The Arab Coalition intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis towards Saudi Arabia, state news agency SPA reported early on Monday. The Coalition Spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Maliki said the drone was the latest in a series of attempts by the Houthi militias to “target civilians and …
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Turkey rejects US demands, commits to Libya troop presence
Turkey has confirmed that its troop presence in Libya will remain in place pending Libyan government approval and the status of the 2019 Ankara-Tripoli bilateral military agreement. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin confirmed the decision in an interview with state broadcaster TRT.
Read More »Israel’s Northern Front heats up as Syria airstrikes, IAF drill overlap
Israel’s military has for the past decade repeatedly attacked Iranian targets in Syria, conducting hundreds of air raids against military bases, missile production sites and training facilities.
Read More »Flexing muscle, Iran’s army test fires short-range missile
Iran and Russia to hold a joint naval drill in northern part of the Indian Ocean in the “near future.” Iran’s army test fired a sophisticated short-range missile on Sunday, state media reported.
Read More »US sees fighting resurgent ISIS as priority, not guarding oil
The extremist group was supposed to have lost its last scrap of territory in Syria in March 2019, but in recent months it has ramped up attacks against regime forces, especially in the east of the country bordering Iraq. US forces in Syria are focused on fighting the remnants of …
Read More »Israeli strike in Syria kills six pro-Iran fighters
Israel fired several missiles early on Monday targeting areas near the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria’s state news agency reported. An opposition war-monitoring group said the strikes killed six Iran-backed fighters.
Read More »Turkish operation to rescue intelligence operatives in Iraq ends in catastrophic failure
No less than 13 intelligence and police personnel, including two intelligence directors, were killed. A Turkish operation in northern Iraq ended in a bloodbath after special forces failed to rescue 13 elite intelligence and police officers who had been kidnapped by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants.
Read More »Pro-Iran Liwa Fatimiyoun Militia Recruits 200 Fighters in Syria’s Hassakeh, Qamishli
Iran is seeking to expand its influence over regime-controlled areas, according to Asharq Al-Awsat. Despite Iran insisting that it only plays an advisory role in Syria, a recent report published by a UK-based war monitor confirmed that Tehran is actively consolidating its influence over regime-controlled areas in the war-torn Levantine …
Read More »Syrian air defences ‘intercept Israeli aggression’ over Damascus
Syrian army says Israeli military jets flew over the Golan Heights to hit targets on the edge of Damascus. Syria’s army said on Monday the country’s air defences intercepted “Israeli aggression” over the capital, Damascus, in the latest stepped-up bombing of alleged Iranian targets inside the country over the last …
Read More »US sends military assistance to YPG/PKK terrorists in Syria from Iraq
Dozens of U.S. military vehicles carrying assistance to the PKK’s Syrian offshoot YPG-dominated SDF arrived in northeastern Syria on Sunday, according to video footage shared on Twitter. The trucks carrying military assistance, including the Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle used by the U.K. Special Forces, were seen in the footage allegedly …
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