Monthly Archives: April 2015

UNRWA Chief Concerned about Civilians in Syria’s Yarmouk

By | 2015-04-18T09:49:04-04:00 April 18th, 2015|News|

A UN agency chief said Sunday he was deeply concerned for civilians stuck in a Damascus neighborhood after it was stormed by the jihadist Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS.   "We remain very worried for refugees and civilians inside Yarmouk," Pierre Krahenbuhl, who heads the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said

Nasrallah Admits Weakened Hezbollah No Match for Israel

By | 2015-04-18T00:19:06-04:00 April 18th, 2015|News|

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has admitted his terrorist group is incapable of defeating Israel on its own, in the latest illustration of how the Shia Islamist group is being overstretched by growing commitments throughout the Middle East.   In an interview with Syrian state TV last Monday, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute

Senior Hamas Official: Abbas Has No Legitimacy to Lead PA

By | 2015-04-18T00:05:37-04:00 April 18th, 2015|News|

The war of words between Hamas and Fatah is heating up, as a senior Hamas official asserted that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had forfeited his legitimacy to lead.   In an article published in the Hamas journal "Palestine", senior official Mahmoud Al-Zahar accused Abbas of "treachery" over the PA's security cooperation with the Israel

Iran Says US Conceded on All Its Red Lines in Nuclear Deal

By | 2015-04-17T23:39:28-04:00 April 17th, 2015|News|

Iranian leadership continues to state clearly that the framework deal announced in Lausanne, Switzerland earlier this month constitutes a major achievement of the Islamic regime, which didn't give up on its nuclear program at all and forced the US to fold.   Iranian Revolutionary Guards chief General Mohammed Ali Jafari, who is considered to be

Hezbollah Backing Houthi Rebels in Yemen, According to Reports

By | 2015-04-17T23:19:09-04:00 April 17th, 2015|News|

Evidence is emerging that Hezbollah terrorists have been fighting alongside Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen, where a bloody civil war has been raging for the past several weeks.   The first report of Hezbollah assistance surfaced on Friday in pan-Arab news outlet Asharq al-Awsat, which claimed that the body of a "former Hezbollah militiaman" was

ISIS Completely Blows up Ancient City of Nimrud

By | 2015-04-14T23:00:52-04:00 April 14th, 2015|News|

The Islamic State (ISIS) group on Saturday released a video that shows terrorists smashing artifacts at the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq before blowing up the site.   The undated video suggests that the site, on the Tigris river about 30 kilometers (18 miles) southeast of Mosul, was completely leveled.   Destruction

Syrian Kurds Struggling for Independence Against ‘Arabization’

By | 2015-04-14T22:20:42-04:00 April 14th, 2015|News|

The Syrian Kurds have gained de facto autonomy in the crumbling Syrian landscape. With a large portion of Kurdish-majority territory tucked away in the northeastern corner of the country far away from the main habited zones around Damascus, the coast, Aleppo or along the Euphrates River, the tiny al-Hasakah province has been more focused on

Security Sources Reveal Massive Iranian Spying in Egypt

By | 2015-04-14T21:23:25-04:00 April 14th, 2015|News|

Iranian intelligence is conducting widespread activities from within Egypt and from there branching out to other Arab countries as well, according to Arab security sources.   The London-based Arabic-language Asharq Al-Awsat made the revelation in a report on Thursday, citing security sources who disclosed the Iranian intelligence operations.   In the report it was noted

American Evangelical Christendom: Living The Good Life off the Blood of the Martyrs

By | 2015-04-14T15:39:02-04:00 April 14th, 2015|Op-Eds|

“When it comes to modern missions, I believe no other people group is so uniquely positioned for world evangelization today as are First Nations people.” (Twiss 19).  Richard Twiss- Native American Evangelist   Introduction The American Evangelical community is predominantly disengaged from the religious cleansing of Christians in the Middle East. Even as evidence of