Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Tag Archives: ISIS
France deploys artillery ahead of Mosul offensive
France said on Tuesday it was deploying artillery to Iraq and readying its aircraft carrier for deployment to reinforce foreign military support for the Iraqi army’s expected push to recapture Mosul, the de facto capital of ISIS in Iraq. The
First UN food aid in two years reaches over 30,000 Iraqis
The UN said Tuesday it has delivered food supplies to more than 30,000 residents of Qayyara for the first time in two years after Iraqi forces expelled extremists from the northern town. Government forces on August 25 pushed ISIS out
Radical UK cleric Choudary jailed for urging support for ISIS
Radical cleric Anjem Choudary, long a thorn in the side of British authorities, was jailed Tuesday for five-and-a-half years after being convicted of encouraging support for ISIS militants. Supporters of the 49-year-old and his co-defendant Mohammed Mizanur Rahman – who
Iraq’s Diyala: More than 30,000 students back to schools in ISIS-free areas
More than 30,000 students, who were internally displaced, have now returned to schools after the areas in which their homes were located were liberated more than a year and a half ago from ISIS in the Iraqi eastern province of
Report: Wife of ISIS head in charge of prisons in Iraq found dead
Wife of a head in charge of ISIS prisons of the militant group in Iraq was found dead in a town north of Salah Al-Din province amid reports saying that she escaped with her lover the day before, local media
Australian teen jailed over ISIS-inspired plot
A teenager who plotted to run over and behead a police officer as part of an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) movement-inspired attack on an Australian Veterans’ Day ceremony was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in prison.
Libyan forces report further progress against ISIS holdouts in Sirte
Libyan forces said they had advanced against some of ISIS’s last holdouts in Sirte on Saturday as fighting resumed after several days of relative calm. The forces, which are aligned with Libya’s UN-backed government, launched their campaign to recapture the
ISIS loses last stretch of Syria-Turkey border
Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels expelled ISIS from the last strip of territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border on Sunday, effectively sealing the extremists’ self-styled caliphate off from the outside world, Turkey’s state-run news agency and a Syrian
ISIS claims deadly bomb attack in central Baghdad
At least nine people were killed in Baghdad late on Monday in a car bomb attack claimed by ISIS near a hospital in a central district, police and hospital sources said. A suicide bomber had targeted a gathering of Shiite
US hits ISIS targets with ‘newly deployed’ mobile rocket
US forces have hit ISIS group targets along Syria’s border with Turkey using a “newly deployed” mobile rocket system, American officials said Saturday. A US Army High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) carried out a successful strike on Friday on
Syrian rebels seize villages near Turkey from ISIS
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seized several villages from ISIS near the town of al-Rai, from where the rebel groups launched a new operation against the militants earlier on Saturday, a rebel official said. “They took several villages, about eight villages. At
Obama consulting Turkish, British leaders on ISIS
At the G20 summit in China which begins on Sunday, President Barack Obama is turning attention to the ISIS, consulting with the leaders of Turkey and Britain, important allies with their own challenges at home. Obama has not met with
Last chemical weapons shipped out of Libya
Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country on a Danish vessel, under a UN-backed plan to eliminate the arsenal, officials said Tuesday. A senior security official told AFP the stocks were shipped to
Iraq put out fire at four oil wells in freed town
Iraq has put out fires at four oil wells in the oil-producing region of Qayyara which Iraqi forces recaptured from ISIS last week, Reuters reported the oil ministry as saying on Monday. “Work is underway to put out flames in
More than 70 tents burnt down in Iraqi refugee camp: UNHCR
More than 70 tents were destroyed by fire on Monday in the refugee camp of Yahayawa, near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, but no one was injured, the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR said. The ministry of displacement and
France’s Sarkozy says would change constitution to ban burkinis
Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy said on Monday he would change the country’s constitution to ban full-body burkini swimsuits if he is re-elected to his former role in a vote next April. Positioning himself as a defender of French values
German prosecutors file terror charge against teenage girl
German federal prosecutors have indicted a teenage girl on charges of “attempted murder and supporting a terrorist organization.” Prosecutors say the 16-year-old German-Moroccan citizen was acting on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) when she seriously
Filipino militants free 8 comrades, 15 others in jail attack
Muslim extremists supporting the ISIS group freed eight fellow militants in a daring attack that also allowed 15 other inmates to escape from a provincial jail in the southern Philippines, police said on Sunday. About 20 heavily-armed fighters of the
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