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Turkey has deployed members of its Special Forces Command along the Syrian border controlled by the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). The Special Forces are positioned in Read more
As the ongoing fight against the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shown its limits, the United Kingdom’ Prime Minister David Cameron, whose country is partaking in the US-led military campaign against the group, told the Read more
The Iraq government and the World Bank signed on Sunday an agreement allocating the Iraqi government $350 million loan destined for rebuilding cities taken back from ISIL. The Word Bank loan will help the Iraqi government, which is facing an Read more
A report monitored on British newspaper Telegraph has claimed that Washington is stopping its allies in the Middle East from giving weapons to Kurdish groups fighting against ISIL. The Arab states that are part of the U.S-led airstrike coalition campaign Read more
An early Thursday morning attack on Kobane by ISIL left many people dead and stirred anger in Turkey with one of the key leaders of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) alleging that Ankara cooperated with the extremist group to commit“massacre.” Reports Read more
Ankara vehemently denied any wrong doing in the accusation that it ferries weapons to radical groups fighting against the Assad regime. However, according to a video footage leaked on Thursday, a court hearing of May revealed that detained prosecutors, who Read more
Yemeni capital city of Sanaa was rocked Wednesday by a series of deadly car bombs that targeted shia mosques and the Houthi political headquarters. At least 31 people were killed and over 140 others were injured in coordinated attacks carried Read more
After years of fighting alongside Pro-Assad military, Hezbollah finally took things personal when the Islamic State of Syria and Levant (ISIL) attacked its position outside the Bekaa Valley border town of Ras Baalbek in north eastern Lebanon. The Lebanese-based group Read more
The White House echoed on Wednesday President Obama’s desire to see Ankara doing much more to curb the influx of foreign fighters joining the ranks of ISIL which is charming thousands of volunteers around the world flooding into Syria to Read more
The Iranian foreign Ministry reiterated on Wednesday that Tehran is not funneling fighters into Syria to shore up the embattled Assad regime gripped by a four-year long fight with ISIL insurgents. The denial came from the spokeswoman for the foreign Read more