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Islamic State
Islamic State advertises for fighters from Turkey
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France
Islamic State crisis: World leaders pledge Iraq support
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Caucasus Emirate eulogizes slain Ahrar al Sham leaders
The al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate joins the Al Nusrah Front and other jihadist groups in offering condolences to Ahrar al Sham.
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Al Nusrah Front
Islamic State’s war chest is growing daily
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Christians
Christians of Akkar keep eye on ISIS threat
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Syria
The Syrian Revolutionaries Front displayed the dead bodies of two members of a four-man suicide bombing team who had tried to attack the SRF in Idlib. A regime airstrike on a dormitory at an IS training camp in Tibni in Deir Izzour killed 17 militants and a child. The IS issued a set of rules for Raqqah City, “the Stronghold of the Islamic State in Syria,” declaring among other things that those who insist on apostasy will be murdered. The Kurdish YPG battled the IS in Hasakah. Militiamen in Reef Dimashq killed a member of the national reconciliation team along…
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Al Nusrah Front
Al Nusrah Front and allied rebels seize most of Syria’s Golan truce line
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Al Nusrah Front
ISIS Strikes Deal With Moderate Syrian Rebels: Reports
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Syria
State media claimed that Khaled Maarouf, a son of Syrian Revolutionaries Front leader Jamal Maarouf, was killed in a “terrorist attack” car bombing at an SRF checkpoint in Deir Sinbul in Idlib; another report said Jamal may also have been injured in the attack. The SRF recently agreed to a ceasefire with the Islamic State in Reef Dimashq. Regime forces clashed with the Islamic State in Deir Izzour near the military airport. The Islamic State is continuing to destroy Sufi shrines throughout Syria. Zahran Alloush, leader of the Islam Army, warned that the group will start executing captured Syrian pilots…
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Islamic State beheads British citizen, threatens another
The Islamic State released a video of the beheading of David Cawthorne Haines, a British citizen who was kidnapped while providing security for an aid group in Syria’s Idlib province in March 2013.
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Iraq
Struggling to Starve ISIS of Oil Revenue, US Seeks Assistance From Turkey
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On the CIA estimate of number of fighters in the Islamic State
It should come as no surprise that the CIA concludes that the Islamic State has upwards of 31,500 fighters.
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Islamic State
Nations Trying to Stop Their Citizens From Going to Middle East to Fight for ISIS
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Al Nusrah Front
Syrian al Qaeda Moves in Next Door to Israel
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Iraq
For Assad, US offensive will weaken one foe but bolster others
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Syria
In the Damascus suburb of Hajar al-Aswad, the Islamic State entered into a ceasefire with moderate and Islamist rebels “because they consider the principal enemy to be the [Assad] regime.” The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front are continuing their advance in Quneitra, and now control as much as 80% of the province. Regime forces raised their flag in Halfaya in Hama after an agreement was reached with city leaders and Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front withdrew. Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front, along with Ansar al Din, clashed with regime forces in Aleppo, and regime airstrikes targeted…
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Al Nusrah Front
How Philippine UN troops defied orders, opened fire and escaped the Al Nusrah Front
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Al Nusrah Front
Kerry plays down hopes of imminent anti-Islamic State coalition
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Analysis: Al Nusrah Front explains decision to release UN peacekeepers
The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, explained its decision to release more than 40 UN peacekeepers in a video released earlier this week. The group disputes published reports saying that it demanded to be taken off the UN’s list of designated terrorist organizations. And it says the hostages were freed in compliance with sharia law.
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‘Moderate’ Syrian Revolutionaries Front continues to support al Qaeda
President Obama’s strategy for confronting the Islamic State in Syria depends on empowering moderate Syrian rebels to take over areas once they are liberated. The problem is, ‘moderate’ rebels untainted by links to Islamist groups such as al Qaeda’s Al Nusrah Front seem to be nonexistent.
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Iraq
Opponents say Obama will need ground troops against Islamic State
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Al Qaeda
Extremist threat hangs over key Tunisia elections
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Afghanistan
Beating Islamic State will be much harder than Iraq or Afghan wars, officials say
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Al Nusrah Front
US Pins Hope on Syrian Rebels With Loyalties All Over the Map
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Iraq
The local forces dilemma for Obama in Syria and Iraq
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Arab League
Russia fears the eastward spread of ‘jihadist cancer’
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Free Syrian Army
How Will US Anti-Jihadist Plan Affect Syria?
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Syria
The Assad regime warned that any action in Syria without its approval would be regarded as aggression, but offered to work with any country fighting the Islamic State in Syria or Iraq. UN mediator Stefan de Mistura met with President Assad. The Al Nusrah Front released the 45 Fijian UN peacekeepers it kidnapped two weeks ago; it is unclear if any of its demands were met, but Sheik Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi was involved in the negotiations, as was Qatar. The UN said no ransom was paid for the Fijians’ release. The Islamic State began evacuating positions in al Bab…
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New leader of Ahrar al Sham previously led Free Syrian Army unit
The Islamic Front identified Sheikh Hashim al Sheikh, who is also known as Abu Jaber, as the new emir of al Qaeda-allied Ahrar al Sham.
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Iraq
Syrian National Coalition backs US intervention against ISIS
