The Egyptian military claimed Wednesday to have killed more than 500 jihadi terrorists over the previous 16 days, as it gears up for the second phase of an intensive counter-terrorism operation in the restive eastern Sinai Peninsula. Scores more terror suspects were also arrested during the operations. According to the state-controlled Al Ahram,
Russian President Vladimir Putin, determined to strengthen his country’s only military outpost in the Middle East, is preparing to launch unilateral airstrikes against Islamic State (ISIS) from inside Syria if the U.S. rejects his proposal to join forces, two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Putin’s preferred course of action, though,
Iran's armed forces are the best defense against "terror" in the Middle East, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, urging regional countries not to rely on world powers. "Today, the largest power against intimidation and terror is our armed forces," Rouhani said at a massive military parade in Tehran. Iran has played
A new poll shows that most Palestinians no longer support the “two state solution,” which entails lopping off Judea, Samaria, and most of Jerusalem from Israel and establishing an Arab state. According to the poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 51% of Palestinian Authority residents – including in PA-controlled
Egypt has begun flooding Hamas terror tunnels beneath the Egypt-Gaza Rafah border crossing Friday, in an apparent attempt to prevent terrorist infiltrations. According to Dutch news agency DPA, Egypt pumped water from the Mediterranean Sea into the tunnels, making good on threats it made to Hamas last month. Egyptian officials apparently intend to
A former lieutenant of former Al-Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden, has been killed in fighting with pro-government militiamen in Syria, a monitor said Saturday, according to the AFP news agency. “Abul Hassan al-Tunsi, an important leader of Al-Nusra Front, was killed in clashes Friday between Islamist rebels and pro-government militia around the Shiite villages
Further signs have surfaced showing that the crackdown on Kurdish forces by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) - which experts estimated was an elections ploy - has failed spectacularly. Several analysts explained Erdogan's unofficial war on Kurdish forces launched in July was a ploy to make up for
Mahmoud al-Zahar, a member of the Hamas politburo and a senior official in the terrorist organization, threatened violence against the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday despite the unity agreement between the two groups sealed last April. Speaking at a massive rally in Gaza's Khan Younis organized by Hamas in support of the Islamist rioters
The unusual crane collapse last Friday at the Grand Mosque in Mecca has apparently sparked a fallout in the Muslim world regarding its holiest site, as senior Egyptian religious figures called for Saudi authority over the site to be changed. The collapse killed 107 people and wounded 238 at the holiest site in Islam
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas - often lauded in the international community as a "peace partner" for Israel - on Wednesday called for terrorist "martyrs" to prevent "filthy" Jews from visiting the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. Abbas's comments, which came following rioting by radical Islamists at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on
