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Speculations of possible crackdown by the Turkish military on the militants of the Islamic State has been renewed after Hurriyet reported that a meeting of the troop commanders positioned along the border with Syria has been scheduled for next week Read more
“We will uproot the state of the Jews (Israel) and you and Fatah, and all of the secularists… and you will be over-run by our creeping multitudes,” said a masked ISIS member in a message addressed to the “tyrants of Hamas,” according Read more
Hadi al-Ameri, commander of an umbrella group of Shia militias known as the Popular Mobilization Units, has questioned the efforts of the U.S and its allies because “there are no real airstrikes against ISIS headquarters” in Iraq. The extremist group Read more
As Baghdad continues its fight against ISIS in Iraq, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called on countries in the region to upgrade their security and checks at border crossing points to stop the flow of foreign fighters who dominate the ranks Read more
Government troops alongside Shia militias have taken over important areas of Beiji, a northern refinery town, although ISIS continues to resist their offensives in some sectors. The town has been under the control of the extremist group since last year Read more
Iraq’s allies in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Tuesday pledged their support for an emergency plan adopted by Baghdad after the key city of Ramadi was taken by militants. Baghdad has vowed to Read more
Jihadist group ISIS has hit again Saudi Arabia this Friday during noon prayers by killing four people including the bomber in a suicide blast at Al-Anoud Mosque in Damma, a Shi’ite mostly populated Eastern Saudi province. Witnesses at the scene Read more
The Arab information ministers have agreed to draw up a five-year comprehensive media strategy to combat terrorism, religious extremism and promote the culture of openness and tolerance. At the end of their meeting convened Thursday in Cairo, the Arab Information Read more
The office of Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has rejected a draft law in the U.S Congress that will consider the different armed groups fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq as different states. The Prime Minister’s office stated that Read more
The leader of terror organisation Isis Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has been reportedly wounded in an air strike carried out last march by the US-led Coalition in western Iraq. According to an Iraqi source close to the Islamist militant groups, Al-Baghdadi Read more