Middle East

A Tony Blair think-tank report says that the West’s focus on defeating the Islamic State at the exclusion of other jihadi groups is a strategic mistake. Blair’s Faith foundation reports that sixty percent of fighters […]

A high ranking member of Hezbollah has been killed by an Israeli airstrike on a residential area near the Syrian capital city of Damascus. Local media report that Samir Qantar was killed during the Israeli […]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told a conference on the “Rights of the Palestinian people” that Israel have deliberately provoked and bred Palestinian terrorism due to five decades of Israeli occupation. “It is the result of […]

The US put pressure on Turkey to shoot down the Russian Su-24 bomber over Syrian airspace and promised to cover up any Turkish foul play, according to political analyst Mikhail Smolin.  “It could have been a […]

Iran is set to export 9,000 tons of enriched uranium to Russia in the next few days as part of a nuclear deal between the two countries.  “In the next few days around 9 tons […]

The Libyan Armed Forces’ Commander has said Libya is ready to cooperate with Russia in fighting terrorism. According to the Fars news agency Brigadier General Khalifa Hafte said that if Russia proposes a plan for […]

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that it was “miscommunication”with Iraq that caused its recent troops deployment in the northern Nineveh province. President Barack Obama urged Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan to pull troops out of Iraq Friday, […]

Reports indicate that the Islamic Republic of Iran has softened its stance on President Assad of Syria staying in power, no matter what. An Iranian official in an exclusive interview with Reuters has said that […]

Just weeks after shooting down the Russian Su-24 military jet, Turkey sent a heavily armed battalion into Iraq, in a move that some have criticised as compensating for the weakening of ISIS’ oil smuggling infrastructure […]