(Reuters) - A fire raging for almost a week at Libya's biggest oil port of Es Sider has destroyed up to 1.8 million barrels of crude and damaged seven storage tanks, causing total damage of $213 million, a top oil official said on Tuesday. The Es Sider terminal and nearby Ras...
DAMASCUS, (UPI) -- The Syrian military, depleted by desertions and casualties, has mobilized reservists and arrested draft-dodgers in the wake of planned peace talks. President Bashar al-Assad , whose country has seen a four-year civil war, an attempt by the Islamic State to...
Iraqi forces backed by Sunni tribes advanced into the town of Dhuluiyah north of Baghdad on Sunday in a new attempt to push out Islamic State group jihadists, officials said. In October, Iraqi forces retook most of Dhuluiyah from IS, but the jihadists later launched a...
(Al Jazeera- Agencies)- The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has killed 120 of its own members, most of them foreign fighters trying to return home, during the past six months, a Syrian monitoring group has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday...
