Islamic State is "laying siege to America," Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Muhammad Abed ("Abu Abdallah") insisted in two separate Friday sermons from the Temple Mount. ISIS jihadists are "laying siege to America, despite its nuclear arsenal," he stated, in the clip, provided by the Middle Eastern Research Media Institute (MEMRI). "They are laying siege to
An overwhelming majority of 260 out of 290 Iranian parliament members passed a proposal designed to strengthen the regime's policy regarding the nuclear talks with world powers, with three important clauses contained in the document. The first clause demands a removal of all sanctions against Iran that were imposed by the United Nations (UN)
In a recent television interview translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar defended his group’s ties with Iran. "We have maintained that countries that believe in our ideology and can help us - countries like Iran that believe we are capable of liberating Palestine... These are the
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday claimed responsibility for the bloody attack that left 23 people killed at Bardo museum in the capital Tunis on Wednesday, reported AFP. In an audio message posted online, ISIS said “two knights from the Islamic State [ISIS]... heavily armed with automatic weapons and grenades,
An Egyptian court Wednesday sentenced 22 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi to death for an attack on a police station in which one officer was killed. The attack in the town of Kerdasa on the outskirts of Cairo on July 3, 2013 came on the same day that army chief Abdel Fattah
Iraqi army forces and Shi'ite militias, with the help of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers, continue their fight to liberate Tikrit from Islamic State (ISIS), according to local reports Friday. Iraqi officials explained that Iranian involvement in the region is deepening. Hadi al-Aamiri, leader of the "Badr" sect of the Iraqi parliament, said in
Prof. Efraim Inbar, Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, told Arutz Sheva that Turkey has been supportive of Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq, as it pursues greater influence in the Middle East. Some experts have called it a "Neo-Ottoman" foreign policy, to regain influence in places that were once backwater
Iraq's first Christian-only brigade of regular forces graduated Thursday to help retake the community's towns and villages from the Islamic State (ISIS) group. The new brigade will answer to the government of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, whose peshmerga fighters are playing a leading role in the war against the jihadists. Fighters paraded and
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction continued its celebration of the most lethal terror attack against Israel, the 1978 Coastal Road massacre led by Dalal Mughrabi in which 37 Israelis were slaughtered, 12 of them children. Fatah addressed Israelis on its Facebook page on Wednesday, writing "collect your body parts and leave!,"
Thousands of Iraqi troops and militiamen laid siege to jihadist fighters holed up in Tikrit on Thursday, wary of rushing into streets littered with bombs and infested with snipers. After making major gains in and around the city on Wednesday, commanders were confident that Baghdad's biggest victory yet against the Islamic State group was
