Fifteen people including 10 police officers were wounded in an attack on a mosque at police camp on a remote Philippine island long plagued by Islamic militancy, officials said Saturday. Successive blasts targeted the mosque inside Camp Kasim on the island of Jolo early evening Friday...
“Who’s there?” asked Dr. Mohammad Farhat, director of Hamid Farhat Hospital in the Bekaa Valley town of Majdal Anjar. “The sick lady died last night,” said a man on the phone. “Yeah, I know she died, what do you want me to do?” Farhat replied. “They have 90 percent [of...
With most of its natural and mineral resources having fallen under rebel control, Syrian state revenues have shrunk, leaving the government dependent on unstable sources of income for its survival. Four years of conflict have decimated the state coffers. Now the government’s only...
Islamic State on Friday took control of al-Taqli village in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, activists said as clashes still underway between the radical group and Islamist rebels in Soran Azaz near the Turkish border. ISIS fighters have also stormed Marea town and number of...
