Rebels fighting in southern Syria will not cooperate militarily with Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Al Nusra Front, a spokesman said Wednesday. Essam al-Rayes' comments come after tensions between local rebel groups and Al Nusra over the capture of a border crossing between Syria and Jordan. "We reject all forms of cooperation with
Hamas evidently wanted to leave no doubts that when it comes to implementing its jihadist genocidal goals of wiping out the Jewish people by all terrorist means at its disposal, age is no barrier - and that brainwashing works all the better the younger you start. Hamas's Ministry of Interior, which is part of
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared Sunday that anyone convicted of digging tunnels into Gaza from Sinai or of assisting in such activity would face a death sentence, according to a report on Israel's Channel 1 TV. Sunday proved to be another bloody day in Egypt, as at least five people were killed and
More than 500 Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have been killed in clashes on the border with Yemen since the Saudi-led air war against them began, the Saudi Defense ministry said Saturday, according to Al Arabiya, which cited the Saudi Press Agency. It was the first reported death toll for the clashes since Saudi Arabia, heading
A UN agency chief said Sunday he was deeply concerned for civilians stuck in a Damascus neighborhood after it was stormed by the jihadist Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS. "We remain very worried for refugees and civilians inside Yarmouk," Pierre Krahenbuhl, who heads the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has admitted his terrorist group is incapable of defeating Israel on its own, in the latest illustration of how the Shia Islamist group is being overstretched by growing commitments throughout the Middle East. In an interview with Syrian state TV last Monday, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute
The war of words between Hamas and Fatah is heating up, as a senior Hamas official asserted that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had forfeited his legitimacy to lead. In an article published in the Hamas journal "Palestine", senior official Mahmoud Al-Zahar accused Abbas of "treachery" over the PA's security cooperation with the Israel
Iranian leadership continues to state clearly that the framework deal announced in Lausanne, Switzerland earlier this month constitutes a major achievement of the Islamic regime, which didn't give up on its nuclear program at all and forced the US to fold. Iranian Revolutionary Guards chief General Mohammed Ali Jafari, who is considered to be
Evidence is emerging that Hezbollah terrorists have been fighting alongside Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen, where a bloody civil war has been raging for the past several weeks. The first report of Hezbollah assistance surfaced on Friday in pan-Arab news outlet Asharq al-Awsat, which claimed that the body of a "former Hezbollah militiaman" was
Jihadist fighters from the Islamic State (ISIS) group are holding hostage at least 50 civilians, almost half of them women, seized in a raid on a village in central Syria, a monitor said. They were kidnapped from the village of Mabujeh in Hama province on March 31, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
