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A Navy sailor maintaining a fighter jet on the deck of the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower last month. Joint Stars and other surveillance planes “paint a picture” of the Islamic State on the ground for United States fighters and bombers to attack. Credit Petr David Josek/Associated Press

Aboard a U.S. Eye in the Sky, Staring Down ISIS

by Eric Schmitt | Dec 28, 2016 | Features

ABOARD A JOINT STARS SURVEILLANCE PLANE, Over Northern Iraq — Flying at 30,000 feet, the powerful radar aboard this Air Force jet peered deep into Syrian territory, hunting for targets on the ground to strike in the looming offensive to seize Raqqa, ISIS’s capital. It...

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European Union’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove is seen during an interview with Reuters in his office in Brussels, Belgium December 2, 2016. (REUTERS / Alastair Macdonald)

EU Official: Militants’ Fate Ultimately Unknown in Post-ISIS Era

by Abdullah Mustafa | Dec 14, 2016 | Interviews

Brussels- European Union’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove noted in a former interview that terrorism has spread its way through a number of EU states. Warnings of imminent attacks have become a predominant feature in all statements made by EU...

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Al-Qaeda (Photo: Reuters)

Qaeda Militants Attack Yemen Gas Export Pipeline

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 5, 2016 | Middle East

Terror militants affiliated with al Qaeda blew up Yemen’s only gas export pipeline on Monday, local officials said, in a further blow to a moribund but vital piece of infrastructure for an impoverished country battered by 20 months of war. The explosion occurred...

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Tunisian policemen patrol the roof of a police station, after Monday’s attack by Islamist fighters on an army and police barracks in the town of Ben Guerdan, Tunisia, near the Libyan border March 8, 2016. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

Tunisia Neutralized 160 Terror Cells in 2016

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 2, 2016 | Middle East

Tunisian security forces dismantled 160 terror cells in the first 10 months of this year, about 45 percent more than during the whole of 2015, the interior ministry said on Friday. Tunisia has been the only Arab state to achieve a relatively peaceful democratic...

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Chibok School Girls Are Released by Boko Haram

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 18, 2016 | World

Twenty one school girls from Chibok who were released by the Nigerian group Boko Haram after they were detained for more than two years returned to their families on Sunday in Abuja and recounted the difficult circumstances of their detention. During a religious...