Contents: Hong Kong ‘boos’ China with paper signs at soccer match; Netherlands – Germany football match cancelled after ‘concrete threat’; Brussels, Belgium, has become the center for European terror
Iran, the largest state-sponsor of terrorism in the world, believes it will soon cooperate with France in the fight against terrorism. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency claimed that French President Francois Hollande had announced in a speech to parliament on Monday that his country would work with Iran in the fight against terror.
Contents: American politics becomes infused with anti-Muslim xenophobia; Paris attack significantly worsens Europe refugee crisis
Contents: France launches ‘massive attack’ on ISIS – 20 bombs; Beirut wonders why their terror bombing is less important than Paris’s
Contents: World reacts to Paris attack
Contents: Lebanon’s government in paralysis following Beirut terror attack; France closes borders in state of emergency after Paris attacks; Europe’s Schengen zone is put at risk by Paris attack
Contents: ISIS claims credit for suicide attack on Hezbollah in Beirut Lebanon; Commodities and stocks continue to plunge
Hundreds of Christians have teamed up with many Muslims in the ranks of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army to prevent the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) from conquering the biblical town of Sadad, according to the leader of the Syriac Orthodox church.
Protesters in Afghanistan stormed the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday, carrying the coffins of seven civilians from the Hazara Shiite minority, recently beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorists.
Ongoing Taliban infighting between two rival factions in southern Afghanistan has left at least 50 terrorists from both sides dead, Al Jazeera learned from a police chief.
Arab allies have largely abandoned the U.S.-led air campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria as America gets ready to escalate airstrikes against the jihadist group, reports The New York Times (NYT).
Contents: Burundi follows the genocidal path of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe; Turkey’s PKK militants end ceasefire after Erdogan vows to ‘liquidate’ them; Turkey plans major winter operations against both ISIS and PKK
Contents: US, Britain suggest ISIS bomb brought down Russian plane in Egypt; Plane bombing threatens Russia’s Syria strategy
The church of Saint George in Baghdad, which was closed down in 2007 after being firebombed by Islamic militants, was finally reopened Monday, but local clergy worry that there are no longer any Assyrian Christians left to worship there.
Contents: Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) continues plan to exterminate Shias; Pakistan’s LeJ anti-Shia terror group may have links to ISIS; History of sectarian violence in Pakistan since Partition
Contents: Erdogan’s party in Turkey wins landslide victory; How Turkey changed in five months
Contents: Russia warns that Syria war could become a ‘proxy war’; Syria’s civil war and Generational Dynamics; Generational Dynamics and crisis civil wars; Generational Dynamics and war between Palestinians and Israelis
Contents: Sunni jihadist suicide bomber targets Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia; Russia’s military intervention in Syria inflames jihadists in Saudi Arabia
Al Qaeda, in the second edition of the English-language jihadi magazine Al Risalah, is portrayed as “moderate” compared to its “extremist” rival Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The United States is currently unsure if Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) fighters, who have reportedly received nearly 50 tons of ammunition funded by American taxpayers, will participate in the U.S. operation to retake Raqqa, the de facto Syrian capital of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to the Pentagon.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), through several of its media organs, has expressed support for the deluge of Palestinian terrorist attacks currently plaguing Israel, calling for more.
The “courageous” American soldier who was fatally wounded in a rescue mission in Iraq sacrificed his life to save 70 hostages whose “graves had already been dug” and were about to be “brutally” executed by the “barbaric” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS), U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters at the Pentagon.
The United States reportedly gave Niger two military surveillance aircrafts as attacks by suspected Boko Haram jihadists continued along its southeast border with Nigeria.
Contents: Joint US-Kurdish operation in Iraq rescues 70 hostages from ISIS, one American killed; Administration denies that combat use of American soldiers was ‘mission creep’
Almost four out of every five declared targets of Russian airstrikes in Syria are located in areas not held by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to an analysis of Russian Defense Ministry data by Reuters.
