Al Nusrah Front launches another suicide attack in Lebanon
The Al Nusrah Front, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham continue to target Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Tag Archives: Syria
Syria
Aid agencies evacuated hundreds of residents from the rebel-held district of Yarmouk in Damascus. Regime barrel bombs killed at least 23 people in Aleppo city, including eight Al Nusrah Front fighters. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham detonated two car bombs in Aleppo and clashed with Islamist battalions and rebels in the Al-Ra’ii […]
Afghanistan
US, Turkey realize al Qaeda threat in Syria
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda now frontline threat to Israel
Syria
A state news anchor’s take on the Syria war
Syria
The first week of Geneva II talks ended with no progress. A rights organization accused the Assad regime of deliberately destroying thousands of homes in Damascus and Hama over the past two years. The mother of a British doctor who died in regime custody said regime officials admitted to killing him. The OPCW told the […]
Report: Senior al Qaeda facilitator ‘back on the street’ in Iran
Al Jazeera reports that Yasin al Suri, the head of al Qaeda’s Iran-based network, is facilitating the terror network’s operations from Iranian soil once again. Al Suri was detained by the Iranian government after the US government exposed his network, and the deal between Iran and al Qaeda, in 2011.
Indonesia
Indonesian Militants Join Fight in Syria
Syria
The Islamic State of the Sham clashed with Islamic battalions and rebels in Aleppo, and killed five regime forces in Damascus. Syrian officials said “certain security threats” have delayed the transfer of Syrian chemical weapons out of the country, according to the OPCW. At the Geneva II talks, the Assad regime presented a resolution that […]
Hezbollah
Hezbollah expanding drone use to Syria and Lebanon
Al Nusrah Front
Al Qaeda groups in Syria want to attack US
ISIS suicide team assaults Iraqi ministry
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham suicide assault team killed 17 people in the Ministry of Transportation before Iraqi security forces killed them.
Ahrar al Sham
The Dawn of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Bitterness of Syrian war on display at talks
Syria
US intelligence estimates that over 7,000 foreign fighters from 50 countries are now fighting the Assad regime in Syria. Regime forces dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held areas of Aleppo, killing 13 people. Turkish forces attacked an Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham convoy in Syria near the border after ISIS opened fire on a […]
Syria
Syrian Opposition in Geneva Tries to Polish Image, Project Unity
Syria
Turkey’s Syria policy needs to be recalibrated
Ahrar al Sham leader criticizes head of Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Hassan Abboud, a top official in Ahrar al Sham and the Islamic Front, has issued a stinging rebuke of ISIS emir Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. Earlier this week, ISIS rejected a reconciliation effort that would have put an end to the infighting between jihadist groups in Syria.
Al Nusrah Front
Rebels in Syria Claim Control of Resources
Al Qaeda
UN Security Council urges end to ransom payments to extremists
Jordan
Jordan’s balancing act on Syria
Syria
An Al Nusrah Front suicide bomber killed 13 soldiers in an attack Rahjan, Hama, the ancestral home of Defense Minister al Freij. An Islamic judge for Al Nusrah, Turki al-Ashaari, was reportedly killed in Hama. A UN aid convoy to Homs stalled as the Syrian government demanded assurances that the aid did not go to […]
Al Qaeda
Syrian Jihad: Bringing the War Back Home?
Syria
The US is providing light arms, including antitank rockets, to “moderate” rebels in southern Syria. The US has also resumed the shipment of nonlethal aid, including vehicles and communications equipment, to Syrian rebels in the north, a month after shipments were suspended following the seizure of Free Syrian Army warehouses by Islamist rebels. A recent […]
Al Qaeda
Tough road for Sahel security
Syria
At the Geneva talks, the Assad regime offered to provide “every access,” including humanitarian aid, to women and children of the besieged city of Homs so long as the rebels give them safe passage out of the city center. A UN agency complained that regime forces are not facilitating the provision of aid to the […]
The Long War Journal’s reply to Marie Harf
The Long War Journal’s assessment of Ms. Harf’s press briefing was entirely accurate and her response actually validates our key points.
State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf responds to LWJ
State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf emailed this response to the Long War Journal after we criticized her characterization of al Qaeda.
Afghanistan
As Afghan War closes, allies see broader American pullback
Syria
The Assad regime and the Syrian opposition failed to reach any agreements in their first face-to-face meeting. Rebels and regime forces clashed south of Damascus, and the Al Nusrah Front and Islamic battalions battled regime forces in Deir Izzour. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham reportedly arrested a man in Raqqah city because […]