They died in blasts at the governor of Kandahar’s guesthouse on Tuesday, where at least six others were killed including the deputy governor, two senior Afghan officials and two MPs. The governor and the UAE ambassador were among at least 18 wounded. The attack was one of several in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The Taliban admitted attacks in the capital Kabul… Read more »
The joint counter-espionage IDF Military Intelligence and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operation against Hamas that was cleared for publication on Wednesday has revealed that the Gazan terror organization is now equipped with a cyber unit, which possesses considerable abilities. This Hamas cyber unit has been aided by foreign experts in the field. Hamas’s efforts to gain access to IDF… Read more »
Oman is negotiating with wealthy Gulf Arab states to secure a multi-billion dollar deposit in its central bank, two sources have told the Reuters news agency, although the Sultanate denied the report. The sources, declining to be named because the matter is not public, said Omani officials had met in recent weeks with officials of the finance ministries of Kuwait, Qatar and… Read more »
About 10 Syrian rebel groups announced Monday they were suspending talks about planned peace negotiations this month in the Kazakh capital Astana, due to “violations” by Damascus of a four-day old truce. “As these violations are continuing, the rebel factions announce… the freezing of all discussion linked to the Astana negotiations,” they said in a joint statement, referring to talks… Read more »
Two years after the jihadists seized the city of 1.5 million people and declared a caliphate from there encompassing tracts of Iraq and Syria, a force of some 30,000 Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Sunni tribal fighters began to advance. Helicopters released flares and explosions could be heard on the city’s eastern front, where Reuters watched Kurdish fighters move… Read more »
The battle for Aleppo may be over but the struggle for the future of Syria will continue. Indeed, it may become even more chaotic and bloody. The crushing of the rebel enclave in eastern Aleppo represents a major propaganda victory for the government of President Bashar al-Assad, which now controls virtually all of the major population centres of the country…. Read more »
(CNN)Aleppo residents will be allowed to leave on Thursday under a new ceasefire agreement reached overnight, a rebel group said. According to Ahmad Qurah Ali, spokesman for the Ahrar al-Sham rebel group, the deal was reached late Wednesday and will permit injured people to be evacuated beginning in the morning. The original ceasefire brokered Tuesday collapsed less than a day… Read more »
(CNN)-Wrapped in a blanket and wearing pink sandals, a little girl sobs in fear as she walks down the street, gunfire blasting at the end of the road. Confused, she turns around and covers her face with the blanket. At that moment, a soldier from Iraq’s elite special forces the Golden Brigade rushes forward to help — “don’t cry,” he… Read more »
(CNN)Forces loyal to the Syrian regime have been entering homes in the last pockets of Aleppo held by rebels and shooting people on the spot, the United Nations has said. A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said he had been told that 82 civilians, including women and children, were shot in their homes or on the… Read more »
I find amazing that in the middle of all the war and hate that is accuring there is always time fora friendly soccer match. To be able able to put weapons aside and come together shows that there really is hope for a peaceful solution in the middle east. I’m aware of the fact that a soccer match is not very earth… Read more »