Israeli forces continue their pursuit of Palestinian militants and weapons in a West Bank refugee camp, resulting in the displacement of thousands of residents and a rising death toll of Palestinians, reaching 10 over two days. The large-scale raid on the Jenin
Israeli soldiers had a “massive” shootout with Palestinian militants in the city of Jenin on Monday, a conflict that escalated with the use of a roadside bomb and finally Israeli gunships. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials say they began a series of
A Libyan court Monday sentenced 23 suspected Islamic State group militants to death for launching deadly attacks that killed dozens of people, including Egyptian Coptic Christians. The appeals court in the western city of Misrata also sentenced 14 other militants to life
Saudi Arabia said it executed two Bahraini men on Monday after being convicted of belonging to a militant group wanting to destabilize the two Mideast kingdoms. Amnesty International had criticized their trial as being “grossly unfair.” The Saudi Interior Ministry’s announcement, carried
Dozens of militants attacked an oil and gas plant on Tuesday in Pakistan’s remote northwest, near the border with Afghanistan, killing four security troops and two private guards, officials said. Oil production was temporarily suspended following the attack on the oil and
Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel on Sunday, just hours after the Israeli military and Palestinian groups agreed to a cease-fire. No terror group has taken responsibility for the attack as of Sunday afternoon, and Israel has yet to issue
The second-largest Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad fired rockets towards the contested capital of Jerusalem on Friday. In response, the Israeli military sent warplanes that struck four Islamic Jihad military posts in the Gaza Strip. The exchange of airstrikes in the most
The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya as martyrs with their own feast day, in a significant new ecumenical gesture aimed at forging unity between Catholic and Orthodox churches. Pope Francis announced
Militants in Gaza fired waves of rockets into Israel on Wednesday, following a series of airstrikes that killed three senior members of a terrorist group this week. Israeli Defense Forces confirmed that a wave of rockets targeted the southern cities Ashkelon and
Militants targeted Pakistani security forces in three overnight attacks in the country’s volatile northwest, triggering shootouts that killed three soldiers and seven militants, the military said Friday. The near-simultaneous attacks late Thursday night in Lakki Marwat, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa