He was detained by US troops in February 2004 and spent 10 months in the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. . He eventually assumed control of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida linked group founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant killed in a US airstrike in Iraq..…
Trump earlier this month went from declaring a near-complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria to deciding that some, perhaps several hundred, must stay to keep eastern Syria's oil fields from falling back into the hands of the Islamic State. Trump also agreed to keep about 150 U.S...…
Al Qaeda and Islamic State are also fighting Shi’ite Houthis, which they see as heretics. . ... Several splinters of the myriad armed groups in the southern Philippines have pledged allegiance to Islamic State, although none are known to have been endorsed as..…
He was detained by U.S. troops in February 2004 and spent 10 months in the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. . He eventually assumed control of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida linked group founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant killed in a U.S. airstrike in..…
Al Qaeda and Islamic State are also fighting Shi’ite Houthis, which they see as heretics. . ... Several splinters of the myriad armed groups in the southern Philippines have pledged allegiance to Islamic State, although none are known to have been endorsed as..…
In Libya, a civil war has allowed Islamic State fighters to regroup in the country’s southern desert. ..…
The pullout abandoned the Kurdish allies who have fought the Islamic State group alongside U.S. troops for several years. From 200 to 300 U.S. troops will remain at the southern Syrian outpost of Al-Tanf. . ..…
The pullout largely abandons the Syrian Kurdish allies who have fought the Islamic State group alongside U.S. troops for several years. Between 200 and 300 U.S. troops will remain at the southern Syrian outpost of Al-Tanf. . ..…
He was detained by US troops in February 2004 and spent 10 months in the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. . He eventually assumed control of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq, an al Qaida-linked group founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant killed in a US air..…
Violence permeated protests since they began in Baghdad and spread to major southern cities, marking the worst instance of instability since the Islamic State was defeated nearly two years ago. ..…
Nizar Abd al-Qader, Lebanese who today is strategic and military analyst, explained to The Media Line that Rouhani's accusations stemmed from Israel has provided to armed groups fighting against Assad southern Syria, where anti- Assad militia once affiliated with Islamic State has..…
FRESH MILITANT VIOLENCE IN PHILIPPINES ILLUSTRATES CONTINUING JIHADIST PRESENCE James Brandon Armed members of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) kidnapped and killed nine Christian farmers in the southern Philippines island . . . As previous papers have outlined, the..…
Rodrigo Duterte said his hands start to “sweat” when he is thinking about a possible resurgence of Islamic State-linked groups (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Basilan and Sulu provinces in the southern Philippines island chain of Mindanao, groups he has been trying to eradicate..…
Several splinters of the myriad armed groups in the southern Philippines have pledged allegiance to Islamic State, although none are known to have been endorsed as its Southeast Asian affiliate. . ..…
Several splinters of the myriad armed groups in the southern Philippines have pledged allegiance to Islamic State, although none are known to have been endorsed as its Southeast Asian affiliate. . ..…
Earlier in 2016, Israel’s former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon had said similarly, “In Syria, if the choice is between Iran and the Islamic State, I choose the Islamic State.” . Israel seeks to create buffer zones between itself and Hezbollah in southern..…
(The New York Times/File) While US forces have for years helped train and advise Filipino troops, they were part of an offensive against the Islamic State’s affiliate in the southern city of Marawi in 2017. ... Militants who have pledged loyalty to the Islamic..…
Israel itself used the Golan as a base from which to launch covert operations to help Mr Assad’s opponents in southern Syria, including Islamic State fighters. ..…
Navy commandos on the lookout for Islamic State-inspired militants trying to escape the main battle area in the southern Philippine city of Marawi in 2017. ... Militants who have pledged loyalty to the Islamic State have since spread across the southern..…
A number of Islamic terror groups, including Abu Sayyaf, operating in the southern Philippines, have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. . Although the Philippines is majority-Christian (chiefly Catholic), about 24% percent of the population of the southern..…
They are fearful that Iraq will become the turf for conflict between United States and Iran, and they recognize that many Iraqis rely on Iran, supplying some of southern Iraq's electricity and supporting Iraq when Islamic State invaded in 2014... ..…
Zionists aided and trained the Lebanese Force and Falanges, the Southern Lebanese Army, and Al Qaida factions, and even coordinated directly with the Islamic State. ..…
Ali points to burial grounds on islands off the southern state of Georgia, where slave tombstones bear Islamic markings, and churches that were built facing the east, the direction Muslims face while praying. ..…
Church leaders condemned bomb explosions that killed at least 20 people and injured about 100 others inside a Catholic church in the southern Philippines Jan. 27. ... Ucanews.com reported the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombing, which occurred during Mass at..…
Military says at least 18 killed and 83 wounded at twin Catholic church bombings on Sunday in southern Jolo; the Islamic State-aligned Abu Sayyaf is the chief suspect . ... Two lethal explosions targeting a Catholic church on Sunday rocked the Philippine southern island..…
Nemmouche, who had fought alongside Islamic State members in Syria, was arrested by police in Marseille, southern France, a week after the attack. ..…
Much of the insurgency is concentrated in the country’s southern island region of Mindanao, where the government has imposed martial law since Islamic State-affiliated militants laid devastating siege to the town of Marawi last year. . ..…
While Islamic State aligned militants stir violence and instability on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, the government hopes a proposed new political entity will help to stop the spread of its radical ideology across the long-troubled region. . ..…
Additionally, Recorded Future would expect Iranian mobile surveillance malware deployed against these forces, which CheckPoint found to be used against Iranian dissident civilians and potential Islamic State sympathizers. . Southern Secessionists . The Southern Movement, formally..…
In the process AQAP managed to link up its forces across much of southern Yemen from Lahij near the Red Sea east to Al Mukalla. . Like followers of Islamic State, AQAP jihadists are now pressing their attacks against government forces in Aden, where they recently killed a general..…
Islamic State having lost its entire caliphate, save for few strips of land in southern and Syria, does not mean it's on the verge of defeat. ..…
Islamic State is recruiting foreign fighters into southern Libya and is most likely relying on the same havens used by Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, according to the analysis... ..…
He admitted, however, that being from southern Mindanao, home to most of Muslim minority, that he knew of relatives. Islamic State has infiltrated parts of Philippines's Muslim population, according to Duterte. ..…
Trump’s support of letting Assad use his forces with minimal intervention appears contingent on Assad fighting the Islamic State, which has largely not been the case. While ISIS maintains its “capital” in southern Raqqa, the Syrian government forces have committed human rights..…
Syria's dictatorship is Iran's closest ally in the region, and its barbarity opened the way for the rise of Islamic State. Obama were to.. create safe zones northern and southern Syria for the rebels, the balance could be tipped against Damascus and Tehran — and U.S allies..…
Despite the June 22nd ISIS-claimed suicide bombing of a Shi’a neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon and recent reports of pro-Islamic State demonstrations in the restive southern Jordan city of Ma’an, the State has yet to incite coordinated regional violence or, more importantly,..…