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Iraq
Islamic State reportedly on Baghdad’s outskirts after week of victories
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Free Syrian Army
A Chronicler of Syria’s Conflict Returns to the Spotlight, Minus a Disguise
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Iraq
The US acted to save Iraq’s Kurds. Why not Syria’s?
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Islamic State beheads another Brit, threatens American aid worker
The Islamic State carried through on its threat to execute British aid worker Alan Henning, and said former US Army Ranger Peter Edward Kassig is next.
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Islamic State
PKK leader Ocalan threatens to end peace talks with Turkey if Islamic State massacres Kurds
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Iraq
In war on Islamic State, what would victory look like?
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Islamic State
Iraqi Kurds fight ISIS with aged weapons
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Syria
A suicide bomber killed at least 53 people, including 47 young children, in an attack on a school in an Alawite neighborhood in Homs city. Clashes been the Kurdish YPG and the Islamic state continued around Kobane in Aleppo. Over 300,000 Kurds have been displaced by the Islamic State from Kobane and its environs, and the city itself is virtually empty of residents. Coalition airstrikes targeted Islamist fighters in Aleppo, Deir Izzour, Hama, and Raqqah. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Aleppo and Hama. Al Nusrah and other groups launched an offensive to capture…
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Iraq
Pope Convenes Mideast Envoys Amid Islamic State Threat
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Iraq
Pamphlet argues Baghdadi’s legitimacy as head of caliphate
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Christians
Inside Islamic State: Sex slaves, child fighters, mass executions
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Chechen unit from Islamic State reportedly fighting at Kobane
Omar al Shishani’s Al Aqsa Brigade is often spearheading the Islamic State’s advance in key areas of Syria.
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Al Nusrah Front propaganda focuses on Iranian influence in Lebanon, Syria
The Al Nusrah Front continues to use its Lebanese hostages in its propaganda campaign against Iran and Hezbollah.
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Al Nusrah Front
Syrian rebels unhappy with coalition airstrikes
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Islamic State
Are Turkish troops trapped at Syrian tomb?
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CIA
US civilian casualty standard eased in Iraq, Syria
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Islamic State advances near Kobane
The two-week-old offensive is reaching closer to the Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria.
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Afghanistan
EU antiterrorism chief Gilles de Kerchove on IS threat
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AQAP official calls on rival factions in Syria to unite against West
Nasser bin Ali al Ansi, an AQAP leader, is featured in a new video calling on rival jihadists in Iraq and Syria to unite against their common enemies. Al Ansi says the jihadists should form a “coalition” to strike America.
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Al Nusrah Front
Will Lebanon swap prisoners with Islamic State, Al Nusrah?
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Islamic State
Jordan on high alert for possible IS retaliation
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Syria
The Islamic State has seized 325 Kurdish villages around Ayn al Arab. The Islamic State beheaded four YPG fighters, three of whom were female, and displayed their heads in Jarabulus. The leader of Kurdish PYD forces called for weapons for Kurdish fighters outgunned by the Islamic State in Kobani. Turkey claimed that the Islamic State is advancing on the tiny Turkish territory around the tomb of Suleyman Shah in Aleppo. The Islamic State has reportedly freed 70 of 153 Kurdish schoolchildren kidnapped by ISIS in northern Syria in May. The vice commander of the al Ummah Army was assassinated and…
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Al Qaeda
‘One and the same’? Officials give conflicting statements on al Qaeda ties to ‘Khorasan’
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Iraq
Special Report: Islamic State uses grain to tighten grip in Iraq
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Austria
Schoolgirl jihadis: the female Islamists leaving home to join Islamic State fighters
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Syria
What’s in a name: Obama’s anonymous war against the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria
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Al Nusrah Front leader says Americans and Europeans will pay the ‘tax’ of war
Abu Muhammad al Julani seeks to undermine public support for airstrikes in Syria by arguing that citizens in the West, and not just their rulers, will pay the price for the war. Julani also discusses Al Nusrah’s fight against Hezbollah and urges jihadists not to join the West in the fight against the Islamic State.
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Al Nusrah Front
US-led Raids Hit Jihadist Oil, Command Posts in Syria
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Syria
Coalition airstrikes hit the large Koniko gas plant in Deir Izzour, which also houses an Islamic State prison; granaries in the IS-held city of Manbej in Aleppo; three local oil refineries and a plastics factory in Raqqah; and in Markadah in Hasakah. About 1,500 Kurdish fighters have joined the YPG in recent days to battle IS in Aleppo. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Aleppo, Quneitra, and Reef Dimashq. Al Nusrah’s emir threatened coalition countries with retaliation for the airstrikes in Syria and warned Syrian rebel groups not to cooperate with the coalition.
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Iraq
Islamic State targeted air strikes could be extended to Syria, Britain’s PM hints
