The US-led coalition has targeted oil refineries in Syria during a third night of air strikes against Islamic State, IS, militants. The raids, carried out by US, Saudi and UAE aircraft, killed 14 IS fighters and five civilians in eastern Syria, activists said. The US military said the refineries generated as much as $2 million…
US Airstrikes Against ISIS Expand Into Syria
The United States and its allied Arab nations have carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, in Syria. The strikes were aimed at key targets of the ISIS, including its base of operations in Raqqa, Syria, as well as a secretive al-Qaeda branch known as the Khorasan Group. The Pentagon…
US to send troops to fight Ebola in West Africa
Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, is to announce plans on Tuesday to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to help in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. It is understood that the US military will oversee the building of new treatment centres and help train medical staff. There has been…
Al-shabab leader killed in US strike
The United States government, on Friday, confirmed the killing of Ahmed Abdi Godane, leader of the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab in an attack carried out on Monday, September 1, 2014. According to Pentagon’s report, Godane was killed in a US attack of a convoy in which he was traveling. “Removing Godane from the battlefield is…
US urge Nigeria to Help Other West African Countries tackle Ebola Outbreak
The United States government has implored Nigerian Government to send assistance to the three other countries in the West African sub-region that are affected by the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak. The Secretary of State on African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who stated this in an interview with journalists on Thursday during a courtesy visit to the…
Two US Citizens found not guilty after 30 years In Jail
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, two North Carolina men were declared innocent and ordered freed on Tuesday after more than 30 years in prison for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl that recent DNA tests linked to another man. Mentally disabled half brothers McCollum, 50, and Brown, 46, were teenagers when they were…
US to Verify Journalist’s Beheading Video
Officials of the United States said intelligence experts are working to determine the authenticity of a video released on Tuesday portraying the beheading of another US journalist. Two weeks after the gruesome murder of James Foley, American war reporter by members of the ISIS insurgency, it appears the group has lived up to its threat…
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