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Islamic State among world's richest militant groups: US
Oct 23, 2014 (AFP)
The Islamic State has fast become one of the world's wealthiest terror groups, generating tens of millions of dollars a month from black market oil sales, ranso...
IS propaganda strategy 'evolving': experts
Oct 23, 2014 (AFP)
From online videos to the social network postings of their fighters, the propaganda of the Islamic State jihadist group is evolving to prevent the leaking of st...
Iraqi Kurds agree reinforcements for embattled Kobane
Oct 22, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers agreed Wednesday to send much-needed reinforcements to fellow Kurds battling to stop the key Syrian border town of Kobane from falling i...
Canada raises 'terrorism' alert after soldier killed
Oct 22, 2014 (AFP)
Canada raised its national "terrorism" alert on Tuesday, officials said, after a soldier run over by a suspected jihadist died in hospital. The alert level was ...
Syria Kurds weather IS assault and await reinforcements
Oct 22, 2014 (AFP)
Kurdish defenders of the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane awaited reinforcements Wednesday after weathering another onslaught by Islamic State jihadists. ...
Propaganda, personal struggles turn some young Belgians to jihad
Oct 22, 2014 (AFP)
As chairman of the Annasr mosque, Mimoun Aquichouh personally knows a number of young men who left the small Belgian city of Vilvoorde to wage jihad in Syria. T...
Iraq's Yazidis facing 'attempted genocide': UN
Oct 21, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq's Yazidi minority is facing what may amount to an "attempted genocide" at the hands of Islamist fighters, a senior UN rights official said Tuesday after vi...
Jihadists launch fresh assault on Kobane
Oct 21, 2014 (AFP)
The Islamic State launched a fresh assault on Kobane late Monday hours after it was announced that Kurds, who are defending the besieged Syrian border town, had...
Syria Kurds weather IS assault as they await reinforcements
Oct 21, 2014 (AFP)
Kurdish defenders of the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane awaited reinforcements Tuesday after weathering another onslaught by Islamic State jihadists. Fi...
Kurds hold out in Syria's Kobane one month into IS assault
Oct 16, 2014 (AFP)
Kurdish fighters backed by a flurry of US-led air strikes were still holding out Thursday against jihadists in Kobane, as an Islamic State offensive on the Syri...
France moves closer to law cracking down on jihadists
Oct 16, 2014 (AFP)
France moved closer Thursday to adopting an "anti-terrorism" law which would slap a travel ban on anyone suspected of planning to wage jihad after the upper hou...
US air war has a name: 'Operation Inherent Resolve'
Oct 15, 2014 (AFP)
After more than two months of air strikes, American commanders have finally decided on a name for the US-led war against Islamic State jihadists -- "Operation I...
IS group has made 'substantial gains' in Iraq: US
Oct 15, 2014 (AFP)
Islamic State jihadists have made important advances in Iraq despite US-led air strikes, Washington's envoy to the US-led coalition fighting the group warned We...
Kerry slams 'abhorrent' Yazidi slavery by IS militants
Oct 15, 2014 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed the Islamic State group for "abhorrent" abuses on Tuesday after the jihadists boasted of selling captured women and gir...
Why America's Arab allies should lead the war on ISIS
Oct 14, 2014 (UPI)
While former key members of President Obama's team turn on the man who gave them historic opportunities of a lifetime, it doesn't seem to occur to them POTUS is...
US 'deeply concerned' about Kobane: Obama
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
President Barack Obama on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the plight of the Syrian town of Kobane under attack by Islamic State jihadists, and said a US-le...
US-led coalition meets as strikes pound jihadists
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
The White House said Tuesday a multinational air war against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria is succeeding, as top brass from 22 countries met to disc...
Coalition commanders seek plan to counter IS advance
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
Commanders from the US-led coalition against Islamic State jihadists will meet in Washington Tuesday to discuss halting the group's advance in Iraq and Syria, a...
IS forces move freely across Iraq's Anbar province: US
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
Islamic State jihadists can move freely across Iraq's Anbar province and are piling pressure on government forces, despite two months of US air strikes, Pentago...
Fears for Kobane as Obama meets coalition commanders
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
US-led aircraft will continue bombing near the Syrian town of Kobane and in western Iraq, President Barack Obama said Tuesday after talks with military leaders ...
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