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Australia
After jihadist arrests, Australian mufti rejects Islamic State fatwa
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Australia
FBI expects ISIS to retaliate for airstrikes
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France
French, US planes strike Islamic State, Britain to join coalition
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Australia
Police said that Abdul Numan Haider, 18, an Islamic State supporter who was shot dead at a Melbourne police station after stabbing two policemen, may not have acted alone. Haider had been investigating the travel plans of Prime Minister Abbott. Islamic State recruiter Mohammad Ali Baryalei reportedly was influenced by the speeches of al Qaeda ideologue Anwar al Awlaki.
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Australia
A man who had threatened Prime Minister Abbott and was being investigated as a suspected Islamic State terrorist was shot and killed after he stabbed two officers at a Melbourne police station, wounding one of them critically. The government has canceled the passports of over 60 Australians to stop them from traveling to the Middle East to fight for the Islamic State or the Al Nusrah Front.
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Australia
Australian Federal Police to take over Parliament security after ‘chatter’ about possible terrorist attack; investigation into ‘beheading plot’ continues
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France
Who’s who in coalition to defeat Islamic State
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Australia
Over 800 police conducted raids across Sydney, with 25 search warrants, looking for suspects linked to an Islamic State beheading plot. At least three raids were also conducted in Brisbane. Fifteen people have been detained in Sydney, including Omarjan Azari, 22, and are thought to have been tasked by Australian IS operative Mohammad Ali Baryalei with filming the beheading of an Australian for use in IS propaganda. A warrant was issued last week for the arrest of Baryalei, an IS commander who has recruited at least 30 Australians and is thought to be in Syria. Police said they had been…
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France
Islamic State crisis: World leaders pledge Iraq support
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Australia
Prime Minister Abbott said Australia is sending 600 troops, as well as eight Super Hornet fighter jets and two other aircraft, to the UAE for possible deployment against the Islamic State in the Middle East, at the request of the US government. The father of Australian IS jihadist Mohamed Elomar warned Australians to watch for signs of extremism in their children.
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Australia
Jihadist-related arrests across Europe, Asia
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Australia
Police conducted nine counterterrorism raids in the Brisbane and Logan areas, including at the iQraa Islamic Centre, and arrested Agim Kruezi, 21, and Omar Succarieh, 31, who are suspected of recruiting and fundraising for the Al Nusrah Front in Syria. Succarieh is the older brother of Abu Asma al Australi, who is thought to be the first Australian suicide bomber to die in Syria. David Irvine, Australia’s spy chief, said earlier this week that the country’s terrorism threat level may be raised from medium to high due to the threat posed by Australian jihadists both at home and abroad.
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Australia
Spy Chief Says Australia May Raise Terror Threat
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Iraq
US airstrikes help Iraqi forces break Islamic State’s siege
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Australia
Australian planes to deliver weapons for Kurds fighting Islamic State
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Australia
Report: Malaysian women join ISIS to comfort militants
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Al Qaeda
Australia: Terrifying legacy emerges from success of Operation Pendennis
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Australia
Intelligence chief David Irvine said that about 60 Australians are fighting in Syria or Iraq for the Islamic State or the Al Nusrah Front, and that 15 of them have died fighting there, two as suicide bombers. Irvine also warned that “dozens” have already returned home, and that another 100 Australians are known to be actively supporting jihadists groups at home by recruiting fighters, including suicide bombers, and assisting with financing. Officials said new counterterrorism units that began working at Australia’s airports a week ago have stopped two would-be jihadists from traveling abroad to fight. The trial of Adnan Karabegovic,…
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Australia
US Mobilizes Allies to Widen Assault on ISIS
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Australia
Australia announces $60 million to fight radicalization
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Australia
Singapore, Australia to boost intelligence sharing on extremists
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Australia
Prime Minister Abbott warned that Islamic State beheadings could happen in countries like Australia if they relax their vigilance, and he urged stronger antiterrorism legislation. He said the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah has indicated support for the IS and thus that there is a risk of “increased terrorist activity in our region.” Abbott also criticized “a small number of Islamic leaders, community leaders, [who] rather foolishly boycotted” recent meetings on ways to prevent disaffected young Australians from joining extremist organizations such as the Islamic State.
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Australia
Living in Australia, longing for jihad
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Australia
Defence Minister David Johnston said Australia is “not ruling out” providing backup military support for the US “as they go in and deal kinetically with this terrorist organisation.” Australia is already providing two Hercules transport planes for airlifting supplies. He said: “Islamic State … is not just a terrorist group, it is a terrorist army. They are seeking not just a terrorist enclave, but effectively a terrorist state, a terrorist nation.” Australian jihadist Khaled Sharrouf reportedly posted a photo on social media of his seven-year-old son in Syria holding the severed head of an Islamic State victim. In June, the…
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Australia
The federal police issued arrest warrants for Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, two Sydney residents who are now fighting with the Islamic State in Iraq and have threatened to kill Australian soldiers as well as all non-Muslims. Authorities estimate that 150 Australians are currently fighting in Syria and Iraq, and that about 60 of them have joined extremist groups. Attorney General George Brandis said Islamic extremism is germinating “within the suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne and Brisbane.”
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Australia
Islamic extremist Musa Cerantonio ‘different’ to other prisoners
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Australia
Outspoken Islamist cleric Musa Cerantonio arrived in Australia after being deported from the Philippines, where he had been arrested in the company of a Filipina fashion designer in Cebu. Cerantonio, who has supported the Islamic State and claimed to be traveling to Syria to join it, was freed on arrival but his passport was canceled because he has urged Australians to travel to Syria and Iraq for jihad. Police said he will be monitored.
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Australian Islamic State suicide bomber attacks Shia shrine in Baghdad
The Baghdad Division of the Islamic State claimed that Abu Bakr al Australi detonated his vest at a Shia mosque in the Shorja district.
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Australian cleric who claimed to join Islamic State captured in Philippines
Musa Cerantonio claimed he arrived in Syria on July 3, but he was recently arrested in Cebu.
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Australia
Australia is planning to build a new ground station near Geraldton to help the US direct unmanned drone attacks on terrorists and allow Australian and American forces to respond more quickly to crises. Lawmakers are considering giving police the authority to conduct surveillance and collect evidence in war zones such as Syria and Iraq. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in June that about 150 Australians have gone to “Syria and beyond” to fight in rebel groups. Saying the West should “just get over it,” Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia spokesman Uthman Badar recently complained that Prime Minister Abbot had depicted the terror…
