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Russia Says It Killed Islamic State Leader U.S. Targeted

EghtesadOnline: Russia said it killed one of Islamic State’s most senior figures, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, after the Pentagon said that U.S.-led coalition forces carried out a “precision strike” against him.
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Publish Date:01/September/2016 | 08:45

Veep: Takfiri groups trying to destabilize Iran

EghtesadOnline: Takfiri terrorist groups including Daesh ( ISIS ) are doing their best to destabilize Iran, Iranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said.
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Publish Date:31/August/2016 | 10:59

U.S. lauds fragile respite between Turkey, Kurdish fighters in Syria

EghtesadOnline: The United States welcomed an apparent pause in fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia fighters in Syria on Tuesday, both of them members of the coalition fighting Islamic State, but it was far from clear that any truce would hold.
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Publish Date:31/August/2016 | 07:11

Key Islamic State leader killed in apparent U.S. strike in Syria

EghtesadOnline: Islamic State said on Tuesday one of its most prominent and longest-serving leaders was killed in what appeared to be an American air strike in Syria, depriving the militant group of the man in charge of directing attacks overseas.
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Publish Date:31/August/2016 | 03:56

Iran slams terror attack in Iraq’s Karbala

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Monday condemned the heinous crimes perpetrated by terrorists in Karbala province in Iraq by Daesh terrorist and Takfiri groups.
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Publish Date:30/August/2016 | 13:09

Libyan forces say Islamic State beaten back in Sirte

EghtesadOnline: Libyan forces said they captured a residential neighborhood in central Sirte from Islamic State on Monday, leaving just one district of the city still occupied by the militants.
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Publish Date:30/August/2016 | 07:15

U.S. tries to stop feuding allies from unraveling Syria strategy

EghtesadOnline: The United States scrambled on Monday to get its feuding allies, Turkey and Kurdish YPG militia, to focus their firepower on Islamic State instead of each other after clashes that have threatened to unravel America's war strategy in Syria.
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Publish Date:30/August/2016 | 06:33

High toll for Libyan troops battling Islamic State in Sirte

EghtesadOnline: At least 34 Libyan fighters were killed and more than 180 wounded on Sunday as they closed in on the last Islamic State militant holdouts in the coastal city of Sirte, according to field hospitals.
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Publish Date:29/August/2016 | 07:09

Turkish Jets Strike Islamic State in Syria to Secure Border

EghtesadOnline: Turkey launched its first major military operation in Syria on Wednesday, bombing Islamic State positions in one of the few border regions that aren’t controlled by rebel forces allied with Turkish Kurdish separatists.
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Publish Date:24/August/2016 | 09:07

Germany Sees Turkey as Platform for Islamism, Leak Shows

EghtesadOnline: Germany views Turkey as a “central platform” for Islamist groups throughout the Middle East, according to a leaked internal assessment that could exacerbate tension between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Publish Date:17/August/2016 | 10:54

Trump promises to work with NATO to defeat Islamic State

EghtesadOnline: Republican Donald Trump said on Monday he would work closely with NATO allies to defeat Islamic State militants if he wins the White House, reversing an earlier threat that the United States might not meet its obligations to the Western military alliance.
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Publish Date:16/August/2016 | 06:43

Trump Echoed Again by U.S. Foe as Hezbollah Cites Obama-IS Theme

EghtesadOnline: The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group cited Donald Trump in accusing the U.S. and President Barack Obama of creating Islamic State, becoming the latest American adversary to quote or praise the Republican nominee.
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Publish Date:15/August/2016 | 09:14

Kurdish forces in fresh push to close in on ISIS -held Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes launched a fresh attack on Islamic State militants in northern Iraq in the early hours of Sunday, as part of a plan to close in on their de facto capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said.
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Publish Date:14/August/2016 | 08:21