Iraq
ISIS inches closer to Iraq’s two biggest dams
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Egypt
Up to 10,000 Egyptians stranded at Libya-Tunisia border
Lebanon
Lebanese back Army, but fear for future
Al Nusrah Front
New Border Fighting Between ISIS and Lebanon’s Army
Afghanistan
Locals claimed the military killed 16 civilians in a raid in Logar; Afghan officials said most of those killed were Taliban fighters. The military claimed it killed 86 Taliban fighters during operations throughout the country. The Taliban killed four Afghan soldiers in an IED attack in Kabul. A local political figure and two of his […]
Iraq
The military claimed it killed 175 “terrorists” and captured 75 more in the southern and western parts of Baghdad province. The head of the Babil Operations Command was relieved of his command. The military said it launched an offensive against the Islamic State in Haditha. Kurdish officials claimed the Peshmerga has retaken areas in the […]
Syria
The Islamic State killed seven members of an Ismaili family in Salamiya; and stormed the town of Srehin in Hama, shooting an official and kidnapping two other people. The Islamic State clashed with regime forces in Raqqah; battled Kurdish YPG forces in Ayn al Arab in Aleppo; and killed at least 15 people in Deir […]
Lebanon
After three days of clashes with Islamist militants around Arsal, the army said 14 soldiers were killed, 86 wounded, and 22 are missing; at least 50 civilians and some 50 militants are also said to have been killed. The government vowed to protect Arsal, demanding the militants’ withdrawal and refusing to cut a deal. A […]
Palestinian Territories
Hamas reportedly agreed to the 72-hour-preliminary Gaza ceasefire proposed by Egypt. As of Aug. 1, the Israeli campaign in Gaza had resulted in the deaths of 1,592 Palestinians and had hit 3,834 targets in Gaza. A brief truce earlier today was broken after attacks blamed on both sides. Representatives from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other […]
Israel
Israel accepted a Gaza ceasefire plan that will start with a preliminary 72-hour truce beginning tomorrow morning. Israeli officials will work out further details of the ceasefire over the next few days in Egypt. As of Aug. 1, at least 2,909 rockets had been fired at Israel from Gaza and 66 Israelis had been killed. […]
Hamas
Iran says it gave missile technology to Hamas
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed six soldiers and wounded three more during an ambush on a military patrol in Qatan in Hadramout province. On Aug. 2, the military announced a ceasefire with Houthi rebels in Al Jawf province.
Islamic State beheads ‘Safavid’ soldiers in Anbar
The jihadist group’s Anbar Division said it beheaded the three soldiers in the Al Sejar area northeast of Fallujah.
Egypt
The Army said 11 militants were killed in shootouts with security forces during a north Sinai raid yesterday. On Aug. 2, security forces carried out raids on terrorist hideouts in Arish and Sheikh Zuwaid. Intelligence chief Mohamed Farid met with Palestinians about a proposed Gaza ceasefire. The trial of Mohamed al-Zawahiri, brother of al Qaeda […]
Libya
After weeks of delay, the new Parliament met today for the first time, in Tobruk, not in Tripoli as the Islamists had demanded. A number of Islamist lawmakers were not present at the meeting, but 158 out of 188 elected members of parliament did attend the Tobruk session, as well as representatives from the UN […]
Spain
Spanish authorities arrested two Spanish girls, one 19 years old and the other 14, as they tried to cross over from Melilla into Morocco to join a cell of the Islamic State. The Interior Ministry said the girls’ “radicalization, recruitment and later dispatch … were perfectly planned … by a network that operates across north […]
Herat police chief accuses Iran of ramping up attacks in western Afghanistan
Herat’s chief of police accused Iran of supporting the Taliban’s killing spree in the province, which included the murder of two Finnish aid workers.
Belgium
A court remanded Mehdi Nemmouche, a French-Algerian jihadist suspected in the killing of four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels, to a month in custody after charging him with “murder in a terrorist context.” Authorities are continuing their investigation of the suspect, who spent over a year fighting in the ranks of the Islamic […]
Iraq
Special Report : The doubt at the heart of Iraq’s Sunni ‘revolution’
Lebanon
Lebanese Sunni clerics urge protests over bombardment of Arsal
United Kingdom
Army head General Peter Wall said UK forces may have to return to Afghanistan “if the Taliban were to be resurgent and al Qaeda was again establishing sanctuaries.” There are now about 4,100 UK troops in Afghanistan. A former British judge warned that the social media boasts of British jihadist Reyaad Khan, who has claimed […]
Iraq
The Islamic State took control of the Mosul Dam, the city of Sinjar, the town of Zumar, and several villages in Ninewa province. Kurdish forces withdrew from Zumar after heaving fighting, where they lost 17 fighters, but left the dam and Sinjar after offering minimal resistance. Nine soldiers were killed in attack in Jurf al […]
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters gunned down four policemen at a checkpoint in Ataq, the provincial capital of Shabwa in southern Yemen. Three civilians were killed as the military and tribes clashed in Marib province in central Yemen. Tribesmen were attempting to stop engineers from repairing pipeline that was sabotaged.
Hamas
Airstrike Near UN School Kills 10 as Israel Shifts Troops in Gaza
Afghanistan
Reports of Taliban surge are exaggerated, says incoming ISAF commander
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Taliban income grows in Helmand
Islamic State takes control of Sinjar, Mosul Dam in northern Iraq
Kurdish forces are reported to have fled Sinjar and the Mosul Dam after minimal fighting. The town of Zumar was abandoned after heavy clashes.
Syria
The Islamic State battled regime forces in Aleppo; Hama; Hasakah; Raqqah; Deir Izzour, where the IS also clashed with tribal gunmen and the Islamic Front; and in Reef Dimashq, where the IS fought along with the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front in Qalamoun. The Islamic State told media activists on Aug. 1 in […]
Hamas
Israel Rules Out Dialogue with Hamas on Gaza
Hamas
Israel says has evidence 47% of Gaza dead were combatants