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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s religious police ‘contains extremists’
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Ansar Bayt al Maqdis
Jihadist Return Is Said to Drive Attacks in Egypt
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Suqour al Sham, ISIS agree to ceasefire
The Islamic Front brigade signed a ceasefire with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham despite the latter’s recent isolation.
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Syria
The Suqour al-Sham, an Islamist brigade in the Islamic Front, agreed to a truce with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham; the Free Syrian Army-linked Syrian Revolutionaries’ Front, which has clashed with the Islamic Front, condemned the ceasefire as illegitimate. The Al Nusrah Front and Islamic battalions clashed with regime forces in Reef Dimashq and in Deir Izzour. Rocket fire killed 12 Al Nusrah fighters, including a commander, in Idlib. Rebel and Islamic battalion fighters clashed with NDF forces in Hama. Gunmen killed 11 ISIS fighters in Raqqah. Syria missed another deadline for the handover of its chemical…
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Al Nusrah Front
Syria-trained US militants pose threat, officials say
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ISIS confirms death of senior leader in Syria
Abu Bakr al Iraqi, who is also known as Haji Bakr, served as a top lieutenant to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and as the military commander for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham before he was killed in Syria earlier this year.
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Al Qaeda
Meet Chechclearr, the Web-savvy foreign Islamic militant in Syria
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Syria
The first UN report on the fate of children in Syria over the past two years details “unspeakable” abuses, including torture by government forces and the use of child soldiers by the opposition. Turkey has reportedly refused entry to some 2,000 refugees, mainly women and children, who have fled clashes with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Raqqah city. ISIS issued an apology for injury to civilians and an appeal to civilians in Raqqah to seek justice in sharia court; the group also urged its fighters to treat people decently. The Al Nusrah Front and Islamic battalions…
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Germany
UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon Discusses Syria
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Abdullah Azzam Brigades announces joint attack with Al Nusrah on Hezbollah
The group announced the joint operation the same day that al Qaeda denounced the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham.
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Syria
After al Qaeda disowned the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, a prominent pro-al Qaeda Saudi cleric called on ISIS members to defect. An Islamic Front official praised al Qaeda’s move, and claimed ISIS is now “without cover or co-sponsor … totally stripped after al Qaeda and the people abandoned it.” An observer group said the son of a well-known nonviolent activist was tortured to death by Syrian military intelligence, and the group called for help in pressuring the regime to release tens of thousands of detainees. Islamic battalion fighters targeting a village in Hama killed five students when…
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Pro-al Qaeda Saudi cleric calls on ISIS members to defect
Influential al Qaeda-linked jihadists have denounced the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) in recent weeks and are now calling on its members to defect. They have supported Ayman al Zawahiri and al Qaeda’s senior leadership in their dispute with ISIS.
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Al Qaeda’s general command disowns the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Al Qaeda’s general command has disowned the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), which has been fighting with other jihadist groups in Syria and pursuing its own agenda.
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Syria
Al Qaeda’ s General Command issued a statement disassociating itself from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, deploring the “sedition” and “the enormity of the disaster that afflicted the Jihad in Syria.” An ISIS fighter who had previously served as a negotiator between ISIS and Islamic battalions detonated in the Islamic battalion center in Aleppo’s Al-Ra’ii neighborhood, killing 16 Islamic battalion fighters, including two commanders. ISIS earlier battled Islamic battalions and rebels for control of the area. ISIS clashed with regime forces near al-Sfera city. In Raqqah, gunmen killed an ISIS commander, and ISIS seized a rebel battalion’s…
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Al Nusrah Front launches another suicide attack in Lebanon
The Al Nusrah Front, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham continue to target Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Syria
Aid agencies evacuated hundreds of residents from the rebel-held district of Yarmouk in Damascus. Regime barrel bombs killed at least 23 people in Aleppo city, including eight Al Nusrah Front fighters. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham detonated two car bombs in Aleppo and clashed with Islamist battalions and rebels in the Al-Ra’ii area. The Al Nusrah Front and Islamic battalions took over several checkpoints from regime forces in Hama. The US denied Foreign Minister Mouallem’s accusation that it had sought direct negotiations with Syria at the Geneva II talks, and urged Russia and other nations to help…
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Afghanistan
US, Turkey realize al Qaeda threat in Syria
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Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda now frontline threat to Israel
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Syria
A state news anchor’s take on the Syria war
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Syria
The first week of Geneva II talks ended with no progress. A rights organization accused the Assad regime of deliberately destroying thousands of homes in Damascus and Hama over the past two years. The mother of a British doctor who died in regime custody said regime officials admitted to killing him. The OPCW told the regime it must speed up the process of moving its chemical arsenal out of the country for disposal, which is already weeks behind schedule. UN food aid was distributed in the besieged Yarmouk camp for the second day in a row. The Islamic State of…
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Report: Senior al Qaeda facilitator ‘back on the street’ in Iran
Al Jazeera reports that Yasin al Suri, the head of al Qaeda’s Iran-based network, is facilitating the terror network’s operations from Iranian soil once again. Al Suri was detained by the Iranian government after the US government exposed his network, and the deal between Iran and al Qaeda, in 2011.
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Indonesia
Indonesian Militants Join Fight in Syria
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Syria
The Islamic State of the Sham clashed with Islamic battalions and rebels in Aleppo, and killed five regime forces in Damascus. Syrian officials said “certain security threats” have delayed the transfer of Syrian chemical weapons out of the country, according to the OPCW. At the Geneva II talks, the Assad regime presented a resolution that called on all states to “prevent and stop the funding of terrorist acts” and said every Syrian has a duty to drive terrorists out of Syria; the opposition rejected the resolution. US intelligence said al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri has not yet called on…
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Hezbollah
Hezbollah expanding drone use to Syria and Lebanon
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Al Nusrah Front
Al Qaeda groups in Syria want to attack US
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ISIS suicide team assaults Iraqi ministry
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham suicide assault team killed 17 people in the Ministry of Transportation before Iraqi security forces killed them.
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Ahrar al Sham
The Dawn of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Bitterness of Syrian war on display at talks
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Syria
US intelligence estimates that over 7,000 foreign fighters from 50 countries are now fighting the Assad regime in Syria. Regime forces dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held areas of Aleppo, killing 13 people. Turkish forces attacked an Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham convoy in Syria near the border after ISIS opened fire on a border post yesterday. After four days of clashes with Kurdish YPG forces, fighters from ISIS, the Al Nusrah Front, and Islamic battalions withdrew from Al-Manajeer in Hasakah yesterday. ISIS blew up the Raqqah house of a regime forces member suspected of stealing. The Syrian National…
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Syria
Syrian Opposition in Geneva Tries to Polish Image, Project Unity
