Gulf of Aden security review
Yemeni President Rashad al Alimi met with unspecified UAE officials in Abu Dhabi on August 17. The UAE reportedly demanded that Alimi withdraw all Yemeni...
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Houthi restrictions on child vaccination campaigns threaten spread of epidemic diseases
Yemen’s Minister of Information Muammar Al-Eryani warned against the Houthis’ continued restrictions on child immunization programs in the capital of Sanaa and other areas under...
Why Afghanistan matters little to the west
Absent a major, credible transnational terrorist threat, Afghanistan has returned to where it should have always been: a peripheral concern of the United States and...
Taliban circulates video of Haqqanis plotting 2010 suicide raid against U.S. troops
The Taliban released a video showing its deputy emir and interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and other top terrorist commanders finishing preparations for a large-scale suicide...
Hostages freed after Al-Shabaab hotel attack kills 20
Somali police commissioner Abdi Hassan Mohamed Hijar later told reporters that more than 100 people, including women and children, had been rescued during the siege.
U.S. concerned about violence on Syria-Turkey border
Washington is "deeply concerned" about a recent flare-up of violence along Syria's northern border with Turkey, a State Department spokesman said Monday.
Erdogan joins top Turkey officials seeing better Syria ties
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become the latest top Turkish official to call for better ties with Syria, as Ankara appears to shift its stance...
ISIS fidayeen plotting to avenge Prophet barb held
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a suicide bomber, a member of the ISIS, who was plotting a terrorist attack against an Indian...
Terrorism charges against Pakistan’s Ex-PM Khan deepen political turmoil
A court in Pakistan barred authorities Monday from arresting former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is facing terrorism charges after being accused of threatening police...
Terrorists carry out 2 attacks On Syria’s Idlib De-escalation Zone
The Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (banned in Russia) shelled Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone twice over the past 24 hours, Maj. Gen. Oleg Yegorov, deputy head...
Iraqi counter-terrorism kill six ‘prominent’ ISIS leaders
Iraq’s counter-terrorism service (CTS) on Monday announced the killing of six prominent Islamic State (ISIS) leaders in their latest operation against the group’s remnants in...
Hezbollah leader threatens ‘escalation’ if Lebanon does not obtain sea rights
The leader of Lebanon’s powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group said on Friday that the conclusion of nuclear talks in Vienna would have no bearing on maritime...