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US, Somali forces conducted airstrikes in S. Somalia (AFP)

December 30th, 2019 - 08:10 GMT

US Killed Four in Airstrikes Against Al-Shabaab in Somalia

The United States military said it killed four "terrorists" in airstrikes against the Al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia on Sunday, a day after the country's deadliest attack in two years. US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted three airstrikes in two locations in the conflict-hit east African nation on Sunday targeting Al-Shabaab militants, it said in a statement. "These precision airstrikes targeted Al-Shabaab militants responsible for terrorist acts against innocent Somali citizens ...

Washington has been silent as infighting between Syrian opposition and Islamist rebels continues in the country's northern region (Courtesy of Front Page Magazine)

January 9th, 2014 - 02:09 GMT

The U.S. double standard: political consequences of Washington's Mideast affairs

Iraqi soldiers monitor a checkpoint east of Baghdad on January 6, 2014. On Thursday, 13 Iraqi army recruits were killed by a suicide bomber in the capital city. (AFP)

January 9th, 2014 - 10:30 GMT

Suicide bomber kills 13 army recruits in Baghdad

Several parts of Anbar province have been outside government control - and under the command of Al Qaeda-linked militants - for several days. (AFP)

January 9th, 2014 - 09:09 GMT

Iraqi tribes "recapture majority" of Anbar province, partial calm restored

AIn Al Hilweh, the Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon's south considered a "hotbed" for militants, fears a possible armed sectarian clash with Hezbollah forces due to the latter's politics at home and in Syria (Courtesy of the Guardian)

January 9th, 2014 - 07:29 GMT

Lebanon's Palestinians fear sectarian clashes with Hezbollah imminent

Rebel fighters gesture next to the bodies of handcuffed and blindfolded dead men laying on the ground of the Aleppo headquarters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (AFP)

January 9th, 2014 - 07:17 GMT

Former ISIS captives in Aleppo share horror stories of their captivity

Despite the chaos engulfing Anbar province, life must go on as normal for many residents. Here, Iraqi traders sell their goods at an open air market in the center of the city of Fallujah, west of the capital Baghdad on January 8, 2014 (AFP)

January 8th, 2014 - 07:55 GMT

Iraqi NGOs warn of 'critical' humanitarian crisis in Fallujah as 13,000 families flee

Mourners carry the body of a comrade killed during battles with members of the al-Qaeda-linked group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in the northern city of Aleppo, on January 8, 2014.

January 8th, 2014 - 07:04 GMT

NGO: 'Hardly any' Qaeda fighters left in Aleppo

Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki urged all Al Qaeda and other militants in the city of Fallujah to surrender. (AFP)

January 8th, 2014 - 02:28 GMT

Iraqi PM promises victory in Fallujah as army prepare launch against militants

Goats are seen grazing in a cultivated field near the village of Ein al-Beida in the eastern foothill of the Jordan Valley. This controversial piece of land is set to cause trouble at the peace talks negotiating table. (AFP)

January 8th, 2014 - 02:06 GMT

Officials: Jordan to secure strategic interests in face of Palestinian-Israeli solution

Ralph Nader (image from transitionvoice.com)

January 8th, 2014 - 01:52 GMT

Ralph Nader writes George W. Bush a nasty letter about Iraq

John Kerry

January 8th, 2014

2014's geopolitical calendar: Events that will change the Middle East this year

Rebel fighters, one holding a weapon, walk in a street on January 7, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. [AFP]

January 8th, 2014 - 10:47 GMT

Syria: jihadist group ISIL’s Aleppo HQ falls to rebels