Iraq
Obama to set out plan to go on offensive against Islamic State
Monthly Archives: September 2014
US airstrikes target Islamic State at the Haditha Dam
The US air campaign against the Islamic State has expanded into Anbar province.
Syria
Regime aircraft carried out airstrikes for a second day on an Islamic State training camp in Raqqah, killing at least six fighters; 31 people, including at least eight civilians, were killed by a strike on a bakery in Raqqah. The Islamic State captured and then released an Al Nusrah Front commander in Deir Izzour. Regime […]
Ansar Bayt al Maqdis
ISIS guides Egyptian militants, expanding its influence
Shabaab
Somalia put on high alert after Shabaab leader confirmed dead
France
Iraq Welcomes US Plan for Coalition against Jihadists
Hezbollah
Iron Dome would not cope with Hezbollah missiles: report
Lebanon
The Al Nusrah Front threatened Sunnis that they will “pay the price” if they support the Lebanese Army in its fight against “your brothers, the mujahideen.” Al Nusrah and the Islamic State are said to have told Qatari mediators that they want $5 million and the release of 400 Islamist inmates from Lebanese jails in […]
Libya
The government expelled Sudan’s military attache after a Sudanese plane landed two days ago in Kufra laden with weapons and ammunition destined for Islamist Libya Dawn fighters in Tripoli. The plane had stopped in Kufra for refueling when it was intercepted.
Nigeria
In the past five days, Boko Haram has seized three towns in Borno state, including Bama, and two in Adamawa, with a combined total population of over 170,000 people. Boko Haram militants stormed the towns, killing residents and burning homes, including that of the acting governor of Adamawa. A Borno senator warned that the terror […]
Shabaab names new emir, reaffirms allegiance to al Qaeda
Less than one week after Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in an American airstrike, Shabaab has named a new leader and publicly reaffirmed its allegiance to al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri.
France
Nicolas Henin, a French reporter who was held hostage by ISIS in Syria after being captured in June 2013, said that Mehdi Nemmouche, a suspect in the murder of four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels in May, was among his captors in Syria and that he was a torturer. Henin was freed along […]
Al Qaeda veteran takes on a more prominent role as spokesman in Syria
Abu Firas al Suri long served as a clandestine figure in al Qaeda’s international terrorist network. Today he serves as the Al Nusrah Front’s spokesman. He is tasked with defending Al Nusrah’s capture of more than 40 UN peacekeepers.
Afghanistan
The military claimed it killed 48 Taliban fighters in Balkh and 15 more in Zabul. Two border policemen and three Taliban fighters were killed in Faryab. The Taliban killed a policeman in a suicide attack in Kandahar.
France
Obama: US will ‘take out’ ISIS leaders
Canada
Canada to send military advisers to help Iraq counter ISIS
Iran
US: ‘No plans’ for military coordination with Iran over IS
Iraq
US Fears Syrian Chemical Weapons Falling to Extremists
Iraq
The US launched four airstrikes against a series of Islamic State targets near the Mosul Dam and Irbil. The Islamic State killed three Iraqi soldiers in a car bombing near Camp Speicher near Tikrit and executed three women in Mosul. The military said it killed 10 Islamic State fighters in an airstrike on a camp […]
Christians
Lebanon’s Muslim officials sign petition against Christian exodus
Syria
In Raqqah, airstrikes hit the al Takae camp, the Islamic State’s largest camp in the province, causing massive explosions. IS fighters targeted an “unknown reconnaissance aircraft” over Raqqah city without hitting it; activists claimed it was a US drone. In Deir Izzour, regime aircraft killed 18 IS fighters and commanders; among them was an American […]
Lebanon
Arrest warrants were issued for six Syrians and one Lebanese who are linked to detained Islamic State commander Imad Jomaa. An Israeli drone detonated a spy device that a Hezbollah operative was trying to dismantle in southern Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah explosives expert and wounding at least one more. The day after the government rejected […]
Somalia
The Pentagon confirmed that Shabaab emir Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in a US airstrike on a camp in southern Somalia. The airstrike took place on Sept. 1. Six other Shabaab commanders are rumored to have been killed. Government forces took control of the towns of El Garas and El La Hela.
Libya
The Islamist Libya Dawn coalition is said to have rebuffed 26 attempts to discuss a ceasefire around Tripoli. The Prime Minister denounced the takeover of government ministries in Tripoli by armed groups. The Kufra Military Council denied reports that a Sudanese military plane laden with weapons for Libya Dawn had landed in Kufra. Misratan militias […]
IAEA
Iran fails to address nuclear bomb concerns: IAEA
Ansar Bayt al Maqdis
Under pressure, Sinai jihadists threaten more beheadings
Europe
Europe blind to Islamic State’s true threat
US confirms Shabaab emir Godane killed in airstrike
‘Removing Godane from the battlefield is a major symbolic and operational loss to al-Shabaab,” the Pentagon’s spokesman said. But jihadist groups have withstood the loss of top leaders in the past.
The Islamic State’s global reach
A closer look at recent developments in a number of countries should dispel any illusions that the Islamic State’s aspirations and activities are only regional.
NATO
US says NATO group ‘core’ will form larger coalition to counter Islamic State