Michael Leiter, who led the National Counterterrorism Center during the Osama bin Laden raid, offers his thoughts on the Baghdadi operation. By Alex Ward@AlexWardVoxalex.ward@vox.com Oct 27, 2019 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, […]
International October 27, 2019 Iraqi state television has aired footage of what it said was a raid in Syria that reportedly killed Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Baghdadi was reportedly […]
Source: The Washington Post By Louisa Loveluck and Louisa Loveluck Reporter in The Washington Post’s Beirut bureau, focusing on Syria. ZAKHU, Iraq — Hiyam never expected to love her daughter. The father was an […]
Source: The New York Times By Vivian Yee BEIRUT, Lebanon — Many of them were barely school age when their parents took them to the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate in Iraq […]
Source: The Washington Post By Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim IRBIL, Iraq — Senior Iraqi officials are pressing to establish a special detention camp to isolate as many as 30,000 Iraqis who lived […]
Source: Associated Press By JON GAMBRELL and ZEINA KARAM COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — No longer burdened by territory and administration, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi outlined the […]
Source: The New York Times By Hannah Beech and Jason Gutierrez BASILAN, the Philippines — Across the islands of the southern Philippines, the black flag of the Islamic State is flying over […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sayed Salahuddin and Pamela Constable March 7 KABUL — An outdoor memorial service attended by numerous Afghan politicians and officials, including Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and former president […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Birnbaum February 17 RANST, Belgium — The children’s voices crackled through the phone and into Fatiha’s gray-walled living room. “When are we going to Grandma’s?” one […]
Source: Reuters By Lesley Wroughton, Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday called on countries to take in foreign fighters captured by America’s Kurdish allies in Syria, […]
Source: BBC News By Frank Gardner The Islamic State group (IS) has lost its short-lived caliphate in the Middle East, with hundreds – possibly thousands – of would-be international […]
Source: Reuters BEIRUT (Reuters) – The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces will soon seize the town of Hajin from Islamic State (IS) in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, a spokeswoman […]
Source: BBC News By Secunder Kermani BBC News, Kabul Tears and wails of grief fill the air around a hilltop cemetery in the outskirts of Kabul. “Why did you leave us?” […]
Source: CNN By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN)A man who stabbed three people after his pickup truck burst into flames in a Melbourne street was known to authorities for his radical views […]
Source: Reuters By Alissa de Carbonnel, Emmanuel Jarry ANTWERP/PARIS (Reuters) – For years, they heard little from daughters who went to join Islamic State. Now dozens of families across Europe have […]
Iraqi minority shuns children born of IS rape, enslavement Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SALAR SALIM DAHUK, Iraq (AP) — The 26-year-old Yazidi mother faces a […]
Source: Associated Press By LOLITA C. BALDOR AL-UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar (AP) — An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group targeted a mosque in Syria last […]
Source: Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has extended its state of emergency for another three months. The government declared a state of emergency after an Islamic State affiliate bombed […]
Source: Associated Press By BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT (AP) — After being nearly defeated on the battlefields of its would-be caliphate, the Islamic State group has reverted to what it was […]
Source: The Guardian By Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent The home secretary, Sajid Javid, decided to cooperate with US authorities in the prosecution of two alleged Islamic State fighters, without assurances they would not […]