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The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is at the centre of the war between Iran and Israel, leading the clerical ...
The Islamic State is staging a resurgence in parts of Syria and Iraq, with fighters regrouping in cities and testing weakened ...
Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime ...
Al-Monitor on MSN7h
US bases in the Middle East
The United States has thousands of troops deployed on bases across the Middle East, a region in which Washington's forces ...
U.S. forces have pulled out of two more bases in northeastern Syria, visiting Reuters reporters found, accelerating a troop ...
Fears are mounting that Islamic State fighters are regrouping in Syria and Iraq, exploiting security gaps to revive ...
The National Interest on MSN2d
Iraq in the Crossfire
Iraq was already facing a crisis prior to the Israeli airstrikes on Iran and Iran’s retaliation. In May, the autonomous ...
A plan to free American hostages in Iran ended in disaster on April 24, 1980. The tragedy led to an overhaul of U.S. special ...
shortening its name from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL — the acronym used by the Obama administration and the British Foreign Office to this day. The Levant can refer to all countries ...
Puntland Defense Forces posed next to a sign in Arabic that proclaimed the mountain town of Sheebaab as a “province” of the Islamic State group. The town, located in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern ...
US-backed Kurdish forces who fought IS are worried as Washington scales down the presence of its forces in Syria, as US troops pulled out of two more bases ...