Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) tasked with Iran's foreign operations, on Monday claimed the US had let Islamic State (ISIS) capture the strategic Iraqi city of Ramadi on purpose last Sunday. In remarks to the Iranian paper Javan which is close to the
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction marked "Nakba" day - signifying the "catastrophe" of the establishment of the modern state of Israel - by calling for terrorism to destroy Israel and conquer the state as the "only" way. In a post on the official Facebook page of Fatah on May 14 in
With two weeks to go before a general election in Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been losing steam in polls. According to a poll released over the weekend by the Konda research organization, AKP's support has fallen from 49.8% to 40.5%. The poll also showed positive
The Islamic State (aka ISIS) group has reportedly murdered hundreds of people after seizing the ancient town of Palmyra (Tadmor) last week. The organization seized full control of the town Wednesday. Syrian state TV has reported that about 400 civilians were massacred by the group since Wednesday, while activists in Palmyra said that ISIS
(AFP) Weakened by years of war, Syria's government appears ready for the country's de facto partition, defending strategically important areas and leaving much of the country to rebels and jihadists, experts and diplomats say. The strategy was in evidence last week with the army's retreat from the ancient central city of Palmyra after an
The outspoken Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who heads the Party for Freedom (PVV) and has been a staunch supporter of Israel and a critic of Islam, apparently was the target of a jihadist assassination attempt. It was revealed in court that Mohammed A., who is suspected of returning from jihad in Syria to conduct
Iran on Friday once again unequivocally rejected the West’s call to inspect its military sites as part of a nuclear deal. The commander of the Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said that inspecting Iran’s military sites is tantamount to espionage and that Iran’s response to espionage is “hot bullets.”
The Israel Football Association (IFA) on Friday appealed to UEFA president Michel Platini on Friday to speak out "loud and clear" against the Palestinian Authority’s bid to vote the IFA out of FIFA next week. The annual FIFA Congress, which begins on May 28, includes the Palestinian Football Association's (PFA) proposal to suspend the
One of Iraq's leading Sunni Muslim politicians, Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq, branded as "shameful" Friday the army's chaotic pullout from Anbar provincial capital Ramadi. Mutlaq, who is himself from the overwhelmingly Sunni province, said the Shi'ite-led government would discipline officers who had given up the fight as Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists overran the
A suicide bomber detonated during Friday prayers in a Shi'ite mosque located in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia, murdering several people and wounding dozens of others, reports Reuters. The attack occurred at the Imam Ali mosque in al-Qadeeh village, located in the Qatif governorate where the Sunni-majority country's Shi'ite minority largely resides.
