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Qasem Soleimani visited Lebanon to honor Qunaitra victims

Source: The Daily Star - BEIRUT: A senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard quietly paid tribute earlier this month to six Hezbollah fighters who were killed during a Jan. 18 Israeli airstrike on a party convoy in Syria’s Golan Heights, according to a report. Major General Qasem Soleimani, a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard visited […]

Hezbollah-Future dialogue tackles Resistance Brigades

Source: The Daily Star - BEIRUT: Talks between Hezbollah and the Future Movement have begun touching on the issue of the Hezbollah-linked Resistance Brigades, former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Friday. Siniora, who is also head of the Future parliamentary bloc, complained that Hezbollah’s Resistance Brigades allows them to “overpower” citizens, and is now one […]

Nasrallah to Israel: 'Don't try us again'

Source: The Daily Star - Beirut - Hezbollah is ready to respond to Israel at any time and in any place, party chief Hasan Nasrallah underlined in a fiery speech Friday, two days after its troops ambushed an Israeli military convoy, killing two soldiers. “Don't try us again,” Nasrallah warned in a televised […]

Poll: Netanyahu should be investigated for nuclear weapons tech smuggling before US visit

A majority of Americans believe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be investigated by the FBI for nuclear weapons technology smuggling before being allowed to enter the United States according to a new poll. In 2012 the FBI declassified and released files (PDF archive) of its investigation into how 800 nuclear weapons triggers were […]

Photo of the day

Source: Reuters- A Palestinian boy wearing a military costume arrives at a military-style graduation ceremony for Palestinian youths who were trained at one of the Hamas-run Liberation Camps, in Gaza City, January 29, 2015.

Japan, Jordan seek news on fate of ISIS captives

Reuters - Japan and Jordan scrambled on Friday to find out what had happened to two of their nationals being held by Islamic State, after a deadline passed for the release of a would-be suicide bomber being held on death row in Amman. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said every effort was being made to […]

Egypt's Sisi cuts short Ethiopia visit after 30 killed in Sinai

Reuters - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi cut short a visit to Ethiopia for an African Union summit on Friday, after Islamic State's Egyptian wing claimed the killing of at least 30 security personnel in the Sinai Peninsula. Sisi's office said in a statement that Sisi would return to Cairo after Friday morning's opening session. […]

Israel issues tenders for new settler homes ahead of election

Reuters - Israel published tenders on Friday for the construction of 450 new housing units in occupied Palestinian territory, a move that critics denounced as a political gesture ahead of a March general election. Ariel Rosenberg, spokesman for Israel's Housing Ministry, said the government was simply remarketing tenders that had failed to sell when they […]

ISIS attacks near Kirkuk, bombs kill 18 in Baghdad

Reuters - Islamic State militants struck at Kurdish forces southwest of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday morning, while bombs in Baghdad and Samarra killed at least 21 people, security and medical sources said. Police in the northern province of Kirkuk said Islamic State launched mortars and attacked positions of Kurdish peshmerga fighters in […]

Syria battle between al Qaeda and Western-backed group spreads

Reuters - Fighting between the Syrian arm of al Qaeda and Western-backed rebels in northern Syria spread from Aleppo province into neighboring Idlib on Friday, the rebel group and an organization monitoring the civil war said. Clashes began on Thursday when the al Qaeda Syria wing, the Nusra Front, seized positions from the Hazzm movement […]

U.S. armed drone program in Yemen facing intelligence gaps

Reuters - The United States is facing increasing difficulty acquiring intelligence needed to run its stealth drone program in Yemen, undermining a campaign against the most lethal branch of al Qaeda after Houthi rebels seized control of parts of the country’s security apparatus, U.S. officials say. Gaps in on-the-ground intelligence could slow America's fight […]

Top Iraq Kurd office among six killed in ISIS attack

A member of the Kurdish security forces checks his weapon after previous clashes with Islamic State militants on the outskirts of Kirkuk. (File photo: Reuters) Source: AFP, Kirkuk -The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Islamist group killed a senior Kurdish commander and five other fighters on Friday in a major attack in Iraq’s […]

Turki Al-Dakhil named Al Arabiya GM, Adel Al-Toraifi becomes Info Minister

Turki Al-Dakhil, right, MBC Chairman Waleed Al Ibrahim, center, and Adel AlToraifi, left. (Al Arabiya) Source: Al Arabiya News - In a statement released today, MBC Group’s Chairman Sheikh Waleed Al-Ibrahim Thursday announced the appointment of Turki Al-Dakhil as the new General Manager of Al Arabiya News Channel. Al-Dakhil succeeds Dr. Adel Altoraifi who has […]

Saudi King Salman appoints new ministers and security leaders

King Salman bin Abdulaziz was appointed monarch after the passing of his brother, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz early Friday. (File photo: AP) Source: Al Arabiya News - Saudi Arabia’s newly inaugurated King Salman bin Abdulaziz has issued a series of landmark orders that ushered in fresh new faces into state institutions and awarded financial support […]

Hezbollah answers Israeli attack

By Ali Hashem for Al-monitor - The situation in south Lebanon was calm, but with a touch of nervousness in the air the morning of Jan. 28, when six missiles broke the silence. Everyone had been waiting for this moment to arrive. Ten days of waiting had come to an end for Israel, as Hezbollah […]

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