On the day the US military killed top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, US forces carried out another top secret mission against a senior Iranian military official in Yemen, US officials told The Washington Post on Friday. The strike targeting Abdul Reza Shahlai, a financier and key commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force who […]
A major attack on Saudi oil production is stoking tensions in the Middle East. Heritage Foundation expert Peter Brookes discusses what happened, and what it means for the region and the United States. Read the lightly edited interview, pasted below, or listen on the podcast: We also cover these stories: President Trump is defending Justice […]
Most of us have long understood that Obama is a traitor to our country and a mole whose not so covert mission is to destroy America. The circumstances surrounding the “crash” in Dec 4 2011 of a U.S top secret RQ170 Sentinel drone simply didn’t add up. To recap, first we were told that Iran […]
by JOHN HAYWARD The media is misrepresenting President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugee admission as a “Muslim ban” – or, more cleverly, a ban on immigration from “Muslim-majority countries.” In truth, the ban applies to everyone from seven specific countries. In fact, one of the first families caught at the airport when […]
by Jonathan Spyer The Jerusalem Post October 11, 2015 Originally published under the title “The Limits of Iranian Power.” While regional news remains dominated by the dramatic events under way in Syria, further south and east important developments are taking place in one of the more neglected arenas of the regional struggle – Yemen. Events […]
Horrible story, this girl fled from a forced marriage with an old man “My parents told me that marriage is a game”. [youtube lXespwyiefY nolink]
Remarkable footage of the largest and “most dangerous” meeting of Al Qaeda commanders in years has emerged online. The footage – obtained and translated by CNN – shows the jihadist group’s second-in-command, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, meeting openly with fighters and commanders in Yemen. Al-Wuhayshi, who heads Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was apparently unfazed […]
A vow by Al-Qaeda to carry out an attack that would “change the face of history” was behind this month’s closures of Western embassies, the president of Yemen revealed Friday, according to Reuters. In the first public disclosure by a government leader of details of the intercepted call that prompted the U.S. alert, President Abd-Rabbu […]
The Obama administration’s decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan ordered the leader of its affiliate in Yemen to carry out an attack as early as this past Sunday, American officials told the […]
Shots were fired near the French embassy in Yemen on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, after a car bomb attack on France’s embassy in Libya wounded two French guards and caused extensive damage. France is watching the situation in the capital Sanaa “carefully”, a ministry spokesman told the AFP news agency. Paris stepped up security […]
