Pro-government forces repelled an attack on a key Syrian military airport by Islamic State (ISIS) group affiliated terrorists, losing 20 fighters but killing almost as many jihadists, a monitor said Saturday. "Militants who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group attacked the outskirts of the Khalkhalah military airport in Sweida province on Friday," said
Israel’s foremost enemy is the US State Department. The presidents and politicians, are just the summer help to State. Normally when somebody wants something from somebody else, they show their best behavior toward the person they want it from. Even a child knows this and will do what its parents want in order to
What message does it send when the White House Chief of Staff attacks the Prime Minister of Israel at an event featuring enemies of Israel? And Barack Obama is certainly no stickler for integrity in election rhetoric. Obama’s two terms showed us that he was a sore winner. Israel’s election showed us that he
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has said the framework deal reached with the US last week offers "no guarantee" of any final agreement over his country's nuclear program. In comments made on his official website and posted to his Twitter account, Khamenei said he was "neither for nor against" the deal, explaining: "It's all
A group of 14 Palestinian Arab factions said Thursday they backed a joint military operation with the Syrian government to expel Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists from the Yarmouk neighborhood of southern Damascus. After a meeting of the factions in the Syrian capital, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Ahmed Majdalani said the groups supported
The UN has launched an emergency vaccination campaign against lumpy skin disease and goat plague among animals brought to Lebanon by refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict, a report said Thursday. Some of the 1.5 million refugees have brought with them large numbers of unvaccinated sheep, goats, cattle and other animals, raising concerns over the
Sherkoh Abbas is a busy man. Residing in Washington D.C., he has the colossal job of lobbying for a state that does not yet exist – Syrian Kurdistan, a.k.a. Rojava. He is the Chairman of the Kurdistan National Assembly, an umbrella group of Kurdish organizations, political parties and civil leaders. Much like other exile groups
The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday it is ready to offer Palestinian factions its firepower to support their battle with the Islamic State group (ISIS) in the Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of Damascus, which has been evastated by clashes and aerial attacks. The deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yarmouk has pushed
Islamic State (ISIS) forces this week have taken over the Yarmouk neighborhood in southern Damascus, which is popularly known as a "Palestinian refugee camp," with reports indicating ISIS has been conducting arrests and acts of mass murder. Representatives of the Islamic nationalist forces in Gaza, which are a confederation of the various Palestinian Arab
Iraqi security forces and allied paramilitaries battled militants from the Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS) in Tikrit on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, a week after the city was declared retaken. The Iraqi forces launched a raid on the basis of intelligence that there were between eight and 15 ISIS members in a hideout
