U.S. conducts first drone strikes against ISIS in Afghanistan, 49 dead
The first US drone operation targeting purported Daesh fighters in Afghanistan has killed at least 49 fighters in eastern Afghanistan, officials confirmed Tuesday. The first of two strikes targeted fighters in Nangarhar province’s Achin district, killing at least 12 militants at midday on Monday, said the provincial governor’s spokesman Ahmad Zia Adulzai. Abdulzai said initial […]
Obama says US intensifying anti-ISIL campaign in Syria
US President Barack Obama has said that the US-led coalition battling fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was “intensifying” its campaign against the armed group’s base in Syria. Speaking at the Pentagon on Monday, Obama said that recent territory losses by the ISIL group show that the armed group will […]
Muslims threw 12 Christians into the sea after a fight broke out on a boat carrying migrants
A group of Muslim migrants have been arrested for ‘aggravated murder’ after allegedly throwing 12 Christians into the Mediterranean sea during a recent crossing from Libya, Italian police reports.Witnesses say a fight broke out on a rubber dinghy carrying more than 100 African migrants from Libya to Sicily, after which the men were thrown to […]
