Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Friday it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may have killed ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in late May, Russian news agencies reported. The air strike, targeted a meeting of ISIL leaders and was carried out on ...
Egyptians continue to take to the streets against the parliament’s recent approval of a controversial plan to transfer the sovereignty of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, even after police arrested dozens of activists who had called for mass protests. Egyptian police raided homes in the capital, Cairo, and ...
