Islamic State (ISIS) fighters have closed the streets around Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, residents said, apparently in preparation for a final showdown in the battle over their last major stronghold in Iraq. Dozens of fighters were seen by residents taking up positions in the past 48 hours around the medieval[…]
By Yaseen Kippie The Rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in South Africa was the topic of discussion at IPSA’s 7th Annual Wasatiyyah symposium this past Saturday. The symposium took place at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. With the emphasis on the root[…]
Is South Africa vulnerable to ISIS activity on its soil? That’s the question experts will unpack at IPSA’s 7th Annual Wasatiyyah Symposium, to be held in Cape Town on Saturday 20 May under the theme ‘ISIS in South Africa? Measuring its Scope and Mitigating its Influence’. This year’s event is[…]
By Yaseen Kippie Amidst the growing political, social and economic crises of the world today, outward violent movements gain enhanced media coverage through breaking news, broadcasting the latest of an almost innumerable amount of terrorist attacks witnessed by the world over. The seemingly insurmountable task of removing these crises is[…]
The US has dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat in eastern Afghanistan on a series of caves used by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, according to the Pentagon. The GBU-43 bomb was dropped on Thursday from a MC-130 aircraft in[…]
A car bomb blast killed at least 23 people and wounded more than 45 others in a mainly Shiite district in southern Baghdad on Monday, police and medical sources said. The explosion occurred on a busy commercial street , the sources said. The blast happened at around 7:00 pm (1600[…]
This is the second in a series of articles by VOC reporter Yaseen Kippie, reflecting on his recent trip to the Syria-Turkey border From its roots in the popular Arab uprisings in 2011, the Syrian war has been going on for the past 6 years, as citizens launched a peaceful[…]
As the Muslim Judicial Council’s journey to Syria comes to a close, VOC’s correspondent, Yaseen Kippie provides the latest on the delegations interaction with Syrian civilians, who continue to call for an end to six-year war. The delegation is travelling to the Turkish-Syrian border to deliver humanitarian aid with the[…]
A suicide car bombing has killed at least 39 Iraqis in a busy market in Baghdad’s Sadr City district, the interior ministry said. The attack in the mainly Shia suburb on Monday was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group. The[…]
Iraqi troops backed by US-led air strikes have pushed deeper into eastern Mosul after a two-week lull in the operation to retake the city held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group. Staff Lieutenant-General Abdulghani al-Assadi, a senior officer in Iraq’s counterterrorism[…]
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