An Israeli strike against Iran is extremely complicated and has always been viewed by the IDF as a last resort. In 2008, after the election that brought former US president Barack Obama to power, there were some officials in Israel who were confident that the previous president, George W. Bush, …

Iraqi forces deliver heavy blows to remnants of the ISIS terrorist group in the country, with counter-terrorism efforts by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi facilitating the process. The forces faced the Daesh terrorists in the eastern Iraqi Diyala Province, Nineveh and al-Anbar Provinces in the country’s west, …

Aleppo Province- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have monitored an armed attack by unknown assailants, believed to be Kurdish forces, on a military headquarters belonging to the “Suleiman Shah” faction in Sheikh Hadid in Afrin countryside, northwest of Aleppo, where clashes took place between the two sides, amid …

SOHR sources have monitored a spike in the death toll, following yesterday’s attack by the Islamic State on the area of Abu Fayyad dam east of Salamiyah in eastern Hama countryside. The death toll of regime soldiers and loyal militiamen rose to 21, who were killed in the ISIS’ surprise …

Analysts say the Council of Senior Scholars’ message means Saudi Arabia will not change policy on the Brotherhood following Biden’s victory in the US. The International Organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood has clashed with the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, describing it as a sycophant body, after the Council declared …

After surrounding the town and cutting off roads to and from the area, the Syrian army has enter al-Karak in search of militant sleeper cells reports Al-Masdar. The Syrian army entered the town of al-Karak on Thursday, following a string of recent attacks by militant sleeper cells against the military …

Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi were senior figures in the Kosovo Liberation Army who ended up on opposite political sides in peacetime, but this week both men were reunited in The Hague to face war crimes charges Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi both pleaded not guilty at pre-trial hearings at …

Even as the coronavirus pandemic rages, Hungary’s government has its eye on the 2022 election with a series of laws designed to improve its chances of winning. Only a few hours after the Hungarian parliament voted near-unanimously on Tuesday to give Prime Minister Viktor Orban extraordinary powers to rule by …

North Macedonia is planning to put its loss-making, state-owned post office up for sale. But will anyone want to buy it?

Turkey is touting its domestic defence industry, but its expansion remains dependent on Western know-how. Acall by Greece last month for its European Union partners to consider an arms embargo on Turkey in a standoff over maritime boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean has highlighted the growing collaboration between the Turkish …