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Al Nusrah Front
Syria regime fights off the Al Nusrah Front in Aleppo
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Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda in Yemen Urges Local and International Jihad
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Al Qaeda
English-Speaking IS Militants Laud Charlie Hebdo Attackers
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Al Nusrah Front
MI5 chief warns that al Qaeda is plotting attack on Britain
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Syria
The head of Britain’s MI5 warned that al Qaeda operatives in Syria are planning further mass casualty attacks on Western targets. The Al Nusrah Front blew up the 13th-century tomb of a revered Islamic scholar in Nawa in Deraa province. Members of the Islamic State’s religious police force have been kidnapped in the city of Mayadin in eastern Syria; one of the leaders of the group was found beheaded. The US-led coalition conducted six airstrikes in Syria since Jan. 6; five targeted “fighting positions and a staging area” near Kobane, while one struck “crude oil pumps and well heads” near…
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Islamic State
Islamic State crisis: Religious police ‘kidnapped’ in Syria
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Caucasus Emirate
Chechen Leader Kadyrov Doesn’t Consider IS A Threat To Russia
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Islamic State
UN: ISIS depriving 670,000 Syrian children of education
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Afghanistan
Terror Expert Louise Shelley: ‘Islamic State Is a Diversified Criminal Operation’
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Al Nusrah Front
ISIS, Al Nusrah militants number 3,000 on Lebanon-Syria border: report
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Iraq
World losing capacity to prevent conflict: UN refugee chief
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Christians
Islamic State book burnings target minorities
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Ansar Bayt al Maqdis
Gaza Salafist leader: ‘We are following Islamic State ideology’
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Syria
Kurdish fighters killed 41 Islamic State militants in a clash near Kobane, according to SOHR. Islamic State fighters reportedly beheaded a street magician in Raqqa for un-Islamic behavior. A senior Islamic State policeman responsible for many executions and beheadings was himself found beheaded in al-Mayadeen city in Deir-al-Zor province. The US-backed plan to train moderate Syrian rebels could begin this spring, according to Pentagon officials. The US military has investigated 18 complaints of civilian casualties resulting from its bombing campaign in Syria; 13 were found not credible while the remainder are still under investigation. The Organization for the Prohibition of…
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Islamic State
Kurdish Fighters Capture Key District of Kobane
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US Military
US Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says
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Syria
The US-led coalition conducted six airstrikes near Kobane on Jan. 4. At least 12 regime soldiers were killed during an attack on their camp in Aleppo. The Western-backed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces has elected a new presidential committee. Lebanon has begun restricting the flow of refugees from Syria. A Turkish soldier went missing during an anti-smuggling operation along the Syrian border.
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Islamic State
Syrian Journalists Say Islamic State Changed The Rules In Aleppo
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Caucasus Emirate
Veteran Chechen IS Militant Reported Killed In Kobane
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Al Nusrah Front attacks Hezbollah position on Lebanese border
Al Qaeda’s Syrian branch targeted Hezbollah positions near the Lebanese border in the Qalamoun region of Syria. Lebanese and Syrian sources say the positions have not fallen, and the fighting still rages, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Iraq
Syrian troops foil IS attack in Deir al-Zour province
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European Union
European Union to set up expert cell to fight jihadi propaganda: report
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Islamic State
Islamic State seeking bases inside Lebanon: Lebanon security chief
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Ahrar al Sham
Vanguard of Syria’s Uprising, Now on the Run From ISIS, Weighs a Bleak Future
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Islamic State
New Zealander thought to be fighting in Syria accidentally tweets locations
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Iraq
Obama Envoy John Allen: No ‘Short-Term Solutions’ for Stopping Islamic State
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Syria
Monitor: over 76,000 killed in Syria in 2014
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Iraq
How the Air Campaign Against ISIS Grew
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Al Nusrah Front
Video purports to show 2 Italian women held by Syria captors
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Dagestani jihadist swears allegiance to Islamic State, invoking backlash
Rustam Asilderov, the former head of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate’s Dagestan province, swore allegiance to the Islamic State’s Abu Bakr al Baghdadi earlier this month. The move by Asilderov and other jihadists drew harsh criticism from their former superiors.
