Two elite Marine Raiders killed in Iraq

Two US Marines were killed on March 8 which advising and accompanying Iraqi Security Forces during a mission to eliminate ISIS. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN MARCH 10, 2020 17:09 US Army soldiers keep watch on the US embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq January 1, 2020 (photo credit: DOD/LT. COL. ADRIAN WEALE/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS) Two US Marines […]

US forces in Afghanistan strike ISIS during partial truce with Taliban

An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle from the 332rd Air Expeditionary Wing takes off Feb. 13, 2020, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. U.S. airstrikes Feb. 25, 2020, killed four Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, U.S. officials said. ALEXANDRIA BRUN/U.S. AIR FORCE By J.P. LAWRENCE | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 25, […]

Ex-CIA official warns of Iran, ISIS drones armed with chemical weapons

The warning takes on greater meaning following a call on January 28 by ISIS’s new leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, to direct greater attention to attacking Israel and Jews, including using chemical weapons. By YONAH JEREMY BOB, NEVILLE TELLER FEBRUARY 10, 2020 20:30   The greatest threat confronting the US and Israel may be swarms […]

Hezbollah leader: Israel interfering in Syria in order to aid ISIS

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah responded to the IDF’s airstrike in Syria for the first time stating that Israel is using several excuses in order to operate within the country. He claimed that Israel’s true goal is to aid ISIS. Mar 18, 2017, 4:00PM Judith Abramson In response to the IDF’s airstrike in Syria which was allegedly conducted in order to thwart an advanced missile convoy to Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist organization’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah accuses Israel of interfering in Syria while claiming that Israel’s true goal is to aid ISIS. “Israel is using all kinds of excuses in order …

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British minister warns of Daesh plot to wage chemical attack on UK

Britain’s Security Minister Ben Wallace has warned that the Takfiri Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group plans to wage a “mass casualty” chemical attack against the UK, urging the public to report any suspicious behavior. “The ambition of … Daesh is definitely mass-casualty attacks. They want to harm as many people as possible and terrorize as many people as possible,” Wallace emphasized in an interview published Sunday by the UK-based Sunday Times while insisting that the terror group had already used chemical weapons in Syria and Iraq and that intelligence chiefs believe it is intent on using them in Britain as well. …

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IS scored ‘opportunistic’ wins in Syria as Aleppo fell

AFP on December 24, 2016, 12:37 am Paris (AFP) – The Syrian regime’s all-out offensive to recapture Aleppo enabled the Islamic State group to regain territory elsewhere, including the historic city of Palmyra, and has dimmed prospects of defeating the jihadists, experts say. “The resources deployed (by Damascus and its allies) to retake Aleppo have allowed IS to claim a series of opportunistic victories” in Syria, said Charles Lister of the US think-tank Middle East Institute. During the assault by Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces on rebels in eastern Aleppo, IS jihadists recaptured the historic city of Palmyra on December …

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