Authorities arrested a man in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province, who is accused of spreading “online rumors” about government violence in Yarkant to websites abroad. State media claimed that 18 suspects in the July 28 terror attack in Shache surrendered to authorities, but that few of them were “diehard terrorists.”
The Detachment 88 counterterrorism squad arrested Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid leader Afif Abdul Majid, who was added to the US’ global terrorist list in 2013. Majid, who recently returned from Syria, has pledged support to the Islamic State, along with jailed al Qaeda-linked cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir. Although the government reportedly banned IS ideology within the […]
Defence Minister David Johnston said Australia is “not ruling out” providing backup military support for the US “as they go in and deal kinetically with this terrorist organisation.” Australia is already providing two Hercules transport planes for airlifting supplies. He said: “Islamic State … is not just a terrorist group, it is a terrorist army. […]
US lawmakers mull ISIS action
US removes some staff from consulate in northern Iraq
Massive security deployment around Baghdad ‘green zone’: officials
Gaza conflict: New three-day ceasefire begins
The Islamic State clashed with regime forces near the military airport of Al Tabaqa in Raqqah; as well as in Homs, Quneitra, and in Deir Izzour, where the IS executed six men, including two who were beheaded. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in the Om Al Sharashih area of […]
Fighters abandoning al Qaeda affiliates to join Islamic State, US officials say
US air support helps Kurdish forces expel Islamic State fighters from two Iraqi towns
Exclusive: Iraq says Islamic State killed 500 Yazidis, buried some victims alive
Chief of Staff Abdulati Al-Obeidi told Parliament that the Libyan Army is close to collapsing and that he cannot control of it. Despite calls from Parliament and the UN for a ceasefire, clashes between Islamist and government-allied militias continued in Tripoli and Benghazi. Several staff members of a Libyan TV station recently taken over by […]
The Prime Minister’s office said the UK would step up its delivery of humanitarian aid to Iraqis threatened by the Islamic State and it wants to increase the number of UK “humanitarian advisers” in Iraq. Portsmouth resident Muhammad Hamidur Rahman, 25, is said to have been killed fighting for the Islamic State in Syria.
As ISIS Militants Exert Their Control, US Pursues a Military Middle Road
Hamas threatens major escalation in rocket strikes on Israel
The Islamic State carried out a suicide car bombing at a tribal checkpoint, and clashed with tribal gunmen and regime forces in Deir Izzour; and arrested Islamic Front fighters accused of stealing electricity in Aleppo. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama near Morek, and also clashed with regime […]
Iraq Kurds say oil production unaffected by ISIL incursion
Hamas everywhere but nowhere in Gaza war
Defense Minister Yılmaz said Turkey has not provided any support to the US in its air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, noting that the Islamic State still holds captive 49 Turks from Turkey’s Mosul consulate. Turkey is planning to set up a second refugee camp inside Iraq for Turkmen fleeing the Islamic State; […]
Kurdish pleas for US weapons may finally be heard
Jordan denied Iraqi press reports that its territory is being used by US forces to target the Islamic State in Iraq. Over 15,000 Muslim Brotherhood supporters demonstrated in Amman against the Israeli campaign in Gaza; many of the protesters shouted “Death to Israel,” and some wore the uniform of Hamas’ military wing, the Al Qassam […]
Lebanese villagers near Kfar Qouq reportedly forced Islamist fighters back across the border into Syria after an armed clash with them. Gunmen ambushed Lebanese politician and Naharnet editor Naufal Daou in the Bekaa Valley town of al-Tibeh, opening fire on his car, but he managed to escape. Security forces arrested seven people from a Syrian […]
US urges India to step up as regional power
In a final ruling, a court dissolved the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party. The Muslim Brotherhood itself was banned in September. The military claimed to have killed 60 “extremists” and arrested 102 suspects in security operations in North Sinai, and to have found 17 tunnels in Rafah supplied with arms and […]
Videos show US airstrikes targeting ISIS in north Iraq
US aids displaced Iraqis as airstrikes help Kurds
ISIS persecution of Iraqi Christians has become genocide, say religious leaders
Obama: Iraq air strikes and aid drops will prevent ‘act of genocide’
Airstrikes, rocket launches continue after Gaza truce crumbles
President Obama said the US military intervention against the Islamic State in Iraq will not be over in “weeks” as it is a “long-term project.” He said that once an inclusive Iraqi government is formed, the US military, in conjunction with Iraqi and Kurdish fighters, will be able to “engage in some offense,” not just […]