At least five Egyptians were abducted by Islamic State militants on Tuesday in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, security officials said. The five were driving to their workplace in the small town of Bir al-Abed when the militants from the Islamic State group stopped their vehicle and …

Syria also reported Israeli airstrikes on a factory on the west coast last month. Syria has reported new Israeli airstrikes in the country. The official SANA news outlet said that Syrian air defense responded to missiles from the “Israeli enemy.” The strikes targeted unspecified locations in central and southern Syria …

At some point before the summer of 2018, an arms deal from the US to Saudi Arabia was sealed and delivered. A 227kg laser-guided bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of many thousands, was part of that sale. On August 9th, 2018 one of those Lockheed Martin bombs was dropped …