Suspected ISIS attack kills local party official in east Syria
A local official of the Future Syria Party was killed in an attack by suspected Islamic State (ISIS) gunmen in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province,...
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Teenage woman arrested while on way to join ISIS
Italian police said Thursday that they have arrested a 19-year-old woman while she allegedly was trying to leave Italy to join Islamist group ISIS. Hafsa...
Behind the fall of Aleppo
Since the Syrian civil war began, around 2012, approximately 6.9 million people have been internally displaced, and an additional 6.8 million are refugees, mainly in...
US deepens sanctions on Iran’s ‘shadow’ oil fleet
The Biden administration on Tuesday ramped up sanctions on Iran, targeting 35 entities and vessels it said carried illicit Iranian petroleum to foreign markets as...
The Hezbollah threat: Weakened, but not gone
‘Why doesn’t Israel just finish the job?” This is the question everyone has been asking since Israel announced its agreement to a US-brokered ceasefire with...
Syrian rebels have taken Aleppo, the country’s second biggest city
Eight years ago, Syria’s civil war shifted in President Bashar Al-Assad’s favor after a Russian blitzkrieg on Aleppo helped him regain control over the country’s...
New Yorker Planned ISIS Terror Attacks: FBI
A man was arrested in New York this month for allegedly attempting to provide ISIS with information and distributing guidance on how to build explosives...
Hamas Hits Back at Trump’s ‘Hell to Pay’ Threat
A senior official of the Palestinian Hamas movement has shared with Newsweek the group's response to a stark warning issued by President-elect Donald Trump over...
‘Fled to Turkey’: Hamas leaders are ‘in Erdogan’s hands’
Senior members of Hamas’s abroad leadership left Qatar last week for Turkey, an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel on Sunday, after Doha said...
Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the leader of Syria’s shock insurgency?
Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has worked to remake his public image and the insurgency he commands, renouncing longtime...
Israeli and Hezbollah strikes test limits of ceasefire
The latest exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah is testing the limits of last week’s already fragile ceasefire deal. Hours after Hezbollah fired two...
In a ruined Hezbollah stronghold, supporters question the costs of war
The bodies were laid out in long rows, hundreds of them, mostly fighters but civilians too, in plywood boxes poking out from heaps of earth....