Middle East/North Africa Uprising 2011

A Syrian military commander has met with local tribal leaders in northeastern Syria to discuss cooperation in the battle against foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists, Press TV reports.

BEIRUT, Jan 05, 2015 (AFP) - Overwhelmed by a massive influx of desperate refugees, Lebanon began imposing unprecedented visa restrictions on Syrians on Monday, including those fleeing their country's civil war.

Eight gunmen infiltrated the main African Union (AU) base in Mogadishu on Thursday and killed three peacekeepers and a civilian contractor, the AU mission in Somalia said.

Tehran, YJC. Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri strongly condemned recent Israeli airstrikes on Syria on Tuesday.

Iran is one of the central strategic players in the region, and in the case of ISIL , it has gone insufficiently noticed in the Western capitals because of the bad relations which have existed between the West and Iran, member of parliament in Britain says here in Tehran.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jafari said Iran expects more help from Iran in its fighting against ISIS.

Tehran, YJC. High-ranking military official says arming West Bank to enter the operational phase soon.

The Lebanese army detained a wife and a son of ISIL leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi as they crossed from Syria in recent days, officials said on Tuesday.

Tehran, YJC. Larijani who is now in Djibouti, met with his Somalian counterpart on Saturday.

MANAMA, Nov 23, 2014 (AFP) - A war of words over Bahrain's legislative election heightened Sunday, with the Sunni leadership and the Shiite opposition, which boycotted the polls, at odds over the turnout rate and trading accusations of malpractice.

MANAMA, Nov 22, 2014 (AFP) - Bahrain holds legislative elections Saturday for the first time since a 2011 uprising, despite a boycott by the Shiite opposition that led the pro-democracy movement.

The UAE Cabinet approved a list of 83 designated terrorist organizations on Saturday, including al Qaeda and the Islamic State. Much more significant, though, was the inclusion of many Muslim organizations based in the West that are believed to be allied with the Muslim Brotherhood movement. Prominent among them are two American Muslim groups: the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society.

Tehran, YJC. IRGC Aerospace Commander Haji Zadeh says Iran's military has improved from when it had to buy weapons from Libya to the present when it builds missile factories in Syria.

CAIRO, Nov 10, 2014 (AFP) - Egypt's deadliest militant group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State organisation in Iraq and Syria, in a recording posted on its Twitter account on Monday.

Tehran, YJC. Iranian lawmaker says Pakistan has grown into a safe haven for terrorists which more often than not, point their guns at Iranian border guards.

Tehran, YJC. Former Iranian president and the current Head of Expediency Discernment Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a letter to Saudi Arabia's Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz asked for the king's action in stopping the persecution of a Shiite cleric.