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BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of members of a religious minority group under attack by Islamic extremists have fled across the border from Iraq to seek refuge with the Kurds of northeastern Syria, said two Kurdish officials and an activist on Saturday. Ekrem Hasso and Juan Mohammad...

With American bombs again falling over Iraq—this time striking Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, recently renamed the “Islamic State”) positions near the Kurdish city of Irbil—the White House is finally bowing to the inevitable conclusion that this terror group...

BEIRUT (AP) — A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told...