Iraq
Anti-jihadist fight forges Kurdish unity
Author Archives: Lisa Lundquist
Germany
Germany to send rifles, tank busters to aid Kurds
Qatar
Gulf meeting ends without clear end to Qatar spat
France
Syria Slams France for Not Cooperating over Jihadists
Israel
Israel shoots down drone from Syria over Golan
Al Nusrah Front
Al Nusrah Front warns Lebanon’s Christians against following Aoun
Lebanon
The Islamic State posted video of a captive Lebanese soldier pleading for the release of Islamist inmates from Roumieh Prison. The Al Nusrah Front threatened to kill captive Lebanese soldiers if Hezbollah does not withdraw from fighting in Qalamoun in Syria. A Hezbollah official warned that the Islamic State intends to take over Lebanon as […]
Al Nusrah Front
Fiji seeks release of UN peacekeepers abducted on Syrian side of Golan Heights, as Philippines soldiers escape
Australia
Australian planes to deliver weapons for Kurds fighting Islamic State
Iran
As Islamic State fighters begin to blend in, defeating them no easy matter
Central African Republic
Rebels in Central African Republic expel government ministers
Libya
The Islamist coalition Libya Dawn announced that its forces have “secured” the US Embassy compound in Tripoli; the US State Department initially refused to comment, then said that only part of the compound had been breached. Another report said only the residential complex had been taken over. Tunisian authorities said several Ansar al Sharia members […]
Tunisia
A hospital treated 10 Salafists injured by buckshot during a confrontation with two other people in Kasserine. Earlier this week, national guard forces in Kasserine arrested eight people linked to the Jebel Chaambi terrorists. The antiterrorism unit arrested three women for supporting and providing comfort to Jebel Chaambi terrorists; one of the women is the […]
Algeria
Algeria has announced the release of the last of the hostages kidnapped in April 2012 from its consulate in Gao, Mali by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO). Another hostage, consul Boualem Saies, died in captivity, and diplomat Tahar Touati was assassinated, according to the Foreign Ministry. The head of the […]
France
Security forces stopped a 16-year-old French girl from traveling to Syria to join Islamist fighters and arrested a man suspected of paying for her plane ticket; he is said to a Chechen resident of France who recruits for jihadist groups. Two French teenage girls arrested earlier this month were indicted for conspiracy in a plan […]
Islamic State
ISIS says forcing detained pilots to train militants: report
Australia
Report: Malaysian women join ISIS to comfort militants
Iraq
Kerry urges global ‘coalition’ to fight ISIS jihadists
Islamic State
Gulf Monarchies Resolve Spat with Qatar, Say Ready to Help Counter Jihadists
Syria
All of the Philippine UN peacekeeping troops in the Golan area that were surrounded by the Al Nusrah Front were rescued after intervention by UN rapid response forces as well as distracting artillery fire by regime forces; Al Nusrah still holds 45 Fijian peacekeeping troops. Al Nusrah claimed that the troops were detained because the […]
Lebanon
The Lebanese branch of the Al Nusrah Front said it has handed over five kidnapped Lebanese troops who belong to the Sunni sect, as the group’s fight “is not against the Sunnis.” Authorities arrested six Syrians and eight Lebanese in Zahle who are suspected of forging documents for terrorist groups, and confiscated official seals for […]
Al Nusrah Front
32 Philippines peacekeepers rescued from militants in Golan: UN
Iraq
Iraqi forces launch operation to free besieged town of Amerli
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Iraq’s Sunni and Shiite Turkmens fall out over IS
Jordan
The Parliament has amended the Constitution to allow the monarchy to appoint the top military and intelligence officials. Jordan has agreed to shelter about 1,000 Iraqi Christian refugees for one year until they are resettled to Western countries; their transport and sustenance is being paid for by a Catholic NGO.
United Kingdom
Net migration into UK up by more than 38% to 243,000
Pakistan
Pakistani journalists shot dead in attack on news agency office
Libya
Islamist fighters fired rockets at the Benina Airbase in Benghazi, reportedly killing 10 Operation Dignity soldiers and wounding 25 more. Operation Dignity placed itself nominally under the government’s Chief of Staff. Heavy fighting also erupted west of Tripoli between Islamists and forces loyal to the government, and a hotel was sacked and pillaged. The manager […]
Philippines
The US Embassy warned Americans to avoid travel to Sulu and the Mindanao archipelago due to the activities of al Qaeda-linked groups such as Abu Sayyaf. Reports have emerged that elements of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and the Abu Sayyaf, including wanted leader Isnilon Hapilon, have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State. Wanted Abu […]
Al Nusrah Front
Lebanon’s Roumieh prison a hotbed for terrorists