Northern Raqqa has experience a surge in violence, with the Syrian Democratic Forces targeting Turkish-backed groups and regime forces being hit by Turkish drone fire reports The Levant News.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb announces its new leader Yazid Mubarak, aka Abu Ubaida Yusuf al-Annabi, after his predecessor Abu Musab al-Wadud was killed killed in June 2020 in northern Mali by French forces, in this screenshot taken the SITE jihadist monitoring group. Photo by SITE. Abu Obaida Yusuf al-Annabi …

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Faisal bin Farhan, said no meeting between Saudi Arabia and Israeli officials took place. Saudi Arabia is denying reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Gulf kingdom on Sunday.

In their briefly secret meeting in Neom, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman agreed on the common threat from Iran, but did not make progress toward normalization.

Major foreign companies left Iran after US President Donald Trump two years ago abandoned Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and restored economic sanctions. Iran expects foreign companies to return to the country if US sanctions are lifted under President-elect Joe Biden and some firms have made initial contacts …

President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has raised the possibility that the United States could rejoin a deal Iran reached with world powers in 2015. Iran’s supreme leader dismissed the prospect of new negotiations with the West on Tuesday, even as the Tehran government spoke optimistically about the return of foreign companies …

The Tigrayan forces’ leaders could not immediately be reached for comment but have previously denied any responsibility for the massacre. A Tigrayan youth group stabbed, strangled, and bludgeoned to death at least 600 civilians with the collusion of local security forces during a massacre in the town of Mai Kadra, …

Pricing the vaccine at a lower level than competitors could help Moscow grab more market share.

Rare video footage shows the release of an inert version of the bomb from the stealth fighter’s internal bomb bay. The US Air Force, in cooperation with Sandia National Laboratories, has successfully completed a round of flight tests integrating the new B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb onto the F-35A Joint Strike …

The State Department has confirmed that it will continue to work with Israel to face Iranian threats emanating from Syria’s southern border reports Asharq Al-Awsat.