DURING the day, the summer heat, well over 100°, shimmers oppressively over the Jordan Valley. Hardly anything moves. It is only at night that the valley comes to life, for night is the time of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Fedayeen Saddam were loyal to one man: Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Established in 1995, it was an irregular unit designed ...

The ability to adapt is one of the defining features of high-performing armed groups. In Syria and Iraq, the tactics of the Islamic State (ISIS) have evolved in response to airstrikes and other ...

Iraq’s Fedayeen Saddam are paramilitary soldiers responsible for protecting Saddam Hussein and suppressing civil unrest in the country. The Iraqi government calls them volunteers who are prepared to ...

Egypt has transferred the headquarters of her fedayeen command from Gaza to El Arish, in the Sinai Peninsula, to keep the United Nations Emergency Force from discovering the movement of fedayeen gangs ...

The history of the Palestinian liberation movement challenges, or at least stands on its head, Walter Bedell Smith’s aphorism that “diplomacy has rarely been able to gain at the conference table what ...

They began as what analysts at the time dismissed as a "toy army," a pet project of Saddam's volatile eldest son, Uday. He recruited the Saddam Fedayeen ("Martyrs for Saddam") as a special bodyguard ...

Saddam Hussein's most trusted paramilitary militia, Saddam's Fedayeen, has assassinated the Iraqi leader's enemies, put down protests and ruthlessly cracked down on dissidents since its founding in ...

A Taliban commander and spokesman who claimed credit for running suicide camps and executing suicide attacks in Pakistan has been gunned down in the tribal agency of North Waziristan, according to ...

From the refugee camps, and from universities that are often staffed with zealous Palestinian professors, come a steady stream of several hundred recruits a month—more, in fact, than El Fatah can ...

The Fedayeen-i-Islam claimed credit for yesterday’s failed suicide assaults on two Pakistani airbases in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan. The two Fedayeen-i-Islam suicide assault teams ...

MSNBC seems obsessed with calling them “gangsters.” But the better word for them is Brown Shirts. If you’ve read any of the biographies or profiles of Saddam, you know that he first rose to prominence ...