Calls for IS media blackout after reported execution of US journalist
In a video originally posted on YouTube called A Message to America, militants claiming to represent the Islamic State (IS) appeared to execute a man identified as James Foley, supposedly in retaliation for Washington launching a campaign of.
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Its been more than six months since the United States first sent warplanes to conduct airstrikes against the militant group ISIS, and four months since the.. in airstrikes, Germany has provided Kurdish forces in Iraq with $87 million worth of weapons and other military equipment, along with a handful of troops to help with training, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported.. Iraqi Kurdistan: The Kurdish fighting force, the Peshmerga, is battling ISIS on the ground.
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A corruption scandal has rocked the Iraqi army after it was found to have been paying wages to tens of thousands of non-existent soldiers. This also explains its defeats at the hands of the ���Islamic State.���
British Captive John Cantlie Reports from Kobani in IS Video
The Islamic State (IS) released a video featuring British captive John Cantlie reporting from Kobani about the groups control over the city despite Western media broadcasting the contrary. The 5 minute, 32 second video,��.
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���That sends a cl ear signal that Islam belongs to Germany,��� Erol Purlu, spokesman for the German Muslim Coordination Council, told Deutsche Welle. Under the contact, Muslim holidays as `Eid Al-Fitr and `Eid Al-Adha will be��.
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Israels frontier with Syria, where militants have kidnapped 45 U.N. peacekeepers, has become a magnet for Islamist activity and Israel itself is now a target, the defense minister and security analysts said on Tuesday. The Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda-linked group.. ���There are many armor-piercing weapons in the region, which could penetrate these protective covers,��� M��nchmeyer said, as cited by Deutsche Welle on Saturday. Inflation is taxation by stealth���������..KT.
ISIS caliphate dream could be thwarted
The caliphate is to extend from the Aleppo region in northern Syria to the Iraqi province of Diyala in eastern Iraq, according to a statement by ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani. The group has also changed its.
Iraqs phantom army
In the battle for the city of Mosul, 60,000 soldiers surrendered to around 1,200 fighters of the terrorist group ���Islamic State��� with no significant resistance. The militiamen simply stormed in with their ultra-modern equipment and put the Iraqi.
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Alleged Islamist militants have on several occasions attacked police standing guard at churches, as well as those at government buildings, since Morsi left power. On Tuesday, two policemen were shot and killed as they were guarding a church in southern .
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Kidnapped American reported Peter Curtis who was held for two years in Syria by Al Qaeda was released to UN peacekeeping forces in the Golan Heights. He is now believed to be safe in Tel Aviv in the care of the American��.
Six Guantanamo prisoners to be resettled in Uruguay.
The US government announced on Sunday that it was transferring four Syrians, one Palestinian and a Tunisian from its prison in Guantanamo Bay to Uruguay. The Syrian Jihad Diyab was among the released prisoners, the Agence. DW recommends. US releases Saudi militant al-Zahrani from Guantanamo. American officials have sent a. Islamists have kidnapped some 300 Kurds in northern Syria, according to Kurdish officials. It is unclear which group was��.
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A photographer takes pictures of U.S.-led coalition aircraft over Kobani, Syria, where airstrikes are intended to give residents time to organize against Islamic State militants. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters) *How To Cover The��.
Who is part of the coalition to battle ISIS?
Its been more than six months since the United States first sent warplanes to conduct airstrikes against the militant group ISIS, and four months since the formation of an international coalition to help fight the terror group.
US-Russian tensions over Ukraine threaten cooperation on Syria, Iran
Under George H.W. Bush, we could get a unanimous UN decision to take down Iraq in the Gulf War in 1990 and it only cost us a few billion dollars, Landis, a Middle East expert at the University of Oklahoma, told DW. We could get the whole world to.
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The base attacked is near al-Waleed border crossing, the only crossing Iraq has with Syria that is still controlled by Iraqi forces. ISIS maintains control of almost all of Anbar -- Iraqs largest province.. From Deutsche Welle IS supply channels.. An ISIS commander threatened to kidnap Lebanese women and children and end negotiations over the captive servicemen unless his wife and children, detained by authorities last week, are released soon. In a video posted��.
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The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) said in a statement on Saturday that EU-certified laboratory tests showed that soil and clothing samples collected from the remnants of a suicide blast in northern Iraq in January had levels of chlorine that. Nasser Haj Mansour, a defense official in Syrias Kurdish region, said the fighters captured the Christian village of Tal Maghas in Hassakeh province, which had been under the control of Islamic State militants.
New terror threat emerges in Egypt
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or Champions of Jerusalem, first emerged amid a security vacuum following the 2011 Egyptian revolution. During this time, prison amnesties also led to the release of many militants who had been imprisoned under former autocrat.
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*Libyas Pleas For International Help Go Unanswered -- Deutsche Welle* Politicians in restless Libya have called on the United Nations to take measures to protect civilians. How this could be done, however, remains unclear.
A defiant Charlie Hebdo: Its not the front page the terrorists wouldve wanted
Frances international TV channel, France 24, and Germanys world service television, Deutsche Welle, have also reprinted the cover. Major newspapers such as Britains Guardian, Germanys Bild and Die Welt dailies, Frances Le Monde, the Washington .
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Proud volonteers of Ghadames: Today, with Gods help, we captured a number of agents who destroyed the city and the people in them, with the help of NATO: Musa Suleiman has been kidnapped while the border patrol was cruising the region.. 21h/ State of Kurdistan recognized the Transitional Council... Apparently, the unexpected visit of foreign journalists to the makeshift prison has made him nervous. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15366254,00.html.
Between romance and Kalashnikovs - the women of Islamic State
Around 10 percent of all foreigners who join the self-styled Islamic State are young women or girls. Around 60 female jihadis came from Germany alone. What fate awaits them? Since mid-January, an Arabic document entitled Women of Islamic State has .
ISIS: Iraq today and possibly Jordan tomorrow
But the Iraqi-Jordan border crossing has nothing more to report to Iraqs central government: Members of a Sunni militia allied with the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are now in control. While the overrun border outpost is just.
Amnesty International report: Yazidi women and girls face Islamic State.
A report released Tuesday by London-based, human rights group Amnesty International said torture, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, suffered by women and girls from Iraqs Yazidi minority who were abducted by the armed group calling.
German jihadists on ISIS terror mission
Now he is fighting for the extremist group Islamist State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) under the name Abu Talha al-Almani. That makes him the most prominent example of a German who emerged as a Salafist preacher and then joined the so-called Holy War to.
Six Guantanamo prisoners to be resettled in Uruguay
The US government announced on Sunday that it was transferring four Syrians, one Palestinian and a Tunisian from its prison in Guantanamo Bay to Uruguay. The Syrian Jihad Diyab was among the released prisoners, the Agence France Presse reported.
Timeline of events related to the Islamic State of Iraq and the.
On April 8, 2013, having expanded into Syria, the group Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) adopted the name Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.[1][2][3]. In the previous week ISIL militants had used the dam to flood area around the city with the waters of the Euphrates which also caused the lowering of water levels in the southern provinces.[37].. 4 November: ISIL released 93 Syrian Kurds kidnapped in February.[429]
Islamic State leaves Yazidi running scared
Kurdistans small Yazidi community usually gathers at Lalish for its annual religious festivals in spring, summer and fall. But this month, they are there for protection, running in fear of their lives from Islamic State (IS) militants, who have.
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After their persecution by the Islamic State, many of Kurdistans 600000 or so Yazidi are looking to leave Iraq, threatening to further diminish the community that has been native to the region for thousands of years.. Most of the 450 families now living in the temple are from the western district of Sinjar that lies between Mosul and the Syrian border, and they all have terrible stories to tell of their experience at the hands of the IS militants. Khalida Burkat sits on the��.