Defense News”: Israel’s prime minister told the Russian leader that Israel would not tolerate leakage of material from Iran to Lebanon. Following the decision by Russia to deliver S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in their telephone conversation last week that Israel’s red line was leakage […]
written by neil clark Easter should be a time of celebration for Christians, but for those of the faith living in the Middle East, there hasn’t been too much to celebrate in recent years. “Kill the Christians” is the title of a new BBC documentary, to be broadcast this week. In it, veteran reporter Jane […]
Mark Yapching A jihadist with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has converted to Christianity after apparently dying and coming back to life. Mohabat News reported that the ISIS fighter, who was unnamed, sustained multiple critical wounds in a battle between the Islamic State and elements of the Syrian Army in eastern Syria. He was […]
The United States believes it has killed about 6,000 jihadists in its air strikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) group, defense officials said Thursday, according to AFP. Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel, however, warned against resorting to “body counts” to measure progress in the war. The estimate of how many ISIS fighters had been taken out […]
By Patrick Henningsen Poor John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Washington’s real first couple. They only want to arm the ‘moderate opposition’ in Syria. Three years on, how come their master plan isn’t working, while ISIS has grown so strong? In the light of the recent Paris Attacks it’s more important than ever to take a […]
The suspected terror cell that was the target of a raid in Belgium on Thursday “received instructions from ISIS”, a senior Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN. Some members of the cell had traveled to Syria and met with ISIS, which plotted the attacks as retaliation for U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, the Belgian source […]
Austria has detained two teenage girls after they tried to travel to Syria to marry fighters from the Islamic State (ISIS), a spokesman for the prosecution was quoted by Reuters as having said Sunday. The girls, aged 16 and 17, had been sent back to Austria from Romania, where they were picked up by authorities […]
A new opinion poll released Thursday shows Americans in continued support of the goal to “downgrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State (ISIS), as President Obama has articulated it. The poll, “American Public Attitudes Towards ISIS and Syria,” also reveals some reservations about the effectiveness of the Obama administration’s air-only campaign to keep ISIS from […]
A Syrian opposition group reports that the ‘biter’ device was used on a woman in Raqqa A Syrian underground resistance movement is reporting that women are being tortured by the Islamic State with a bear-trap device placed around their breasts for violations of sharia law. The group, called “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently,” reported the most recent case of […]
“Story that the Left, progressive media are covering up even today for political reasons. Covering it up for themselves, covering up their incompetence, their partisanship, and their total corruption” By Andrew G. Benjamin At his 2003 State of the Union message George W. Bush spoke these 16 words: “The British Government has learned that Saddam […]
