Operation Decisive Force has taken Middle East observers by surprise. Only a week ago there were few indications Saudi Arabia was planning any war at all. Now, there are reports the Saudis will lead a ground invasion “within days” to bring down the Houthis. When Arutz Sheva last spoke to Professor Yiftah Shapir of
An Aljazeera report shines a light on the dark reality of life under the Islamist dictatorship of ISIS in Mosul, Iraq. The report relies on interviews with former residents of Mosul, conducted in the Kurdish-controlled city of Erbil. Their names have been changed to protect their relatives who stayed behind. One of the
The Arab League has never been known for the unity that other international alliances have projected. NATO was a strong, American-led alliance throughout the Cold War (and in many ways still today); the European Union, for all its diversity, has a unified foreign policy. The Arab League on the other hand has been plagued
Troops from a nine-member Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia could be marching into Yemen before the week is over. Meanwhile, an air campaign is eroding the Iran-backed Shi'ite Houthi defenses. Saudi Arabia and Egypt have both mentioned the possibility of putting boots on the ground, according to CNN. On Saturday, Yemeni Foreign Minister
The Iranian-backed Shi'ite Houthi rebels continue their push southwards in Yemen, with fierce fighting breaking out in the key southern port city of Aden on Monday in a battle that sees Iran, via its proxy ,pitted against forces backed by Sunni states headed by Saudi Arabia. Troops loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah
Conflicts in Iraq and Syria are changing the Middle East. As a result of ethnic warfare, literally hundreds of thousands of Arabs of different cultural backgrounds have fled for safer borders around the region. The result, claims Pinhas Inbari of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, will have major implications on Israel’s immediate neighbors: Jordan
Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have made a name for themselves through their brutality, beheading victims in front of children and having children execute victims with a gun, but in what may be a first for the jihadist group ISIS on Sunday released a video of children beheading a victim. In the video nine apparent
"Children's Army of Hamas,” a new 11-minute documentary by the Center for Near East Policy Research, shows from up close the training of thousands of children by Hamas, in special terror training and indoctrination camps in Gaza. Footage for the documentary was shot by a television team hired by the Center for Near East
Egyptian border guards claimed on Sunday to have uncovered a 2.8 km-long tunnel under the yards of three homes in Rafah, near the Gaza border. Egyptian military sources told the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency that the tunnel was three meters underground and was being used to smuggle people, ammunition, weapons and goods. The
Airstrikes in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia will continue until Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who left the country on Thursday, is able to rule, a Saudi military spokesman said on Sunday, according to Reuters. "We will set the conditions necessary to allow the president and his government to run the country," said Brigadier
