A leading figure in Al-Qaeda killed in Syria
A leading figure in Al-Qaeda, who became a prominent member of its Syrian Al-Nusra Front offshoot, was killed in a drone attack yesterday, the group…
Afghanistan
British-Australian man gets bail in Dubai
Supporters say a British-Australian man held in Dubai over a charge related to his charity advocacy has been freed on bail. Radha Stirling, of the…
Afghan-Pakistan ISIL’s Hafiz Saeed Khan killed
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a US drone strike on…
ISIL may be in crisis, but so is the coalition
The battle to recapture Fallujah from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has gathered momentum, with thousands of government-linked forces encircling the strategic…
A large US strategy for the Middle East
For a long time, there has been a particular concept of the Grand Strategy in the US. It is some kind of umbrella, which hides…
ISIS claim responsibility for German train axe attack
ISIL terrorist group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an attack by an axe-wielding Afghan refugee on a German train, the websites close to terrorist group’s…
Is Lebanon a Narco-State?
Lebanon has been experiencing several challenges over the last few years. To begin with, the country, known as The Cedar Republic, has been without a…
Pakistan’s Military-Industrial Complex: Providing Nuclear Warheads to Saudi Arabia?
Before the signing of the Iran nuclear deal last year, BBC’s defense correspondent, Mark Urban, published a report that Pakistan’s military has made a clandestine…
Blair and Bush’s attempt to reshape the Middle East lit a fire which burns to this day
Not for the first time recently, Britain woke up to find the clocks had gone back. On Wednesday when the Chilcot report was published, it…
Trump says, that U.S. troops stole money in Iraq
Donald Trump rang in the Army’s 241st birthday in unusual fashion on Tuesday — by calling attention to theft of government funds by American soldiers…