The Iraqi military claimed it defeated Islamic State assaults on Ramadi and the oil refinery in Baiji, and killed 22 Islamic State fighters in Diyala. The US launched five airstrikes against the Islamic State near the Haditha Dam and Baiji; three Islamic State fighters were reported killed in the attacks.
Sheikh Imran Ali Siddiqi, a senior official in al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), was killed in a US drone strike earlier this month. After 9/11, Imran founded Harkat-ul-Mujahideen al-Almi (HUMA), an al Qaeda-linked group thought to be responsible for an attack on the US Consulate in Karachi and other Western interests.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed credit for four attacks in Hadramout, Shabwa, and Abyan in a series of tweets posted on Oct. 15.
Houthi rebels seized the strategic port city of Hodeidah on the Red Sea coast as well as the central Yemeni city of Dhamar on Oct. 14.
The strike in Shabwa reportedly killed an AQAP military commander.
Ahmed Abdulrahman Sihab Ahmed Sihab, who is also known as Abdulrahman al Sharqi, is a senior leader in the al Qaeda council assigned to attack the West and a specially designated global terrorist. Jihadists on Twitter have reported that he was killed, but his death has not been confirmed.
Military chiefs: Islamic State has ‘tactical momentum’
Serious disagreements remain in US-led coalition battling the Islamic State
The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
Gruesome photos may show ISIS using chemical weapons on Kurds, report says
US and coalition forces carried out 22 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, all in Kobane except for one in Deir al Zour; today’s strikes were the most intense targeting yet by the coalition in Kobane. US forces also carried out one airstrike in Iraq against the group. President Obama met with coalition partners […]
The increased violence inside the capital is the result of the Islamic State’s success in implementing its Baghdad Belts strategy.
The Islamic State killed Ahmed al Khafaji, a member of parliament as well as a senior commander in the Shiite Badr militia, and 20 other people in a suicide attack in Baghdad, and 2 “volunteers” south of Tikrit. Eight Islamic State fighters and two Iraqi soldiers were killed during a clash at a military base […]
US-led air strikes intensify as Syria conflict destabilizes Turkey
Abdullah Azzam Brigades leader Sirajeddine Zurayqat has called on Sunnis in Lebanon to fight against Hezbollah. Zurayqat’s call to arms was posted on his official Twitter account. His anti-Iran, anti-Hezbollah messaging is consistent with the Al Nusrah Front’s propaganda campaign.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula attacked several military targets in Yemen’s eastern Hadramout province between Oct. 9 and Oct. 13, killing about 40 Yemeni soldiers.
Iraq’s Shia militias kill Sunni civilians in retaliation against ISIS, Amnesty says
Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK rebels near Iraq
How an American suicide bomber’s travels went unmonitored
Syrian National Coalition Fails to Elect New Prime Minister
Why Britain is still losing its fight against radicalization
A farewell to beards: Men shaving to avoid jihadist stigma in southeast Turkey
IS jihadists boast of enslaving Yazidis
Photo of ‘American soldier fighting with IS group’ is fake
The Taliban killed 22 Afghan soldiers and policemen in an ambush on a convoy in Sar-i-Pul. The Taliban killed one person in suicide attacks in Nangarhar and Kabul. The Taliban executed a woman in Kunar for spying. Afghan officials claimed that ISAF accidentally killed seven civilians in an airstrike in Paktia.
The Islamic State killed four policemen and a militia fighter in attacks in Samarra. Security forces claimed to have killed “dozens” of Islamic State fighters in Jurf al Sakhar.
Iraq crisis: 180,000 flee IS advance in Anbar, UN says
Turkish sources deny giving Washington the use of bases to fight Islamic State
The Taliban killed 22 policemen and soldiers and captured eight more, and also destroyed and seized several military vehicles and weapons during the ambush in Sar-i-Pul.
US and Saudi aircraft conducted seven airstrikes targeting the Islamic State in Aleppo near Kobane and one strike on a garrison in Raqqah; the airstrikes also targeted refineries used by the IS. The Islamic State advanced in Kobane after carrying out a suicide bombing with an armored vehicle and at least one other bombing with […]