BEIRUT: ISIS on Sunday released a video claiming the beheading of U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig in a warning to Washington as it prepares to send more troops...
BAGHDAD: Iraq boosted security Monday amid fears of ISIS launching major attacks on Shiite pilgrims flocking to the shrine city of Karbala as further reports...
BAGHDAD: Iraq stepped up security amid fears of ISIS launching major attacks as thousands of Shiites flocked Monday to the shrine city of Karbala for an...
BEIRUT: The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) defending the Syrian border town of Ain al-Arab, known by Kurds as Kobani, from ISIS jihadists is the de...
MURSITPINAR, Turkey: Pressure mounted Wednesday for more international action to save the Syrian border town of Kobani, where Kurdish militia were waging a...
BEIRUT: The U.S. says it has hit a little-known group called “Khorasan” in Syria, but experts and activists argue it actually struck Al-Qaeda’s affiliate the...
BEIRUT: Jihadists who swept like an army across Iraq and Syria are expected to return to guerrilla warfare and melt into the population to avoid heavy losses...
BEIRUT: The jihadists who have declared a “caliphate” in parts of Syria and Iraq call themselves the Islamic State, but detractors say they represent neither...
GAZA CITY: UN chief Ban Ki-moon demanded Tuesday that Israel and Hamas halt spiralling violence in Gaza as he pushed diplomatic efforts to end bloodshed that...
GAZA CITY: At a dingy Gaza ambulance station, paramedics struggle to stay awake during 24-hour shifts that see them coming under fire and dealing with the...
GAZA CITY: Ten-year-old Afnan Shuheiber was playing on a Gaza City rooftop with her cousins when she became one of at least 73 children killed by Israeli fire...
Gaza CITY, Palestinian Territories: At least 99 Palestinians and 13 soldiers were killed Sunday as Israel ramped up a major military offensive in the...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip: As Israeli troops pushed into Gaza overnight, intense tank fire shook parts of Khan Younis, sending a flood of patients into the...
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: The sound of a blast cut through the air on Gaza’s beach, drawing people out of seafront buildings to see a crowd of...
SHEJAIYA, Gaza: At Al-Wafa rehabilitation hospital near Gaza City, a handful of doctors and nurses hover over paralyzed patients, wondering how to protect...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: The music video opens with Palestinian Hamas fighters in fatigues building, transporting and then firing rockets at Israel - but the...
IRBIL, Iraq: The onslaught by Sunni Arab militants in northern Iraq has prompted the country’s Kurds to deploy the famed peshmerga security forces in...
GERMAWA CAMP, Iraq: Amsha’s family decided to leave the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar after shelling one night killed a neighbor as he used his...
IRBIL, Iraq: Iraqi soldier Bassil Hasan says he wept as he abandoned his base in the face of a Sunni militant advance and is desperate to redeem himself by...
ARBIL: Iraqi soldier Bassil Hassan says that he wept as he abandoned his base in the face of a Sunni militant advance and is desperate to redeem himself by...
BEIRUT: In rebel-held parts of southern Damascus, activists say the streets are filled with “ghosts” – Syrians wandering and begging, desperate for food and...
BAROUK, Lebanon: Steam rises from a gourd of yerba mate as Wissam al-Halabi takes another sip. Though the slightly bitter hot drink originates from South...
BEIRUT: Syria’s opposition National Coalition has left for a peace conference in Switzerland this week fractured over its participation and facing doubts...
BEIRUT: A decision by key Syrian rebel groups to break with the Western-backed National Coalition further splinters the opposition and poses a key challenge...
CAIRO: Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s stern features look down from behind aviator sunglasses in photos on Egypt’s front pages and from street...