Middle East
Lebanon army fights gunmen in Tripoli, six soldiers killed
Six Lebanese soldiers were killed as the army clashed with Islamist gunmen in northern Lebanon for a second day on Saturday, using ...Egypt declares emergency in northern Sinai
A coordinated assault on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula killed 30 Egyptian troops on Friday, making it the deadliest single ...US-led strikes kill more than 500 militants in Syria
US-led air strikes in Syria were reported Thursday to have killed more than 500 jihadists in a month, as Kurdish ...Iraqi Kurds approve sending fighters to aid Syrian town
Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers approved a plan on Wednesday to send fighters to the Syrian town of Kobani to relieve fellow ...FBI: US girls may have tried to join jihadis
Three teenage girls from suburban Denver may have been trying to join Islamic State militants in Syria after stealing their ...Washington Post former editor Ben Bradlee dies at 93
In a charmed life of newspapering, Ben Bradlee seemed always to be in just the right place.U.S. involved in seven air strikes on Islamic State targets
U.S. military forces carried out four air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria on Monday and Tuesday and were ...U.S. reports 12 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, Iraq
The U.S. military conducted six air strikes against Islamic State militants near the Syrian border town of Kobani on Sunday ...Suicide, car bombings in Iraq kill at least 33
Militants unleashed attacks on Iraq\'s majority Shiite community on Monday, killing at least 33 people, the latest in relentless assaults ...Turkey says US can use air bases for IS fight
Turkey has granted the United States access to its air bases for the campaign against the Islamic State group, including ...