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Illustrative image On January 24, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence announced in an official statement that it conducted two successful security operations and foiled a plan of the Saudi Intelligence to carry out a terrorist bombing inside Iran, according to Iranian Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). According to the official statement, Iranian intelligence agents seized 23 remote controlled IEDs in the first operation. The IEDs were allegedly smuggled into the eastern border of Iran. In the second operation, equipment required for making bombs, including TNT, C-4, explosive kits, 150 explosive boosters and light weapons were seized by the Iranian intelligence in the western Iranian province of Marvin. The Iranian accusations against Saudi Arabia may be true becauuse Saudi officials have threatened Iran on many occasions. On May 3, 2017 Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman even said that Saudi Arabia “will not wait until the battle becomes in Saudi Arabia but we will work to ...

Click to see the full-size image On January 24, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) redeployed the Russian-backed Qalamun Shield Forces (QSF) from the Eastern Ghouta region to the southeastern Idlib countryside to counter the growing threat of ISIS, according to a report of the pro-government blog al-Masdar. ISIS fighters were besieged in the northern eastern Hama countryside and parts of the southeastern Idlib countryside by the SAA and its allies on January 20. Since then, the terrorist group has started conducting hit and run attacks against SAA units east of the town of Sinjar in southeastern Idlib. Click to see the full-size image The ISIS-linked news agency Amaq reported on January 24 that ISIS fighters killed five Syrian soldiers and captured two others in an ambush east of Sinjar. ISIS fighters also captured three vehicles and several weapons from the SAA. Click to see the full-size image Click to see the full-size image Click to see the full-size image Clic...

Photos of Strykers and up-armored Humvees flying U.S. flags were posted on social media over the weekend after the U.S. regional command confirmed that Special Forces troops in Syria had moved toward Manbij. (Qalaat Al Mudiq/Twitter) On January 24, the Turkish Army artillery shelled a position of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) around the village of al-Dindaniyah west of Manbij in the Syrian province of Aleppo, according to the SDF’s Manbij Military Council (MMC). Kurdish sources added that the village of Shuyukh north of Manbij was also shelled by the Turkish Army. The MMC reported that several warplanes of the US-led coalition flew over city after the shelling in what appears to be a US warning to the Turkish Army. Earlier, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned during a speech to the heads of local governments in the city of Ankara that the Turkish Army will extend its ongoing military operation against Kurdish militias in the Afrin area to include Manbij. “...