(The Daily Star)- A coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militia plans to cross the border into Syria to fight alongside President Bashar Assad after "clearing" ISIS  from Iraq, a militia spokesman said Saturday. Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen are already fighting on Assad's side in the...

(Middle East Eye)- It is often said that a symbiotic relationship exists between terrorism and the media. Where terrorism needs the commercial media to communicate its message to either its target or broader audience, commercial media come to depend on the ratings boost often gained by reporting...

Syrian opposition activists are reporting airstrikes and fighting on the edge of the contested northern city of Aleppo. Saturday's fighting comes a day after Syrian rebels launched a broad offensive aiming to break a weeks-long government siege on the eastern rebel-held neighborhoods of...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi officials said Saturday that the security forces foiled an attack by ISIS extremists on the city of Ramadi, capital of the western province of Anbar. The reported thwarted attack led to 11 arrests and comes after a string of diversionary attacks by the extremists...