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Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that regime forces and loyal militias have brought in new military reinforcement to Al-Sukhnah desert in eastern Homs and Al-Rassafah desert in southern Al-Raqqah. The recent-arriving reinforcement, which comprised military vehicles, weapons, ammunition and soldiers of “Liwaa Al-Baqer” and the “Palestinian Liwa al-Quds”, …

Observatory sources say that fighters of Ankara-backed factions, of those who sent by the Turkish government as “mercenaries” to Libya, continue their efforts to reach Europe, like dozens of fighters who have already gone from Libya to Italy and from there to Europe, using libya as a pretext for reaching …

According to analysts, Sadr, like other Islamist politicians, was trying to take advantage of the latest controversy to promote his image and win new supporters, even if that meant causing new chaos and trouble for the country.

If the children are added to about 400 adults – including militants detained in particular in the Syrian city of Hasaka – there are in total about 1,000 Europeans detained in the Iraqi-Syrian region.

The concept of “no-go-zones” has been a hot topic in media discourse in recent years. Sensational claims have been made about the existence of exclusively Muslim neighborhoods where non-Muslims are not allowed to enter. For instance, in 2015, to emphasize the gravity of the situation, Fox News guest and “terrorism …

The residual threat posed by the banned terrorist group al-Muhajiroun (ALM) group is matched by the enduring public curiosity that it provokes. The symbiotic relationship between the threatening rhetoric that the group employs and the resulting fascination with its activities has played to the group’s strategy of courting attention and …

The tense atmosphere in Syria illustrates how extremists are popular from Idlib to Jarabulus to Raqqa and Deir Ezzor. This is a swath of Syria where ISIS was once in control or had influence.

The leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah on Friday described French cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as an aggression and likened Paris sticking by them to “declaring a sort of war.” In a televised speech, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said by being stubborn, French authorities had worsened a standoff over the caricatures, …

One year ago today, U.S. Special Operations Forces hunted down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died after detonating a suicide vest. Core ISIS still has access to hundreds of millions of dollars and maintains connections to middlemen and front companies across the Middle East.

It was a bit quiet for a few months. But now military tensions in the controversial Syrian province of Idlib are on the rise again. The Russian Air Force killed about 80 fighters loyal to Turkey in an attack this week.The attack on a training camp for the Failak al …