Syria's opposition interim government said Thursday it had received $6 million from the United States in the first direct US financial support for the rebel body. The money is for development and relief projects in "areas liberated by the moderate Syrian opposition," it said in a statement, including food deliveries, public services and supporting
Muhammad Deif, leader of Hamas's military wing, published a letter Thursday morning sending his condolences to Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. The Al-Qassam Brigades chief commander has not been seen publicly since Operation Protective Edge last summer, in which he was reported to have been killed. In the letter published on the Hezbollah-affiliated
Islamic State terrorists sow death long after they depart, and as Iraqi Kurdish forces regain ground, they - and the civilians returning to their homes - face the threat of unexploded bombs and booby traps. "These people were very imaginative, like devils," said Marwan Sydo Hisn, a Kurdish bomb disposal expert currently based in
The attacks in Paris and the radical Islamist cell dismantled in Brussels have challenged the idea of the "lone wolf" terrorist who works alone, without the help of a jihadist organisation, analysts say. Every terrorist that has attempted or carried out attacks in the West in recent years - down to the Kouachi brothers
Kurdish security forces launched an offensive on the Islamic State (ISIS) group in northern Iraq Wednesday, backed by US-led air strikes, and retook villages the jihadists used to launch attacks, officials said. The Kurdish Regional Security Council said peshmerga forces, who began a "large-scale offensive" around 7:00 am (0400 GMT), retook four areas and
Iran's Chief Rabbi has blamed the Charlie Hebdo attack on the magazine's publishers themselves, Iranian media reported Tuesday night, saying that the attack was only a matter of time after the weekly published cartoons of the founder of Islam Mohammed. In a rare statement Iranian media attributed to Rabbi Mashallah Golestan Ahmadinejad, the Iranian
Thousands gathered in Tehran Wednesday at a funeral procession for a Revolutionary Guards general killed by Israel, after his commander warned the Jewish state it should "await destructive thunderbolts". General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi died alongside six terrorists from Lebanon's Hezbollah group in the attack Sunday near Quneitra on the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan
Belgian police launched a "jihadist-related" anti-terrorism operation in the eastern town of Verviers on Thursday, with reports saying there were three deaths. Public broadcaster RTBF reported three deaths and said explosions were heard at the scene, but there was no immediate confirmation. The incident comes as Europe is on high alert after 17
Security camera footage caught Hamza Matrouk, who stabbed unsuspecting citizens on a bus in Tel Aviv Wednesday morning, as he knifed another victim during the panic and chaos he caused. {youtube}gkD60pY166g{/youtube} Matrouk is seen among a group of people who are running in the street away from the bus in which he began
The UN on Tuesday decried numerous executions of civilians in Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, warning that educated women appeared to be especially at risk. The jihadist group is showing a "monstrous disregard for human life" in the areas it controls in Iraq, the UN human rights office said. The
