Germany and other western countries have begun providing weapons to Kurds in fight against the IS.
One woman fighter is enough to scare away 72 virgins.
Israel remains a lone outpost for those who know that talking to liars is not a diplomatic solution.
Islamic State allegedly beheaded one American journalist, has threatened another with the same fate.
Iraq's Prime Minister, Nuri Al-Maliki, has agreed to step down and to support the designated new leader.
"The battle we fight today is the same battle that you all will fight tomorrow." - Ambassador Prosor.
Iran apparently does fear something; Tehran is watching ISIS fighters closely on its Iraqi border.
“My friends all say I'm losing it big time…I'm going back there again/Back to the house of pain “ – Deep Purple
Israel isn't afraid of sanctions from Iraq, which doesn't permit oil sales to Israel.
Iran -- ironically -- has issued a warning that Sunni militants are trying to create 'disunity' in the Muslim world.
Turkey has evacuated its staff from the city of Basra, located in southern Iraq.
Jordan appears to be the next target for the Al Qaeda-linked ISIS terrorist group, says an Arab news writer.
By Rachel Levy
The Al Qaeda-linked ISIL group is now eyeing Baghdad after swallowing northern and central Iraq, and eastern Syria. Emirate to follow?
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) heroic warriors took a Syrian girl named Fatoum Al-Jassem to the Al-Reqqa religious court, where the judge ruled that membership in Facebook is tantamount to adultery and sentenced her to death by stoning, Al-Rai Al-Youm reported. Dawla al-Islāmiyya fi al-'Irāq wa-sh-Shām, abbreviated ISIS, is an armed […]
By JTA
The Senate unanimously urged the State Department to renegotiate the terms for the return to Iraq of an archive of Iraqi Jewish texts. The resolution passed Thursday “strongly urges” the department to renegotiate the agreement with the Iraqi government “in order to ensure that the Iraqi Jewish Archive be kept in a place where its […]
The Al Qaeda terrorist network reportedly is breaking ties with the Islamic State of Iraq and greater Syria (ISIS) Syria that has been balking at orders from Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri. The terrorist group also is known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). An unconfirmed website message from Al Qaeda […]
At least 13 Iraqi soldiers and 18 Syrians, including woman and children, were killed Thursday in another round of the seemingly endless fighting in both countries. Iraq was supposed to be safe from democracy after the American invasion, but it has been neither safe nor democratic since then. Bombings by anti-government and Al Qaeda terrorists […]
By JTA
Damaged Torah scrolls found by U.S. troops in Iraq’s intelligence headquarters were buried in a cemetery in New York on Sunday, according to Jewish law for disposing of unusable religious objects and texts. More than 100 people, including Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S., attended the ceremony at the New Montefiore Cemetery in […]
By JoeSettler
Ask yourself, what would happen if Saudi Arabia were to change its buying habits?
Syrian opposition forces again prove Hezbollah is not invincible. They posted a video showing a direct hit near Damascus on a multi-story Hezbollah building, which collapsed like dominoes.
Iraq, the country that the Bush Sr. administration made safe for democracy, lost 49 more citizens and soldiers the past two days with 10 car bombs on mostly Shi’ite Muslims and suicide bombings of a group of soldiers. Another 100 people suffered injuries as violence returns to the hey-day of 2008, when American troops were […]
Shimon Peres is wonderful man. The older he gets, the more he is optimistic – and the more he is detached from reality. He foresees an “Iranian Spring.” Doesn’t he know what happened in Libya and Egypt?