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
Iranian officials continue to bask in the afterglow of the framework deal reached with world powers last week over the Islamic regime's nuclear program, and joining the victory parade this week was Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari. At a conference of Revolutionary Guards officers Jafari spoke about the deal, which
Iraq has exhumed the remains of 47 people believed to have been massacred by jihadists from mass graves in Tikrit, the human rights ministry's spokesman said Tuesday. "The number of remains that were exhumed so far is 47, and they were found in 11 mass graves," Kamel Amin told AFP, adding that the number
The Saudi Arabia-led, nine-member Arab coalition has made great gains in Yemen Tuesday, according to Al-Arabiya, pummeling the Iran-backed Houthis in a series of airstrikes. The coalition shelled the Houthi's Air Defense Brigade 630 near the al-Hudaydah overnight Monday, sources stated to the daily, as well as destroying a missile depot west of Sanaa.
Amid the ISIS assault on Iraq, minorities have borne the brunt. One of those groups is Iraq’s Christians, who before the 2003 US invasion were spread throughout the country with a sizeable community in the northwest. The majority of Iraqi Christians come from the Syriac, Assyrian and Chaldean churches with affiliations mainly to
An explosion has taken place at or near Hamas's Internal Security HQ at the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza, Arab sources told Israeli newspaper Maariv Tuesday. The newspaper estimated that the blast I slinked to the arrest of an ISIS man in Gaza, following the fighting between ISIS and Palestinians in the Yarmouk camp in
Are the Kurds the West’s last hope in Iraq? There is speculation that the United States and Iran have reached an understanding on the war with ISIS, which worries Israel and Sunni Arab states. If Iran is being encouraged to take the fight to ISIS, it seems the calculus is that only they are
