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US-backed forces relaunch battle against IS in Syria

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Tuesday resumed their offensive to seize the last territory controlled by Islamic State militants. The US-backed fighters had paused...

Destroying Mosul’s Great Mosque: Islamic State’s symbolic war to the end

Destroying Mosul's Great Mosque: Islamic State's symbolic war to the end Benjamin Isakhan, Deakin University and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Deakin University On June 29 2014...

ISIS attacks in Tehran could plunge the Middle East into greater...

ISIS attacks in Tehran could plunge the Middle East into greater turmoil Mohammadbagher Forough, Leiden University Iran experienced its first major ISIS attack on June 7,...

Nearly 40,000 Syrian children caught in the line of fire in...

An estimated 40,000 children are trapped in extremely dangerous conditions in Raqqa as fighting intensifies in and around the Syrian city. The United Nations Children's...

Military planes bomb ISIS targets in Marawi City, Philippines

ILIGAN CITY – Military aircrafts on Saturday continue to bomb enemy targets in Marawi City where jihadists were holed out as security forces battled...

Indian Court Sentences 2 Islamic State Recruiters to 7 Years Prison...

In the first convictions in India of suspects linked to Islamic State (IS), a local court on Friday sentenced two men to seven years...

Islamic State moves caliphate to new capital in Deir ez-Zour Province,...

US military sources informed that the Islamic State group has moved its capital of caliphate from the Syrian city of Raqqa to Deir ez-Zour...

Leaked Video shows Egyptian Army executing unarmed prisoners in ISIS style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laA0NECDB7I Shocking video footage has emerged appearing to show Egyptian soldiers executing unarmed, blindfolded detainees in the Sinai Peninsula. The video, broadcast late Thursday by...

Who will fill the intellectual vacuum in the Arab World?

Back in the Middle East for a few months, I find myself astounded by the absence of the strong voices of Arab intellectuals. The region...

‘Ghost-like’ figures leading Islamic State after two-thirds of command killed

The Islamic State group has lost two-thirds of its founding leaders, but a dangerous group of inexperienced unknowns have taken the helm in...