In a dramatic move, Germany is set to become the first western nation and NATO member to break ranks and begin cooperating with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and set up an intelligence agency branch in Damascus. Although there has been no official announcement, anonymous sources quoted in the German Bild newspaper, confirmed that the federal government is keen to establish a branch of its Federal... 

A Mexican drug lord has sworn revenge on Daesh following the loss of a narcotics shipment. Joaquin Guzman Loera, head of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, who is known also as El Chapo (“Shorty”), issued a threat to Daesh (ISIL/ISIS), according to web portal Cartel Blog. According to Cartel Blog, El Chapo’s outrage was caused by the fact that Daesh militants had started destroying drug shipments... 

The United States has deployed dozens of ground troops to Syria claiming they will assist Kurdish forces in their battle against ISIS terrorists, sources say. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that 30 US soldiers arrived in the northern city of Kobani over the past two days, AFP reported. The troops will allegedly help plan attacks against the Takfiris in the two Syrian... 

Republican presidential candidate Senator Rand Paul suggests the United States should apply more screening to French citizens entering the country. The Kentucky Republican told Fox News on Wednesday that the US is facing terror threats from people coming into the country not just as refugees but as visitors too. “I think our biggest entry for those who would attack us is coming to visit, basically,... 

An oil field in northern Syria, which fell to militants during the country’s insurgency crisis. The United States military has ramped up its offensives against the Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group in Syria, taking out scores of militant trucks during an aerial raid in the Arab country’s east, according to the New York Times. The US daily said Monday that American warplanes for the first time... 

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has blamed the United States for the creation of Daesh (ISIS/ISIL), after the Islamic terrorist group claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. At least 129 people were killed in multiple coordinated attacks on Friday night in one of the deadliest assaults to hit the French capital since the World War II. Some 352 were also injured, including 99... 

The Pentagon chief’s warning of grim consequences for Moscow over its military campaign in Syria is not merely “chest thumping” and may be a prelude to a “frightening” military confrontation, says an American analyst and radio host in New York. “One hopes that Ashton Carter is only thumping his chest, hoping to either back the Russians down or in any event look tough in front... 

A startling new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) states the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has “broken contact” with President Obama and has begun providing Russia with highly classified intelligence/satellite reports on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) bases in Syria. According to this report, and confirmed... 

The ISIL Takfiri group has reportedly killed at least 300 members of the national electoral commission in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The terror group executed the civilians by firing squad at the al-Ghazlani camp on Friday afternoon, Mohammad al-Suraji, the spokesman for Iraq’s volunteer forces, told the country’s al-Sumaria satellite TV network. The ISIL took over Mosul last June and later seized... 

The Turkish military has called on all troop commanders stationed along its border with Syria to be present at a meeting aimed at discussing a possible intervention in the crisis-hit country. The meeting was called by Land Forces Commander General Hulusi Akar and 2nd Army Commander General Adem Huduti following a last week visit to the border region, the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Daily reported... 

Takfiri militants in four regions of Russia’s Caucasus have taken oath of allegiance to the ISIL terrorist group operating in Iraq and Syria, according to a recording recently posted online. Based on the voice recording which emerged on video sharing website YouTube on Sunday, Muslim militants in Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria regions have all pledged allegiance to ISIL leader... 

Members of the Takfiri ISIL militant group have abducted more than 1,200 children from various districts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)’s spokesman in Mosul, Saeed Mamouzini, said ISIL extremists have lately kidnapped 1,227 kids in multiple neighborhoods of the city, located some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, Iraq’s al-Sumaria... 

A new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that US Secretary of John Kerry was “gravely wounded” yesterday (31 May) after a secret meeting he was holding with a top Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) commander erupted in gunfire in what Federation intelligence analysts are calling an “obvious assassination attempt”. According to this... 

Yemeni people take to the streets in the capital Sana’a to condemn Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes against and a recent UN sanctions resolution targeting Houthi movement, April 16, 2015. Yemeni people have taken to the streets in the capital city of Sana’a to condemn Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes against their country and a recent UN sanctions resolution targeting Houthi movement. The protesters... 

Bags of corpses dug out of a mass grave found in northern Iraq on March 14, 2015. Iraqi security forces have discovered at least 14 mass graves since the strategic city of Tikrit was liberated from the ISIL Takfiri terrorists last week. According to an Iraqi security source, the mass graves contain the bodies of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers massacred by ISIL outside the northern city. The victims were...