Despite faltering popularity abroad, Hezbollah enjoys extensive political power at home in Lebanon. Once a champion of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance, the group's popularity in the Middle East dropped amid its association with Bashar al-Assad's embattled regime in Syria [EPA] In July 2006, long-standing tensions flared into war when Hezbollah operators crossed into Israel, killed three soldie
[1/4]A Houthi militant stands on a wall as he secures a gathering for women loyal to the Houthi movement in Sanaa, Yemen September 5, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah Acquire Licensing Rights DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's armed Houthi movement and its political allies formed a new government on Monday, the Houthi-run state news agency Saba reported, in what appeared a blow to U.N.-backed efforts to end 2
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's dominant Houthi movement launched Katyusha rockets into Saudi Arabia on Sunday and residents reported Saudi-led air strikes in a Yemeni border province in exchanges that threatened to derail a 48-hour truce. The Houthis said the rocket salvo targeting a military base in the kingdom's southern Najran province was launched in response to Saudi shelling on Yemeni border vill
RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi militia launched a ballistic missile toward Mecca on Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition intervening in Yemen's civil war on behalf of the government said in a statement. Coalition forces destroyed the missile 65 km (40 miles) from the holy city before it could do any damage, and retaliated against the launch site inside Yemen, said the statement, carried on the sta
Sunni fighters gathering this month in Shirqat, Iraq.Credit...Reuters WASHINGTON — Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has said that by the end of the year Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, will be liberated from the Islamic State’s control. As of this month, Mr. Abadi, a Shiite, has had two years to rebuild the Iraqi Army with the support of an international coalition. Unfortunately, the ins
A previous version of this story identified Mohammad Ali Al Falaki as the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). That was incorrect. Mohammad Ali Al Falaki is a retired IRGC commander. Iran has reportedly formed what it calls the “Liberation Army” whose units will be deployed in Arab countries, according to a news website. Currently, Iran is involved in a number of conflicts where S
Iran has long made use of ideologically committed non-Iranian Shia to further their own foreign policy objectives, writes Abdulrazaq [Reuters] In a surprising moment of transparency and clarity, one of Iran’s former most senior military leaders confirmed that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), or Pasdaran in Persian, had established a “Shia Liberation Army” (SLA). Speaking to the Mashre
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