The Iraqi government has demanded that Ankara withdraw the more than 100 Turkish forces that entered Iraq with tanks and artillery for alleged “training” of troops near Islamic State-occupied Mosul. Baghdad stressed the unsanctioned move was a breach of its sovereignty. The Iraqi foreign ministry said in a statement early on Saturday that the Turkish troops were acting in violation of the country’s... 

ISIS militants parade through Sirte, Libya. The Islamic State has increased its presence in the Mediterranean city of Sirte in Libya from 200 fighters at the start of the year to a force of 5,000 men, including administrators and financiers; the base is the first to be directly established by ISIS/ISIL outside Syria and Iraq, and brings the terrorists closer to Europe. The militant group has apparently... 

GOP Presidential candidate Rand Paul made some bold statements in an interview Wednesday, noting that until other Middle Eastern countries address their role in the refugee crisis, the US should not be selling arms to them. When asked what should be done to help the innocent people fleeing terrorism in Syria and Iraq, Paul called out the neighboring states that have yet to take in a single refugee. “One... 

The new blood-chilling video showing the execution of children by ISIS Islamists has shocked the whole world. It is assumed that the children on the video were captives of the Islamic State terrorist organization. According to mirror.co.uk, the video was obtained from the rebel army that fight against Islamists in Yemen. In the video, one can see children bound and forced to lie face down as they... 

Saudi Arabia has been hit by unprecedented ice flash floods, as seasonal low pressure brings huge downpours to Iraq and Iran as well. The shocking video shows chunks of hail ice the size of large ball bearings for the first time ever in its history. Extreme weather conditions have been lashing the country since October 28, as the low pressure area concentrated over the northern part of the Persian... 

Earlier this month as illegal and largely Muslim migrants continued to surge into Europe from Syria, Iraq, Eritrea and Afghanistan, a German political scientist, Jürgen W. Falter, warned his country faces disaster. Falter said during an interview with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper that statements by Chancellor Angela Merkel sound “like an invitation to the entire world that unlimited... 

Islamic State terrorists have gained access to the production of chemical weapons, the head of the department for non-proliferation and arms control of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Ulyanov said, Pravda.Ru reports with reference to TASS. “By all accounts, the Islamic State group has gained access to technologies for the production of chemical weapons,” the official said. Ulyanov... 

Russian-led counterterrorism efforts are so successful that they are “unnerving” Washington, CCTV reported. As a result, last week US leadership decided to act so as to prevent Iraq from fostering ties with Moscow. The Chinese media outlet believes that the operation to free hostages in Northern Iraq followed this new logic. Last Thursday, US and Kurdish forces managed to free 70 people... 

If Middle East strongmen Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were still in this world, it would have been a better place, because what came instead is much worse, US presidential candidate Donald Trump said. Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper on his State of the Union show whether the world would have been better off with Hussein and Gaddafi still ruling in Iraq and Syria, Trump said “100 percent.” “I... 

Turkish police have detained dozens of ISIS-connected suspects, among them 24 under the age of 18, who are being trained to operate in Syria and Iraq as Islamic State’s militants. The Istanbul Anti-Terror Directorate has arrested dozens of foreigners in one of the districts of Turkey’s largest city. Those detained are suspected of getting ready to transfer to areas of Syria in Iraq under Islamic... 

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, committed the UK to joining the US invasion of Iraq a year before it began, a newly disclosed White House memo reveals. The US documents obtained by the Daily Mail and published on Sunday are part of the batch of emails from the private server of former US State Secretary, Hillary Clinton, which US courts have made her disclose. Among the leaked papers is... 

The Israeli news website has come out in support of Donald Trump’s recent claim that the Middle East would be a lot more stable, had Iraq’s and Libya’s leaders remained in power and President Assad was stronger. Over a week ago, the US Republican presidential front-runner said in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd that the Middle East would be more stable if Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam... 

Smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani after a US airstrikes targets ISIL terrorists there. The United States and its so-called coalition partners have conducted at least three airstrikes in Syria and 11 in Iraq, the Pentagon says. According to US military officials, the attacks targeted Daesh (ISIL) terrorists and were carried out on Monday, a day after Washington air-dropped tons of weapons to... 

“These are American parachutes that the Americans sent to IS when they were here in Baiji”. Iraqi residents have once again accused the US government of supplying ISIS jihadists with food and weapons in a viral video posted online this week. The video, which features a group of men who appear to be soldiers, shows both supply crates and parachutes alleged to belong to the Unites States... 

Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Washington’s failure to share data with Russian intelligence about terrorist positions in Syria makes one question the goals that Americans have in their anti-ISIS campaign in Syria and Iraq, a senior Russian diplomat has said. The refusal to share intelligence on terrorists “just confirms once more what we knew from...