(Zaman Al Wasl)- A US-led airstrike killed first aide of Abu Baker al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State, the group’s news feeds said Thursday. Ben Ali was also known as Abu Sufyan al-Selmi and Abu Humama al-Athari, according to the leaked ISIS data which...

Turkey's military killed six members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air strikes in northern Iraq on Thursday, the army said in a statement. Turkish warplanes hit the Avasin-Basyan region in northern Iraq, killing PKK militants believed to be in preparation of an attack, the...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was quick to launch air strikes on militants in Libya in response to a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt - but the attacks do not seem to be targeting those responsible. The response was popular with many Egyptians. The country's state-owned...

By Nouri Badi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohammad Abed al-Manan Abdou, an elderly man in his 70s, did not expect that he would be killed with his wife, Salam Rashouh, and his grandson, Mohammed, in a US-led coalition airstrike.  Abdou and his family had been living under the...