The militant Islamic State group issued a video online on Tuesday purporting to show two Japanese captives and demanding $200 million from the Japanese government to save their lives. The captives, 47-year-old Kenji Goto and...
Read More →Bangladeshi police arrested four suspected members of Islamic State in the capital, Dhaka, on yesterday, including a regional coordinator for the militant group who told police they had been trained in Pakistan. “We arrested them...
Read More →Iraq today is divided from three main perspectives: linguistically between Arabs and Kurds, ethnically between Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Turkmen and religiously between Shia and Sunni. What has become today one of the most powerful extremist...
Read More →It is known that Iran has conducted air strikes against the IS (Islamic State) targets in Eastern Iraq for the past days. Representatives of the US-led international coalition against IS are gathering at NATO headquarters...
Read More →According to BBC, coalition air strikes have targeted a gathering of the Islamic State leaders near the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq. There had been a series of strikes on Friday that destroyed a...
Read More →According to BBC, a new video featuring the British hostage John Cantlie, has appeared. Mr. Cantile is a journalist, currently being held by the IS (Islamic State) militants. Cantlie appears in the video apparently reading...
Read More →In an extraordinary turn of events, United States decided not to wait any longer for a Turkish intervention in Syria to save Kobane and took the matter in its own hands. On the early hours...
Read More →In the last days it became clear that the international US-led campaign of airstrikes to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State (IS) is having no discernible positive effect upon the battlefields of Iraq and...
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