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After the declaration of the defeat of IS in Iraq, the US is planning to redeploy its forces there to Afghanistan where terrorists are resurfacing taking control over swathes of tribal areas. US media speaks of a drawing dawn of Read more
Tehran’s prosecutor Jafari Dowlatabadi said an unnamed person has been sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of relaying information about Iran’s nuclear program to a US intelligence agent and a European country. “The spy who had met Read more
Syrian rebels shot down a Russian warplane and killed its pilot on the ground after he ejected from the plane, Russia’s defense ministry and Syrian rebels said. The SU-25 came down in Syria’s northern Idlib province that has seen heavy Read more
Turkey has suffered the deadliest day since the launch of the Olive Branch Operation to crush the Kurdish militias in Afrin. Eight Turkish soldiers died in the military campaign including five who died in a single attack on a tank, Read more
Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan, professor of contemporary Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, has been indicted by a French prosecutor after being taken in custody on rape charges. Two women filed rape charges against Ramadan at a French court. Read more
Turkey Friday rejected placement of Hamas Chief on the US blacklist of terrorists, calling the Islamist movement an ‘important reality of the Palestinian political life’. “It is obvious that this decision, which overlooks the fact that Hamas is an important Read more
The Iraqi army launched a combing operation in Anbar’s deserts towards the Saudi borders to clear the area of remaining ISIS elements. Iraq announced the end of IS in Iraq last December after a military offensive that ousted the terrorist Read more
Iranian authorities cracked down on anti-mandatory headscarves protests in Tehran and arrested 29 activists, media reports said. Women across the country have been protesting by climbing onto telecom boxes, taking off their headscarves and waving them aloft on sticks. Iran’s Read more
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has warned the Syrian regime against the use of chemical weapons after reports of chlorine gas being used by Assad forces against civilians in Eastern Ghouta surfaced. Mattis did not rule out a military action Read more
Arab Foreign ministers have called for the setting up of a multilateral mechanism under the auspices of the United Nations to sponsor the peace process in the Middle East. This came in a resolution issued Thursday at the end of Read more