ISIS Daesh ISIL Archive
Takfiri Wahhabi Deobandi ISIS launches offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq – Sarmad Hasan: Earlier this month, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a two-week offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq. ISIS is targeting Sunni tribes and residents that have refused to swear allegiance to ISIS. ISIS’ campaign started
Turkey: The goal congruence of political Islamists and ISIS: Turkey’s stance in the joint struggle against IS is indeed low-profile, but perhaps this is an understatement. If the recent discourse of its decision-makers is scrutinized closely, one may reach the conclusion that the ruling Islamist government of
Wahabi/Deobandi Islamic state ‘brand’ gains ground among Asian militants – Reuters: MANILA: A threat by Philippine militants to kill a German hostage in a show of solidarity with Islamic State is the latest sign that the Middle East group’s brand of radicalism is winning recruits in Asia and posing
The myth of religious violence – Karen Armstrong: As we watch the fighters of the Wahabi Deobandi Islamic State (Isis) rampaging through the Middle East, tearing apart the modern nation-states of Syria and Iraq created by departing European colonialists, it may be difficult to believe we
How U.S. interventionists abetted the rise of ISIS – Rand Paul: As the murderous, terrorist Islamic State continues to threaten Iraq, the region and potentially the United States, it is vitally important that we examine how this problem arose. Any actions we take today must be informed by what
ISIS draws a steady stream of recruits from Turkey – Ceylan Yeginsu: ANKARA, Turkey — Having spent most of his youth as a drug addict in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Turkey’s capital, Can did not think he had much to lose when he was smuggled into Syria with 10
The Islamic state is spreading into Pakistan – Kiran Nazish: in early September, about a dozen militants crossed the border from Afghanistan to Pakistan with pamphlets and flags, urging locals to join the Islamic State. They distributed hundreds of pamphlets in Afghan refugee camps and madrassas in Pakistan’s Peshawar
lawmaker assails foreign donations to think tanks – Eric Lipton: WASHINGTON — Prominent Washington think tanks that routinely provide Congress with policy advice should refrain from taking foreign government donations, particularly from nations like Qatar that have been associated with financing Salafi Wahhabi Deobandi extremist groups, a senior House
ISIS launches offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq – Sarmad Hasan: Earlier this month, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a two-week offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq. ISIS is targeting Sunni tribes and residents that have refused to swear allegiance to ISIS. ISIS’ campaign started on
Al Qaeda’s Re-launch in South Asia and the role of Deobandi militants – C. Christine Fair: Lost in the hubbub over the rise of the Islamic State and the Obama administration’s move to war in Iraq was the Al Qaeda core’s declaration of a new affiliate in South Asia—long a home to jihadist activity. C.
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
How U.S. Interventionists Abetted the Rise of ISIS – by Rand Paul: As the murderous, terrorist Islamic State continues to threaten Iraq, the region and potentially the United States, it is vitally important that we examine how this problem arose. Any actions we take today must be informed by what we’ve
اسرائیلی اتحادی اور سراج الحق کے ہیرو طیب اردوغان اور تکفیری خوارج داعش کی پشت پناہی – خرم زکی: امریکی، اسرائیلی اور ناٹو اتحادی ترکی، شام میں تکفیری خارجی دہشتگردوں القاعدہ، جبہ نصرہ اور وہابی دہشتگرد گروہوں احرار الشام کی براہ راست مدد کر رہا ہے، ترکی میں سابق امریکی سفیر فرانسز ریکیارڈون کا اعتراف ترکی شام میں
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
Club Med for Terrorists – by Ron Prosor: THE hostilities in Gaza between Israel and Hamas persist and the diplomatic war at the United Nations continues, also without resolution. While there is no shortage of opinions on the way forward, the most obvious solution is strikingly
Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent – an imminent threat to India? – by Michael Duffy: The vulnerable Muslims of Burma, Bangladesh, Assam and Gujarat and Ahmadabad and Kashmir, have a new saviour, one that has been two years in the making, Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri’s recent announcement of a new affiliate Al-Qaeda in
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
داعش کے قبحہ خانے اور فحاشی کے اڈے، مظلوم عراقی خواتین کی سسکیاں – از خرم زکی: غور سے دیکھ لیں ان برقعہ پوش خواتین کو، یہ داعش کی وحشیائیں ہیں (دوسرا مناسب لفظ استعمال نہیں کیا جا سکتا) اور یہ لعنتی خلیفہ ابو بکر البغدادی کے لیۓ عراق اور شام میں کوٹھے چلاتی ہیں
‘See you on Judgement Day’ – Pakistani female Deobandi jihadist last message to her parents: Childhood pictures of a private schoolgirl who fled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State have been released by her heartbroken parents as part of a renewed bid to bring her home. The pictures of Aqsa Mahmood show
Mother’s agony as she learns of Lebanese soldier son’s beheading by IS militants: The mother of the second Lebanese soldier to have been beheaded by IS militants learned of her son’s gruesome murder after seeing photographs of it on Twitter. Zeinab Noun’s 20-year-old son, Abbas Medlej, was among 19 Lebanese soldiers captured
Jonathan Shaw: We can only beat Islamic State with Muslim support: President Obama suffers for being what we all clamour for — an honest politician. Still smarting from admitting in The New Yorker that he hasn’t got a joystick with which to control the world, he is now being
By denouncing ISIS as ‘not Muslims’, moderate Muslims risk making things worse – by James Brandon: Editor’s note: We agree with this argument particulary because it attacks the denialist approach of most Muslim clerics and ordinary Muslims. However, one useful and much more effectual way to defeat Islamist terrorism is to clearly identify, expose
The Paradox in Saudi Arabia’s Denunciation of Its Own Offshoot, Islamic State: What an irony that Saudi Arabia’s clerics now condemn the violence of the IS, branding their own Wahabbi brethren as ‘Kharjis’. This has been a Muslim practice for the past many centuries to condemn any extremists one dislikes as
Missing Libyan Jetliners Raise Fears of Suicide Airliner Attacks on 9/11: Wahabi Islamist militias in Libya took control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners last month, and western intelligence agencies recently issued a warning that the jets could be used in terrorist attacks across North Africa. Intelligence reports of the
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