Iran and Iraq are sending thousands of soldiers to help Syria defend its capital of Damascus against rebel forces. “Around 7,000 Iranian and Iraqi fighters have arrived in Syria (more…)
Yemen-based Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula confirmed its No. 2 leader, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, was killed in a U.S. drone strike. In a video statement posted online, AQAP named (more…)
Flawed U.S. intelligence hampered Army Green Berets this year in their efforts to assist Iraqi forces in locating and taking out Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) targets, (more…)
As Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) swept across Syria and Iraq, seizing city after city, it also was able to acquire from some of those cities a (more…)
Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) capture of Moammar Gadhafi’s coastal hometown of Sirte is a wake-up call for Libyans, an ex-member of the anti-Gadhafi Libyan Islamic Fighting (more…)
In what could be a preview of a major battle to come, Hizbullah fighters on June 9 turned back an assault by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) (more…)
Leaders of the Iran-backed Hizbullah say it is successfully “killing terrorists and protecting Lebanon” while the United States does neither. “It seems the U.S. administration does not really want (more…)
Supporters of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on June 1 issued Hamas a 48-hour deadline to cease its crackdown on ISIL in Gaza. A statement sent to (more…)
A Jordanian military tribunal sentenced four suspects to two years in prison each for attempting to join Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and for promoting the terror (more…)