A Lebanese-French archaeologist tells Robert Fisk about her unique answer to a unique crime By Robert Fisk, The Independent So why is Isis blowing to pieces the greatest artefacts of ancient history in Syria and Iraq? The archeologist Joanne Farchakh has a unique answer to a unique crime. First, […]
Group claims one gold coin is worth $139 (£89) Pictures posted on social media showed a series of gold sovereigns bearing Isil inscriptions By Colin Freeman, Chief Foreign Correspondent 23 Jun 2015 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has begun minting its own “Islamic dinar” coins, Syrian activists […]
Aug 29, 2015 Jordan Times Musa Keilani Daesh is still recruiting more Europeans, Tunisians, Saudi Arabians and Jordanians. A monthly salary of $700 for new jihadists is a tempting income for unemployed youth in areas where more than 47 per cent of the population lives under the […]
AIJAZ ZAKA SYED ARABNEWS.COM Published — Friday 28 August 2015 Many western commentators have been raving about Barack Obama’s twin foreign policy triumphs in the last lap of his presidency. The best take came from Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Having trashed him in June as […]
Qasim Rashid Become a fan Visiting Fellow, Harvard University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal School of Islamic Studies Posted: 08/27/2015 In central Syria, Daesh (“ISIS”) recently destroyed an ancient monastery and a church. This, after abducting several Christians, in what has become the group’s long scourge on humanity. While global […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Looking at the obscene photograph of old archeologist Khaled al-Asaad’s headless corpse tied to a lamp-post in Palmyra – another image for the library of pornography that Isis produces weekly – I was struck by how deeply the “Islamic Caliphate” has stabbed the world of […]
Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq Seumas Milne The sectarian terror group won’t be defeated by the western states that incubated it in the first place https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/r20150811/r20110914/abg.js// < ![CDATA[ // The war on terror, that campaign without end launched 14 […]
By: Charles Lister BROOKING INSTITUTE Over the past several years, thousands of foreign fighters have traveled to Syria and Iraq on a scale unprecedented in modern history. While most foreign fighters remain engaged in combat, some have begun to return, posing a real, if sometimes exaggerated, security threat to home […]
Saudi Arabia rejects Russian calls to work with Assad against Daesh By AFP – Aug 11,2015 – JORDAN TIMES MOSCOW — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Tuesday poured cold water on Russian calls to join forces with the Syrian authorities against Daesh militatns, insisting it would never work with President […]
As Turkey recently ‘joined’ the US assault on the IS militant group in Syria, their renewed attacks on PKK separatists have resulted in an end to a two-year peace treaty with the Kurdish Workers’ Party Bassem Aly , Wednesday 5 Aug 2015 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (C), flanked by Prime […]
By Christoph Reuter spiegel.de Ali Arkady/VII/DER SPIEGEL Earlier, fighters with the League of Righteous Shiite militia tortured and murdered. But now they intend to save Iraq from the Islamic State. Can it work? A trip to the front in the city of Baiji explains much about the current […]
Associated Press By KEN DILANIAN, ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE WASHINGTON (AP) — After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is […]
Analysis STRATFOR.COM JULY 29, 2015 | 09:15 GMT An explosion rocks the Syrian city of Kobani during a reported suicide car bomb attack by Islamic State militants on a People’s Protection Unit (YPG) position, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, October 2014. (GOKHAN SAHIN/Getty […]
Jul 23,2015 – by Rami G. Khouri, Jordan Times I listen carefully when a senior American armed forces officer speaks about current events, because men and women in the military who put their lives on the line to fight wars initiated by their political leaders tend to be more sensible about […]
Arab News © Provided by Arab News Daesh extremists have made it a priority to mold children under their rule into a new generation of militants, luring them into becoming fighters, suicide bombers and executioners. Academics in the kingdom have urged parents to play an active role in protecting their […]
RASHID HASSAN ARABNEWS.COM Sharourah was chosen as base camp for training, coordinating terror attacks RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it has broken up a cluster of Daesh cells, members of […]
JIHAD FIGHTERS Twelve jihadists from Switzerland believed dead JUL 17, 2015 – 15:22 One of the main destinations for jihadists from Switzerland is Syria (Keystone) A dozen people who left Switzerland to fight in jihadist conflicts are now believed dead, according to the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service […]
Fears Grow Over Islamic State’s Influence in Southeast Asia Indonesia’s president says radical group is his country’s greatest international concern ENLARGE Armed antiterror police conducted a raid at the house of a suspected Islamic State member in Petukangan district in Jakarta in March.PHOTO: REUTERS By RICHARD C. PADDOCK And I-MADE […]
Shashank Joshi THE GUARDIAN Michael Fallon’s suggestion would be a futile gesture in the fight against Isis, not least because of a lack of allied ground forces ‘Syrian Kurds worked closely with US airpower to push out Isis from Kobane in January. But alliance with the Kurds has its […]
by Patrick Cockburn The aftermath of an Isis suicide bomb attack during the battle for Kobani On June 30 last year, Isis said it was establishing a caliphate in the territories under its control in Iraq and Syria. As part of a series by The Independent marking this anniversary, […]