems
Despite the lukewarm relations at the best of times, it has been a geopolitical touchstone that Russia and the US could at least serve together as counter-terrorism partners.But, as Michael Weiss...
View ArticleExplosive accusations against Turkey are exposing a major problem for Obama
US-trained rebels allege that Turkish intelligence tipped off Al Qaeda's al-Nusra Front and orchestrated the kidnapping of US-trained rebels entering Syria, Mitchell Prothero of McClatchy...
View ArticleISIS is advancing into the US and Turkey 'safe zone' in Syria
Islamic State has seized new territory from Syrian rebels in northern Syria, advancing in an area where Turkey and the United States are planning to open a new front against the group.The Syrian...
View ArticleA crisis of historic scope is unfolding in Europe
Last Wednesday, 51 bodies were found in the hold of a ship off the coast of Libya, would-be refugees who had suffocated at sea.Two days later police in Austria found an abandoned truck on the side of...
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