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Sunni and Shia Muslim leaders in the United Kingdom have come together to denounce the Islamic militant group ISIS in a video posted by a group called Imams Online, reports the BBC. A statement on the Imams Online website says, “Senior British imams have come together to emphasize the importance of unity in the UK and to decree …

An image of Israelis in Sderot who gathered on a hill to watch and celebrate Gaza being bombed has gone viral on Twitter. The photo posted by a Danish journalist caused uproar online. Allan Sørensen, the Middle Eastern correspondent for the Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad, said that he took the …

A Norwegian doctor in the besieged Gaza Strip has strongly criticized Israel for using cancer-inducing bombs against Palestinian civilians. Dr. Erik Fosse told Press TV that the majority of patients hospitalized in Gaza are civilians injured in attacks on their homes and about thirty percent of them are children. Dense …

Exclusive: Believed to be the first jihadi defection to the Islamic State outside of Middle East, move emphasis growing influence of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s self-declared caliph and the wanning hold of al Qaeda A Pakistani terror group has become the first in the region to break ranks and declare allegiance …

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has dismissed Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as tension continues between Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). On Friday, the Iraqi premier appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani as a replacement for Zebari. The development came after Zebari, along with other Kurdish …

The United States moved Thursday to blacklist a group of companies it claimed covertly helped Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement acquire components for surveillance drones. The US Treasury placed sanctions on Beirut-based Stars Group Holding, which it said purchased electronics and other technology via offices in China and Dubai to support …

BEIRUT: Mustafa Khuraizat and his fellow volunteers from Hezbollah’s reserves hurried to fold cardboard boxes. Nearby, another volunteer lit the fire under the cooking stoves. “When we are asked to go to the field of jihad, we go,” Khuraizat said. “And when we are asked to serve people, we serve the people.” …

Updated 3:45 pm: Israel continued its relentless assault of Gaza for a fifth day Saturday, vowing no let-up in a bombing campaign which has killed 127 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and injured nearly 1,000. Defiant fighters from Gaza responded by firing nine more rockets towards Israeli occupied territories, with Hamas rejecting international …

Updated 12:54 pm: Israel continued its bombing campaign of Gaza for a fourth day Friday, killing a total of 100 people, mostly civilians, and injuring nearly 700, the Gaza health ministry said. Fighters in Gaza fought back with rockets, without causing any fatalities or serious injuries. But one rocket on Friday …

Co-authored by Abbas Kadhim* and Luay Al Khatteeb** Before the security collapse in Mosul, the conventional wisdom among Iraq experts was that Iraq had two options to guarantee security when faced with challenges above the capacity of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF): the United States and Iran. Following this thinking, …