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...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people from the same family have been killed Wednesday in the US-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa city, as its allied Kurdish fighters reached the northern entrance of the city, the activist-operated Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said. The intense...

 ISIS militants have closed the streets around Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque, residents said, apparently in preparation for a final showdown in the battle over their last major stronghold in Iraq. Dozens of fighters were seen by residents taking up positions in the past 48 hours around...