Middle Orient

At least 18 people have been killed in a truck bomb explosion in the Turkish-controlled town of Al-Bab in northwest Syria, a war monitor, activists and medics said.

The streets of Baalbek have been in chaos over the past two days because of violent clashes between the Jaafar and Shamas clans. Video footage released on social media showed dozens of armed men walking the streets to an inflammatory soundtrack. State security forces are conspicuous by their absence from …

The Syrian Arab Army has responded to Islamic State attacks, with airstrikes and ground assaults, causing a number of casualties reports Al-Masdar.

Two long-range 3D Ghadir radars designed and developed by Iranian experts have joined the country’s air defense forces. The radars were put into operation during a ceremony on Tuesday in the presence of Chief Commander of Iran’s Army Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi and Commander of the Aerospace Division of the …

Iranian media has claimed that the country is one of the world leaders in radar technology and Brig.-Gen. Ali Hajizadeh of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that new systems installed in Yazd province illustrate the country’s capabilities.

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Reliable sources have informed SOHR that unknown gunmen assassinated a volunteer in “the 215th Raids Branch” of the regime’s “military security service” in Nawa city in the western countryside of Daraa.

Reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that an ex-ISIS member, who later joined the “Self-Defence Forces”, killed three members of the “Self-Defence Forces” yesterday in the SDF-controlled city of Al-Karamah town in the eastern countryside of Al-Raqqah province. The “military intelligence service” has arrested the murderer with four other members, where …

The government side lost 41 dead, the jihadists 49, a Britain-based war monitor said. Clashes in the Syrian Desert between pro-government forces and holdouts of the Islamic State group have killed at least 90 combatants this month, a war monitor said on Wednesday.

The Middle East is “a place that is both remarkably impervious to change…and at the same time always sort of on the verge of an explosion, where you always think that something quite catastrophic could happen,” says Robert Malley, president and CEO of International Crisis Group and a former special …

With yet another failed attempt to form a government and no replacement in sight, Lebanon’s future is looking a lot like its bleak past. The prime minister-designate, Mustapha Adib, resigned in late September after nearly a month of fruitless talks to create a Cabinet of technocrats.