Afghanistan (Tasnim) – Afghanistan is considering training and arming 20,000 civilians to defend territories where militants have been driven out, officials say, sparking fears the local forces could become another thuggish militia. The proposal for a government-backed armed group that would…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s foreign minister decried the wrong policy that Washington has adopted on Tehran after the US Senate’s move to approve a bill on new anti-Iran sanctions, saying he will raise the subject of the US breach of…
Lebanon (Sputnik) – Leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah has accused Saudi Arabia of financing Daesh terror group and of committing atrocities in war-torn Yemen, describing the actions of Riyadh as a “state terror.” The Saudi policy in Yemen,…
(Sputnik) – Commenting on recent reports in the US media that the Islamic State (Daesh) is bringing together all of its experts on chemical weapons from Iraq and Syria to “boost its ability to defend its remaining strongholds,” Karim Nuri, one…
Iraq (Sputnik) – Turkey is reportedly preparing another air operation in Iraq’s Sinjar area, in a bid to destroy the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s communication channel between Syria and Iraq. After the town of Sinjar was liberated from Daesh (ISIS/ISIL), the Sinjar Resistance Forces, which…
Germany (Tasnim) – Security forces have launched a nationwide anti-terror operation in Germany on Wednesday. Police in the states of Saxony, Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt and Berlin confirmed that properties have been searched. German anti-terror police carried out a series of pre-dawn raids…
Afghanistan (Tasnim) – Senior Trump administration and military officials are recommending sending several thousand additional American troops to Afghanistan to try to break a military deadlock in the 15-year war there, in part by pressuring the Taliban to negotiate with the…
Syria (Tasnim) – Participants of the intra-Syrian negotiations that wrapped up in the Kazakh capital city of Astana on Thursday have adopted a document on creating four security zones in the Arab country, a report said. According to the document, Russia…
Syria (Tasnim) – Tensions rose Saturday along the Turkish-Syrian border as both Turkey and the US moved armored vehicles to the region and Turkey’s leader once again demanded that the United States stop supporting the Syrian Kurdish militants there. The relocation…
Turkey (Sputnik) – A military airfield in the Syrian town of Tabqa may greatly increase the effectiveness of the Raqqa operation and serve as an alternative to Turkey’s Incirlik base, a senior representative of the Syrian Democratic Forces told Sputnik Turkey.…
Iran (Tasnim) – The director general of international affairs at the Iranian parliament slammed the recent US missile attack on a Syrian airfield, saying the move demonstrated that Washington still does not consider fighting the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group as…
Syria (Sputnik) – The Democratic Union Party (PYD), one of the leading Kurdish political forces in Syria, has indicated that it plans to establish a “democratic autonomous administration” in Manbij, which made headlines last week when Russia and the United States…
United States (Tasnim) – The United States will host a major meeting of the 68 members of the coalition fighting Daesh (also known as ISIL or ISIS) on March 22, the State Department said Thursday. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will…
World (Sputnik) – Daesh might be the richest terrorist organization in the world, but its business model is hardly sustainable since the group’s revenue is closely dependent on the area under its control and the number of people living in its…
Saudi Arabia (Tasnim) – Islamophobia in parts of the world is fueling terrorism, the head of the United Nations said on a visit to Saudi Arabia, as anti-immigrant sentiment rises in some countries. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the comment to…