Tag Archives: Islamic State
Out of the ashes, a new Libyan airline takes flight
Risk-averse entrepreneurs look away now. In the notoriously volatile airline industry, even well-established operators are never more than a few months from bankruptcy. The threat is compounded tenfold for start-ups – and is incalculably higher in a warzone. Small wonder
U.S. coalition slows air strikes on Syria
U.S.-led coalition forces have not carried out any air strikes in Syria for three days as of Monday, a lull that contrasts with the continued intensity of Russia’s bombing campaign. According to Pentagon data, the last coalition strike was a
ISIS executes three in Palmyra, destroys ancient columns
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group executed three people in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra by binding them to three historic columns and blowing them up, a monitoring group said Monday. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for
Turkish police and ISIS militants killed in firefight
Two Turkish policemen and seven Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants were killed in a firefight after police raided more than a dozen houses in Turkey’s southeast early on Monday, security sources said. The clashes in the Kayapinar
‘I apologize:’ Tony Blair admits Iraq war mistakes
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized for aspects of the Iraq war in an upcoming television interview, British media reported Sunday. His comments, in a yet-to-be-aired interview CNN that has been reported by the Mail on Sunday, have
Syria army battles to retake Aleppo supply line from ISIS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday restated a pledge to uphold the custom of not permitting non-Muslim prayer at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque complex, at the center of a surge in unrest. “Israel re-affirms its commitment to upholding unchanged the
Pentagon expects more raids similar to Iraq rescue
A U.S.-backed military operation that freed 70 hostages who had been held by ISIS in Iraq produced a cache of intelligence, and U.S. forces supporting Iraqi troops are likely to undertake more raids in the future, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash
Russia Special Forces kill ISIS-linked militant in Dagestan
Russian security forces killed a militant linked to ISIS in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan early on Saturday, the government’s Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK) said, according to news agencies. Special Forces and police found Abdula Nustafaev in a house in
ISIS militants claim blast near Egypt pyramids
Four people were wounded on Friday by a bomb planted at a Cairo intersection near the Pyramids, the interior ministry said, and ISIS claimed it had planted the device. Separately in Sinai, where the ISIS group is waging an insurgency,
Kurds say joint raid with U.S. in Iraq aimed to free their fighters
U.S. and Kurdish special forces who raided a compound in northern Iraq were acting on intelligence that Kurdish fighters were being imprisoned there by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a source in the Kurdistan Region Security Council said
Obama names envoy to run anti-ISIS campaign
President Barack Obama on Friday tapped veteran Iraq expert Brett McGurk to coordinate the troubled U.S. campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, the White House said. Announcing the departure of General John Allen, who steps
Baghdad was not informed of U.S. special forces raid: spokesman
Iraq’s Defense Ministry was not informed about a joint U.S. and Kurdish military operation that rescued 69 prisoners held by ISIS , a ministry spokesman said on Friday. “We just heard this from the media, we didn’t know about it,”
ISIS oil field ruined, its Syria bastion bombed
ISIS militants on Thursday received heavy air strikes from the U.S.-led coalition and Russia in the same day, leaving their oil facility in eastern Syria destroyed and their bastion in the city of Raqqa bombarded by warplanes. Warplanes bombed Raqqa,
Erdogan: ISIS, Syrian intel, PKK behind blast
Turkey’s president on Thursday pinned responsibility for the deadly Ankara bombing on a “terror collective” comprising the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, Turkish and Syrian Kurds and the Syrian intelligence service. Over 100 people were killed when
Bahrain charges 24 of forming ISIS cell
Bahrain has charged 24 people with forming a cell of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, plotting suicide attacks and recruiting fighters for the extremist organization. The move came after investigations into the formation of a “branch
Europe moves to thwart recruitment of foreign militants
Seventeen EU members including France, Germany, Britain and Belgium inked an international agreement Thursday designed to thwart the recruitment of “foreign terrorist fighters” who travel from Europe to conflict zones abroad, notably in Syria. Drawn up by the 47-member Council
Syrian Kurds declare new province
Syria’s Kurds have incorporated a mixed town they captured from ISIS group into territory they claim in the country’s north, a leading party said Wednesday. The move to bring the border town of Tal Abyad into the autonomous administration led
Iraqi forces recapture Beiji town from Daesh
Teamed up with paramilitary forces, Iraqi government troops on Tuesday drove Daesh militants out of a key oil refinery town north of Baghdad, a government spokesman said. The Joint Military Command spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, said the troops imposed
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