Syrian Kurdish fighters say they have taken the strategic town of Tal Abyad, a major supply route to Raqqa province, a stronghold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria. “It’s now under complete control,” Redur Xelil, a spokesperson for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG),[…]
On one side of a small mountain bordering Dohuk and Nineveh provinces in northern Iraq, rows of soldiers march in green fatigues and red berets, rifles slung across their shoulders. On the other side is Mosul, the de facto Iraqi capital for fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and[…]
When fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) began threatening his life if he failed to pay a $500 monthly bribe, Abu Ahmed knew it was time to leave home. “I refused, and they said, ‘We will kill you,’” Abu Ahmed, who spoke under a pseudonym[…]
A number of Sunni tribal sheikhs and tribes in Iraq’s Anbar province have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. The sheikhs and tribal leaders made the pledge on Wednesday in Fallujah in a statement read out by Ahmed Dara al-Jumaili, an influential sheikh,[…]
For decades, humanity has kept quiet over the evils happening in Palmyra. For while the city is known throughout the world for its ancient ruins, less well known is the similarly decrepit hellhole of a prison in the city – home to tens of thousands of desperate souls left to[…]
Iraqi forces have launched a counteroffensive to retake areas of Anbar province recently captured by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Officials in Iraq’s Anbar province told the Associated Press on Tuesday that there were air strikes and fighting on the ground west and south[…]
OPINION by Rachel Shabi – The White Widow is alive. And she’s back. Like Jason Bourne’s evil, female twin, this woman seems to have a formidable capacity for comeback. The last we heard of the Muslim convert super-terrorist and wife of one of Britain’s 7/7 suicide bombers, she had been[…]
The UN says nearly 25,000 people have fled from Ramadi since fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured the Iraqi city from government forces over the past few days. Residents continue to flee, mainly towards the capital, Baghdad, as thousands of Shia militias were massing[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has taken over the main government compound in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, and edged closer to what would be their biggest victory in Iraq this year, officials have said. The fighters seized the government complex at around 1100GMT[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has issued an unverified audio recording that it said was by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calling on supporters around the world to join the fight in Syria and Iraq or to take up arms wherever they live. If confirmed, it[…]
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