Iraq
Watch the joint U.S. Delta Force-Kurdish raid to rescue Islamic State hostages
A video first posted by Rudaw, a Kurdish news site, purportedly shows footage of the joint U.S.-Kurdish raid that freed about 70 hostages from...
ISIS Makes Use Of Chemical Weapons
The barbaric way of ISIS knows no boundaries. After they seem to have found every possible mortifying way to execute their prisoners, until it...
Not A Terror Group: The West Acknowledges Its Enemy
The Islamic State is no longer a terrorist group - so said the French Minister of Defense, Jean-Yves Le Drian, at the Pentagon on...
Al-Shabab considering shift to international agenda,
The Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabab has largely lagged other such groups when targeting attacks abroad and recruiting foreign fighters, but new leadership could change...
Airstrikes Against ISIS “A bad joke”
The air strikes against ISIS have been going on for the last nine months .
The air war, which Secretary of State John Kerry described...
Turkish made helicopters deployed
Two Turkish-made T129 attack helicopters were deployed at a southeastern military base in Turkey to support anti-terror operations against Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy....
Suicide bombings – one of terror main tools in 2014
A new report on global trends in suicide terrorism shows that during 2014 more than 4,300 people in more than fifteen countries were killed...
ISIS Expands Beyond Syria and Iraq
ISIS is implementing its expansion plans.Since the rise of ISIS last year and its rapid seizure of Syrian and Iraqi territory—including the stunning takeover...
ISIS is becoming more deadly by using chemical weapons
It was only a matter of time.
Kurdish sources in Iraq have said they have evidence that the Islamic State (ISIS) used chlorine gas as...
Meet ISIS’s Worst Nightmare: An All-Women Battalion of Kurdish Fighters
As ISIS has swept across northern Iraq, they have become known for their atrocities towards women. For example, Yazidi women have been abducted by...
The international campaign against ISIS
Main events – February 19-25 2015
This week, there were no significant changes in the various combat zones in Iraq and Syria. YPG’s Kurdish forces...
Islamic State: Main developments in Iraq – February 19-25, 2015
Main developments in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province
As part of ISIS’s efforts to purge the Al-Anbar province from pockets of resistance, the siege of the city...
Turkey and ISIS – more than meets the eye
Despite the very controversial stance Turkey has taken in the framework of the fight against ISIS, American companies are increasing their business contacts with...
Is America ready for war against ISIS?
Poll: Americans increasingly favor US military action and sending ground troops against Islamic State.
More Americans support a U.S. military campaign against the terrorist group...
Spotlight on the Global Jihad: February 19-25 2015
The establishment of ISIS in Libya
ISIS operatives in ISIS’s provinces in Libya continue to carry out terrorist attacks against various targets:
At least two suicide...
The conduct of the Islamic State: February 12-18 2015
Cyber warfare waged by ISIS-affiliated hackers
On February 13, 2015, an ISIS-affiliated Twitter account posted the claim that ISIS-affiliated hackers had hacked into the websites...
ISIS: Main developments in Syria and Iraq February 12-18 2015
Main developments in Syria
Hama
On February 12, 2015, an ISIS-affiliated Twitter account claimed that Hama had been declared a new Islamic State province. At this...
The international campaign against ISIS: February 12-18
US and coalition airstrikes
This past week the coalition forces carried out dozens of airstrikes in Syria and Iraq:
In Syria, airstrikes were carried out in...
Spotlight on the Global Jihad: February 12-18 2015
The main events this past week were the shooting attacks in Copenhagen, carried out by the same terrorist. The first targeted an event held...
Jihadi organizations’ global activity in the second week of February 2015
Senior official of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) killed in a targeted killing
Harith al-Nadhari, one of AQAP’s most prominent authorities on Islamic religious...
The Conduct of the Islamic State
The death of an American hostage
A statement attributed to the Islamic State claimed that Kayla Jean Mueller, an American woman abducted by ISIS, was...
Israeli experts: Libya – ISIS base for terror in Europe
Israeli security experts say that the growing presence of ISIS in Libya will enable the terror organization to launch terror attacks in European countries....
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