A U.S. air strike on Mosul, Iraq, killed an Islamic State fighter linked to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, the Pentagon said on Monday. The June 15 air strike killed Ali Awni al-Harzi, whom the Pentagon said was a "person of interest" in the Benghazi attack,...
U.S.-led coalition forces targeted Islamic State militants with seven air strikes in Syria and 22 in Iraq on Sunday, the combined joint task force leading the operations said in a statement. In Syria, five of the strikes were staged near the Turkish border town of Tel Abyad, where Kurdish...
German authorities have released Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, who had been detained at Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian government. Accompanied by his lawyers, Mansour greeted his supporters after his release on Monday, and thanked the German court for its decision. "I...
Israeli Druze blocked an Israeli army ambulance they believed was transporting wounded Syrian rebels Monday, local authorities said, a rare confrontation underscoring Druze concern for brethren caught up in the civil war next door. The Druze are an Arab minority that practice an offshoot of...
