Four people were killed when a missile hit a hospital supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in northern Yemen, the aid agency says. MSF said the strike in Saada province, a Houthi rebel movement stronghold, had injured a further 10 people. The Houthis are fighting the government and its allies, including Saudi Arabia. MSF said… Read More Missile hits MSF hospital in Yemen
A court in Abu Dhabi on Sunday sentenced to death an Emirati convicted in absentia of having joined both the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, a newspaper reported. The Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates also found Khalfan Sultan al-Suwaidi guilty of recruiting fighters for IS and the Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra… Read More UAE court sentences jihadists to death
The second deputy of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed during an Iraqi air force strike in the city of Barwana, just east of Haditha, the Iraqi military said Saturday. Assi Ali Mohammed Nasser al-Obeidi was a top ISIS military commander in western Iraq and eastern Syria, Iraq’s Joint Operations Command said. Obeidi had… Read More Iraqi airstrike kills ISIS senior commander
