Islamic State's (ISIS) threats to declare war on Hamas in Gaza after the latter began a crackdown on local Salafist groups appears to be edging to fruition, after an ISIS-affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday claimed launching two "bombs" - reportedly 82 mm mortar shells - at Hamas posts in Gaza. Ansar Bayt
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is seeking a written guarantee from the United States with regards to Iran, its ambassador to Washington said on Thursday, according to Reuters. That request will come at President Barack Obama's Camp David meeting with the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations, the ambassador said. "We are looking for
Turkey on Thursday recalled its envoy to Luxembourg to Ankara for consultations, after that country’s parliament recognized the mass killings of Armenians in World War I as genocide, AFP reported. The recall of the envoy is the latest such move by Ankara after it withdrew its ambassadors to the Vatican and Austria over the
No less than 600 Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terrorists have fled the Saudi-led strikes and Houthi menace in Yemen and relocated to northern Somalia, US officials revealed on Tuesday as reported by the Washington Free Beacon. Ethiopia let the Somali government know about the migration according to the officials, with the
The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah vowed Tuesday his terrorist group would oust Sunni rebels from a region on the border with Syria, but declined to say when the assault might happen. In a televised address, the Shia Islamist group's leader Hassan Nasrallah said rebel forces in the mountainous border area posed an unacceptable
A move to consider suspending Israel from world soccer will be put to FIFA's 209 member federations just before they elect their president this month, The Associated Press reported Monday. FIFA published an agenda for its election congress on May 29, including a late proposal by Palestinian Arab officials to suspend Israel. The
Islamist rebels led by Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate launched a preemptive strike Monday on pro-regime forces in a mountainous area near the Lebanese border, setting off fierce clashes, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Al Nusra Front and other groups attacked positions belonging to the regime and Lebanon's Hezbollah, which
Residents of Gaza report that an explosion occurred on Monday at the Hamas general security headquarters. According to the reports, which were cited by Yedioth Aharonoth, the blast was the work of Salafists who are demanding the release of several Salafist prisoners being held by Hamas. The Salafist group Salafist Trend on Saturday
Hamas has been accused of torturing members of a Salafist group in Gaza who are being held in jail, while monitoring and cracking down on other supporters of the group throughout its stronghold. A statement by the Salafist Trend group on Saturday threatened Hamas that if it didn't release the members being tortured in
The "refugee" department of the Hamas terrorist movement will on Tuesday at 5 p.m. hold a massive rally marking 67 years to the "Nakba" - the "catastrophe" of the establishment of modern Israel, and the inability of the Arab countries to destroy the fledgling renascent Jewish state. The massive rally is to be held
