Operation Dignity forces claimed to have killed 70 Islamist fighters from Ansar al Sharia and the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shoura Council with airstrikes as they advanced towards Benina airbase, and to have captured 17 more. Islamist Misratan fighters reportedly retook Camp 27 outside Tripoli yesterday. Clashes spread from Tripoli west towards Zawiya, the site of a […]
US bombs Islamic State after Obama call to prevent Iraq ‘genocide’
US Planes Start Airstrikes on Iraq Militants
Interview with Israel’s US ambassador on Gaza conflict
US allies pledge support for Iraq, but no military action
US launches airstrikes in northern Iraq
Najaf takes in Christians displaced by Islamic State
Bahrain bans three clerics from preaching; opposition condemns move
British authorities said RAF planes will soon begin dropping food rations to Iraqi refugees threatened by the Islamic State; they also indicated that the UK will support the US with surveillance and refueling in its planned airstrikes on the militants in Iraq. The Prime Minister’s office said the UK is not planning a military intervention […]
Antisemitism on rise across Europe ‘in worst times since the Nazis’
Iraq crisis: live
Caution needed with Gaza casualty figures
Afghans sign unity government deal with US backing
“Two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region,” the US military said.
The jihadist group, which is tolerated by the Pakistani state and whose leader lives openly in Islamabad, is currently running training camps in eastern Afghanistan, the US State Department said.
Obama Allows Limited Airstrikes on ISIS
Ten policemen in Kunduz defected to the Taliban. The Taliban killed six policemen in Uruzgan. The military claimed that 18 Taliban fighters, three policemen, and three deminers were killed during fighting in Paktia, Ghor, and Zabul. Kandahar’s police chief ordered the execution of Taliban fighters captured during military operations. The Taliban have launched an offensive […]
The Islamic State took control of several towns outside of Mosul, including Qaraqosh, Tal Kayf, Bartella, and Karamlesh after Kurdish forces retreated. The US is considering launching airstrikes against the Islamic State or dropping supplies to refugees fleeing the fighting. Kurdish officials claimed the US launched airstrikes, but the Department of Defense denied the reports. […]
President Obama was clear that the military could launch airstrikes only under specific conditions, and that the US military would not act as an offensive air force for the Iraqi military or the Kurdish Peshmerga.
The Yemeni military said it killed 25 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters over the pst two days while battling to protect the city of Seyoun in Hadramout province. Yesterday, AQAP fighters killed five soldiers in an ambush in Habban in Shabwa province.
Lebanese Army in control after militants flee Arsal
Hollande Pledges French ‘Support’ for Forces Fighting Iraq Jihadists
Syria Chemicals near Three-Quarters Destroyed
Kurdish Peshmerga request US arms to battle ISIS: official
Patriarchs decry Christian exodus, demand UN act
Islamic State pulls down church crosses in northern Iraq as 200,000 flee
No plan to send troops to Nigeria – Obama
France renews Sahel commitment
The Islamic State killed over 40 people in three suicide bombings at one of the regime’s last remaining bases in Raqqah; clashed with tribal gunmen in Deir Izzour, where it also executed 18 employees of the sharia council who had been guarding oilfields for the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, and rebels; and clashed […]
Al Nusrah Front and Islamic State militants began withdrawing from Arsal, after releasing six kidnapped Lebanese security forces; the militants still hold 17 ISF personnel and 10 soldiers, according to the Committee of Muslim Scholars, which mediated a ceasefire that started yesterday. Al Nusrah said the remaining kidnapped soldiers have a “special status.” Abou Talal, […]