Ammar Cheikh Omar

1 month ago | nbcchicago.com | Freddie Clayton |Ammar Cheikh Omar

At least 53 people have been killed and 98 injured after the United States launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen on Saturday, according to the Houthi health ministry, as a rebel spokesperson told NBC News that the group would respond with “more escalation."President Donald Trump said he ordered the airstrikes on Houthi-held areas of Yemen on Saturday and promised to use “overwhelming lethal force” until the rebel group ceased attacks on shipping along a vital maritime corridor.

1 month ago | nbclosangeles.com | Freddie Clayton |Ammar Cheikh Omar

At least 53 people have been killed and 98 injured after the United States launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen on Saturday, according to the Houthi health ministry, as a rebel spokesperson told NBC News that the group wouldrespond with "more escalation."President Donald Trump said he ordered the airstrikes on Houthi-held areas of Yemen on Saturday and promised to use "overwhelming lethal force" until the rebel group ceased attacks on shipping along a vital maritime corridor.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Freddie Clayton |Ammar Cheikh Omar

By and At least 31 people have been killed and 101 injured after the United States launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen on Saturday, according to the Houthi health ministry, as a rebel spokesperson told NBC News that they group wouldrespond with "more escalation."President Donald Trump said he ordered the airstrikes on Houthi-held areas of Yemen on Saturday and promised to use “overwhelming lethal force” until the rebel group ceased attacks on shipping along a vital maritime corridor.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Chantal Da Silva |Ammar Cheikh Omar

The wave of violence that has killed hundreds of civilians across Syria reached the major cities of Damascus and Aleppo on Monday, hours after interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed to bring those responsible to justice. The reported fighting in the capital Damascus and the second city of Aleppo marked the first such clashes there since the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Richard Engel |Marc Smith |Ammar Cheikh Omar

HASAKAH, Syria — In a network of prisons and detention camps across northeastern Syria, the Islamic State militant group has an army in waiting, and fanatical support for its brutal regime lives on. For now the prisons and camps are guarded by the American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led fighting force that battled alongside the U.S. military to destroy ISIS’ so-called caliphate.