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ISIL boss, former US prisoner in Iraq

Wed Jul 9, 2014 20:41:31

The leader of the terrorist ISIL group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is a former prisoner held by US authorities in Iraq for five years before being released in 2010.

Takfiri militants slaughter 14 civilians in Syria's Hama village

Wed Jul 9, 2014 20:04:55

Foreign-backed militants have brutally slaughtered at least 14 Syrian civilians in an attack on a village in Hama countryside, security sources say.

Iraq PM accuses Kurds of harboring militants

Wed Jul 9, 2014 19:14:33

Iraqi premier Nouri al-Maliki has accused the country's autonomous Kurdish region of harboring militants, as the bodies of 53 men who had been bound and executed have been found in a province south of Baghdad.

Death toll from Israeli air raids on Gaza rises to 35

Wed Jul 9, 2014 17:55:14

The number of Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli air attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to at least 35 people.

Foreign-backed Syrian opposition picks new head

Wed Jul 9, 2014 16:30:12

Syria’s foreign-backed opposition group the so-called Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has elected a new head following a three-day meeting in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

Hamas fires rockets amid Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Wed Jul 9, 2014 13:53:41

Palestinian resistance fighters have fired more rockets at Israeli cities after the Tel Aviv regime carried out dozens of airstrikes on Gaza in the early hours of Wednesday.

ISIL arrests Baathi allies to eliminate potential rivals in Iraq

Wed Jul 9, 2014 10:25:25

One night last week, ISIL terrorists in an SUV with tinted windows pulled up at the home of a former Iraqi army officer, one of the men they see as an obstacle to their goal of establishing a caliphate from Iraq to the Mediterranean.

Houthi fighters capture city near Yemeni capital

Wed Jul 9, 2014 09:04:53

Shia Houthi fighters have took control of Yemen’s northwestern city of Amran, near the capital Sana'a, during their fight against extremists in the country.

Iraq tells UN ISIL seized chemical arms depot

Wed Jul 9, 2014 08:16:50

Iraq’s government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to “armed terrorist groups” and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins kept there, the country’s UN envoy has informed the United Nations.

Expelled US diplomat condemns Bahrain

Wed Jul 9, 2014 07:59:59

A US diplomat ordered to leave Bahrain on Monday after meeting members of a leading Shia opposition group has spoken out against the move on Twitter.

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