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ISIS and the threat to Turkey
The recent hostage crisis in Mosul is only the latest sign that Turkey’s new neighbor, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, poses a serious threat to Turkey’s national security.
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Al Nusrah Front
Iraq militants take Syria-border post in drive for caliphate
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Iraq
Iraq’s Hold on Border Crossings Weakening as at Least 34 Are Killed in Battle
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Iraq
Iraq Insurgents Reaping Wealth as They Advance
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Iraq
Three reasons Lebanon fears ISIS advance
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Iraq
Aleppo fears new ISIS offensive
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Iraq
More Dutch jihadists traveling to Iraq: minister
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Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham consolidated its control of key towns along the Iraq border in Deir Izzour. ISIS took over more towns in Aleppo from the Al Nusrah Front, Islamic fighters, and rebels; a shell hit a house in Jarabalus, which is controlled by ISIS. In Ghouta in Reef Dimashq, suspected ISIS gunmen assassinated a dissenting former ISIS judge and his mother. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Homs, Aleppo, and Reef Dimashq. Islamic fighters also clashed with regime forces in Deraa, Hama, and Idlib. A car bombing blamed on…
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Iraq
How ISIS is spreading its message online
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Iraq
Baghdad’s Sunni fighters: we are ready for zero hour
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Ansar al Islam claims attacks against Iraqi military, police
Ansar al Islam, a jihadist group founded in northern Iraq in September 2001, has claimed a number of attacks against the Iraqi government since the rebel offensive began earlier this month.
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Australia
Official: 150 Australians fighting in Syria, Iraq
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Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham reportedly told its emir for Jarabalus in Aleppo to step down after he was filmed threatening an elderly man with a gun for lacking knowledge of Islam; ISIS also killed a man near Jarabalus accused of cooperating with Awakening Movements. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Aleppo, Hama, Deraa, and in Reef Dimashq. In Deir Izzour, ISIS negotiated with Al Nusrah over control of a checkpoint. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a Western-backed battalion killed at least 32 civilians when it shelled the…
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Iraq
Iraqis, Saudis call the shots in ISIS ‘capital’ Raqqah
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Europe
Jihadists back from Syria are ‘deadly danger’ to Europe, Germany warns
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Iraq
Cameron says foreign fighters in Iraq, Syria most serious threat to UK
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France
French Islamists with ISIS in the perfect terrain for jihad
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Hezbollah
Iraq Shiite Volunteers in Syria Head Home to Fight Rebels
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Syria
Gunmen from the Al Nusrah Front and the Free Syrian Army took over the Al Qaim crossing in Iraq’s Anbar province, entering from the Syrian side of the crossing, which they controlled. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama and Reef Dimashq. The Islamic Front also clashed with regime forces in Deraa and Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights expressed concern that some 145 Kurdish schoolchildren kidnapped by the the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham would be used as suicide bombers. Regime forces reportedly withdrew several Iraqi pro-regime militants from al-Mleiha…
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Iraq
UN investigators warn of wider sectarian war across Iraq, Syria
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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham’s quiet war minister
Little is publicly known about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham’s war minister. But he was appointed in April 2010 and the war ministry he leads has been in charge of planning the group’s operations in the past.
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Syria
Regime forces attacked an ISIS office in Hasakah, clashed with ISIS fighters over the Sha’r gas field in Homs, and attacked the ISIS headquarters and sharia court in Raqqah city in Raqqah. The regime airstrikes against ISIS strongholds in eastern Syria were coordinated with Iraq. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Reef Dimashq, Aleppo, and Homs. The Islamic Front also clashed with regime forces in Idlib. A video surfaced purporting to show Zahran Alloush, head of the Islamic Front’s Islam Army, urging rebels to carry on their offensive in Damascus. Regime forces have taken…
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Al Nusrah Front
Syrian army crushes rebel push near Turkish border
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Iraq
Syria pounds ISIS bases in coordination with Iraq
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Maghreb terrorists make sales pitch to youth
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Al Nusrah Front
ISIS menaces al Qaeda in Libyan city of Derna
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Al Qaeda
US Officials Fear Moner Mohammad Abusalha’s Jihad Video Will Inspire Others
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Iraq
Turkey paying price for jihadist highway on border
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Fatah
Qatar to pay former Hamas civil servant salaries
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Syria
Nine top Free Syrian Army commanders resigned, citing an absence of donor support that disadvantaged them against the Assad regime and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. The Al Nusrah Front and allied rebel groups, including the Islamic Front, pulled out of the border town of Kasab in Latakia, and withdrew to the Jabal al-Akrad area. Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Homs; Reef Dimashq; and Aleppo, where the al Tawhid brigade prevented cars from passing through the Bab al Salama crossing and FSA fighters extracted $100 bribes from cars at the crossing. The…
