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France
Who’s who in coalition to defeat Islamic State
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United Kingdom
The Islamic State released a video showing British hostage John Cantlie, a journalist seized in Syria in November 2012, promising to show “the truth” about the IS in future videos. UK Muslim groups and leaders called for the IS to release British aid worker Alan Henning, whom IS recently threatened to murder.
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United Kingdom
The government is said to be giving serious consideration to joining the military airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq. As part of an ongoing investigation, counterterrorism police raided a house in Cardiff and seized materials from it.
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Europe
Kurds in Europe Take up Arms Against IS Group
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France
Islamic State crisis: World leaders pledge Iraq support
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United Kingdom
Prime Minister Cameron vowed that Britain will hunt down the Islamic State killers of UK citizen David Haines. He listed steps the UK will take against the Islamic State, including supporting US airstrikes, but did not indicate that the UK will be conducting airstrikes. Police are questioning a man who boarded a crowded train in London during rush hour on Sept. 11 and announced he had a bomb.
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Afghanistan
Taliban advance into Sangin threatens British military gains in Helmand
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Egypt
Egypt’s Brotherhood says leaders to quit Qatar haven
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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
Kerry plays down hopes of imminent anti-Islamic State coalition
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United Kingdom
Defence Secretary Hammond said after consulting with his German counterpart that the UK will not be taking part in any airstrikes in Syria, as that was ruled out last year. The Prime Minister’s office maintained, however, that regarding the use of air power and the like in Syria, “nothing has been ruled out,” and said Hammond had been referring to strikes against the Assad regime.
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United Kingdom
The UK is sending £1.6 worth of arms and ammunition to the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government in Iraq to help them in their battle against the Islamic State. Defence Secretary Fallon described the shipment as “an initial gifting package” sent at the request of the Iraqi government.
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United Kingdom
Authorities evacuated Luton Airport, about 30 miles north of London, after a suspicious item was found in the security search area. Incoming flights were canceled and the airport road was closed. The item was later destroyed in a “controlled explosion.” Sir Peter Wall, the outgoing head of the Army, warned that the UK has little idea of the capabilities and strength of the Islamic State, but said the organization “will pose an even great threat if we take no action against them.”
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Algeria
Libya accuses Khartoum of flying weapons to Islamist rebels in Tripoli
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France
Iraq Welcomes US Plan for Coalition against Jihadists
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France
Obama: US will ‘take out’ ISIS leaders
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The Islamic State’s global reach
A closer look at recent developments in a number of countries should dispel any illusions that the Islamic State’s aspirations and activities are only regional.
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Islamic State
Obama and Cameron Call on NATO to Confront ISIS
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Islamic State
UK could launch strikes against ISIS in Syria without Assad’s support, says PM
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United Kingdom
Prime Minister Cameron said there must be no appeasement for the Islamic State and that the UK will continue its policy of not paying ransoms, and vowed that the IS will be “squeezed out of existence” by a coalition of regional and Western partners. Foreign Secretary Hammond said the UK will look at every option for freeing a British hostage being held by the IS, but said the UK must deal with the group on the basis of its “wider threat … to the British public,” and he did not rule out airstrikes.
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Islamic State
Islamic State cleric was director of private Muslim primary school in Birmingham UK
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United Kingdom
Prime Minister Cameron shelved plans that would permit police to temporarily strip terror suspects of citizenship at the border while they are being investigated. He said the UK is considering joining the US in conducting military strikes against the Islamic State. Lawmakers investigating the “Trojan Horse” plot to impose an Islamist curriculum in Birmingham schools heard of instances, including the showing of a violent jihadist video in one of the schools and “anti-Christian chanting being led by a teacher during an assembly,” and that the Birmingham city council had been reluctant to address the school problems and witnesses were afraid…
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Iraq
US airstrikes help Iraqi forces break Islamic State’s siege
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Australia
Report: Malaysian women join ISIS to comfort militants
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Iraq
Kerry urges global ‘coalition’ to fight ISIS jihadists
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United Kingdom
Net migration into UK up by more than 38% to 243,000
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United Kingdom
The government raised the terror alert level to “severe,” the second highest level, due to concerns that terrorists in Syria and Iraq are planning attacks against the West. Urging vigilance, the head of national counterterrorism police said, “[I]t is highly likely that a terrorist attack could happen in the UK.”
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United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Cameron dismisses Johnson’s ‘presumption of guilt’ terror plan
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Iraq
In wake of James Foley’s murder, does Britain have a jihadi problem?
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Al Qaeda
Locked up: Finsbury Park Mosque detains journalist after tricky questions
