Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant - Page 5

Contents: Rating agencies downgrade Britain’s AAA credit rating; Christian community in Lebanon targeted by suicide bombers; June 12 bombing of Beirut’s Blom Bank blamed on Hezbollah; Nasrallah responds: Hezbollah gets all its funding from Iran

Contents: UAE backs out of Saudi coalition in Yemen, saying ‘War is over’; Saudi Arabia is condemned for Yemen’s humanitarian disaster

Contents: Al-Qaeda leader swears allegiance to Taliban’s new leader; ISIS losing ground may have led to Orlando terror attack

Contents: Israel’s Netanyahu responds cautiously to Tel Aviv terror attack; West Bank Palestinians reject call to end security cooperation with Israel; Turkey endures two days of terror bombing attacks; Terror attacks in Turkey complicate EU-Turkey migrant deal

Contents: Death of Afghan Taliban leader exposes Iran-Taliban links; 50,000 civilians in danger as Iraq tries to liberate Fallujah from ISIS

Contents: Report: Israel and Saudi Arabia are allying against Iran and Hezbollah; Iran and Hezbollah turn focus of hostility from Israel to Saudi Arabia; Shifting Israeli alliances in the Mideast

Contents: Death of Afghan Taliban leader complicates America’s relationship with Pakistan; Massive explosions in Syria target Bashar al-Assad’s heartland

Contents: Western nations agree to lift arms embargo on Libya to fight ISIS; ISIS continues to grow in Libya in size and effectiveness

Contents: EU-Turkey migrant deal unravels over brinksmanship on both sides; More refugees now reaching Europe via Italy than via Greece; Italy rescues 800 migrants from Mediterranean Sea, many of them from Syria

Contents: Azerbaijan celebrates the ‘Days of Culture of Dagestan’; Azerbaijan and Dagestan share Sunni Salafist insurgencies; Nagorno-Karabakh issue still simmers

Contents: Arab countries seek to overturn the century old Sykes-Picot agreement; Syria: A victim of colonial politics; Palestine: Sykes-Picot and Balfour Declaration left a ‘savage legacy’; Lebanon: Survived Sykes-Picot largely intact

Contents: London elects Sadiq Khan as mayor, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western city; Turkey’s Erdogan threatens EU: ‘We’ll go our own way, you go yours!’; Turkey says it will meet other EU requirements for lifting visa restrictions

Contents: With Turkey already in chaos, Erdogan forces PM Davutoglu to resign; Davutoglu’s resignation may complicate the EU-Turkey migrant deal; Syria and Russia continue ‘Grozny Model,’ killing women and children in Aleppo refugee camp

Contents: Israel to open another truck crossing to the Gaza Strip; Report: Hamas, Israel and Egypt in alliance fighting ISIS; Laos sides with China in South China Sea dispute

Contents: Female suicide bomber attacks Bursa in northwestern Turkey; Austria votes to close border with Italy to slow refugees

Contents: Violence spreads across Turkey as both Turkey and PKK escalate fight; Puerto Rico headed for new financial default on May 1

Contents: Europe goes on charm offensive with Turkey on migrant deal; Bangladesh in shock after university professor hacked to death; FBI offers to help investigate Bangladesh murders

Contents: Saudi King Salman snubs Obama – again – as he arrives for Saudi Arabia summit; President Obama to ‘clean up leftover messes’ in the Mideast

Contents: Israel’s Netanyahu vows revenge for terrorist bombing in Jerusalem; Mahmoud Abbas lobbies to revive international interest in Palestinians; In a new catastrophe, hundreds of migrants drown in the Mediterranean Sea; China’s bond market starts to unravel

Contents: Massive earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador are linked by the Ring of Fire; Syria chemical weapons accidentally kill Hezbollah militias; Latest Syrian ‘peace process’ appears near collapse; Saudi Arabia ends oil summit negotiations as Iran fails to show up

Contents: Syrian jihadists shoot down regime warplane, capture pilot; Radical Islamists finding a new home in Bosnia and Balkan states

Contents: Russia declared ‘Mission complete’ in Syria and withdrew, but the war rages on; Bangladesh’s Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) terror group targets ‘atheist bloggers’

Contents: US military will deploy three brigades to eastern Europe to counter Russia; Libya’s Government of National Accord sails into port of Tripoli

Contents: Human traffickers sell routes through Europe for 5000 euros; Europeans expect hundreds of thousands of migrants from Libya

Contents: Thousands protest violently over execution of murderer of blasphemy reformer; Pakistan Taliban branch takes credit for Easter massacre of Christians in Lahore

Contents: Loss of Palmyra in Syria highlights setbacks for ISIS; Iraqi army fleeing for their lives again

Contents: Generational Dynamics view of Brussels terror attack; Gone With The Wind

Contents: In Greece, banks can charge you for making change; Pentagon to expand a secret military firebase in Iraq after Marine killed; Whom to support for President?

Contents: Istanbul terrorist attack is the latest in a string of attacks on Turkey; Israel participating in investigation of Istanbul attack

Contents: Saudi Arabia says it will ‘end major combat operations’ in Yemen; Over 100 civilians killed in Saudi airstrike in Yemen

Contents: Russia announces a surprise partial military withdrawal from Syria; Opinions vary on why Russia pulled back from Syria now

Contents: Saudi’s Prince Faisal sharply rebukes Obama’s ‘free riders’ accusation; The World View of President Barack Hussein Obama

Contents: Yet another terrorist bombing in Ankara Turkey kills 34; AQIM takes credit for armed terror attack on Ivory Coast beach resort

Contents: Arab League brands Lebanon’s Hezbollah a terrorist organization; U.S. blames Iran for cyber attack on a New York dam

Contents: Italy debates military intervention in Libya after ISIS kills Italian hostages; Looking back at the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ Libya military intervention; Russian media calls Gaddafi’s Libya an ‘oasis of stability’; Police in Turkey use force to shut down opposition newspaper

Contents: China building powerful new radar system in South China Sea; Report: China’s military buildup neutralizes America’s aircraft carriers; John Kerry and Russia announce a new Syria peace plan