ISIL terrorist group said one of its leaders in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has been killed. The group’s Aamaq news agency announced the death of Abu Hamza al-Maqdisi late Monday, calling him a “martyr” without saying where or how he died. A photo of a young, smiling, bearded man accompanied the report. ISIL ...
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says Iran’s missile strikes against militant positions in the country’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor in retaliation for the recent terror attack in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz was part of “legitimate” cooperation between Damascus and Tehran in the fight against terrorism. “The Iranian missiles ...