Internet access is restricted in Turkey because of IS video
A monitoring organization says Turkey restricted access to social media websites after the Islamic State group released a video purportedly showing two Turkish soldiers being…
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Daesh attack in Mosul: 44 civilians killed and injured
At least 10 civilians were killed and 34 others injured Tuesday when mortar shells struck homes in liberated parts of mosul amid an ongoing offensive…
Assad: ISIS attacked Palmyra in response to Syrian army advance in Aleppo
On Monday, Palmyra was captured by Daesh militants which pushed out the Syrian army and forced it to regroup at Tiyas T4 airbase dozens of miles westward from Palmyra. “Because ISIS…
Syria, Iraq: 50,000 IS fighters killed
The U.S.-led coalition has killed an estimated 50,000 Islamic State fighters since President Barack Obama first ordered military action against the group in August 2014,…
Mosul fight: Islamic State uses water as weapon
A young girl from Mosul gets water from a tap at a displacement camp in Iraq’s Nineveh province. At least half a million people caught…
Carter and Le Drian: Islamic State under “growing pressure”
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian said that the so-called Islamic State (IS/ISIL) is under “growing pressure on…
For what do religious extremists attack art?
Militants from the Islamic State group have destroyed ancient sites and museum pieces in Syria and Iraq in the last two years but that is…
Six Islamic States to present ‘Attack on Mecca’
Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet reiterated on Monday its strong condemnation of attacks perpetrated by Yemen’s Houthi militias against holy sites in the Kingdom. The Custodian of…
Iraq: Kurds expel Arabs in Kirkuk
Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Kurdish authorities in Kirkuk, in their most recent round of displacements, have been ejecting Arab residents and Arab internally displaced people there…
Mosul as part of Islamic State: hardship, terror and swift “justice”
Whenever members of Islamic State’s Mosul vice squad find a woman without gloves, they pull out a pair of pliers. What follows is just one…