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Syria
The Islamic State is gaining ground in Aleppo province, where it has now captured 21 Kurdish villages in the north near the Turkish border, in an offensive that began in early July. Kurdish YPG forces defending the area claimed at the time that the IS had used chemical weapons against them. Regime airstrikes targeted IS-held […]
Islamic State
Kurds issue call to arms as Islamic State gains in Syria
Islamic State assaults city in Syrian Kurdistan
The border town of Kobane is under siege from the Islamic State, which continues to advance in Aleppo province.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
US airstrikes boost Islamic State, more hostages possible: FBI
Iraq
Dempsey: Half of Iraqi army not OK as US partners
OPCW
Exclusive: Syria reveals more chemical weapons facilities to watchdog – sources
Islamic State
A ‘fundamental fallacy’ in Obama’s plan to arm Syrian rebels?
European Union
Europe needs to coordinate its anti-jihadist measures
Syria
Syria’s UN envoy said the Al Nusrah Front has seized all of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, and that Al Nusrah militants are using UN vehicles, weapons, uniforms, and fighting positions against civilians as well as Syrian forces; he accused Qatar, Israel, and Jordan of allowing Al Nusrah to use the safe zone […]
Iraq
The Islamic State gearing up for the “War of the Cross”
Islamic State
Islamic State goes underground in Syrian stronghold
Iraq
ISIS Draws a Steady Stream of Recruits From Turkey
Al Qaeda branches urge jihadist unity against US
AQAP and AQIM have issued a joint statement encouraging the jihadists in Syria to unite in the face of the American-led opposition. However, the statement should not be read as an indication that they are breaking ranks from al Qaeda. The two groups also offer their condolences for the Ahrar al Sham leaders who were killed earlier this month.
Al Qaeda official in Syria tweets in solidarity with Islamic State
Abu Sulayman al Muhajir, a member of the Al Nusrah Front’s Sharia Committee, has now joined other al Qaeda members and branches in expressing solidarity with the Islamic State; but such expressions of support are not pledges of loyalty or allegiance.
Iraq
Mideast’s complexities confound US efforts to build coalition against Islamic State
Iraq
Islamic State rebuilds its manpower In Iraq and Syria
Islamic State
Islamic State advertises for fighters from Turkey
France
Islamic State crisis: World leaders pledge Iraq support
Caucasus Emirate eulogizes slain Ahrar al Sham leaders
The al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate joins the Al Nusrah Front and other jihadist groups in offering condolences to Ahrar al Sham.
Al Nusrah Front
Islamic State’s war chest is growing daily
Christians
Christians of Akkar keep eye on ISIS threat
Syria
The Syrian Revolutionaries Front displayed the dead bodies of two members of a four-man suicide bombing team who had tried to attack the SRF in Idlib. A regime airstrike on a dormitory at an IS training camp in Tibni in Deir Izzour killed 17 militants and a child. The IS issued a set of rules […]
Al Nusrah Front
Al Nusrah Front and allied rebels seize most of Syria’s Golan truce line
Al Nusrah Front
ISIS Strikes Deal With Moderate Syrian Rebels: Reports
Syria
State media claimed that Khaled Maarouf, a son of Syrian Revolutionaries Front leader Jamal Maarouf, was killed in a “terrorist attack” car bombing at an SRF checkpoint in Deir Sinbul in Idlib; another report said Jamal may also have been injured in the attack. The SRF recently agreed to a ceasefire with the Islamic State […]
Islamic State beheads British citizen, threatens another
The Islamic State released a video of the beheading of David Cawthorne Haines, a British citizen who was kidnapped while providing security for an aid group in Syria’s Idlib province in March 2013.
Iraq
Struggling to Starve ISIS of Oil Revenue, US Seeks Assistance From Turkey
On the CIA estimate of number of fighters in the Islamic State
It should come as no surprise that the CIA concludes that the Islamic State has upwards of 31,500 fighters.
Islamic State
Nations Trying to Stop Their Citizens From Going to Middle East to Fight for ISIS