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The Jewish state is facing a “hugely complicated” seven-front war against enemies within and beyond its borders — though “virtually all Arab countries” are “quietly cheering” for Israel, according to former commander of British forces in Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp, who blamed President Biden for “continuously appeasing” Iran, and called for “the strongest U.S. support for Israel in this conflict,” warning that further American “weakness” could encourage hostile nations to exploit the situation.

Police in Cyprus said Tuesday they had arrested 10 Syrian men in an operation that has dismantled a people smuggling ring bringing migrants.

Police in Cyprus arrested four Syrians on suspicion of setting off ab explosive device near the Israeli Embassy in the capital Nicosia.

The Hamas terrorists who perpetrated the October 7 atrocities against Israeli civilians were allegedly pumped up with a drug called Captagon.

Syria’s two main airports were taken out of service Thursday by simultaneous Israeli missile strikes, Syrian state media said, in the first such attack since Hamas terrorists launched their assault on Israel.

In President Joe Biden’s first full Fiscal Year in office, his administration admitted to the United States nearly 63,000 legal immigrants on green cards from countries once placed on a travel ban list for their involvement with terrorism. 

Mazen Ahmed, director of investments and remittances at the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), said on Thursday that cash withdrawals and transactions using U.S. dollars will be banned effective January 1, 2024.

The rogue governments of Iran, Syria, and Venezuela have signed an agreement to build an oil refinery in the former rebel stronghold of Homs, Syria, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported on Sunday.

Police in Germany found more than 100 Syrian citizens inside apartments and other buildings that were searched Tuesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday that “a new world order is being born right before our eyes.”

Cyprus called on the EU to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is making his first visit to China since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011.

Turkish Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his address before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to renew his calls for expanding Security Council membership, claim that his country had “actually fought the biggest battle against ISIS,” and politely suggest to genocidal China to recognize the rights of its Muslim population.

Claims are soaring, and there could be as many as 300,000 would-be asylum seekers filing papers this year, assuming no new wars break out.

The U.K. will declare Russia´s Wagner mercenary group a banned terrorist organization, saying it remains a threat to global security.

A group of senior U.S. officials, including a deputy assistant secretary of state and the commander of the coalition against the Islamic State, visited Syria’s oil-rich Deir al Zor province on Sunday to manage a conflict between its Kurdish rulers and insurgent Arab tribes.

A Syrian refugee who killed Fargo, North Dakota, Police Officer Jake Wallin, 23 years old, and critically injured two other officers and a bystander this month had plotted a mass shooting in the city’s downtown, law enforcement officials revealed.

Congress has consistently failed in its constitutional and statutory duty to review 41 national emergency declarations, including the national emergency regarding Syria.

The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday that three Russian fighter jets harassed three American drones during a mission against Islamic State targets in Syria.

The surprising and short-lived mutiny by Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 24 brought new attention to the shadowy mercenary organization, which has been active in Africa and the Middle East for many years.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed support to Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Tuesday following the bizarre events of this weekend, when the head of the Wagner mercenary group threatened to march into Moscow and take over the Defense Ministry.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu resurfaced on Monday, making his first public appearance after an aborted insurrection by Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Four young children stabbed during a frenzied attack by a Syrian asylum seeker in France remained in hospital intensive care Friday as investigators worked to unravel the motives of their assailant.

Syrian asylum seeker arrested after man entered children’s playground with a knife, three now in critical condition in Annecy, France. 

Censorship regimes operated by social media companies are reportedly destroying evidence of war crimes, the BBC.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) concluded its annual meeting on Tuesday with the astonishing spectacle of electing North Korea – among the world’s deadliest regimes, a psychopathic nuclear-armed dictatorship that routinely murders dissidents and has deliberately starved a sizable portion of its population – to a seat on the ten-member W.H.O. executive board.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the opposition candidate seeking to dethrone President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a tense runoff election, which will conclude this weekend, went into the home stretch promising voters he will issue regulations to ease their credit card debts if he wins.

Police have arrested a 24-year-old Syrian migrant on suspicion of planning a “bomb attack” on a church in Sweden.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Saudi Arabia on Friday for meetings with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and an address to the League of Arab States, holding its summit this weekend.

A new report indicates that U.S. military officials are now walking back claims that a recent drone strike killed an al-Qaeda terrorist.

Observers sent by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the Turkish presidential election said on Monday that Turkey’s High Election Board (YSK) was not transparent in its handling of ballots.

The Long War Journal reported last week that two senior officials from the Biden State Department, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf, attended a conference in Iraq that was headlined by a known terrorist whose militias have killed hundreds of American soldiers. 

The Washington Post on Sunday described classified U.S. intelligence documents included in the “Discord Leaks” – the trove of documents exposed by 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard Airman Jack Teixeira to impress his friends on the Discord messaging platform – that said Iran concealed weapons in its humanitarian aid shipments to Syrian victims of the massive earthquakes in February.

The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index, published on Wednesday, ranked communist North Korea as the world’s worst place to be a journalist, concluding a list whose least prestigious spots are dominated by communist regimes.

A van carrying 29 people from Syria pushed a patrol car off the road as officers tried to stop the vehicle near Germany’s border.

German authorities detained a Syrian on suspicion of planning an explosives attack motivated by Islamic extremism, officials said Tuesday.