Attacks in Iraq, including suicide bombings against police and the killing of a family, left 11 people dead Wednesday, part of a surge in violence authorities have struggled to stem. The bloodshed, which has left nearly 6,000 people dead so far this year in the worst violence to hit...
Abu Huseyin says he has sent dozens of people from this ancient city in southeastern Turkey to join jihadist groups in northern Syria and vows to continue helping them fulfil what he says is their duty to God. Several hundred Turks are estimated to be among thousands of foreigners...
Despite the explosive barrels and shelling, f armers i n Syrian north keep going to the olive fields to harvest what has left, then to take it to the oil-press. “Last year almost all of us left the village frightened of shelling and bombing with explosive barrels, which...