U.S. defense aid to Israel is likely to increase after 2017, sources on both sides said on Thursday, seeing a possible link to Washington's efforts to assuage its ally's fears over nuclear diplomacy with Iran. A current package worth $3 billion a year expires in 2017. A U.S. official, speaking...

(Institute For the Study of War)- Some have claimed that ISIS is on the defensive inside Iraq and Syria. A defensive strategy, however, is not a sign of organizational weakness, but rather a sign that ISIS intends to preserve its holdings in Iraq and Syria and keep its claim to a caliphate....

Isis expected to carry out 'more violence, more advances, more attacks' as one year anniversary of Islamic State declaration approaches As one year anniversary of the so-called “caliphate” declared by Isis approaches, the group will be seeking to make itself appear “stronger and more...

(By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Mona Ghanem, deputy head of the Building the Syrian State (BSS) party, accused Orient TV Channel of fabricating her words, which did nothing more than exacerbating sectarian congestion among Syrians. Ghanem admitted that Orient TV’s record...