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Tunisian security minister fired after ISIS-claimed attacks

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has dismissed the country’s security minister after an ISIS-claimed suicide bombing killed 12 members of the presidential guard last week. Secretary of State for Security Affairs Rafik Chelly lost his job Tuesday after the third bombing claimed by ISIS this...

Assad says Russia's support changes balance on the ground

Russia's entry into the war in Syria has changed the balance on the ground, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview on Czech Television, and he predicted that support from his main international ally would remain strong. In the interview, conducted in Damascus on...

Divide and Conquer in Syria and Iraq

By Barak Mendelsohn (Foreign Affairs)- The October bombing of a Russian airliner above Sinai , followed quickly by the November Paris attacks , created a broad international consensus that the Islamic State ( ISIS ) is on the march and must be stopped. The United States had...

Iran’s Soleimani purportedly gives newspaper interview

( NOW )- Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani has purportedly spoken with an Iranian newspaper amid reports he was injured in Syria.   In an interview Sunday with Al-Waqt, Soleimani praised former Iranian Ambassador to...