The brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has seized the last of the border crossings between Syria and Iraq held by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Regime forces were left with no choice but to retreat from the border crossing known as al-Tanf in Syria and
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, is once again attacking Israel and its new government, calling it "racist" and "extremist". According to the Ma’an news agency, Erekat’s comments were made during a meeting Wednesday with the European Union’s Foreign Policy chief, Federica Mogherini, who is visiting the region in an attempt to
French President Francois Hollande on Thursday said the world must respond to Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists' seizure of Palmyra amid fears they could destroy the Syrian city's world renowned ancient monuments. "We have to act because there is a threat against these monuments which are part of humankind's inheritance and at the same time
President Barack Obama is continuing his criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comments on a Palestinian state and Arab-Israelis before the last elections. In an interview with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, Obama said that the security relationship between the United States and Israel will remain strong, but reiterated that there will be
Hezbollah officials say they are preparing to use the strategies and techniques they learned fighting Syrian rebels along the border with Lebanon to conquer Israel's northern Galilee region. The Iranian-backed Shia Islamist group has been making steady gains in its hard-fought campaign to wrest control of the Qalamoun region in Syria from Sunni rebels,
The destruction of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Palmyra would be an "enormous loss to humanity", the head of the organization warned Thursday after Islamic State seized the ancient Syrian city. "Palmyra is an extraordinary World Heritage site in the desert and any destruction to Palmyra (would be) not just a war crime
Islamic State has threatened judges in Egypt with death after issuing a decision last week to have former president Mohammed Morsi executed. The terror group issued the threat on Thursday, just days after three Egyptian judges were killed in Sinai. An audio recording on an ISIS site which was said to have been issued
The leader of Sinai Province, a terrorist group in Egypt with links to the Islamic State,on Wednesday called on followers to attack local judges, Reuters reported. The call was made in an audio statement posted on a prominent jihadist website. It appeared days after six members of the group were executed for an
Al Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden was obsessed with attacking the US and pleaded with the terror group not to get involved in infighting in the Muslim terror world, according to an AFP exposé released Wednesday. "The focus should be on killing and fighting the American people and their representatives," Bin Laden wrote, according
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on Tuesday for more donor aid to support the economic recovery of the Palestinian Authority (PA)-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria and of Gaza, AFP reported. The IMF said in a report that the reconstruction process in Gaza following last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas "is moving
