HTS Offshoot Claims Credit for Damascus Church Bombing

On Sunday, a massive suicide bomb attack tore through the important Greek Orthodox church Mar Elias in Damascus, killing 27 and wounding dozens more. The huge attack just added to the spate of sectarian violence across Syria, which undercuts the Islamist Hayat Tahrir...

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US Launches Its 43rd Airstrike in Somalia This Year

US Africa Command announced on Monday that its forces launched another airstrike in Somalia on June 19, as the Trump administration continues to bomb the country at a record pace as part of an air war that gets virtually no media coverage in the US. As usual, the...

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Iran Says More Than 600 Killed by Israeli Attacks

Iran's Health Ministry said on Tuesday that 606 Iranians had been killed and 5,332 injured during Israel's 12-day bombing of the country, while a US-based rights group put the number closer to 1,000. Health Minister Mohammad Reza Zafarqandi said 107 were killed in the...

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