and theater icon Rafiq Sebaie - best known to audiences in Syria and the Arab world as Abu Sayyah after one of his long-standing roles - has died at the age of 86 on Thursday 5/1/2017. Sebaie ...

which holds swathes of both Iraq and Syria. During the raid, the U.S. troops killed Abu Sayyaf -- a Tunisian citizen whom Washington believes was responsible for overseeing Islamic State's ...

Benoit Faucon is a Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.