Islamic State’s ‘caliph’ speaks at Mosul mosque
The video is the first to show Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. He is shown delivering a sermon at a mosque in the Islamic State-held city of Mosul.
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Syria
The Islamic State took over the al Tanak oil field in eastern Deir Izzour, and is also advancing north up the Euphrates River toward the Turkish border. Elsewhere in Deir Izzour, 30 IS fighters broke out of an Al Nusrah Front jail in Al Hawayej, and residents of Al Shhil have turned over their weapons […]
Al Nusrah Front
Jordan Salafi leader warns of chaos
Al Nusrah Front
Islamic State Militants Seize Oil Field, Expand Syrian Domain
Al Nusrah Front
Obama’s Blueprint for Fighting Terrorism Collides With Reality in Iraq
Al Nusrah Front
US seeks more security at some foreign airports
Syria
In Deir Izzour, the Islamic State took over Boqros after the Al Nusrah Front, Ahrar al Sham, and other Islamic Front factions withdrew; the IS also took control of the Attank oilfield from a sharia body consisting of Al Nusrah, the Army of Islam, and other Islamic Front factions; and negotiated terms for the surrender […]
Lebanon
Syrians to constitute third of Lebanese population
Al Nusrah Front
Airport security may be tightened permanently after US warning – UK deputy prime minister
Islamic State consolidates gains in eastern Syria
With the fall of Mayadin as well as Shujail, the home town of the Al Nusrah Front’s emir, the Islamic State controls contiguous territory along the Euphrates River Valley from the town of Jarabulus, which borders Turkey, in Syria’s northern Aleppo province to the town of Anah in Anbar province in Iraq.
Al Nusrah Front
Islamic State seizes oil field and towns in Syria’s east
Iran
Iran’s near invisible Quds Force commander
Syria
The Islamic State (formerly ISIS) clashed with the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front in Deir Izzour, where the IS took over Al Rez, bombarded areas in Al Shhil said to have served as Al Nusrah’s main headquarters in Syria, arrested people in Albu Kamal, and was targeted by regime airstrikes near Al Bisri. […]
France
Top Kurdish spy chief says French jihadists fighting in Iraq
Chechnya
Chechen in Syria a rising leader in extremist group
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb calls for reconciliation between jihadist groups
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has issued a statement praising the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham’s (ISIS) gains in Iraq and calling for reconciliation between jihadist groups in Syria. The statement was authored prior to the ISIS declaring that it ruled over a caliphate and rebranding itself the “Islamic State.”
France
Russia seeks UN ban on oil trade with ‘terrorists’ in Syria
Syria
The Islamic State (formerly ISIS) took over Albu Kamal and clashed with the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front in Deir Izzour near Al Shhih, said to be the home town of Al Nusrah’s emir; battled the Islamic Front and Jaysh al Islam in eastern Ghouta in Reef Dimashq; and was attacked by regime […]
Iraq
Patriarchs call on region’s Christians to hold on to their lands
Iraq
ISIS militants outline chilling 5-year plan for global domination
Islamic State
ISIS raises flag at Turkish border
Iraq
Does the Islamic State have a Scud missile
Al Qaeda
Iraq, Syria and the Middle East – An essay by Tony Blair
The Islamic State’s rivals in Syria reject announced Caliphate
The Islamic State’s jihadist rivals in Syria have rejected its claim to have established a Caliphate. Leading ideologues in the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, have rejected the Islamic State’s announcement as well.
Syria
The Islamic State (formerly ISIS) killed Jaysh al Islam fighters in a car bombing in Ghouta, executed seven Jaysh al Islam fighters in Mid’a, and arrested 25 more. The IS also arrested three people in Raqqah for not fasting; clashed with Kurdish YPG fighters at a checkpoint in Hasakah; bombarded villages near Ektrin and fought […]
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Is Lebanon at risk of becoming the next jihadi hub?
Netherlands
Dutch Islamist radicals becoming elusive ‘swarm
Al Nusrah Front
White House fears al Qaeda offshoot may be planning bomb plot on airliner flying to America
Denmark
Removal of Syrian chemical arsenal was result of unprecedented collaboration
Free Syrian Army
Sources: Jarba seeking to unseat Syrian opposition prime minister Tomeh