Qatar’s emir said in Germany on Wednesday that his wealthy Gulf state does not back Islamic “terrorist organisations”, and Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had no reason to doubt him. The leaders spoke in Berlin where the emir was visiting, some three weeks after a German minister angered Doha by[…]
American ground troops could be deployed against Islamic State and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Iraq, according to the most senior US military officer. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US military’s joint chiefs of staff, said on Tuesday he might recommend having US troops do more, potentially accompanying Iraqis[…]
Kurdish peshmerga forces on Tuesday recaptured several Christian villages in northern Iraq in clashes with Islamic State (IS) rebels, an officer and a cleric said. Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians, most of them Chaldeans, fled their homes when IS rebels launched a renewed drive in the north in early[…]
Nearly 30 countries agreed Monday in Paris to support Iraq “by any means necessary” in fighting Islamic State militants. Foreign ministers from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries agreed on “the urgent need” to remove the group from areas it controls in Iraq and[…]
Communities and organizations of all religious backgrounds gathered outside the constitutional court in Johannesburg on Sunday, for an inter-faith vigil in solidarity with those killed at the hands of radical religious groups. The protest came in light of the actions of the Islamic State (IS) group, who have terrorized communities[…]
French President Francois Hollande has called for a global response to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), saying it posed a security threat the world over as he opened a conference on Iraq, bringing together members of a US-led coalition. “[The threat] is global so the[…]
Several Arab countries have offered to launch air attacks on the group calling itself the Islamic State, US officials said, suggesting a widening of Washington’s campaign against the group. The officials declined to identify which countries made the offers, but said on Sunday they were under consideration as the US[…]
British aid worker David Haines has been beheaded – like two American journalists before him – and the Islamic State group is threatening to kill a fourth captive. A grisly video released by the group showing Haines’ body both mocks the West and raises the pressure on Western leaders. It[…]
Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground, the US Central Intelligence Agency says, much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000. Among those in Syria are 15,000 foreign fighters including 2,000 Westerners, a US intelligence official told the AFP news[…]
Ten Arab states have agreed to rally behind Washington in the fight against Islamic State fighters, as the US seeks to build an international coalition. Following a meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Arab counterparts in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the participating countries released a[…]
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