The Saudi Arabia-led, nine-member Arab coalition has made great gains in Yemen Tuesday, according to Al-Arabiya, pummeling the Iran-backed Houthis in a series of airstrikes. The coalition shelled the Houthi's Air Defense Brigade 630 near the al-Hudaydah overnight Monday, sources stated to the daily, as well as destroying a missile depot west of Sanaa.
Amid the ISIS assault on Iraq, minorities have borne the brunt. One of those groups is Iraq’s Christians, who before the 2003 US invasion were spread throughout the country with a sizeable community in the northwest. The majority of Iraqi Christians come from the Syriac, Assyrian and Chaldean churches with affiliations mainly to
An explosion has taken place at or near Hamas's Internal Security HQ at the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza, Arab sources told Israeli newspaper Maariv Tuesday. The newspaper estimated that the blast I slinked to the arrest of an ISIS man in Gaza, following the fighting between ISIS and Palestinians in the Yarmouk camp in
Are the Kurds the West’s last hope in Iraq? There is speculation that the United States and Iran have reached an understanding on the war with ISIS, which worries Israel and Sunni Arab states. If Iran is being encouraged to take the fight to ISIS, it seems the calculus is that only they are
Saudi Arabia's government announced on Monday that it welcomes the interim deal between Iran and the P5+1 world powers over Tehran's nuclear program, Reuters reported. Iran and six world powers - the United States, Britain, Russia, France, Germany, and Chine - reached a framework agreement on Thursday which would effectively end Tehran's nuclear research
Islamist fighters on Monday kidnapped some 300 Kurdish civilians at a checkpoint in northwestern Syria, Kurdish officials and a local journalist told AFP. It was not immediately clear which group was responsible for the kidnapping, though Kurdish officials accused Al-Qaeda's affiliate Al-Nusra Front, which is active in Idlib province. "A group of 300
Hamas's deputy politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, who previously was prime minister of Hamas's government, slammed how Gaza has been marginalized from the peace process after his terrorist group violently seized control of Gaza in 2007 after overwhelmingly winning in elections. Speaking in a telephone speech for a Hamas student rally at Al-Najah National University
The Turkish government has launched what appears to be its most comprehensive crackdown on social media Monday, in response to pictures and videos posted online showing a prosecutor taken hostage by leftist terrorists in Istanbul last week. Hostage Mehmet Selim Kiraz was fatally wounded last Tuesday during a shootout between his two captors -
Around 2,000 people have been evacuated from the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus after the Islamic State (aka ISIS) group seized large parts of it, a Palestinian official told AFP Sunday. “Around 400 families, approximately 2,000 people, were able to leave the camp on Friday and Saturday via two secure roads to the
At least one person was killed Sunday in a bomb explosion on a Cairo bridge, just hours after Egyptian forces gunned down a top Islamist leader in an apartment near the bridge. It is not clear yet if there is a connection between the two incidents. The bomb that exploded on the bridge to
