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US Begins Sending Arms To Kurdish Fighters In Syria
The United States on Tuesday began providing small arms to Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group in...
US Military To Test Anti-ICBM System In Landmark Trial
The US military is due Tuesday to fire an interceptor rocket at an intercontinental ballistic missile in a...
US-Backed Arab Fighters Advance Outside Syria’s Raqa
A US-backed battalion of Syrian Arab fighters edged closer to the outskirts of the Islamic State group stronghold of...
World Watches As Yemen Descends Into Total Collapse
Yemen is descending into total collapse, its people facing war, famine and a deadly outbreak of cholera, as the world...
Lowest Monthly Civilian Toll In Russia Syria Strikes
Russian air strikes over the past month have killed 27 Syrian civilians, a monitor said Tuesday, the lowest monthly...
IS Shelling Kills 14 Civilians In East Syria City
Fourteen civilians were killed late Monday when Islamic State group jihadists shelled a government-controlled...
UN Warns 200,000 At Grave Risk In Last Stages of Mosul Battle
Up to 200,000 civilians caught between fanatical jihadists and advancing Iraqi forces are in grave danger in the final...
Iraq Presses Mosul Assault, Calls On Civilians To Flee
Iraqi forces pressed forward on Monday with a broad offensive targeting Islamic State group-held areas in west Mosul...
Iraq Presses Mosul Assault, Calls Civilians To Flee
Iraqi forces pressed forward on Monday with a broad offensive targeting Islamic State group-held areas in west Mosul...
North Korea Fires Third Test Missile In Three Weeks
North Korea has fired a short-range ballistic missile, the third apparently successful test in as many weeks. The Scud...
Biafra’s Military Veterans
Gabriel Ukuwagi was only 14 when he joined the Biafran army in 1967 to fight against Nigeria in a combat that was a...
Thousands of Motorcyclists Pay Tribute In Peaceful Washington Rumble
Tens of thousands of motorcyclists rumbled through the heart of Washington on Sunday in an annual "Rolling Thunder"...
Civilian Deaths A ‘fact of Life’ In War On IS, Pentagon Head Says
Civilian casualties are inevitable in the war against the Islamic State group but the United states is doing...
19 Dead As Troops Fight ISIL-Linked Groups
Fighters locked in street-to-street battles with security forces in a southern Philippine city on Mindanao island have...
Iraq Mosul Offensive: Civilians ‘in Grave Danger’
Civilians are being hit hardest as Iraq's military assault on Mosul enters its final phase, the country's UN...
Iraqi Troops Push For Last ISIL Holdouts In Mosul
Iraqi forces have launched a broad assault on parts of Mosul, closing in on the remaining pockets of territory held by...
Iraq Forces Launch Broad Attack On IS Holdouts In Mosul
Iraqi forces have launched a broad assault on parts of battleground second city Mosul still held by the Islamic State...
UN Braces For Up To 200,000 Iraqis To Flee Mosul
As many as 200,000 Iraqis may try in the coming days to flee areas of Mosul under the control of the Islamic State...
US Military To Test Anti-ICBM System
The US military will try to intercept an intercontinental ballistic missile in a test of a defense system that comes...