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US bracing for military intervention in Yemen

The leader of the Shia Houthi militia on Thursday accused the U.S. of planning an attack on Yemen’s Al-Hodeida province following a U.S. cruise missile strike one day earlier that targeted Houthi positions along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. In a statement broadcast by the Houthi-run Al-Maseera...

Iraqi army, allies take strategic Anbar road from ISIS

Army troops backed by pro-government tribal fighters have captured the Haditha-Biji road in Iraq’s western Anbar province from the Daesh terrorist group, according to military sources. The Iraqi army on Thursday launched a "broad operation" to retake the road, which lies some 160...

US-led coalition increases airstrikes on militant-held Mosul

The US-led coalition is increasing airstrikes in and around the militant-held city of Mosul as Iraqi ground forces build up ahead of a planned operation to retake the city, it said in a statement Friday. The coalition said its planes had conducted more than 50 airstrikes against the Islamic...

Turkish support 'crucial' in fight against ISIS

Foreign academics have told Anadolu Agency Turkey’s military intervention in northern Syria will deliver a quick defeat of Daesh. In interviews conducted on the sidelines of the Al-Sharq Forum's Istanbul conference on Oct. 8 and 9, the academics said the West needed to be more cooperative...