An image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State group's official Al-Raqqa site via YouTube on September 23, 2014, allegedly shows recruits marching in an unknown location (AFP Photo/)/ Washington (AFP) - Jordanian warplanes carried out a bombing raid against the Islamic State ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama used his annual speech to the United Nations on Wednesday to warn Islamic State fighters to "leave the battlefield while they can" and asked the world to back a U.S.-led campaign against the militants in Iraq and Syria. In a speech to the U.N. ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - President Barack Obama urged the world Wednesday to unite to defeat a jihadist "network of death" in Iraq and Syria, as militants defied air strikes and executed a French hostage./ As coalition warplanes returned from another night of raids, the US leader ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Arab nations that joined the United States in striking the Islamic State group in Syria were unusually open about it, throwing aside their usual secrecy and wariness about appearing too close to Washington. Saudi Arabia even released heroic-looking photos ...
BEIRUT/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - American warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria for a second day at a strategic post on the Iraqi border, but the campaign did nothing to halt the fighters' advance on a Kurdish town where refugees are fleeing. Syrian Kurds said Islamic State had ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that too many Israelis were ready to abandon a bid for peace in the region and, in a departure from his prepared remarks, added that this was something Israelis should think about./ "The violence engulfing the region today ...
The U.S. reportedly informed Iran before conducting its first airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, and said the military did not intend to strike the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. that the U.S. repeatedly assured Tehran in talks that Syrian government troops would not be ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed at the United Nations on Wednesday to keep up the military pressure on Islamic State militants and urged those who have joined the extremist group in Iraq and Syria to "leave the battlefield while they can." Speaking at the U.N. ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani acknowledges members of the media on the sidelines of the Climate Summit at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 23, 2014./ The United States and several Arab allies launch strikes on IS targets in Syria./ (Reuters) - If Iran and world powers reach a ...
Prime Minister David Cameron speaks on September 23, 2014 at the United Nations in New York (AFP Photo/Don Emmert)/ London (AFP) - Britain cannot opt out of a battle against Islamic State jihadists, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday, as newspapers reported he was considering joining ...
Further airstrikes overnight were reported in northern Syria. President Obama will chair a UN Security Council meeting Wednesday to propose new resolution to curb foreign volunteers aiding Islamic State./ US President Barack Obama will press for a broad international coalition to fight Islamic ...
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that air strikes the United States and its Arab allies unleashed against the Islamic State group in Syria showed that America is not alone in confronting the jihadists./ Dozens of IS and Al-Qaeda militants were reported killed in the raids, which Washington ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States informed Iran in advance of its intention to strike Islamic State militants in Syria and told Tehran that it would not target the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a senior Iranian official told Reuters. "This issue was first discussed in ...
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy a F/A-18F Super Hornet attached to the Fighting Black Lions of Strike Fighter Squadron flies over the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, after conducting strike missions against Islamic State group targets ...
If Iran and world powers will reach a long-term nuclear deal that ends sanctions against Tehran, it will open the door to deeper cooperation on regional peace and stability and the fight against terrorism, Iran's president said on Tuesday. President Hassan Rouhani, who spoke to senior editors ...
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian speaks at a press conference about the crisis in Iraq and the situation in the Middle East in Moscow on July 1, 2014 (AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran condemned the US-led strikes on jihadist militants in Syria on Tuesday ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani briefs media prior to departing Mehrabad airport to attend the United Nations General Assembly, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. As world leaders gather at the U.N. this week, the U.S. and its European allies are consumed by efforts to blunt the savage ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria said Tuesday that Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government before a U.S.-led military coalition launched airstrikes pounding strongholds of the Islamic State extremists across northern and eastern Syria./ Damascus appeared to be trying to position ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani addresses the audience during a meeting in Ankara June 10, 2014./ (Reuters) - The relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia deserves to be better, though differences between the two oil-producing Middle Eastern states appear to be narrowing, Iranian President ...
British Prime Minister David Cameron is to hold talks with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani over unrest in Iraq and Syria, officials said Tuesday, the first meeting between the country's leaders since the 1979 Islamic Revolution./ The talks at the UN General Assembly in New York come as Western ...
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States and Arab allies bombed Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing dozens of Islamic State fighters and members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group, pursuing a campaign against militants into a war at the heart of the Middle East. "I can confirm ...
By Parisa Hafezi, Louis Charbonneau and Arshad Mohammed UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The United States informed Iran in advance of its intention to strike Islamic State militants in Syria and told Tehran that it would not target the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a senior ...
The leader of Hezbollah said on Tuesday he opposed U.S-led air strikes on Syria, where his Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group has been fighting alongside forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad./ Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose group is one of the most important helping Assad fight a Sunni-dominated ...
Obama today asked Iran to seize the "historic opportunity" of reaching a deal with the world powers on its contested nuclear programme./ to seize the "historic opportunity" of reaching a deal with the world powers on its contested nuclear programme. "America is pursuing a diplomatic resolution ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Combined U.S.-Arab airstrikes hit Islamic State group military strongholds in Syria and Iraq, and a simultaneous U.S. strike targeted an al-Qaida cell said to be plotting assaults on American and other Western interests, the U.S. military said. President Barack Obama declared ...
Girls with cancer celebrate their 15th birthdays with a coming-of-age party in Nicaragua./ (Reuters) - The relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia deserves to be better, though differences between the two oil-producing Middle Eastern states appear to be narrowing, Iranian President Hassan ...
The relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia deserves to be better, though differences between the two oil-producing Middle Eastern states appear to be narrowing, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday. "Our relationship with Saudi Arabia ... deserves to be warmer," Rouhani told a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the U.S.-led coalition's airstrikes in Syria are illegal because they were not approved or coordinated with Syria's government. Meeting Tuesday with several news editors on the first day of the United Nations General Assembly gathering of ...
Reuters reports that the United States told Iran in advance of its plan to strike the Islamic State group in Syria. This is breaking news. Check back later for updates.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday he saw no legal obstacle to attacking the Islamic State militant group in Syria even as he stressed France did not plan air strikes there. "There is not, to our way of thinking, any legal impediment to responding to Islamic State attacks in ...
British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the next two days in New York and ask him for help to fight Islamic State, the first meeting between leaders of the two nations since Tehran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Cameron will meet Rouhani on the sidelines of ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Iran had a role to play in a global coalition to tackle Islamic State militants who have seized swaths of Iraq and Syria and proclaimed a caliphate in the heart of the Middle East. “The coalition required to eliminate ISIL (Islamic State) is ...
Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has condemned the US-led airstrikes against ISIL militants in Syria, saying the move will escalate the crises in the region./ Larijani said Wednesday that the US claim of fighting ISIL terrorists in Syria is not acceptable as Washington and its allies have ...
A senior Iranian diplomat has censured the recent US-led airstrikes in Syria as violation of the Arab country’s sovereignty and the international law, emphasizing that they will create a pretext for fresh interference in the Middle East./ “From Tehran’s view, any military action in Syria's ...
More than six months into the devastating Gaza war, its impact on the Israeli and Palestinian economies has been huge./ Nearly all economic activity in Gaza has been wiped out and the World Bank says the war has also hit Palestinian businesses in the occupied West Bank hard./ As Israelis mark ...
Megan Thee Stallion arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. A photographer who worked for the hip-hop star said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, April 23, 2024, that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was ...
HELENA, Ga. (AP) — Someone using a magnet to fish for metal objects in a Georgia creek pulled up a rifle as well as some lost belongings of a couple found slain in the same area more than nine years ago. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says driver's licenses, credit cards and other items ...
A man killed his wife and three of his children in an apparent murder-suicide mass shooting at a home in Oklahoma, according to police. Oklahoma City police said they were notified around 9:35 a.m. Monday and responding officers found the five bodies inside the house. Jonathon Candy, 42, ...
Donald Trump CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images/ This is the second week of former president Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in Manhattan for allegedly engaging in a hush-money scheme to conceal his sexual encounter with adult film actress . (Legal scholar Norman Eisen has more ...
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency./ But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged to terror groups./ Some of ...
An Uber driver from Southern California is looking to spread the word on the potential risks associated with being a rideshare driver after he was violently assaulted by a passenger over the weekend. that he comes to the L.A. area from his home in the Antelope Valley on the weekends since there ...
Donald Trump won’t be getting his way in his New York hush money trial—at least, not without consequences. Presiding Judge Juan Merchan decided Monday that prosecutors can cross-examine the former president on prior judgements and gag order violations. This is only relevant if Trump takes the ...
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with ...
A premature baby was saved when doctors performed an emergency caesarean in Rafah, after the city was hit by Israeli air strikes on Saturday night. Her mother, Sabreen, could not be saved, and died along with the baby's father and sister. Medics said the baby was born in respiratory distress and ...