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Iran has long been sending troops and material to help Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad wage war against his own people. But…
İpek Yezdani – TEHRAN Babek Zanjani, an Iranian businessman currently imprisoned in Iran on corruption charges and a figure connected…
YouTube Hosts Music Playlists Promoting Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Jihadi Ideology U.S. social media companies have made some progress over…
A staunch supporter of general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, has called on the government to allow soccer…
Recent online activities show that various Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias have greatly expanded their recruitment efforts in support of the…
Maryam Kashani kashanim.kashani(at)roozonline.com Iran’s senior advisor on international affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati, to the country’s top leader ayatollah Khamenei told…
Algeria’s tough security stance and the legacy of the country’s bloody civil war help explain why relatively few Algerians are…
The European Parliament has just completed a report on the political situation and human rights conditions in Angola. Very critical,…
Michael Knights and Alexandre Mello September 24, 2015 The GCC-backed ground campaign to liberate Sana is building momentum, but urgent…
How a potential permanent UNSC member approached the crisis in Syria. By Kabir Taneja After four years of neglect, Syria…
Lebanese media outlet quotes diplomats claiming Hezbollah will only act defensively in Syria after fight for Al-Zabadani ends. Roi Kais …
Russian media outlet interviews group of soldiers who refused to be deployed to Syria, describing secretive preparations and their fears:…
By Steve Hindy When I was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press in 1980, I covered an Arab…
Al Qa’ida’s External Operations Unit is back in play with the release of five leading terrorists by Iran In the…
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and ERIC SCHMITT President Hassan Rouhani, by a picture of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The…
Some intelligence agencies warn the five men may travel to Syria and make use of its chaotic landscape to plot…
Russia’s military buildup on a Syrian airbase south of Latakia combined with the escalating hemorrhage of Syrian humanity confronts President…
Russia and Iran have changed the stakes in Syria, and the United States should act accordingly. Refugees streaming into Europe,…
The IDF is preparing for the next confrontation with Hezbollah, which was dangerously close to breaking out in the winter,…
By Jake Flanagin Quartz There are now nearly 1.5 million displaced people in Yemen, though their plight is no less…
Israeli security sources claim Quds Force sending hundreds of elite troops in unprecedented cooperation with Russia to save embattled Syrian…
The Iraqi government’s fight against ISIS is less important than how it deals with the impending economic crisis and the…
Although the reported intervention in Syria may spread Russia’s armed forces too thin, the Kremlin seems poised to grow even…
Small but mighty, the Yak-130 trainer doubles as an effective multi-role fighter by Thomas Newdick In the world of Russian…
by Cortney Harding Ayham Homsi is a hard guy to get ahold of. Sure, living on an inverted schedule…
It’s hard to imagine, but this attractive young woman was one of the boldest Mossad agents to ever serve the…
PKK allowed in area but not Kurdish Iranian opposition parties SULAYMANIHAY – The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has tightened…
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON — Russia has sent a military advance team to Syria and is…
By W.J. Hennigan and Brian Bennett contact the reporters U.S. intelligence has captured evidence of a significant escalation of Russia’s…
Analysis Aug. 25 The Saudi-led offensive against rebels in Yemen has lost its initial momentum. After breaking out of Aden…
A closer look at how an Iranian-linked Hezbollah chief bombed the Khobar Towers and walked free — until last month.…
Student Basij Provides a Telephone Number to Report the Cleanup Nazanin Kamdar The publication of photos showing individuals removing the…
Russia has begun its military intervention in Syria, deploying an aerial contingent to a permanent Syrian base, in order to…
Ahmet Hakan – ISTANBUL Özer Sencar, owner of polling company MetroPoll, explains to daily Hürriyet readers why the Justice and…
In new book, former defense minister says he, Netanyahu and Lieberman sought to strike Tehran’s nuclear facilities between 2010-2012, but…
Existing mechanisms for interdicting Iran’s arms shipments to its proxies have already been proven insufficient, so any concerted effort to…
Synopsis The political geography of oil and minorities in Saudi Arabia and Iran highlights a fault line in the Sunni-Shiite…
Daniel R. DePetris For Saudi Arabia, the conservative Gulf kingdom whose number one priority in the region is to keep…
As the AP Exclusive has proven to be “controversial”, METransparent suggests that its readers should , also, read “The AP’s…
by John Mecklin John Mecklin is the editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Previously, Mecklin was editor-in-chief of…
Kurdish militia fighters are using Android tablets and free Google mapping tools to track battle lines and coordinate close air…
An act of terrorism by the Iranian regime to bomb Komala party of Iranian Kurdistan’s headquarters near Sulaymaniyah was thwarted.…
The UAE and Saudi Arabia have made an impressive contribution to recapturing Aden from Houthi-Saleh forces, building a base for…
Lauren Sukin* In March, while world leaders were scrambling to salvage the Iranian nuclear negotiations in Lausanne, Saudi Arabia signed…
Jeremy Binnie – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly The impasse in Yemen’s conflict appears to have been broken by the deployment…
and improves prospects for investment in energy, telecoms, construction Jamie Ingram – IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review Key Points Iran’s vocal…
Synopsis The Saudi military intervention in Yemen against Houthi rebels has repercussions in the kingdom amid cracks appearing in the…
“Tell People We Triumphed Over the Enemy” Shirin Karimi While Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, was cleaning up the…
Ali Alfoneh In addition to Qods Force supervision of Shiite fighters from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other countries, the IRGC is…