Militia

The push comes with a backdrop of seismic shifts in the Middle East that have seen Iran's armed allies in Gaza and Lebanon heavily degraded and Syria's government overthrown by rebels.

The point of the report is that the Iraqis want to show that the militias who played a role in Syria will now not just be in Iraq, but will be moved away from the border.

Israel struck several targets across Syria and Iraq as part of its wide-reaching response to Iran.

The crisis over the control of the Central Bank of Libya creates yet another level of instability in the country, a major oil producer.

Iran is prodding militias to increase threats to the US in Iraq in order to see if the US will pressure Israel not to strike harder at Hezbollah.

Two different explosive devices were detonated at the checkpoint on Saturday evening, according to the Iraqi Security Media Cell.

Without resorting to open combat, in recent years, China has been harassing Taiwan in an effort to exhaust them, according to Taiwan.

The rise of militias in the Middle East places the fate of the region in a balance, with a joint international operational effort needed to defeat these groups and achieve stability

The event came within a half hour of reports that the United States and Britain had begun striking Houthi targets in Yemen, and if it was indeed an attack, it was presumably an act of retaliation. 

The fundraising site had originally refused to pay out the over £20,000 raised for portable chargers for IDF soldiers, arguing that the funds could be used to "support a militia."