ISIS turns the Abu Kamal tables on Hizballah, Russian air power
After a long row of devastating defeats in Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State Monday, Nov. 13, achieved a turnaround
More...
ISIS
Kurdistan’s Barzani faces ouster. Iraqi army poised to seize KRG airfields
Iraq’s PM launches an operation to free Anbar from ISIS. DEBKAfile: It is Stage II of the Kurdish campaign for
More...
Egypt declares three-month emergency after Muslim Brotherhood mass terror attack
Loud cries of vengeance rose from the many funerals across Egypt Sunday, Oct. 22, as the victims of a Muslim
More...
The Las Vegas shooter had 42 high-capacity guns
Police found 23 guns in the Mandalay Bay hotel room from which Stephen Paddock fatally shot 59 people and injured
More...
Hamza Bin Laden – Groomed to Step into His Father’s Jihadist Shoes
As governments pass into young hands in one Sunni Arab nation after another, it is not surprising to find a
More...
Putin Vows Harsh Punishment for Hand behind Russian General’s Shocking Death in Syria – even If It Is the US
The death on Sept. 23 of Russian Lt. Gen Valery Asapov, 51, and two colonels in an unusually precise ISIS
More...
Trump’s Reliance on Advisers for Iran and Syria Is Self-Defeating
President Donald Trump was reported on Tuesday, Sept. 12 to be studying a proposal prepared by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis,
More...
Syria, Iran, Hizballah Plan Big Victory Parade Next Month at Al-Qa’im, Iraq
Hizballah’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah, never misses a chance to trumpet his feats. On Tuesday, Sept. 11, he proclaimed, “We have
More...
Shoigu in Damascus, Tehran for anti-ISIS drive
After a tense conversation with Bashar Assad in Damascus Tuesday, Sept. 12, debkafile’s military and intelligence sources discovered the Russian
More...
US-Russian pincer for ISIS in Euphrates Valley
The US and Russia have just agreed to each provide air support for a conjoined pincer movement to pin the
More...