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Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda tightens grip on western Iraq in bid for Islamic state
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Syria
US Halts Aid Delivery To Syria’s North Following Islamist Gains
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Syria
The Islamic Front seized the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Turkish border from Free Syrian Army forces after having taken over their nearby warehouse and arms depots last week. The US suspended all shipments of nonlethal aid to the Free Syrian Army in the north as a result of Islamist gains. Suspected Islamist gunmen abducted a leading Syrian human rights lawyer, her husband, and two associates from her office in the Damascus suburb of Douma. A number of activists have disappeared in recent months in areas controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. The families of two…
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Switzerland
Analysis finds confusion over ‘armed conflicts’
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Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham executed a mentally disabled man in Idlib for swearing. ISIS continued its attacks on Syrian Kurds in Aleppo, taking over homes and turning them into bases. Regime forces detained the wife of a nonviolent opposition activist in Damascus who is currently being detained. The Supreme Military Council is starting a ‘hearts and minds’ campaign in rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Idlib, and Damascus to provide humanitarian assistance and wean civilians away from al Qaeda’s outreach efforts. A Spanish news outlet revealed that two Spanish journalists were kidnapped in September by ISIS in Raqqah.
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Al Qaeda
Saudis Fearing Syrian Blowback Expand Rehab for Jihadis
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Free Syrian Army
Syria’s ‘bride of the revolution’ mourns freedom in Qaeda’s grip
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Syria
Regime troops and Hezbollah allies advanced against fighters from the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in the town of Nabek near the Lebanon border. A senior Hezbollah commander was killed in the fighting in Nabek. The Damascus-Homs highway has reportedly been taken by regime forces.
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Syria
Regime forces continued to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and allied rebels on the Damascus-Homs highway in Reef Dimashq near Nabek. The Syrian National Coalition said the bodies of 40 men, women, and children were found near the city. In Idlib, the Islamic Front took over the bases and arms depots of the Free Syrian Army’s Supreme Military Council at the Baba el-Hawa crossing between Syria and Turkey. The FSA said two of its commanders were seized and secretly executed by ISIS as they were leading an aid convoy from Turkey to…
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Islamic Front fighters take over Free Syrian Army bases near Turkish border
The Islamic Front took control of Free Syrian Army warehouses that are stocked with Western supplies and that were raided by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham late last month.
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Morocco
Family jihad: father takes five sons to join Syrian rebels
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Syria
The previously unknown Ahrar Al-Qalamoun Brigade reportedly conveyed the Al Nusrah Front’s demands to the Assad regime via the Vatican that 12 nuns kidnapped from Maaloula will be released only if conditions are met, including that the regime release 1,000 female prisoners and suspend its siege on a number of strategic areas, such as Ghouta in eastern Damascus. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is said to be gaining ground from rebel groups in Syria, and to have about 5,500 foreign fighters, including 250 Chechens in Aleppo, and 17,000 Syrian fighters. A suicide attack in Hasakah killed five…
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Al Nusrah Front
Beheadings and spies help al Qaeda gain ground in Syria
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
A jihadist spark that could ignite the Israeli-Syrian border
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Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and Islamic groups clashed with regime forces on the Damascus-Homs highway in Reef Dimashq. Regime forces battled Al Nusrah and Islamic battalions on the outskirts of Maaloula. ISIS has kidnapped 51 Kurdish civilians in and around Minbej city in Aleppo, and has seized Kurdish shops. Gunmen assassinated a rebel leader in the Yarmouk camp in Damascus. Suspected ISIS gunmen stopped a journalist’s car at a checkpoint in Idlib and shot into the car; the journalist’s fate is unknown. Two Norwegian sisters of Somali origin who traveled to Syria…
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Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda emerges amid Egypt’s turmoil
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Morocco
Morocco justice chief calls for vigilance against terror
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Kazakhstan
Tracking Central Asians’ Trails To Jihad In Syria
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Chechnya
Russian force training to counter militants from Syria: Chechen leader
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Hezbollah
Who Took Out Hezbollah’s Hassan al-Laqqis?
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Al Nusrah Front
Beheadings and spies help al Qaeda gain ground in Syria
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4 battalions from Qatar-backed Islamist brigade defect to wage ‘armed jihadist struggle’
The four battalions broke from the Ahfad al Rasoul Brigade after one of the group’s top leaders defected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir
Jihadists Returning Home to Europe from Syria Pose New Terror Threat
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Syria
General Salim Idriss, head of the Free Syrian Army, denied saying that his forces would fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham or cooperate with regime forces in doing so. Pope Francis called for prayers for 12 nuns taken by armed men from a convent in Maaloula; the nuns are said to be detained by the Al Nusrah Front in the rebel-held city of Yabroud. A suicide car bomber detonated at a checkpoint in Hama, and Islamic battalions clashed with regime forces at that checkpoint and another in the province. ISIS, Al Nusrah, and Islamic battalions clashed…
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ISIS continues to launch suicide assaults in Iraq
Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham has had no difficulty in deploying suicide bombers individually or in teams against Iraqi military and government targets.
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European Union
EU warns about threat Syria foreign fighters
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Denmark
Syria’s chemical weapons to be shipped in delicate US-Danish operation
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Syria
Jihadist Groups Gain in Turmoil Across Middle East
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Al Qaeda
Jihadist Groups Gain in Turmoil Across Middle East
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Kurdistan
Syrian Kurds celebrate war-torn country’s first civil marriage
