(The Daily Star)- Airstrikes destroyed the only hospital in the rebel-held town of Atareb in the countryside west of Aleppo Monday, wounding several members of the medical staff, war activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war activist group, said warplanes...

Islamic State is using wooden replicas of tanks and Humvees in a bid to subvert an air campaign by the U.S.-led military coalition supporting Iraqi forces in the Mosul operations, even using bearded mannequins to simulate jihadist fighters. The Iraqi army captured a handful of the mockups...

Reporting by Elias Mohamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrians came to Yemen from Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama and other cities hoping to find safe refuge far from the brutality of the Assad regime. As many of them said, they came with nothing but their Arab and Levantine identity. Yemen was a favored...

Two Egyptian troops were killed and ten others injured in a spate of militant attacks in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, according to a local security source. A military vehicle struck a roadside bomb in North Sinai’s city of Sheikh Zuweid, killing a soldier and injuring an army...