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Four of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vessels “harassed” a U.S. warship on Tuesday near the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. defense official said, amid Washington’s concerns about Iran’s posture in the Gulf and in the Syrian civil war. The official, speaking on the […]

The war in Syria has become even more complex. Turkey launched a military intervention in Syria on Wednesday, sending tanks across the border and launching air strikes. Turkish-backed rebels reportedly captured the town of Jarablus, in northern Syria, from ISIS. U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels, however, had […]

In the northern Syrian province of Hama, Syrian Armed Forces and its allied forces started a sudden military army operation against al-Nusra Front militants. The decision to storm the terrorists was taken by the command of the Armed Forces after successive attacks by al-Nusra Front […]

On Wednesday, Turkey launched a military operation in the bordering area in the Syrian city of Jarablus. A Turkish army tank and an armoured vehicle are stationed near the Turkish-Syrian border in Karkamis in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey, August 23, 2016. © REUTERS/ Ihlas […]

Turkey upped the stakes of the already ruinous Syrian conflict after it launched a direct offensive across its southern border, targeted ostensibly at Islamic State positions in the northern Syrian town of Jarabulus. With the support of U.S. forces, Turkish tanks motored into Syrian territory […]

From the outside, the Islamic State terror group’s self-declared caliphate appears to be unraveling, its cities lost and its fighters fleeing. There is growing concern, however, that what seems to be a fraying proto-state is actually an enemy force that is fanning out, sacrificing territory […]

Turkish military launched a military operation to liberate the northern Syrian city of Jarablus. A Turkish army tank and an armored vehicle are stationed near the border with Syria, in Karkamis, Turkey, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016 © AP Photo/ IHA via AP Turkey Calls for […]

Hypocrisy, subversion and dirty propaganda tricks are the hallmarks of Western handling of conflicts in the wider Middle East, British Foreign Office (FCO) papers reveal. A batch of FCO files on the Afghan insurgency of the 1980s has just been released by the National Archives […]

In preparation for an offensive on Mosul, a major stronghold of Daesh (also known as ISIS/Islamic state) in Iraq, a new weapon, in the form of a robot armed with a machine gun, will reportedly be deployed. An image made available by the jihadist Twitter […]