July 4, 2016 Tens of thousands of Syrians trapped in ISIS fight, many starving, UN warns The top UN official in Syria on Monday demanded immediate and unconditional humanitarian access to tens of thousands of people trapped in four towns, warning of starvation.
July 4, 2016 Security tightened in Baghdad as death toll from bombing climbs to 157 As the death toll from the weekend truck bombing in Baghdad climbed to 157, Iraq's embattled prime minister ordered new security measures, including abandoning the use of bomb-detection wands that U.S. experts pronounced worthless years ago.
July 3, 2016 Kuwait detains 5 ISIS suspects, foils attack on mosque Kuwait's Interior Ministry says police have arrested five Islamic State suspects, including an 18-year-old Kuwaiti man planning to attack a Shiite mosque in the final days of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which ends this week.
July 3, 2016 More than 100 killed, scores wounded in bombings across Baghdad A suicide truck bomb in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people and wounded nearly 200 others who were out shopping and celebrating early Sunday ahead of the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, security and medical officials said.
July 3, 2016 Syria's new US-backed force stumbles in first test The call came around noon, about four hours after U.S.-backed Syrian fighters announced they had taken over an air base outside a town held by the Islamic State near the Iraqi border.
July 3, 2016 US airstrike kills 2 senior Islamic State military leaders in Iraq, Pentagon says The Pentagon said Thursday that two senior Islamic State leaders were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the Iraqi city of Mosul on June 25.
July 3, 2016 American universities mourn students killed in Bangladesh terror attack Two prominent American colleges on opposite sides of the U.S. were plunged into mourning Saturday after learning that their students were among the victims of Friday's terror attack on a restaurant in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka.
July 2, 2016 Baghdad bombings kill at least 23 people Bombs went off early Sunday in two crowded commercial areas in Baghdad, killing at least 23 people and wounding 61, according to hospital and police officials.
July 2, 2016 American among the 22 dead in Bangladesh terrorist hostage crisis Bangladesh’s Prime Minister vowed Saturday to fight terrorism “at all costs” after 20 people were killed after Islamic gunmen took dozens of hostages during a 10-hour siege at a restaurant.
July 1, 2016 Escape from ISIS: Yazidi woman recounts life as a sex slave When ISIS laid siege to the Yazidi villages that dot Iraq’s Mount Sinjar in 2014, members of the religious minority soon learned neighbors they’d known for generations were not their friends after all, according to one woman who was recently rescued after more than a year in the terrorist army’s clutches.