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Israel threatens to 'destroy' Syrian air defense systems

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday threatened to destroy Syrian air defense systems after they fired ground-to-air missiles at Israeli warplanes carrying out strikes. "The next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our planes we will destroy them without...

Iraqi forces close in on Mosul mosque as residents flee

Iraqi army helicopters strafed and fired rockets at ISIS positions in Mosul's Old City on Sunday as troops on the ground closed in on the strategic and symbolic prize of the al-Nuri Mosque. Federal Police troops had advanced past the train station in western Mosul closer to the mosque. A...

As Mosul battle escalates, civilians caught in crossfire

Shihab Ayed and several other men struggled to push a cart carrying the bodies of his son and wife, wrapped in blankets, through a muddy ditch nearly two miles (3 km) from their destroyed home in Mosul. Four other carts followed, laden with days-old corpses from air strikes which the men...

Two senior Yemen rebels survive deadly convoy strike

Two senior Yemen rebels survived a Saudi-led coalition air raid on their convoy in the southwestern province of Taiz Saturday that killed eight of their guards, military and medical sources said. The attacked targeted a convoy carrying Abdu Al-Jundi, who was appointed as the governor of Taiz...