(The Guardian)- Long before Khatoon Khider took up a gun, she became famous for singing about another woman who went to war, a tragic heroine who followed her lover into battle in disguise. And she wondered even then, years before the Islamic State had been created and nearly a decade before...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State has showed stubbornness on Sunday despite the gains made by the Turkish special forces and Free Syrian Army in its last stronghold of al-Bab in northern Aleppo province. FSA took new ground from ISIS in the northern neighborhood but its defeat still not...

Swiss voters Sunday approved making it easier for third-generation immigrants to become citizens, dismissing suggestions that the move could pose a security threat. Projections by broadcaster SRF after polls closed showed the measure easily winning by a 59-41 percent margin. Right-wing...

(The Guardian)- Wars are defined by the way they are covered. In the 1930s, it was the Leica that brought the Spanish civil war to readers, while the second world war was seen through black-and-white newsreels. After the colour TV footage of Vietnam, which introduced war to every living room,...