As Palestinians gear up for the upcoming presidential and legislative elections, sharp differences are emerging within the Fatah movement, leading to the formation of a number of lists headed by or including Fatah leaders, in what is set to weaken the official list and divide Fatah votes. Fatah’s decision to …

Ankara is furious over a commemorative stamp design featuring a map of Iraqi Kurdistan that includes chunks of Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast provinces. Turkey lashed out at Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Wednesday over its plans to print a commemorative stamp to mark Pope Francis’ March 7 visit to Erbil, the …

The trilateral meeting between the countries is meant to push for a political solution to Syria’s 10-year-long conflict. The foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia and Qatar gathered in Doha today, the first trilateral meeting of its kind in which the parties stressed the importance of preserving Syria’s territorial integrity. Their …

“The stealing originates from Mohammed al-Tal, who is the commander of the Mahavir al-Saura group. This happens in close coordination with the US command stationed there. They promise to pay $700-$800, but in reality people get only $300, and the rest is misappropriated,” Muayed Alabein said, TASS reported. Alabein spent …

The Supreme Court’s refusal to allow ISIS recruit Shamima Begum to return to the UK has triggered a renewed but broken debate that romanticizes, orientalizes and infantilizes women who choose violence The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court decision that Shamima Begum, who left the country at 15 to join ISIS, cannot …

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday said that Iran’s presence in Syria and Iraq is only to provide advice.In a speech today, Khamenei said that Iran’s presence in Syria and Iraq is for advisory support and not military, adding that Iran is present in the region at the …

According to data recently published by Code Pink, an anti-war organization based in the US, the US and its allies have dropped at least 326,000 bombs and missiles on countries in the greater Middle East/North Africa region since 2001, equivalent to more than 40 every single day. Analysts pointed out …

According to Russian military media, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has expressed growing confidence in the Armed Forces’ electronic warfare (EW) capabilities. This has proved to be a consistent area of military modernization over the past decade for Russia. However, according to a growing number of experts, those capabilities already appear …

The Russian Spring (RusVesna.SU) YouTube channel has released new video footage of the Russian Aerospace Forces targeting a jihadist base in the Idleb countryside. “The Russian army continues to destroy military facilities of radical Islamists in Syria. At the disposal of Russian Spring were new exclusive footage of the airstrike …

Flanked by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Abu Dhabi’s top diplomat criticized the US-led campaign to economically isolate Syria under President Bashar al-Assad. The United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister called for international cooperation with the government of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad after years of isolation imposed as a result of …