The new wall, both above and below ground, is aimed at stemming the use of cross-border tunnels with the besieged Palestinian strip Egyptian security and military forces are working around the clock to build a [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinians have attended the funeral in Gaza of a volunteer medic who was killed by Israeli fire during protests on the border. Razan al-Najar, 21, was shot dead as she ran towards the [ More … ]
The shipment included storm howitzer artillery and M114s that were sent to the Turkish district of Elbeyli on the Turkey-Syria border A military shipment of storm howitzer artillery and M114s were transported to Turkey’s Elbeyli [ More … ]
A military source said that Lebanese military intelligence units have detained a Daesh senior member. Lebanese military intelligence units have detained an Islamic State (Daesh) senior member responsible for an assault on the country’s troops in 2014 on the [ More … ]
Gaza’s forces have tightened security in the besieged enclave on Thursday after a suicide bombing targeted Palestinian security forces near the Egyptian border earlier in the day, killing two, including the attacker, and injuring four [ More … ]
A Palestinian security officer in Gaza was killed and another was injured when an unidentified assailant blew himself up near the Egypt-Gaza border at dawn on Thursday. Spokesperson of the Gaza Ministry of Interior and [ More … ]
The refugees and fighters from al-Qaeda’s former Syrian branch arrived in bus convoys into the rebel-held area of Al-Saan in the central Syrian Hama province. Nearly 8,000 Syrian refugees and fighters from Lebanon arrived in [ More … ]
An Iranian drone that crossed over into Pakistani territory on Wednesday was shot down, Islamabad said. Pakistan shot down an unmanned Iranian drone inside its territory in southwestern Baluchistan province, Islamabad said on Wednesday. Pakistan’s [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* The U.S.-led coalition hit the Iran-backed regime forces three times in the last month near Tanf in Syria’s southeast. The first of the attacks took place on May 18, the day [ More … ]
The Gaza Ministry of Interior and Internal Security recommended in a statement on Tuesday evening a series of new and additional procedures “to enhance the state of security at the southern borders with Egypt.” The [ More … ]
A joint Sudanese-Ethiopian force has started patrol operations to stop human trafficking and drug smuggling on the borders between the two countries. The joint force including military troops and security elements patrolled the common borders [ More … ]
Following two deadly church bombings, Israel has closed its Taba border with Egypt in fear of imminent attacks from Sinai’s ISIS affiliate. A rocket fired from the Sinai peninsula landed in southern Israel on Monday, [ More … ]
At least three people were killed in a car bomb attack and subsequent shooting at a security checkpoint in al-Rukban refugee camp on Saturday evening. At least three people were killed, including a child, and [ More … ]
The Daesh group carried out an attack on an Iraqi border guard position near Jordan on Friday, killing at least 15 guards, officials said. “Daesh launched an attack with a suicide car bomb and gunmen [ More … ]
Deployment comes after calls in Iraq to stage demonstrations to protest an agreement over navigation rights Kuwait has moved some of its security forces to the borders with Iraq as a precautionary measure in anticipation [ More … ]
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