Report: IDF deploying drones in Iraqi Kurdistan

A report on Israel's YNet website, quoting Iran's Press TV, claims that Israel is deploying six unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) in Iraqi Kurdistan. The IDF has recently stepped up its operations in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region and is planning to deploy six unmanned aerial vehicles, intelligence agents and military consultants in the region, Iran's Press-TV has reported.

According to the

Delicious: 'If they screw Israel, they screw themselves too'

Guy Bechor argues that by voting in favor of a 'Palestinian state,' Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria would be sealing the future existence of a Kurdish state on major portions of their current territories. And to make it even better, that Kurdish state will be an ally of Israel (Hat Tip: Joshua I). Some 850 Kurdish politicians and leaders from Turkey convened in Diyarbakir [on July 15] in order to

Civil War coming in Syria?

Jonathan Spyer argues that the irresistible force of the Syrian uprising is meeting the immovable object that is Bashar al-Assad and his Alawite cohorts, making an ethnic civil war all but inevitable. Alawi military units and Alawi militias (the Shabiha) are the instruments remaining to the Assads. Sectarian revenge killings of Shabiha men by Sunni Syrians in Homs earlier this month may presage

4 people charged in New York with running drugs, weapons for Hezbullah, Taliban

Four people have been charged in New York with running drugs and arms for the Taliban and Hezbullah. The charges highlighted "the growing nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism," Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara told reporters.In the operation targeting Hezbollah, two of the men told people secretly working for the US anti-drug agency that they wanted to purchase anti-aircraft missiles

Kurdistan: Is it only a matter of time?

The Jerusalem Post published an editorial on Sunday calling for a Kurdish state. According to prevalent mythology, the international community deems self-determination the natural and inalienable right of each nationality. That, at least, is the pretext for the worldwide clamor for a Palestinian state.Swept aside are reservations about the rather recent origin of claims to a separate Palestinian