Monthly Archives: August 2014

Iraq

Massive security deployment around Baghdad ‘green zone’: officials



Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed four civilians in an attack that targeted an ISAF convoy in Kabul. ISAF reportedly killed 21 Taliban fighters in an airstrike in Marja in Helmand province. The Pakistani military killed two civilians in a a missile attack in Kunar.


Syria

The Islamic State clashed with regime forces near the military airport of Al Tabaqa in Raqqah; as well as in Homs, Quneitra, and in Deir Izzour, where the IS executed six men, including two who were beheaded. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in the Om Al Sharashih area of […]


Yemen

Yesterday, US drones killed three suspected al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike in the Wadi Abida area of Marib. AQAP launched attacks against government buildings in Lahj; an intelligence official was gunned down in Huta.




Iraq

US air support helps Kurdish forces expel Islamic State fighters from two Iraqi towns


Iraq

Exclusive: Iraq says Islamic State killed 500 Yazidis, buried some victims alive


Libya

Chief of Staff Abdulati Al-Obeidi told Parliament that the Libyan Army is close to collapsing and that he cannot control of it. Despite calls from Parliament and the UN for a ceasefire, clashes between Islamist and government-allied militias continued in Tripoli and Benghazi. Several staff members of a Libyan TV station recently taken over by […]


United Kingom

The Prime Minister’s office said the UK would step up its delivery of humanitarian aid to Iraqis threatened by the Islamic State and it wants to increase the number of UK “humanitarian advisers” in Iraq. Portsmouth resident Muhammad Hamidur Rahman, 25, is said to have been killed fighting for the Islamic State in Syria.



Hamas

Hamas threatens major escalation in rocket strikes on Israel


Syria

The Islamic State carried out a suicide car bombing at a tribal checkpoint, and clashed with tribal gunmen and regime forces in Deir Izzour; and arrested Islamic Front fighters accused of stealing electricity in Aleppo. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama near Morek, and also clashed with regime […]


Iraq

Iraq Kurds say oil production unaffected by ISIL incursion



Turkey

Defense Minister Yılmaz said Turkey has not provided any support to the US in its air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, noting that the Islamic State still holds captive 49 Turks from Turkey’s Mosul consulate. Turkey is planning to set up a second refugee camp inside Iraq for Turkmen fleeing the Islamic State; […]



Jordan

Jordan denied Iraqi press reports that its territory is being used by US forces to target the Islamic State in Iraq. Over 15,000 Muslim Brotherhood supporters demonstrated in Amman against the Israeli campaign in Gaza; many of the protesters shouted “Death to Israel,” and some wore the uniform of Hamas’ military wing, the Al Qassam […]


Lebanon

Lebanese villagers near Kfar Qouq reportedly forced Islamist fighters back across the border into Syria after an armed clash with them. Gunmen ambushed Lebanese politician and Naharnet editor Naufal Daou in the Bekaa Valley town of al-Tibeh, opening fire on his car, but he managed to escape. Security forces arrested seven people from a Syrian […]



Egypt

In a final ruling, a court dissolved the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party. The Muslim Brotherhood itself was banned in September. The military claimed to have killed 60 “extremists” and arrested 102 suspects in security operations in North Sinai, and to have found 17 tunnels in Rafah supplied with arms and […]


Iraq

Videos show US airstrikes targeting ISIS in north Iraq



Iraq

ISIS persecution of Iraqi Christians has become genocide, say religious leaders



Iraq

Obama: Iraq air strikes and aid drops will prevent ‘act of genocide’


Hamas

Airstrikes, rocket launches continue after Gaza truce crumbles


United States

President Obama said the US military intervention against the Islamic State in Iraq will not be over in “weeks” as it is a “long-term project.” He said that once an inclusive Iraqi government is formed, the US military, in conjunction with Iraqi and Kurdish fighters, will be able to “engage in some offense,” not just […]


Iraq

Obama Says Iraq Airstrike Effort Could Be ‘Long Term’