
Officials in the tiny Gulf nation of Bahrain said Wednesday they busted an Iran-backed “terror” cell that was planning imminent attacks inside of the country. Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni monarchy but is populated with a Shiite majority.
by Jordan Schachtel7 Jan 2016, 12:02 PM PST0

On Wednesday, the Sunni nations of Qatar and Djibouti announced they would be severing diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran, becoming the 9th and 10th nations to officially cut relations, roll back ties, or condemn the Shiite theocracy in the past week.
by Jordan Schachtel6 Jan 2016, 5:04 PM PST0

When Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi Shiite cleric on New Year’s Eve, the Shiite world ignited in protest. According to the Iranian regime, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr’s execution was not justified. The Saudi government, however, thinks otherwise.
by Jordan Schachtel5 Jan 2016, 6:01 PM PST0

Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s figurehead President who serves the interests of Ayatollah Khamenei, delivered a verbal tirade against the Saudi government on Tuesday after Riyadh executed a prominent Shiite cleric on New Year’s Eve.
by Jordan Schachtel5 Jan 2016, 9:41 AM PST0

The most prominent leaders in the Shiite world have issued threatening statements against the Saudi monarchy, pledging that the House of Saud will pay a price for executing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was an influential cleric among the Saudi Shiite minority.
by Jordan Schachtel4 Jan 2016, 7:11 AM PST0

On Saturday, Saudi Arabia carried out the execution of Sheikh Nimr, a prominent Shiite cleric, along with 46 other individuals, many of whom faced suspect charges, causing a sectarian divide among the two major sects of Islam.
by Jordan Schachtel2 Jan 2016, 2:46 PM PST0

The Iran-backed Shia terrorist group Hezbollah has lost an estimated 1,300 to 1,500 soldiers, more than one-third of its force, while fighting against rebels and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria on behalf of dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to Israeli experts.
by Edwin Mora15 Dec 2015, 12:45 PM PST0

Dozens were killed and around two-hundred wounded in two separate suicide attacks in a Hezbollah stronghold outside of Beirut Thursday night, Lebanese officials said.
by Jordan Schachtel13 Nov 2015, 8:42 AM PST0

The regime in Tehran is recruiting Shiite refugees in neighboring Afghanistan and sending them into battle in defense of forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
by Jordan Schachtel6 Nov 2015, 5:54 PM PST0

Bahrain has ejected Iran’s Ambassador to Manama after uncovering an Iranian bomb-making factory in the tiny Gulf kingdom, officials said, who claimed that the facility was filled with members of the Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
by Jordan Schachtel1 Oct 2015, 10:17 PM PST0

Car bombs killed or injured at least 50 people near mosques and the headquarters of Yemen’s dominant Houthi group in Sanaa on Wednesday, in coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State. The four blasts rocked the capital as Saudi-led forces conducted
by Reuters18 Jun 2015, 6:15 AM PST0

Contents: Burundi’s Hutu government in violent crackdown on Tutsi protesters; Obama planning additional troop deployment to Iraq in new escalation; US-supported rebels capture key Assad regime army base in Syria
by John J. Xenakis10 Jun 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

The Islamic State beheaded at least 10 Taliban militants in Afghanistan this week in a remote area in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar region, where the jihadist groups are locked in an intense battle for control over many of the surrounding provinces.
by Adelle Nazarian7 Jun 2015, 4:59 PM PST0

Iranian-backed militias consisting of Shia Muslims have released a video showing an alleged Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) member alive being burnt alive in Iraq, reminiscent of a similar video in which ISIS jihadists burnt alive a Jordanian pilot. The terrorist group members identify as Sunni Muslims, who consider Shia Muslims heretics.
by Mary Chastain2 Jun 2015, 8:34 AM PST0

The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that the nation had already begun sending “humanitarian aid” relief packages to refugees fleeing the war-torn nation of Yemen, and that it was preparing to continue sending food and medicine to the region. It marks the first Turkish presence in a war in which Iran and Saudi Arabia are both backing opposite sides of a civil war.
by Frances Martel28 May 2015, 10:40 AM PST0

Saudi Arabia has now committed acts worse than those promulgated by the “Zionist regime” (Israel), Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, who is Chief Justice of the Iranian regime’s Judiciary body, announced Wednesday, according to a report by Iran’s state-controlled Mehr News Agency.
by Jordan Schachtel22 Apr 2015, 2:48 PM PST0

Saudi officials announced Tuesday that their U.S.-backed, Sunni coalition is implementing the next phase of its plan to restore Yemen’s recognized president to power.
by Jordan Schachtel21 Apr 2015, 8:42 PM PST0

The movement of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier accompanied by the USS Normandy, a guided missile cruiser from the Persian Gulf region, to a position off the coast of Yemen could change the dynamics of the Yemen sectarian civil war.
by Admiral James A. "Ace" Lyons21 Apr 2015, 11:05 AM PST0

Australia and Iran have reached an agreement that allows for the two nations to share intelligence regarding the fight against Sunni jihadists in the Middle East, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced over the weekend.
by Jordan Schachtel20 Apr 2015, 3:19 PM PST0

U.S. President Barack Obama is trumpeting the recently announced interim nuclear framework agreement between Iran’s Shiite Islamic Republic and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (United States, France, Great Britain, China, and Russia) plus Germany (P5+1) as a good deal that will make the world safer.
He should be mindful of Newton’s Third Law of Motion: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
by Fred Gedrich8 Apr 2015, 5:00 AM PST0

Death tolls in Yemen continue to rise with a California man believed to be the first American killed in the current escalating violence between Iran-backed Shia Houthi militias and Sunni tribes supportive of Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, who
by Michelle Moons7 Apr 2015, 5:42 AM PST0

Houthi Shiite militants are setting up anti-aircraft batteries at a Yemen University, seemingly utilizing the educational institution to provide civilian cover against the ongoing Saudi-led air campaign against the Iran-backed fighters, Al Jazeera reports.
by Jordan Schachtel29 Mar 2015, 3:42 PM PST0

On Fox & Friends this morning, Breitbart National Security editor and Major General Horner Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University Dr. Sebastian Gorka warned that any intervention against the Islamic State in Iraq on the part of Iran was not a positive development for the United States, as the warring factions of Islam are both fighting to establish a caliphate.
by Frances Martel14 Mar 2015, 10:33 AM PST0

With its support of the Baghdad government and the wrong rebels in Syria, the US Administration is doing the unthinkable: strengthening the spread of Tehran’s control in the Middle East and at the same time also helping the Sunni extremists to grow in power.
by Dr. Sebastian Gorka13 Mar 2015, 9:28 AM PST0

Fadel Shaker, a former pop singer that renounced his international fame to become a committed Sunni jihadist, appeared in a new interview on Lebanese television lamenting his turn to radical Islam and hoping to return to a “normal life.”
by Frances Martel9 Mar 2015, 10:44 AM PST0