Middle East

According to new figures released by FSKN, ever since the U.S.-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, opium production in the country has soared by 400 percent. Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service say that the United […]

It has emerged that Israel has been secretly providing Syrian rebels on the Golan Heights border with substantial funding and aid. Syrian rebels operating near the occupied Golan Heights have been given money, food, fuel […]

As ISIS is being defeated and cornered in Iraq and Syria, the broader geopolitical chess game between the superpowers is unfolding in the Middle East, and it could mean check-mate for world peace. The United […]

Iran has launched a series of ballistic missiles aimed at U.S. backed rebels in Syria, including ISIS, following the terrorist attack in Tehran earlier in the month.  Last week Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed the […]

Saudi coastguards opened fire on Iranian fishing boats in the Gulf on Saturday, killing one of the fisherman according to an Iranian interior ministry official. Middle East Eye reports: “Two fishing boats were in the Persian […]

Iran’s navy has participated in a joint exercise with a Chinese fleet in the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, as the U.S. prepares a new round of sanctions against the Islamic […]

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) say that they have launched a missile attack on ISIS positions in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr. The multiple strikes were reportedly in retaliation for the recent terrorist attacks in Tehran […]

Syrian government troops along with allied militia have linked up with Iraqi forces at a crossing point along their shared border on Sunday for the first time in years The development comes a day after […]

Saudi Arabia and Israel are in talks to establish official economic ties for the first time since Israel was created on the Palestinian territories almost 70 years ago. The move will put the Jewish state […]

The United States has deployed M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) from Jordan to a U.S. base at Al-Tanf in southeast Syria. According to the Russian military, US-coalition forces have no need for long-range […]