China might purchase more Su-35 fighter jets, Chinese media and military analysts said, after Russia reportedly offered an additional batch of the warplanes to China.
Read More »Al-Shabaab waning as Kenya takes fight to their home bases
Police officers display explosives and terrorist literature, among other items, seized in a security operation to flush out Al-Shaabab suspects in Mvakani village, Kwale County, on March 8.
Read More »Why political Islamists target national armies
Destruction of the army is a prerequisite for Brotherhood, fundamentalists to grab power One of the by-products of the wave of change in the Middle East in the last decade, known in the media as the Arab Spring, was the empirical consolidation of a theoretical argument: Political Islamists seeking power …
Read More »IDF arrest 9 Palestinians in West Bank, seize terror-related funds
In a third incident, pipe bombs were also thrown at IDF soldiers in the city of Jenin. There were no casualties or damage reported.
Read More »Saudi forces intercept another Houthi drone headed towards a residential area
An attack by the Houthis on Saudi’s Abha airport earlier this week killed one person and wounded 21 others.
Read More »3 U.S. drone airstrikes kill 5 al-Qaida members in central Yemen
At least five members of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch were killed during airstrikes launched by a U.S. drone in the country’s central province of al-Bayda, a security official told Xinhua on Tuesday.
Read More »Faces of war: Kurdistan’s armed struggle against Islamic State
Since March 2015, the photographer and author Joey Lawrence has had unprecedented access to Kurdish guerrilla organisations fighting Isis, embedding himself into the Iraq and Syrian civil war. His powerful portraits of the fighters give a different perspective to the conflict.
Read More »Turkey’s Africa Strategy Threatens to Breed Islamist Extremism
Will the Erdogan regime become to that continent what Saudi Arabia became to the Middle East? When the Carter and Reagan administrations began supporting Islamists in Afghanistan, few policymakers recognized the Pandora’s box they were opening. The great global threat, after all, was Communism. And even if radical Islamism was …
Read More »Hezbollah sees U.S. war on Iran as unlikely: report
The Iran-backed Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah believes a U.S. war on Iran is unlikely and U.S. President Donald Trump would not be able to control the results of a conflict that could engulf the region.
Read More »Pentagon sees Islamic State resurgence in Libya amid Tripoli fighting
The Donald Trump administration is seeing a “small” resurgence in the Islamic State’s numbers in Libya since strongman Khalifa Hifter began a bloody march on the capital Tripoli more than two months ago, the Pentagon’s second-ranking military official said.
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