(The Daily Star)- Iraqi security forces on Tuesday regained full control of a western town that was attacked by ISIS militants two days earlier, officials said. Seeking to draw attention away from an offensive to retake the city of Mosul, ISIS struck the town of Rutba in the country's west...

(theguardian)- Few Israeli citizens have gone to fight with Islamic State, perhaps a total of 50 in four years. Far fewer still have made it back to Israel to tell their tale. Among that handful is Sabareen Zbeidt, aged 30, and her husband, Wissam, aged 42, who flew back into Tel Aviv’s...

(The Daily Star)- Moscow said Tuesday that Russian and Syrian planes have not conducted any air strikes on Aleppo for the last seven days despite a three-day truce ending at the weekend. "Over the last seven days all flights by Russian and Syrian air forces have been completely halted. The...

(The Daily Star)- Vietnamese police hunted Monday for hundreds of drug addicts who escaped from a compulsory rehabilitation center, with some using sticks and fire extinguishers to break out. The communist government decrees up to two years of forced rehabilitation at government centers to...