Morocco warns of growing Islamic State in African Sahel-Sahara region
A cell of dangerous terrorists with allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) found with explosive belts, kilos of ammonium nitrate — the same substance behind...
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U.S. to Reduce Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000
WASHINGTON — The United States is cutting troop levels in Iraq roughly in half, to 3,000 forces, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East...
Tunisian police kill three suspected militants after fatal attack on officer
Police in Tunisia chased and shot dead three suspected Islamist militants after they attacked two police officers, killing one of them, in the coastal city...
Refugee from Iraq earns place at Cambridge to study medicine and work for the NHS
This teen smashed his A-levels (Picture: Buraq Ahmed / SWNS) A refugee who left Iraq as a toddler to get urgent UK medical treatment has...
Oil slips below $45 on-demand concerns, set for weekly rise
Oil dipped below $45 a barrel, on Friday, on worries that a demand recovery would slow due to a resurgence of coronavirus cases. Although a...
Scorching Temperatures Bake Middle East Amid Eid al-Adha Celebrations
BAGHDAD — A sweltering 125 degrees Fahrenheit in Baghdad on Tuesday; a record 115 degrees in Damascus on Wednesday. And extreme levels of heat in...
Trump Officials Reconsider Prosecuting ISIS ‘Beatles’ Without Death Penalty
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is trying again to find a way to resolve the cases of two British Islamic State detainees who are notorious...
‘Our Role Is to Reduce Their Grief’
THE DESERT WEST OF NAJAF — There are no signs to signal the way to the New Valley of Peace, or, as the Iraqis call...
Southern Iraq’s Toxic Twilight
Iraq is the rare country that imports gas but also burns natural gas from oil wells into the air. The wasted gas is enough to...
Colin Powell Still Wants Answers
Early one morning in August 2002, Jack Straw, the British foreign minister at the time, drove with a small entourage to a beach house in...