(The Daily Star)-  U.S. Marines are using Super Cobra attack helicopters to mount close-range airstrikes against ISIS militants in the Libyan city of Sirte, the U.S. navy said Thursday. The gunship attacks, the first of their kind to be confirmed in over two months, were launched...

(Wall Street Journal)- Egypt’s central bank said Thursday it would freely float the local currency, in a move aimed at eliminating a flourishing black market for dollars after the cash-strapped government secured loans to boost its reserves. The National Bank of Egypt, the country’s...

(Time)- The Russian president on Wednesday offered a new unilateral humanitarian pause for Syria’s war-ravaged Aleppo, urging rebels to use it to leave the city’s eastern, besieged districts. The Syrian rebels quickly dismissed Vladimir Putin’s initiative. Later in the day, at least...

The most popular object in Gogjali Wednesday was the electric hair clipper a member of the Iraqi special forces who retook the village from jihadists gave the residents. On the steps leading to the mosque, one man revelled in his first shave in two years and sheared off thick tufts from the...