US President Barack Obama forms anti-Islamic State coalition, but will it s...
The Arabs are in. Turkey is on the fence. Britain, still smarting from an earlier Iraq war, is cautiously edging toward expanded action. Even Greece wants to help – if someone would tell it how. Two weeks after he announced plans to form a “broad coalition” to fight the militant... read more »
Air strikes in Syria hit Islamic State-held areas near Turkey border
BEIRUT – Air strikes overnight hit Islamic State-held territory in Syria near the Turkish border, an organisation that tracks violence in the Syrian war said on Wednesday. Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the warplanes that carried out the raids west of... read more »
Ebola epidemic more deadly than all previous combined, report says
The Ebola epidemic has already killed more people than all previous outbreaks combined, and an alarming new analysis by the World Health Organization suggests it already may be too late to prevent the virus from taking up permanent residence among humans in West Africa. The virus itself is no more... read more »
In airstrikes, US targets terror cell said to be plotting an attack
WASHINGTON: US forces took advantage of the airstrikes against the Islamic State extremist group in Syria to try to simultaneously wipe out the leadership of an unrelated cell of veterans of al-Qaida that White House officials said Tuesday was plotting an “imminent” attack against the... read more »
