Terrorism

ISIS U-Turns West to Lebanon as Next Target

Mon, 27/03/2017 - 08:45
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Mon, 27/03/2017
ISIS Lebanon as Next Target

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report 
American helicopters Thursday and Friday, March 23-24, dropped Kurdish and Arab fighters over a region west of the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. Those forces quickly captured at least five villages and so cut jihadist concentrations in the northwestern Syria off from their Raqqa stronghold. DEBKAfile’s military sourcesreport this operation was the opening shot of the US-led campaign to isolate the Islamic State’s Syrian capital before storming it.

Attacks in Chechnya Suggest Opposition to Kadyrov is Far from Eradicated

Sat, 25/03/2017 - 09:02
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Sat, 25/03/2017
Kadyrov

 


By Emil Souleimanov
At the turn of 2016 and 2017, events took place in parts of Chechnya that again challenged the triumphant statements of local pro-Moscow and federal authorities that the jihadist-inspired insurgency in this North Caucasian republic was eradicated.

ISIS? Al Qaeda? How They Differ And Why It Matters

Sat, 18/03/2017 - 08:19
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Sat, 18/03/2017
ISIS Al Qaeda

 By: Jim Sharp
First things first; and I want to make myself very clear on this point: ISIS and Al Qaeda (as well as all their off-shoots and affiliate groups) are lethal. All have the capability to carry out attacks across the globe, and they will continue to do so as long as they have the means available to them. They will never voluntarily give up on their idea of jihad, and there is no economic, diplomatic or humanitarian leverage that can be exerted to make them do so.

Before US whacks ISIS-Syria, Al Qaeda is resurgent

Tue, 14/03/2017 - 09:37
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Tue, 14/03/2017
ISIS-Syria Al Qaeda


DEBKAfile Exclusive Report 
The main thrust of the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria ordered by the Trump administration is still ahead, but ISIS forces did not wait in their Raqqa stronghold for the axe to fall. They moved southeast into the Deir ez-Zour region, where they are beating back Hizballah’s elite Radwan Battalion, which has just been deployed there.

‘The land of sleeper cells’: Why ISIS experts warn against travel to Turkey this summer

Mon, 13/03/2017 - 08:29
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Mon, 13/03/2017
Don't travel to Turkey this summer

TEMPTING prices, sunshine beaches and alluring exchange rates will see Britons booking in their thousands to travel to Turkey this summer - something terror experts are claiming would be a MASSIVE mistake.

‘’Pakistan’s skewed ‘war on terror’ reflects bigger problems’’

Tue, 07/03/2017 - 09:13
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Tue, 07/03/2017
Elimination of terror

Author : Salman Rafi

A massive anti-terror operation called “Radd-ul-Fassad” (Elimination of terror) has been launched in Pakistan’s most populated province, Punjab, as part of the country’s latest bid to wipe out the so-called “urban terrorism” and terror groups that, according to the official narrative, continue to receive “foreign support” both in terms of financial funding and territorial sanctuaries. 

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