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Foreign fighters have played a major role in Syria’s ongoing conflict, with a presence in the country that numbered in the tens of thousands at its peak. One of the most mythologized sources of foreign recruits has been Chechnya, the once-separatist province of Russia’s North Caucasus that was reconquered by the Russian army in the early 2000s. Several thousand Chechen fighters traveled to Syria to fight in various opposition and Islamist factions, where their battlefield prowess made them a prized commodity among Syrian rebel militants.

On Monday, news emerged that a U.S. drone attack (using blades) had assassinated two Tunisian jihadists in Idlib city.

One eulogy to them on the pro-al-Qa’ida Telegram channel ‘Radd Adwan al-Bughat’ reads as follows:

Al-Qaeda has threatened French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 massacre of its staff, after it republished controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the SITE observatory said on Friday.

Reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that ISIS cells opened machinegun fire on a checkpoint of the SDF-backed “Self-Defence Forces” in Jazarat Al-Bohamid town in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor. The attack resulted in the injury of a member of the “Self-Defence Forces” stationed at the checkpoint.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that five members of the SDF-backed “Self-Defence Forces” went missing. The missing members used to be stationed at checkpoints near Euphrates river in Al-Shuhayl town in eastern Deir Ezzor.

Désireux de remporter un succès en politique étrangère avant la présidentielle, le président américain pourrait décider prochainement de régler le différend entre les pays du Golfe.

Proche de Donald Trump, Lana Marks serait visée en représailles à l’assassinat du général iranien Qassem Soleimani.

Selon le média américain Politico, qui cite des sources du renseignement américain, l’ambassadrice américaine en Afrique du Sud Lana Marks, proche du président américain qui l’a nommée à son poste en janvier, serait menacée d’assassinat par l’Iran.

While President Trump lashes out at rioting and looting in Portland and Kenosha, half way around the world, the USA and Turkey are plundering and looting Syria on a vastly greater scale with impunity and little publicity.

On August 18, 2020, several days following the announcement of the normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel, which inter alia stated that all Muslims are permitted to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to pray there,[1] the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, issued a fatwa (opinion on a point of Islamic law) which indicates that residents of the UAE are forbidden to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that Palestinians should boycott and shun them.