This article originally appeared at Foreign Policy: They stand in the front row at public beheadings and crucifixions held in Raqqa, the Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria. They’re used for blood transfusions when Islamic State fighters are injured. They are
A Danish photographer who was kidnapped by Islamic State terrorists is ‘drowning in debt’ and facing a daily struggle to deal with the ordeal he was put through. Daniel Rye Ottosen was held in Syria for 13 months along side
A prominent Chechen commander has been dispatched by the Islamic State to the fight in the strategic town of Kobani along the Syria-Turkey border where the jihadist group has suffered heavy fatalities, Kurdish media network Rudaw reported. An unnamed source
Over 847,000 Syrians have fled to Turkey since the Syrian civil war started three years ago. The number grew in the last few months when the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) invaded border towns. Instead of providing help, some Turkish men are
The American Freedom Alliance held a conference on Sunday titled “ISIS and its Threat to International Security,” which featured a plethora of Middle East experts, activists, and scholars, who weighed in on the threat posed by the Islamic State. Egyptian-American
Monday morning on CNN’s “New Day,” CNN correspondent Ivan Watson reported that there is an American veteran fighting ISIS alongside the Kurds in Syria. “One of the gunmen in this truck is not like the others,” Watson said. That gunman
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Sunni vs Shia sectarian clashes grow in northern Lebanon Lebanon won’t accept any more Syrian refugees One banker jumps to his death, another hangs himself this week Sunni vs Shia sectarian clashes grow in
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — A Syrian activist group said Sunday that the death toll in 40 days of fighting in and around the northern Syrian border town of Kobani has reached 815, as Kurdish fighters battled Muslim militants for a
BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomber driving a military Humvee struck a checkpoint manned by Iraqi troops and pro-government Shiite militiamen south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 24 people, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for
A British teacher pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of funding would-be fighters going to Syria and planning to go there himself, but said he did not support the Islamic State group. Lawyers for chemistry teacher Jamshed Javeed, 30, told
The appearance in court today of the younger brother of a dead British jihadi on terrorism offences after the arrest of five members of the same family may further entrench the growing reputation of Portsmouth as a hotspot for radicalisation.
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say Syrian rebels have attacked a government-held city in the country’s northwest and that 19 men died on both sides in the clashes. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Nusra
Kurdish forces have thwarted a new attempt by Islamic State group fighters to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane from the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy. The pre-dawn assault marked the fourth straight day the
TORONTO (AP) — A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that police say shows he was driven by
This story originally appeared in BBC Magazine: In June the leader of Islamic State declared the creation of a caliphate stretching across parts of Syria and Iraq – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named himself the caliph or leader. Edward Stourton examines
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Egypt in state of emergency after terrorist attack in Sinai Sinai attack signals the end of Gaza peace agreement terms Hamas reports that it’s resumed work on restoring tunnels used in Gaza war Egypt
SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Just over a year ago, Afshin Kobani was a teacher. Now, the Kurdish Syrian woman has traded the classroom for the front lines in the battle for Kobani, a town besieged by fighters from the Islamic
I am sitting with Geert Wilders, leader of the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom, and the news has just flashed that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the Canadian convert to Islam who terrorized Ottawa on Wednesday, had previously had his passport lifted by the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Two-year-old baby in Mali dies after spreading Ebola WHO: ‘Millions of doses of Ebola vaccine by end of 2015’ World Health Organization declares a global polio outbreak Stephen K. Bannon interviews John Xenakis about
A 19-year-old former private school student has become the latest British-born jihadi to die fighting for ISIS in Syria. Medhi Hassan, who used the alias Abu Dujana, is the fourth fighter from the city of Portsmouth to be killed fighting
U.S. intelligence is helping French forces monitor al-Qaeda weapons deliveries from Libya to the Sahel region in Africa. A top French military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to discuss the matter publicly, told the Associated
U.S. forces stationed in Canada “will comply” with the country’s directive ordering Canadian soldiers not to wear their uniforms in public during off-duty activities, U.S. Northern Command told Breitbart News. The edict was issued by Canada’s Department of National Defense
The Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) invasion of Iraq has left 90% of the nation’s Orthodox Christians displaced, fleeing religious persecution and ethnic cleansing, according to Ghattas Hazim, Greek Orthodox Bishop for Baghdad, Kuwait, and their surroundings, who must now travel into that
SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Just over a year ago, Afshin Kobani was a teacher. Now, the Kurdish Syrian woman has traded the classroom for the front lines in the battle for Kobani, a town besieged by fighters from the Islamic
What do you call it when a Palestinian terrorist drives his car into a throng of civilians at a train station in Jerusalem, killing a three-month-old girl with American citizenship? If you’re the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, you put out
