Headlines- Early on Thursday, 73 students were injured and at least 16 students killed at a girls' boarding school in central Kenya.
- The vital Strait of Hormuz, according to US President Donald Trump, "must be open to everyone" and "no one can control it."
- A major portions of southern Lebanon has been declared a "combat zone" by the Israeli military.
- Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that American bombings in the country's southern Hormozgan region broke the ceasefire.
- The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health claims that Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday left at least 31 persons dead and 40 injured.
- Due to the Ebola outbreak, Ugandan authorities announced on Wednesday that the country's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been closed.
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Increasing IS Attacks Putting Kurdish and...
Officials from the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Iraqi Central Government are planning a strategy to counter the Islamic State’s recent surge in attacks
Kurds in Iraq, Syria Look for...
Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria have been important partners for the United States in the fight against the Islamic State terror group. During President-elect Joe Biden’s years in the Senate and as vice president, he was deeply involved in U.S. policy in the region, and Kurds are hopeful about what that could mean for them in the coming years
Displaced Yazidi Woman Paints Life After...
Hayat Dakhil Murad — a young Yazidi woman who fled the Islamic State (IS) attack on Sinjar in 2014 to the Sharya Refugee Camp in the Kurdistan Region’s Dohuk province — has found solace in painting the realities of her people’s ordeal in Iraq
US-Backed Forces Pursue IS in E....
With the new advancement of Kurdish-led forces into Hajin, in eastern Syria, thousands have fled their homes in Islamic State-controlled pockets