Hezbollah will stay in Syria as long as needed – Nasrallah
By Dominic Evans Shi’ite militants from Hezbollah will keep fighting in Syria’s civil war alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s forces as long as necessary, the group’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah...
View ArticleTwo blasts target Iranian embassy in Beirut, kill 23 (updated)
By Laila Bassam and Erika Solomon Two suicide bombings rocked Iran’s embassy compound in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including an Iranian cultural attache and hurling bodies and...
View ArticleIslamist rebels capture Syria’s largest oilfield – activists
By Erika Solomon Islamist rebels led by al Qaeda-linked fighters seized Syria’s largest oilfield on Saturday, cutting off President Bashar al-Assad’s access to almost all local crude reserves,...
View ArticleIraq troops arrest leading Sunni MP in violent raid
Iraqi security forces arrested a prominent Sunni Muslim lawmaker and supporter of anti-government protests in a raid on his home in the western province of Anbar, sparking clashes in which at least...
View ArticleClashes erupt as Iraq police move on Sunni protest camp
By Kamal Namaa FIGHTING broke out when Iraqi police moved to dismantle a Sunni Muslim protest camp in the western Anbar province on Monday, leaving at least 13 people dead, police and medical sources...
View ArticleAssad seeks re-election as Syrian civil war rages
By Dominic Evans Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared on Monday he would seek re-election in June, defying calls from his opponents to step aside and allow a political solution to the country’s...
View ArticleReappraising Iraq’s apocalypse
By Gwynne Dyer IT’S TIME for everybody in Iraq to take a tranquiliser. The media will go on fizzing with apocalyptic speculations for a week or so, because that kind of talk always sells, but the war...
View ArticleWho will listen to the new ‘caliph’?
By Gwynne Dyer “LISTEN TO your caliph and obey him. Support your state, which grows every day,” said Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, announcing the rebirth of the Caliphate in the broad territory between Aleppo...
View ArticleAt least 30 killed in Shi’ite militia attack on Sunni mosque in Iraq (Update 1)
At least 30 people were killed when a Shi’ite Muslim militia opened fired inside an Iraqi Sunni mosque in the country’s eastern Diyala province on Friday, an Iraqi security source said. The security...
View ArticleIran reacts with fury after Saudis execute Shi’ite cleric
By Sam Wilkin and Angus McDowall Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday as Shi’ite Muslim Iran reacted with fury to Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shi’ite...
View ArticleIraqi PM dismisses top Baghdad security officials after bombing
Iraq’s prime minister dismissed three officials in charge of Baghdad’s security on Friday after last weekend’s bombing that killed nearly 300 people and caused public outrage over the inadequacy of...
View ArticleChoose a side: Trump and the Sunni-Shia war
The Sunni-Shia civil wars in Iraq and Syria are both nearing their end, and in both cases the Shias have won – thanks largely to American military help in Iraq’s case, and to a Russian military...
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