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Europe
Is Obama’s Foreign Policy Too European?
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Al Nusrah Front
Fears of ISIS grow in Lebanon
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Canada
Europe employs outreach program to rehabilitate Islamist extremists
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Syria
US team begins destroying Syrian chemical arsenal at sea
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Syria
Regime forces are beginning to close in on Aleppo, and the Islamic State is moving into the countryside north of Aleppo. The IS targeted the town of Ikhtren in north Aleppo, and the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Al Zahra, Khan Toman, Al-Brej, Kafar Segher, and near Aleppo central prison. The IS has displaced tens of thousands of Deir Izzour residents in Khasham, Tabeyyet Jazeera, and Al Shhil, and is negotiating terms of “repentance,” involving displacement, for the towns of Granij, Abo Hamam, and Al Keshkeyyi; regime airstrikes targeted IS-held areas in Mo Hasan,…
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Lebanon
Western help, boosted cooperation behind security successes
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Updated: Popular Australian cleric seeks to travel to Syria, join Islamic State
Shortly after the Islamic State declared the formation of the caliphate, Musa Cerantonio, a popular cleric, announced he was planning to travel to Syria.
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Islamic State
Europe’s fear: Turkey’s porous border serves as gateway for ISIS’s spread
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Al Nusrah Front
NGO: ISIS expels thousands in east Syria
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Al Nusrah Front
Who controls Syria’s oil?
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Syria
The Islamic State has taken control of all of Syria’s main oil and gas fields. In Deir Izzour, the Eben Al Qayyem Brigade and Al Hamza battalion clashed with the IS in Abo Hamam; protesters in Granij called for jihad against the IS; and tribal leaders in Abo Hamam, Granji, and Al Keshkeyyi negotiated with IS for an end to hostilities. Regime airstrikes targeted IS-held areas in Al Sor in Deir Izzour, in Hasakah, and in Raqqah city. The IS executed two men and mutilated the corpses of YPG fighters in Aleppo. The Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, the…
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Al Nusrah Front
Al Nusrah Front weakened in Syria by ISIS Islamic State: Analysts
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Al Qaeda
How a talented footballer became world’s most wanted man, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi
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Islamic State’s ‘caliph’ speaks at Mosul mosque
The video is the first to show Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. He is shown delivering a sermon at a mosque in the Islamic State-held city of Mosul.
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Syria
The Islamic State took over the al Tanak oil field in eastern Deir Izzour, and is also advancing north up the Euphrates River toward the Turkish border. Elsewhere in Deir Izzour, 30 IS fighters broke out of an Al Nusrah Front jail in Al Hawayej, and residents of Al Shhil have turned over their weapons to the IS and begun vacating the city. The IS clashed with regime forces in Raqqah; battled the Army of Islam in eastern Ghouta in Reef Dimashq; and clashed with Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front in Aleppo, where it also clashed with Kurdish YPG…
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Al Nusrah Front
Jordan Salafi leader warns of chaos
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Al Nusrah Front
Islamic State Militants Seize Oil Field, Expand Syrian Domain
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Al Nusrah Front
Obama’s Blueprint for Fighting Terrorism Collides With Reality in Iraq
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Al Nusrah Front
US seeks more security at some foreign airports
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Syria
In Deir Izzour, the Islamic State took over Boqros after the Al Nusrah Front, Ahrar al Sham, and other Islamic Front factions withdrew; the IS also took control of the Attank oilfield from a sharia body consisting of Al Nusrah, the Army of Islam, and other Islamic Front factions; and negotiated terms for the surrender of former Al Nusrah stronghold Al Shihl, requiring residents to repent, turn over weapons and fighters, and vacate the city for 10 days. Demonstrators in Ghranij protested against the IS. In Raqqah, regime airstrikes targeted IS in Raqqah City and by the 17th Division. In…
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Lebanon
Syrians to constitute third of Lebanese population
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Al Nusrah Front
Airport security may be tightened permanently after US warning – UK deputy prime minister
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Islamic State consolidates gains in eastern Syria
With the fall of Mayadin as well as Shujail, the home town of the Al Nusrah Front’s emir, the Islamic State controls contiguous territory along the Euphrates River Valley from the town of Jarabulus, which borders Turkey, in Syria’s northern Aleppo province to the town of Anah in Anbar province in Iraq.
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Al Nusrah Front
Islamic State seizes oil field and towns in Syria’s east
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Iran
Iran’s near invisible Quds Force commander
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Syria
The Islamic State (formerly ISIS) clashed with the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front in Deir Izzour, where the IS took over Al Rez, bombarded areas in Al Shhil said to have served as Al Nusrah’s main headquarters in Syria, arrested people in Albu Kamal, and was targeted by regime airstrikes near Al Bisri. In Raqqah, the IS called for people to people swear allegiance to IS caliph al Baghdadi as Amir Al Mumnin (commander of the believers), and regime airstrikes targeted IS-held areas in Raqqah city. In Aleppo, the IS battled the Islamic Front, the Al Akrad Front…
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France
Top Kurdish spy chief says French jihadists fighting in Iraq
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Chechnya
Chechen in Syria a rising leader in extremist group
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb calls for reconciliation between jihadist groups
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has issued a statement praising the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham’s (ISIS) gains in Iraq and calling for reconciliation between jihadist groups in Syria. The statement was authored prior to the ISIS declaring that it ruled over a caliphate and rebranding itself the “Islamic State.”
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France
Russia seeks UN ban on oil trade with ‘terrorists’ in Syria
