ISIS will be eliminated in about six months, Assange predicted, who blamed both Russia and Turkey for the jet downing last month  Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange spoke via live video stream on a panel on security and surveillance featuring terrorism expert Philip Giraldi, political activist Raymond McGovern, and strategic analyst Gregory Copley Thursday. At the end of the discussion, […]

The number of coalition UAVs in the skies over Syria has increased three-fold over the last few days, according the the Russian Ministry of Defense, which released a video this week of a Russian drone filming an American drone from above. With now more than 50 UAVs, often all in the sky at the same time, […]

Gunmen opened fire outside a US consulate in Istanbul, Turkey Monday morning, BBC reported. The attack, which took place at around 8:00 a.m. Monday morning, followed just 10 hours after a bomb was detonated at a police station in Istanbul, injuring 10 people, including seven police. Read more: Turkey suicide bombing may be first of seven […]

Monday night’s terrorist attack in southeastern Turkey, in which 31 people were killed and around 100 injured, may be the first of a series of seven. The Turkish government is pointing toward the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for the attack in Suruc, and if it was carried out by the terrorist […]

Oh dear. Yesterday the Washington Post reported that al Qaeda successfully seized a strategic airport, sea port and al-Dhabah oil export facility in the south of Yemen after skirmishes with Yemeni troops. According to officials who remained anonymous, al Qaeda combatants engaged one of the largest Yemeni infantry brigades on the outskirt of Mukalla, successfully […]

After the Islamic State released a video showing the execution of a Jordanian pilot Tuesday, Jordan’s responded by executing two jihadists imprisoned since 2006 for acts of terrorism. One woman and one man were hanged early Wednesday morning. The woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, a 44-year-old Iraqi designated a “sister imprisoned” by Daesh, had carried out attacks in the Jordanian capital a […]

Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s firm reversal of the Housing Ministry’s bid for the expansion of settlements into the West Bank, Ari Uriel, Israel’s minister of construction, decided to go forward with the plan of building an additional 450 housing units in the Eitam Hill area, just east of Efrat. A total of $215,000 (over 800,000 shekels) have […]

Four years into the Syrian struggle, there seems to be little hope of an end to this war, rightly described by Noam Chomsky as “suicidal” in an interview conducted by the Lebanon-based Al-Mayadin TV channel back in January 2013. Thus far, the death toll is staggering, as 200,000 to 300,000 have been killed by the […]

In this in-depth guest post, Israeli soldier Josh Green, who has lived and worked side by side with the Israel’s Druze population, paints a picture of his experience and and familiarity with a group that accounts for a significant portion of the IDF.  The Druze have a total population of around 1-2 million. The largest community lives in Syria. Approximately […]

In this enthralling account of the streets of the Holy Land, written by the hand of an Israeli Defense Forces soldier who took part in the most recent war in Gaza, we are provided with a visceral and beautiful account of the land and conflict at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.    The Judean hills are […]

Russia’s proposed South Stream pipeline–which would connect Russia to southern Europe without crossing Ukraine–was scrapped Monday in the wake of EU objections to the project. Instead, Russia is naming Turkey as its preferred piped gas partner. Russia has been for several years in the planning stage for an undersea pipeline to that would feed 63 billion cubic meters […]

Several top Islamic State leaders are thought to be dead, and the leader of IS has been reported wounded, after a targeted US-coalition airstrike attack on a house on the Iraq-Syria border. The leader of IS in Anbar province, as well as that leader’s deputy, are though to be killed. IS top commander Abu Bakr […]