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ISIS again touts French and other foreign suicide bombers
The ISIS has identified two French suicide bombers who executed attacks in Iraq in the past month.
Afghanistan
CIA drone strike program in Pakistan winding down
Syria
Michigan family in dark a year after woman’s death in Syria
Syria
The Syrian Salvation Front, a new coalition of 20 rebel groups in Idlib, announced its formation. Abdollah Eskandari, a former officer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was killed and reportedly beheaded in Syria. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Reef Dimashq; Aleppo; Latakia; and in Deraa, where they were […]
Syria
US House Defense bill limits aid to Syrian rebels
Russia
Russia: Syrian veterans fighting in Ukraine
Al Nusrah Front
UN report documents torture by regime, rebel militias in Syria
Al Nusrah Front
ISIS accused of massacring Kurdish villagers near border
Ansar al Sharia
Ansar al Sharia issues Libya threat
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Latakia, Reef Dimashq, Aleppo, and Deir Izzour, where Al Nusrah has imposed a curfew in Al Bsiri. Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front also clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Deir Izzour. A youth trainee at an Al […]
OPCW
Destruction of Syrian chemicals a work in progress
Syria
War profiteers plunder Syria
Hamas
Hamas denies ISIS presence after Gaza jihadist killed in Syria
Jailed jihadist ideologue says the ISIS is a ‘deviant organization’
The Al Nusrah Front is promoting a new statement purportedly written by Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi, who denounces the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS). Despite being jailed in Jordan, Maqdisi claims to have taken part in the efforts to end the jihadist infighting in Syria. Maqdisi also says he informed al Qaeda head Ayman al Zawahiri of his role.
Al Nusrah Front
Swedish spy chief warns of rise of Islamist threat
Syria
Senior Hezbollah commander Fawzi Ayoub a.k.a. Abu Abbas was killed while fighting in Nawa in Deraa. An OPCW team investigating alleged chlorine gas attacks in the town of Kfar Zeita in Hama was attacked on the way but managed to visit the town. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in […]
Free Syrian Army
Obama Close to Authorizing Military Training of Syrian Rebels
American took part in suicide bombings, Al Nusrah Front sharia official says
A top sharia official in the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, says that a suicide bomber who recently took part in a coordinated assault was known as Abu Hurayra al Amriki, or Abu Hurayra “the American.” The bomber’s identity has not been confirmed by US officials.
Qatar
Syrian Rebels Describe US-Backed Training in Qatar
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front announced the creation of the “Baas Foundation for Production and Military Development” and urged Muslim weapons experts worldwide to submit ideas to improve al Qaeda’s arsenal in Syria and beyond. Al Nusrah carried out two car bombings in Homs city, followed up with rocket attacks on rescuers; and four suicide attacks […]
Al Nusrah Front, Suqour al Sham launch joint suicide assault in Syria
Al Qaeda’s affiliate and a unit in the supposedly moderate Islamic Front executed a complex suicide attack and used three foreign fighters. One is rumored to be an American, although that report is unconfirmed.
Zawahiri again addresses jihadist infighting in Syria
In a newly released three-page statement, Ayman al Zawahiri again says that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) owed its allegiance to al Qaeda’s senior leadership before disobeying orders. Any pledges of allegiance collected by the ISIS since then “are null pledges, because they arose from a direct violation of my command as his direct emir,” he states.
Syria
A May 3 message from al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri was posted on jihadist forums, calling for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham to leave Syria and fight in Iraq, and urging clashing jihadists in Syria to submit to an independent sharia court. A three-day truce near Homs city went into effect […]
Syria
Syrian opposition scores in US Senate defense bill
Iran’s Levantine strategy
Sentiments expressed recently on an online forum about the allegiances of Hezbollah run deeper than Lebanon, offering insight into Iranian strategic thinking about the Levant and the Middle East.
Algeria
Tunisia in the Libyan tempest
Ahrar al Sham
Harakat Hazm: America’s new favorite jihadist group
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama, Homs, Idlib, Reef Dimashq, and Aleppo. The Islamic Front also clashed with regime forces in Latakia and Deraa, and shelled a Christian city in Hama. A rebel mortar attack on a pro-Assad rally in Deraa city yesterday killed 21 people and wounded […]
Hezbollah
Lebanon: Terrorism, dialogue and a pope – Sleiman’s tenure