Americans believe the Islamic State group poses the most serious threat to the United States in the next decade, according to a poll released Friday. Eighty-four percent of those quizzed by Gallup said ISIS jihadists, who have grabbed large areas of Iraq and Syria in a brutal onslaught, and terrorism in general presented a
Nearly 100 fighters on both sides have been killed in a week of fighting in southern Syria between regime forces and rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The army, backed by fighters from Lebanon's powerful Shiite group Hezbollah, began an offensive at the beginning of the week in Daraa, the province
It was the first time Egypt has publicly acknowledged taking military action in neighboring Libya, where extreme Islamist groups have been ascendant since the ouster and elimination of long-time dictator Muammar Qaddafi in 2011. On Sunday night, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt reserves the right to retaliate against the killing of 21 Egyptian Copts
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned on Sunday night that his country would respond to the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya by the Islamic State (ISIS). Earlier, ISIS released a video purportedly showing the beheading of the Coptic Christians it had captured in the Libyan capital Tripoli. The footage released online
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has lent his support to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's March 3 speech to Congress, which has become an issue of contention between Democrats and Republicans as well as between Israel and the United States. According to the Reuters news agency, Wiesel is urging President Barack
Israel’s Voice and Voice of the Copts have partnered together, sending a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to support and stress the urgency of his upcoming March 3 address to a Joint Session of Congress. Netanyahu’s invitation from U.S. Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner to speak before
Terrorists in Iraq have seized a major synagogue and holy site in Amara, the Elder of Ziyon blog reported Wednesday - and have already destroyed much of it. According to the Iraqi media site quoted by the blog, the synagogue will become the new southern headquarters of the terrorists, whose name and affiliation are
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday criticized U.S. President Barack Obama over his silence following the killings of three young Muslims in North Carolina this week, Reuters reported. Speaking alongside Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during a state visit to Mexico, Erdogan said the silence of Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary
A covert cell operating under the Iranian government is fueling the bloodshed throughout the Middle East and North Africa, Fox News revealed Thursday. Unit 190, a secret arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force made up of about two-dozen employees, has for years smuggled arms to these conflict zones, the network said.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops shelled rebel-held villages in southern Syria on Thursday, as a snowstorm slowed an advance led by Lebanon's pro-Assad Hezbollah terrorists near the Israeli Golan Heights, a monitor said. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Syrian army shelled Jizeh and the west of Atman village in the
