Syria’s First Lady Asma al-Assad has weighed in on the US air strikes, calling them the unjust aggression of a shortsighted country. The wife of secular Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad posted an official statement on her Instagram page calling the air strikes an act of excessive and unjust aggression. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad are subject to sanctions in Europe... 

Syrian Army didn’t and will not use chemical weapons even against terrorists. Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem reaffirmed on Thursday that the Syrian Arab Army didn’t and will not use any kind of chemical weapons even against the terrorists who target the Syrian people. In a press conference in Damascus, al-Moallem pointed out that the lie that the Syrian... 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested while addressing his supporters at a rally in Ankara on Sunday, that his country would never get into the EU because it was not Christian. Turkey has been trying to get into the EU since submitting its application for membership in 1987, but negotiations have repeatedly stalled due to human rights concerns, disagreements over Cyprus and other matters. At... 

The study titled “War by Suicide: A Statistical Analysis of the Islamic State’s Martyrdom Industry” says: “Between 1 December 2015 and 30 November 2016, just 20 percent of IS’s suicide attackers – whether they were VBIED drivers, inghimas operatives, or HBIED bombers – were ‘foreign fighters.'” The report from the International Center for Counter-Terrorism... 

Israeli media reported on Saturday that President Donald Trump is being credited by Israeli police for pressuring the FBI to solve the case of wide-spread bomb threats against U.S. Jewish community centers that had struck fear throughout the Jewish-American populace. The American-Israeli teen arrested in Israel for the bomb threats had been making bomb threats for two years but it was only after the... 

Last week, a 29 year old illegal immigrant from Eritrea was charged with the attempted rape of an 80 year old woman in South Tel Aviv. The victim, in describing the attack, said “he beat me and dragged me across the floor.” Later in the week, a 40 year old woman was brutally raped near the Old Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv. The perpetrator is still on the loose. Over the past few years, urban... 

In a tit-for-tat war of words, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he won’t turn the other cheek and promised to keep calling European leaders “Nazis” as long as they keep calling him a “dictator.” “How does that work, you have the right to call Erdogan a ‘dictator’ but Erdogan doesn’t have the right to call you ‘fascist’ and ‘Nazi?’” he said in an interview with... 

Trump is proven right again when he said those Jewish cemetery attacks were hoaxes, as Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in the case. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld described the suspect as a hacker, but said... 

Occasionally we do write some funny satirical stories just for the LOLs and some jumpy people draw conclusions by reading a title, the start bashing us calling us “fake news” believing that the title itself is enough and that there is nothing else to the story, but this ain’t one of them. This is serious stuff! While he didn’t use those exact words the Turkish President Recep... 

Israel has denounced a new UN report which accuses Tel Aviv of crimes against humanity for running “apartheid policies” against the Palestinians. Israel’s UN envoy has called the document an attempt to “falsely label the only true democracy in the Middle East.” The UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) report published Wednesday accuses Israel “beyond... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop adopting hostile policies against Iran based on a legend in “the fifth century B.C.,” instead of focusing on the realities on the ground. Putin made the remarks at a Thursday meeting with Netanyahu in Moscow, during which the Israeli premier claimed ancient Persia had made a failed attempt to “destroy... 

The US military is deploying 2,500 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to Kuwait, with the declared goal of taking part in operations against Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) in both Syria and Iraq, according to the Army Times. The deployment of 2,500 personnel will include units of the Fort Bragg-based 82nd Airborne Division 2nd Brigade Combat Team (2nd BCT), Army Times reported on Friday,... 

The military campaign against ISIS has escalated with the deployment of a detachment of Marines outside their de-facto capital of Raqqa, while continued leaks of military strategy are a cause for concern. The Marines are part of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which left San Diego on amphibious assault ships in October and were stationed in the Middle East prior to their deployment to Syria. The... 

The US-backed operation to liberate western Mosul from ISIS terrorists has caused a surge in civilian deaths and displacement, according to the UN, while Iraqi security forces tighten refugee screening process’ to prevent jihadists from escaping. That’s just great! More ISIS terrorists will now move to Europe and America disguised as “fleeing civilians”! Its just what we needed,... 

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and will overtake Christianity as the most popular before the end of this century, according to an analysis of religious surveys published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. With 1.6 billion, Muslims made up 23 percent of the world’s population, according to a 2010 Pew estimate. That figure was still some way short of the 2.2 billion Christians...