US airstrikes at Mosul Dam likely offensive in nature
Islamic State fighters at the Mosul Dam are neither directly threatening US personnel in Irbil, nor are they impeding the humanitarian mission on Mount Sinjar.
Yearly Archives: 2014
US drone kills 3 AQAP fighters in eastern Yemen
The airstrike took place in a province in eastern Yemen where the terror group has been battling the government for control.
Saudi Arabia
Top Saudi preacher calls for action to curb violence
Australia
Living in Australia, longing for jihad
Iraq
Britain to Keep Up Iraq Surveillance Flights
Syria
The Islamic State clashed with regime forces in Raqqah in Al Tabaqa; and in Aleppo, where the IS also battled the Islamic Front, the Al Nusrah Front, and Kurdish forces. In Deir Izzour, the Islamic State told families of Labor City oilfield workers to vacate their homes so foreign fighters could move in. The Syrian […]
Ansar al Sharia
Benghazi’s many faces
Lebanon
The US issued a travel warning for Lebanon noting that the Islamic State, the Al Nusrah Front, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, and Hezbollah all operate there, and stressed the increasing frequency of suicide bombings. A Free Syrian Army fighter was arrested in Sidon. Assad regime forces warned residents of the border town of Tfail to […]
Iraq
Strange bedfellows: terror groups, Kurdish factions unite against ISIS
Mali
Islamist militants carried out a suicide car bombing outside a patrol base in Ber, about 40 miles east of Timbuktu, killing two UN peacekeeping troops from Burkina Faso and injuring nine other troops. Three peacekeeping troops were injured earlier this week by land mines, in two separate attacks.
Taliban laud Afghan soldier who killed US general
The Taliban described Rafiqullah, the Afghan soldier who killed Major General Harold Greene, deputy commanding general of Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan, as a “martyr.”
Boko Haram
Condemned but Undeterred, Boko Haram Is Still Abducting Nigerian Youths
Syria
Syrian Soldiers Celebrate Fall of Rebel Stronghold
Iraq
Iraq Sunni Tribes Take Up Arms against Jihadists
Afghanistan
Afghan officials claimed 20 Taliban fighters were killed in airstrikes in Kunar and Paktika. A district police chief in Kandahar and seven officers were killed during in fighting. A female member of parliament said she supports the Taliban and its Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Iraq
The military claimed it killed 31 Islamic State fighters in Dhabetiya and the group’s “financial officer” and six fighters in Babil. The Islamic State killed six Peshmerga and executed four civilians in Jalawla. The head of the Anbar Awakening said 25 tribes have united to fight the Islamic State. Prime Minister Maliki said he will […]
Iraq
ISIS leader flees to Syria fearing US airstrikes: Kurdish official
Christians
‘Barbaric’ sexual violence perpetrated by Islamic State militants in Iraq – UN
Al Nusrah Front
UN Approves Measure to Combat al Qaeda Fighters
Syria
The Islamic State battled regime forces in Deir Izzour; Hama; Homs; and Raqqah, where IS is said to be imposing an Islamic curriculum in schools in the Raqqah City and its countryside. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Aleppo, Hama, and Idlib. The Islamic Front also fought regime […]
Lebanon
Security forces arrested a 19-year-old Lebanese man in Baalbek suspected of operating the Twitter account of the so-called “Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade.” Sheikh Adnana Amama, of the Muslim Scholars Committee delegation negotiating with the Islamists who kidnapped Lebanese security forces in Arsal, said the committee may withdraw from its mission given Lebanon’s lack of […]
Iraq
Iraq crisis: Philip Hammond says UK would consider arming Kurds
Iraq
British ‘jihadist’ describes his plan to go to Iraq or Syria to fight
Somalia
African Union peacekeepers and Somali troops clashed with suspected Shabaab militants in Mogadishu; at least 14 people are reported to have been killed. During the fighting between security forces and a Shabaab-linked militia led by warlord Ahmed Dai, both sides have used rocket-propelled grenades, and several civilians are said to have been killed. A Norwegian […]
Libya
Nuri Abu Sahmain, former president of the GNC, claimed on Misrata TV that he is still in charge, and refused to recognize the authority of the new Parliament. Attacks on journalists covering the new Parliament have cut the flow of news from Libya. A delegation from the UN and the EU visited Misrata Municipal Council […]
Islamic State
Islamic State takes Akhtarin
Al Nusrah Front
Terror finance worries may curb Doha kidnap mediation
Afghan government negotiating with the Taliban in Sangin
Peace agreements with the Taliban on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border have always ended badly.
Iraq
Did the Pentagon misjudge the danger on Iraq’s Mount Sinjar?
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters clad in security forces uniforms kidnapped about 100 young men from Doron Baga in Borno state and killed 28 people in the attack. It is feared that the kidnapped men will be conscripted as fighters for the terror group.