North Africa
Libya sees explosive growth of ISIS
ISIS forces in Libya have doubled over the past year, now reaching up to 6,000 fighters, according to Gen. David M. Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command.
Tag: ISIS
Greater Middle East
Palmyra: not a ‘liberation’
The taking of Palmyra from ISIS by Assad regime forces backed by Russian air-strikes means the city's transfer from one genocidal entity to another, say activists on the ground.
Europe
Brussels terror boon to GOP
Republican presidential hopefuls rushed to exploit the Brussels attacks, with Ted Cruz calling for police surveillance of Muslims and Trump actually broaching nuclear strikes.
Greater Middle East
Syrian Kurds declare autonomy —at what price?
Kurds officially declared their own "Federation of Northern Syria"—to be swiftly denounced by the Assad regime, the opposition and regional powers alike.
Greater Middle East
Obama-Putin deal for partition of Syria?
The announced Russian military withdrawal from Syria has raised suspicions of a quiet deal between Putin and Obama for the partitiion of country into "spheres of influence."
Iraq
Terror in Ankara —amid state terror against Kurds
International condemnation of the Ankara terror blasts contrasts silence over ongoing Turkish state terror against the Kurds—as Erdogan rushes to blame the PKK in the blast.
Iraq
Turkey inciting genocide against Kurds
Amid reports of jihadist chemical attacks on Kurds in both Syria and Iraq, Turkey is reviving the same propaganda against Kurds that was used during the Armenian genocide.
Iraq
Chemical attacks on Kurds —in Iraq and Syria
Peshmerga forces in Iraq say ISIS repeatedly used chemical agents in recent attacks, while Syrian Kurdish militia accused Islamist factions of a chemical attack in Aleppo.
Syria
Slain ISIS ‘war minister’ trained by US in Georgia?
“Omar the Chechen,” a top-ranking ISIS commander apparently killed in a US air-strike in Syria, is said to have been trained by the Pentagon when he fought the Russians in Georgia. (Photo via Levant Report)
North Africa
ISIS attacks Tunisia in cross-border raid
In a surprise dawn raid, ISIS forces attacked Ben Guerdane, the first Tunisian city west of the border with Libya, in an apparent attempt to establish an "emirate" there.
Africa
Somalia: US air-strikes on Shabaab camp
US drones and warplanes killed more than 150 al-Shabab militants in Somalia, with the Pentagon citing an "imminent threat" to US and African Union forces.
North Africa
Britain prepares Libya intervention
The UK is preparing to send troops to Tunisia to help prevent ISIS fighters from entering the country from Libya—and has broached direct intervention in Libya itself.