The United States and its allies conducted 17 airstrikes on Christmas Day against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Saturday. In Syria, coalition military forces conducted five airstrikes using attack and remotely piloted aircraft, targeting...
A U.S-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups, backed by U.S. coalition planes, captured a dam on Saturday from ISIS, cutting a main supply route of the militants across the Euphrates, an alliance spokesman said. Col. Talal Selo said the seizure of the dam helps isolate the...
An Egyptian court has convicted two police officers in absentia over torturing a detainee to death and critically injuring another as part of a government crackdown on police abuses. Judge Saeed Sabry on Saturday sentenced the officers to life in prison after the prosecution presented forensic...
The Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza accused Egyptian forces on Saturday of killing a mentally-ill Palestinian who had waded through the sea into Egypt's territory. The incident happened on Friday, Gaza's interior ministry said. Video broadcast by Al-Jazeera network showed the man walking...
