Middle East
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 ...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. 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 ...Donors pledge $2.7 billion for Gaza reconstruction
Donors at an international conference Sunday promised $2.7 billion to rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, but all of the key ...Islamic State seizes large areas of Syrian town despite air strikes
Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as ...Street fighting rages in Syrian town as Islamic State moves in
Street fighting raged between Kurdish defenders and Islamic State militants who advanced into Kobani on Monday after subjecting the Syrian border town ...Kurds battle for key Syria town, woman suicide bomber hits IS
Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes battled the Islamic State group for a key Syrian town Sunday, with one woman defender ...




