Syrian Kurdish forces regained full control of Tal Abyad on Wednesday, expelling Islamic State fighters who had seized a district of the strategic border town, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "Kurdish fighters expelled ISIS from the Mashur al-Fawqani district that they had captured yesterday (Tuesday)," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the
A jittery Jordan is preparing to create a security zone in southern Syria to fend off a possible jihadist advance across the border, in what would be the first such humanitarian "buffer zone" established in the civil war-torn country. According to the UK Financial Times, sources familiar with the plans say the buffer zone
Palpably illustrating its indifference to the Arab Christian population's fate, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) unity government on Tuesday largely brushed off the detailed threat by an Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate in Jerusalem to "purify" the city of Christians. The ISIS announcement was posted in the eastern part of the capital city last Thursday,
The saga continues as the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) negotiations with Hamas and Islamic Jihad continue to sputter in their attempts to form a new unity government, after Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the last dysfunctional government earlier this month. Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior head of Abbas's Fatah faction and the leader
The UN cultural organization on Monday condemned the "barbaric assaults" the Islamic State group has launched on World Heritage sites in Iraq and Syria, saying they may amount to war crimes. Meeting in Bonn, Germany, UNESCO delegates said the ISIS attacks on sites such as Iraq's ancient city of Hatra recalled the "mindless destruction"
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) began holding negotiations with the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations on Saturday to form a new unity government, but according to a senior member of the Communist terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) the efforts are doomed to failure. Rabah Muhanna of the PFLP's
The Islamic State (ISIS) group's "caliphate" enters its second year Monday with the jihadists expanding their territory in Syria and Iraq and their global reach by claiming attacks in Tunisia and Kuwait. The extremist group headed by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced on June 29, 2014 that it was reviving a form of Islamic government
The student who carried out Friday’s terrorist attack on a Tunisian beach acted alone during the attack but had accomplices who supported him beforehand, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday, according to The Associated Press (AP). Police were searching nationwide for more suspects after the slaughter of at least 38 people in Sousse on
Egypt’s top public prosecutor died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his Cairo home on Monday in a marked escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary. Judges and other state officials have increasingly been targeted by radical Islamists opposed to President Abdel
"United with Israel," billed as the Global Movement for Israel, has released a video it calls "horrifying beyond belief," entitled, "Here's What Happens if the Iran Deal Goes Bad." The timing of the release is chilling, as reports begin arriving that the United States has agreed to the Iranian demand that its nuclear installations
