Defense Secretary Hagel, meeting with the Erdogan government in Turkey to discuss strategy against the Islamic State, said the Obama administration will need to consider the ending as well as the beginning of any broader military action against the Islamic State; President Obama has said he will address the topic on Sept. 10. US intelligence […]
Destroying ISIS May Take Years, US Officials Say
The Taliban killed a district police chief and two police officers in a suicide attack in Kandahar and six soldiers in an IED attack in Badakhshan. The Interior Ministry claimed 35 Taliban fighters were killed during operations throughout the country.
Qatar’s Support of Extremists Alienates Allies Near and Far
The US launched four airstrikes in support of Iraqi military operations near the Haditha Dam in Anbar. The military claimed it killed several islamic State leaders, including a Moroccan, in Tal Afar, 16 fighters in Dhuliyah, and 11 more in northern Babil. The governor of Anbar was wounded in Barwana.
Police in Wuppertal arrested 11 members of the “Sharia Police” earlier this week who had been telling people at drinking and gambling establishments to refrain from activity that violates Islam. Police said that local Salafists had been attempting to recruit young people.
Tribes, ties and a movie: A German’s Afghan life
After Syria and Iraq, Islamic State makes inroads in South Asia
Libya accuses Khartoum of flying weapons to Islamist rebels in Tripoli
Arab League chief: Confront Islamic State group
Obama to set out plan to go on offensive against Islamic State
The US air campaign against the Islamic State has expanded into Anbar province.
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 […]
ISIS guides Egyptian militants, expanding its influence
Somalia put on high alert after Shabaab leader confirmed dead
Iraq Welcomes US Plan for Coalition against Jihadists
Iron Dome would not cope with Hezbollah missiles: report
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
Obama: US will ‘take out’ ISIS leaders
Canada to send military advisers to help Iraq counter ISIS
US: ‘No plans’ for military coordination with Iran over IS
US Fears Syrian Chemical Weapons Falling to Extremists
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 […]
Lebanon’s Muslim officials sign petition against Christian exodus