Iraq Archive
From Ukraine to ISIS, the design is the same – Dr Abbas Zaidi: President Bashar al-Assad defied all odds, and al-Malliki, despite his incompetence and the practically US-backed independent Kurdistan, kept Iraq in one piece. It was not easy to withstand the collective US-EU-UAE-Turkey-Saudi Arabia assault. We must not forget Australia
To crush ISIS, make a deal with Assad – Ahmad Samih Khalidi: LONDON — LAST week, President Obama virtually declared war on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But it is hard to reconcile the seemingly urgent need to confront the threat posed by this organization with the chosen
Top 5 contradictions in Obama’s emerging ISIL strategy – by Juan Cole: In the past week, Secretary of State John Kerry has marshaled support of some sort from both European nations and from countries in the Middle East for the US push against ISIL. Unfortunately, the resulting coalition is riddled with
Islamic State: ‘US failure to look into Saudi role in 9/11 has helped Isis’ – by Patrick Cockburn: The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) has been aided by the continuing failure of the US Government to investigate the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks and its support of
Robert Fisk on Isis campaign: Bingo! Here’s another force of evil to be ‘vanquished’: Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh yes, and he’s going to defeat Isis, its “barbarism”, “genocide”, its “warped ideology” – until
Islamic State group issues new curriculum in Iraq – by Sinan Salaheddin & Vivian Salama: The extremist-held Iraqi city of Mosul is set to usher in a new school year. But unlike years past, there will be no art or music. Classes about history, literature and Christianity have been “permanently annulled.” The Islamic State
On the CIA estimate of number of fighters in the Islamic State – by Bill Roggio: US officials are shocked at the “Islamic State’s rapid growth.” Now, the CIA estimates that the Islamic State has somewhere between 20,000 to 31,500 Salafi Wahhabi and Deobandi fighters within its ranks. That number may include “some 15,000 foreign fighters in
Shi’a Muslims and “The Final Solution” – by Agha Jafri: In a heavily guarded Palace conference room in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that is just a few hundred miles away from the vicinities of non-stop bloodshed and destruction, sitting were a few agents of a Gestapo styled apparatus, plotting their
‘I am a 14-year-old Yazidi girl given as a gift, to an Isis commander. Here’s how I escaped’: This is the story told to me by a 14-year-old Yazidi girl I’ll call “Narin”, currently staying in northern Iraqi Kurdistan. I am a Kurdish journalist with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia who covers
کیمرون کا سر نیزے پر دیکھنا چاہتی ہوں: برطانوی دیوبندی/ سلفی دوشیزہ: برطانیہ سے تعلق رکھنے والی ایک دیوبندی / سلفی جنگجو دوشیزہ نے کہا ہے ”میں برطانوی وزیر اعظم ڈیوڈ کیمرون کا سر نیزے کی نوک پر دیکھنا چاہتی ہوں کیونکہ کیمرون مسلمانوں کے خلاف جنگ کو طاقت دے رہے
Iran arrests ‘Afghans and Pakistani Deobandis joining Islamic State’: Iran says it has arrested Afghan and Pakistani Deobandi citizens who were trying to join Islamic State (IS) jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq. Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani said the foreigners planned to cross Iran – but did
AFP issues arrest warrant for Islamic State jihadist accused of sending Australians to Syria and Iraq: Police have issued an arrest warrant for a former Kings Cross nightclub bouncer believed to be Australia’s most senior member of the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria and Iraq, following an investigation by the ABC’s 7.30 program.
Sotloff family spokesman: Syria’s ‘so-called moderate rebels’ sold Sotloff to ISIS: A spokesman for the family of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff claimed Monday night that Sotloff was sold to the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by Syria’s “so-called moderate rebels.” Sotloff family spokesman Barak Barfi,
Islamic State fighters using US arms: study: London (AFP) – Islamic State fighters appear to be using captured US military issue arms and weapons supplied to moderate rebels in Syria by Saudi Arabia, according to a report published on Monday. The study by the London-based
David Cameron must ‘consider cooperating with Syria’ to crush ISIS – by Rajeev Syal: Lord Richards also spoke for the first time about the failure of Cameron to adopt his 2012 plan to contain Assad and extremist militants who opposed him. Photograph: PA The former chief of the defence staff has urged
ISIS wants to enforce caliphate in Pakistan and Afghanistan through Deobandi ASWJ and Taliban militants – The Telegraph: The Islamic State is challenging the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its Afghanistan and Pakistan heartlands and claiming both countries as part of its ‘caliphate’. Islamic Slate leaflets proclaiming the group’s intention to bring its barbaric form of
British researchers ‘missing’ in Qatar: The UK Foreign Office is looking into reports that two British men in Qatar who were investigating the treatment of migrant workers have gone missing. Krishna Upadhyaya, 52, and Gundev Ghimire, 36, have not been heard from since
British parents of IS-linked Deobandi extremist Aqsa Mahmood feel ‘betrayed’: Khalida and Muzaffar Mahmood say they “feel nothing but sorrow and shame” for their daughter. The family of a 20-year-old woman from Glasgow who has travelled to Syria and married an Islamic State (IS) fighter have said that she
16 Salafi Deobandi militants arrested in Bosnia: SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police have detained 16 people suspected of having fought in Syria and Iraq or of recruiting and funding other Balkan men to join the Islamic militants there, they said Wednesday. Police said about
Spillover effect: Salafi Deobandi ISIS making inroads into Pakistan, Afghanistan – by Shamim Shahid: A number of hardline groups operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan have already announced support for the group headed by Afghan Taliban. ILLUSTRATION: JAMAL KHURSHID PESHAWAR: In a bid to extend its influence in the South Asian region, the Islamic State
Steven Sotloff’s murder proves the Wahhabi Deobandi Islamic state isn’ti nterested in negotiating – by Y Shane Harris , Kate Brannen: In releasing a video showing the murder of a second American journalist, the militants of the Islamic State made clear that they have no interest in negotiating with Barack Obama’s administration or its allies over the fate of
تکفیری دیوبندی وہابی دولت اسلامیہ کا منشور پشاور میں تقسیم – از رفعت اللہ اورکزئی: داعش کی طرف سے شائع کردہ کتابچہ افغانستان کے بعض سرحدی صوبوں میں بھی تقسیم کیا گیا ہے عراق اور شام میں خلافت کا اعلان کرنے والی دولت اسلامی تنظیم نے بظاہر اب عرب ممالک سے باہر بھی اپنی
بی بی سی: وہابی ، دیوبندی داعش اور پاکستانی دیوبندیوں کا اتحاد: عراق اور شام میں خلافت کا اعلان کرنے والی دولت اسلامی وہابی ، دیوبندی تنظیم کے جنگجو آج کل تیزی سے پیش قدمی کر رہے ہیں۔ تاہم دولت اسلامیہ نے بظاہر اب عرب ممالک سے باہر بھی خلافت کا دائرہ
برطانیہ کا تکفیری دیوبندی اور وہابی جہادی شہریوں کو روکنے کے اقدامات پرغور: برطانیہ کی حکومت ایسے اقدمات پر غور کر رہی ہے جن کے تحت عراق اور شام میں پرتشدد کارروائیوں میں مصروف برطانوی تکفیری دیوبندی اور وہابی جہادیوں کی ملک واپسی کو روکا جا سکے گا- بی بی سی کو
Who is behind ISIS’s terrifying online propaganda operation? – by Patrick Kingsley: The Clanging of the Swords IV sounds like the latest in a series of Hollywood action movies. It looks like one, too. A feature-length film released online a few weeks ago, Swords IV includes a slow-motion bomb sequence
James Foley’s murder by ISIS, Jihadi John and the UK Deobandi connection – by Boyd Tonkin: I have never heard so many encores at the Royal Albert Hall. On Wednesday night, after Daniel Barenboim had conducted the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra made up of young Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab musicians, the ecstatic audience would not
Saudis must stop exporting extremism – Ed Husain: ALONG with a billion Muslims across the globe, I turn to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every day to say my prayers. But when I visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad,
Salafi Deobandi terror: UK terror threat level raised to ‘severe’: The UK’s terror threat level has been raised from “substantial” to “severe” in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria, Home Secretary Theresa May says. The new alert level rates the risk of an attack on the UK
Qatar and the reason US hostage Peter Theo Curtis has been released – by Robert Fisk: So once again, the Fairy Godmother of the Middle East steps on to the stage. Qatar, the nation which supposedly paid £40m to free 13 nuns from Syrian captivity five months ago – if true, the most expensive nuns
YouTube video posted by Wahabi/Deobandi Isis militants shows ‘execution of 250 Syrian soldiers’: Islamic State militants appear to have executed scores of captured Syrian soldiers, according to video footage posted on YouTube. An Isis fighter confirmed the video’s authenticity to Reuters, saying: “Yes, we have executed them all.” It has not been
Obama: We don’t have a strategy about ISIS / Cameron: A terror attack on the UK is now ‘highly likely’ by returning Jahadis: Editor’s note: We are cross posting two articles which prove that there is no sense of direction or cohesion in the West when it comes to fighting Salafi Wahhabi Deobandi Terror. One can only hope that the all powerful
You can’t understand ISIS If you don’t know the history of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia: BEIRUT — The dramatic arrival of Da’ish (ISIS) on the stage of Iraq has shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed — and horrified — by its violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. But more
James Foley’s murder and the Deobandi connection – by Robert Fisk: We keep banging on about British citizens turning into Jihadists – that tired old public relations man Dave Cameron does this all the time, with his worn-out political correctness – and it’s almost impolite to say “Muslim British
Putin may have been right about Syria all along – by Ishaan Tharoor: What a difference a year makes. Around this time last year, the West was gearing up for military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was accused of carrying out chemical weapons attacks on his own people. That
Ibn Taymiyyah followers massacaring Sunnis, Shias, Christians and others from Yemen to Iraq to Pakistan: NOT a Sunni Shia conflict: We were witnessing a bloody internecine among the Muslims in the geographical region spanning from Pakistan to Yemen. However, people who explain this mayhem in the context of traditional Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict in the world of Islam must reconsider
تکفیری دیوبندیوں اور سلفی وہابی دہشت گردوں کے خلاف سعودی مفتی اعظم کا فتویٰ – ازاجمل خٹک کثر: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/aug2014-daily/25-08-2014/col10.htm
Why Washington’s War on Terror Failed – by Patrick Cockburn: There are extraordinary elements in the present U.S. policy in Iraq and Syria that are attracting surprisingly little attention. In Iraq, the U.S. is carrying out air strikes and sending in advisers and trainers to help beat back
Turkey is the global hub and highway of global Salafi Wahhabi and Deobandi Jihadists – by Patrick Cockburn: The murder of the US journalist James Foley by a British jihadi has reignited the barren debate in Britain about new government powers to tackle extremist Islamic groups. Dubious counter-terrorism specialists, the exact nature of their expertise frequently
West poised to join forces with President Assad in face of Islamic State – by Patrick Cockburn: Islamist forces are fighting their way into western Syria from bases further east, bringing forward the prospect of US military intervention to stop their advance. If Isis, which styles itself Islamic State, threatens to take all or part
Sunnis demand action against Deobandi Maulana Nadvi who wrote to Saudi govt – Mohammed Wajihuddin: MUMBAI: Expressing shock and anguish over cleric Maulana Salman Hussaini Nadvi’s letter to the Saudi government requesting it to prepare an Army of five lakh Indian Sunni Muslims to fight the Shia militias in Iraq, a section of