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‘Faulty intel’: Family after US raid kills Syrian undercover agent; Islamic State militant was target

Khaled al-Masoud, who was killed at his home during a raid in the town of al-Dumayr in the Damascus countryside. (Courtesy of the al-Masoud family via AP) A joint raid by the US forces and a local Syrian group targeting an Islamic State (IS) militant instead resulted in the killing of a man who had […]

Washington mansion killings: 15-year-old ‘killed’ parents, siblings; was raised in ‘militant survivalist’ home

A 15-year-old boy accused of murdering nearly his entire family in their $2 million lakeside mansion in suburban Seattle was raised under a “rigid, militant survivalist ideology” and kept isolated from the outside world, according to new court documents filed last week.Prosecutors allege that the teenager, whose identity remains protected due to his age, fatally […]

Burkina Faso: 50 soldiers killed in militant attack; Al-Qaida-linked group suspected

Fifty soldiers were killed on Monday in a deadly attack on a military base in northern Burkina Faso. The assault is believed to have been carried out by Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaida-linked militant group operating across West Africa.The attack took place in Dargo, located in Boulsa province, and involved around 100 armed […]

Syria Makes Rare Arrests of Palestinian Militant Group Leaders

Syrian authorities made a rare arrest of two senior members of the Palestinian armed faction Islamic Jihad, the group said on Tuesday, a move that signaled the shifting of alliances in the Middle East. The group, Islamic Jihad, is an Iran-backed ally of Hamas that took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel […]