Iranian intelligence is conducting widespread activities from within Egypt and from there branching out to other Arab countries as well, according to Arab security sources. The London-based Arabic-language Asharq Al-Awsat made the revelation in a report on Thursday, citing security sources who disclosed the Iranian intelligence operations. In the report it was noted
Pro-government forces repelled an attack on a key Syrian military airport by Islamic State (ISIS) group affiliated terrorists, losing 20 fighters but killing almost as many jihadists, a monitor said Saturday. "Militants who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group attacked the outskirts of the Khalkhalah military airport in Sweida province on Friday," said
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has said the framework deal reached with the US last week offers "no guarantee" of any final agreement over his country's nuclear program. In comments made on his official website and posted to his Twitter account, Khamenei said he was "neither for nor against" the deal, explaining: "It's all
A group of 14 Palestinian Arab factions said Thursday they backed a joint military operation with the Syrian government to expel Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists from the Yarmouk neighborhood of southern Damascus. After a meeting of the factions in the Syrian capital, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Ahmed Majdalani said the groups supported
Sherkoh Abbas is a busy man. Residing in Washington D.C., he has the colossal job of lobbying for a state that does not yet exist – Syrian Kurdistan, a.k.a. Rojava. He is the Chairman of the Kurdistan National Assembly, an umbrella group of Kurdish organizations, political parties and civil leaders. Much like other exile groups
The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday it is ready to offer Palestinian factions its firepower to support their battle with the Islamic State group (ISIS) in the Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of Damascus, which has been evastated by clashes and aerial attacks. The deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yarmouk has pushed
Islamic State (ISIS) forces this week have taken over the Yarmouk neighborhood in southern Damascus, which is popularly known as a "Palestinian refugee camp," with reports indicating ISIS has been conducting arrests and acts of mass murder. Representatives of the Islamic nationalist forces in Gaza, which are a confederation of the various Palestinian Arab
Iraqi security forces and allied paramilitaries battled militants from the Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS) in Tikrit on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, a week after the city was declared retaken. The Iraqi forces launched a raid on the basis of intelligence that there were between eight and 15 ISIS members in a hideout
Iranian officials continue to bask in the afterglow of the framework deal reached with world powers last week over the Islamic regime's nuclear program, and joining the victory parade this week was Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari. At a conference of Revolutionary Guards officers Jafari spoke about the deal, which
Iraq has exhumed the remains of 47 people believed to have been massacred by jihadists from mass graves in Tikrit, the human rights ministry's spokesman said Tuesday. "The number of remains that were exhumed so far is 47, and they were found in 11 mass graves," Kamel Amin told AFP, adding that the number
