Once a convicted smuggler jailed by Hamas, Yaser Abu Shabab now leads an armed force in Rafah — hailed by some as a symbol of local resistance, feared by others as a dangerous gamble.

Looking back at its first combat operations against ISIS, the F-22 proved it could do much more than dominate the skies, ...

Soon after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, I met a senior lawmaker in the Likud party who explained to me in detail how Israel would use the ...

As Israel's war with Iran is on hold, its main front has shifted back to Gaza, where it has started to work closely with the Abu Shabab gang. Analysts and Israeli media claim the group comprises ...

DAMASCUS, June 12 (Reuters) - Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring ...

H E LOOKS more like a teenager playing soldier than a would-be warlord: his ballistic helmet too big for his head, his assault rifle too spotless. His militia calls itself the Popular Forces, a lofty ...

The weapons were distributed to a faction led by Yasser Abu Shabab, a member of the Tarabin Bedouin tribe, which has roots in Gaza, Israel’s Negev region, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Jordan, and Saudi ...

The New Arab looks into who these new pro-Israel forces in Gaza are. A ‘proxy militia’ to counter Hamas? According to Haaretz, the Israeli government has been supplying weapons to a militia in Gaza ...

"The Israeli government is sending weapons to a group of criminals and offenders who identify with ISIS, at the instruction of the Prime Minister," he claimed in an interview with Kan Reshet Bet ...

When ISIS gained a foothold in Sinai several years ago, it was Israel, specifically its air force and special forces, that got the job done and helped Egypt overcome the severe problem.

This also happened when Egypt was fighting ISIS in Sinai. In 2018, the then Egyptian army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Mohamed Farid Hegazi admitted that in the Sinai there were 88 batallions and 42,000 ...

Mideast social media is filled with documentation of an Egyptian tank buildup in the Sinai desert near the Israeli border. The Israeli ambassador to Washington, Yechiel Leiter, is warning that ...