A Lebanese army soldier died Saturday of wounds sustained in clashes with jihadists near the Syrian border, raising the number of troops killed in the fighting to 18, the army said. The fighting broke out on August 2 when jihadists from Syria attacked army and police posts in...
The radical Islamic State group has arrested at least 25 people in raids carried on al-Shuhail village in Deir Ezzor province, activists said. IS has launched a revenge campaign on tribes stand against it in the eastern countryside of rich-oil...
Since their capture of Iraq's second city of Mosul on June 10, a great deal of attention has been paid to the self-labeled 'Islamic State' and its continuing advance across Iraq. On August 2, Islamic State fighters seized the largely Yazidi town of Sinjar and on August 3, they...