Seven Egyptian troops were killed and 14 others injured in a spate of militant attacks in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Sunday. Five army troops were killed when militants attacked their patrol in North Sinai’s city of Sheikh Zuweid, a local security source told Anadolu Agency....

A long-awaited offensive to seize back the Iraqi city of Mosul after two years of Isis control has begun, the country’s prime minister has announced. In an address on state television, Iraq’s Haider al-Abadi said: “We have been battling Isis for more than two years. We started fighting...

(Zaman Al Wasl) -At least 41 civilians have been killed on Sunday in regime air strikes on the battleground Aleppo city, a monitor group and local reporter said. The regime warplanes carried out four airstrikes on the neighborhoods of Qaterji, Sukkari and Bab al-Naser as well as other areas in...

(theguardian)- The US navy on Sunday began investigating a possible overnight missile attack from Yemen on a group of American warships in the Red Sea, amid uncertainty about what transpired. The Red Sea and the nearby strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait, a crucial chokepoint for international...