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Iran’s state TV has broadcast footage purporting to show a close encounter between the Revolutionary Guard’s navy and the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The incident purportedly happened in the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, the passageway for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea. Saturday’s footage …

A video showing a Hindu woman being beaten up by the police for being in the company of a Muslim man has set Twitter on fire. The video posted by journalist @PiyushRaiTOI received thousands of retweets in a few hours, with tweeps expressing outrage at the fact that the common …

President Trump shared videos on Twitter early Wednesday morning that supposedly portray Muslims committing acts of violence, images that are likely to fuel anti-Islam sentiments popular among the president’s political base in the United States and that prompted the office of Britain’s prime minister to issue a statement condemning the …

THE LEVANT – As Kurdish peshmerga forces launched a major attack against the group Thursday, ISIL militants set several wells ablaze at an oil field in northern Iraq before retreating, according to local reports. The Ain Zalah oil field was one of the a few fields Islamist extremist group seized control of in northen Iraq and …

THE LEVANT – Fighters from the Islamic State group have taken over an air base in northeast Syria, capturing it from government forces after fighting that cost more than 500 lives, a monitoring group and state media have said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a London-based monitoring group, said at least 346 Islamic State …