United States army ‘lost track of $1 billion worth of arms’
The US army has failed to monitor over $1bn worth of arms and other military equipment transfers to Kuwait and Iraq, Amnesty International says in a report citing a 2016 US government audit. The now-declassified document by the US Department of Defence (DoD) audit, was obtained by the rights group following Freedom of Information requests. […]
Top generals discuss developments in Syria and Iraq amid rising tensions in northern Syria
The top generals from Turkey, US and Russia have met to discuss developments in Syria and Iraq to prevent ” the risk of a conflict” during their fight against ISIL. Hulusi Akar, Turkish chief of staff; Joseph Dunford, US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff; and Valery Gerasimov, Russian chief of general staff, met […]
Fall of Mosul won’t spell end of ISIS, Iraq may split apart – Kurd leader
The much-awaited fall of Mosul will not result in ISIS’ defeat in Iraq, which is likely to split like Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and other states torn by political or ethnic rifts, the leader of Iraqi Kurdistan said in an interview with Italian media. Masoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region since 2005, told La Stampa […]
Government troops advance on Al Maamun neighbourhood, a day after deadly ISIL rocket strikes on soldiers near airport
Iraqi forces have entered a neighbourhood in the western part of Mosul for the first time since the launch of an offensive to retake the city from ISIL last year. Sami al-Aridhi, a lieutenant-general in Iraq’s Counter Terrorism Service (CTS), said on Friday that the army was fighting for Al Maamun, a small neighbourhood on […]
Erdogan: Turkish army aims to cleanse Raqqa from ISIL
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the final goal of a Turkish incursion into northern Syria is to cleanse the border region from ISIL, including Raqqa, the armed-group’s self-declared capital in the country. Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies had entered the centre of the ISIL bastion Al Bab, Erdogan said on Sunday, […]
Trump’s Muslim ban ‘not about national security’, says former FBI agent and counterterrorism expert Ali Soufan
Last week, President Donald Trump implemented a travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries coming into the United States. Will this so-called Muslim ban backfire and simply embolden groups like ISIL, or will it help to protect the US? Former FBI agent and counterterrorism expert Ali Soufan says Trump’s policy decisions are a “godsend” to ISIL. […]
Egyptian state media claims 9/11 was carried out by West to justify war on terror
A columnist for a state-run newspaper in Egypt has suggested the US invented Isis and set up the 9/11 attacks to justify its military interventions in the Middle East. “Is it possible to believe the official version, from the US government, of the events of 11 September 2001?” wrote journalist Noha Al-Sharnoubi in Al-Ahram, a […]
Google plans to stop ISIS recruits before they become radicalized by redirecting search results on YouTube
Google plans to stop ISIS recruits before they become radicalized, with what else? Information. For the past year, Google’s Jigsaw has been developing a program that will combine Google’s search advertising algorithms with YouTube’s video platform to target new recruits. Google’s goal is to stop them from joining the Islamic State Group ISIS, or ISIL. […]
ISIS puts 7 own members in boiling water
“The ISIS/Daesh executed seven of its militants who had fled Sharqat battlefield in Salahuddin province by putting them in containers with boiling water,” the Arabic-language media quoted a local source Mosul city as saying on Monday. He noted that the seven ISIS militants were thrown into a big boiling water pot after their hands and […]
Aussie TV host amazes world with frank ISIS assessment
Waleed Aly amazingly puts down ISIS in this clip AN AUSTRALIAN TV host has stunned the world with his frank assessment of ISIS’ threat in the wake of the Paris attacks. Waleed Aly, a Muslim co-host on The Project, has said politicians and Muslim leaders who have preached “hate” since Friday’s devastation actually help Islamic […]
