falcon786
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Are those all fighting for Isis?
I know many people went to help the normal rebels get rid of Assad,well before ISIS was in the picture.
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Are those all fighting for Isis?
I know many people went to help the normal rebels get rid of Assad,well before ISIS was in the picture.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
UK: PASSPORTS COULD BE SEIZED TO FIGHT TERRORISM
by Sylvia Hui
Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday proposed new laws that would give police the power to seize the passports of Britons suspected of having traveled abroad to fight with terrorist groups.
Speaking to Parliament, Cameron said his government is also working on plans to block such suspected British jihadi fighters from re-entering the U.K. The power to monitor such suspects who are already in Britain would also be strengthened.
The plans to widen Britain's anti-terror laws, which are likely to be approved by parliament, are aimed at preventing attacks by Islamist militants returning from terror training in trouble spots in the Middle East.
Like other Western countries such as the U.S., France and Germany, Britain is worried that citizens who travel abroad to join terror groups could threaten their home country when they return.
Intelligence and security services suspect that around 500 Britons have gone to fight in Syria and potentially Iraq. Cameron has described the extremism posed by the Islamic State group as the biggest security threat of modern times - surpassing that of al-Qaida - and said it poses a direct threat to Europe.
Britain's Home Secretary already has the authority to withhold passports in some cases, but Cameron said more is needed to ensure police at border crossings could act in time when they spot a suspect.
"We will introduce specific and targeted legislation to fill this gap by providing the police with a temporary power to seize a passport at the border, during which time they will be able to investigate the individual concerned," he said.
Authorities on Friday raised Britain's terror threat alert from "substantial" to "severe," the second-highest level, in response to the crises in Iraq and Syria and concerns that terrorist groups could target Europe. The alert means that an attack on Britain is "highly likely" -though the government did not provide information to suggest an attack was imminent.
Source : Sapa-AP /mm
Date : 02 Sep 2014 07:35
by Sylvia Hui
Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday proposed new laws that would give police the power to seize the passports of Britons suspected of having traveled abroad to fight with terrorist groups.
Speaking to Parliament, Cameron said his government is also working on plans to block such suspected British jihadi fighters from re-entering the U.K. The power to monitor such suspects who are already in Britain would also be strengthened.
The plans to widen Britain's anti-terror laws, which are likely to be approved by parliament, are aimed at preventing attacks by Islamist militants returning from terror training in trouble spots in the Middle East.
Like other Western countries such as the U.S., France and Germany, Britain is worried that citizens who travel abroad to join terror groups could threaten their home country when they return.
Intelligence and security services suspect that around 500 Britons have gone to fight in Syria and potentially Iraq. Cameron has described the extremism posed by the Islamic State group as the biggest security threat of modern times - surpassing that of al-Qaida - and said it poses a direct threat to Europe.
Britain's Home Secretary already has the authority to withhold passports in some cases, but Cameron said more is needed to ensure police at border crossings could act in time when they spot a suspect.
"We will introduce specific and targeted legislation to fill this gap by providing the police with a temporary power to seize a passport at the border, during which time they will be able to investigate the individual concerned," he said.
Authorities on Friday raised Britain's terror threat alert from "substantial" to "severe," the second-highest level, in response to the crises in Iraq and Syria and concerns that terrorist groups could target Europe. The alert means that an attack on Britain is "highly likely" -though the government did not provide information to suggest an attack was imminent.
Source : Sapa-AP /mm
Date : 02 Sep 2014 07:35
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
AMNESTY CONDEMNS IS 'ETHNIC-CLEANSING' IN IRAQ
Amnesty International has accused Islamic State jihadists of "systematic ethnic cleansing" and mass killings of minorities in northern Iraq, in a report published Tuesday.
Citing "hair-raising" accounts from survivors of massacres, the rights group said the jihadists committed "war crimes, including mass summary killings and abductions".
"The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities is sweeping across northern Iraq," said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's Senior Crisis Response Adviser currently in northern Iraq.
The Sunni radical IS has pressed a campaign of terror in areas under its control in Syria and Iraq, which it has declared an Islamic "caliphate," carrying out decapitations, crucifixions and public stonings.
In June, the group launched a lightning offensive in Iraq, overrunning parts of five provinces and targeting minorities there including Yazidis on Mount Sinjar, Shiite Turkmen and Christians.
"The Islamic State is carrying out despicable crimes and has transformed rural areas of Sinjar into blood-soaked killing fields in its brutal campaign to obliterate all trace of non-Arabs and non-Sunni Muslims."
The Amnesty report -- named "Ethnic cleansing on historic scale: the Islamic State's systematic targeting of minorities in northern Iraq" --provides witness accounts of mass killings.
The watchdog said two of the "deadliest" incidents took place in the Yazidi villages of Qiniyeh and Kocho on August 3 and August 15 respectively.
"The number of those killed in these villages alone runs into the hundreds," it said.
Survivors said jihadists rounded up men and boys, bundled them into vehicles and drove them away "to be massacred in groups or shot individually".
A survivor from the Kocho killings said jihadists "just filled up vehicles indiscriminately".
Amnesty also related the fate of brothers Saeed and Khaled who had lost seven brothers in the massacre.
"Saeed... was shot five times, three times in his left knee and once in the hip and shoulder," it said.
Salem, another survivor, told Amnesty how he hid near a massacre site for 12 days before being able to flee, while other villagers lay helpless.
"Some could not move and could not save themselves, they lay there in agony waiting to die. They died a horrible death. I managed to drag myself away and was saved by a Muslim neighbour," he said.
Amnesty reported mass abductions of women and children, saying "hundreds, possibly thousands" of Yazidis were seized by IS jihadists along with scores of men.
"The mass killings and abductions have succeeded in terrorising the entire population in northern Iraq, leading thousands to flee in fear for their lives," said the watchdog.
In some cases entire families were abducted, it said, adding that one family provided Amnesty with a list of 45 missing relatives.
Amnesty's Rovera urged Iraqi authorities to track down and bring to justice "those ordering, carrying out or assisting in these war crimes".
Source : Sapa-AFP /mm
Date : 02 Sep 2014 02:03
Amnesty International has accused Islamic State jihadists of "systematic ethnic cleansing" and mass killings of minorities in northern Iraq, in a report published Tuesday.
Citing "hair-raising" accounts from survivors of massacres, the rights group said the jihadists committed "war crimes, including mass summary killings and abductions".
"The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities is sweeping across northern Iraq," said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's Senior Crisis Response Adviser currently in northern Iraq.
The Sunni radical IS has pressed a campaign of terror in areas under its control in Syria and Iraq, which it has declared an Islamic "caliphate," carrying out decapitations, crucifixions and public stonings.
In June, the group launched a lightning offensive in Iraq, overrunning parts of five provinces and targeting minorities there including Yazidis on Mount Sinjar, Shiite Turkmen and Christians.
"The Islamic State is carrying out despicable crimes and has transformed rural areas of Sinjar into blood-soaked killing fields in its brutal campaign to obliterate all trace of non-Arabs and non-Sunni Muslims."
The Amnesty report -- named "Ethnic cleansing on historic scale: the Islamic State's systematic targeting of minorities in northern Iraq" --provides witness accounts of mass killings.
The watchdog said two of the "deadliest" incidents took place in the Yazidi villages of Qiniyeh and Kocho on August 3 and August 15 respectively.
"The number of those killed in these villages alone runs into the hundreds," it said.
Survivors said jihadists rounded up men and boys, bundled them into vehicles and drove them away "to be massacred in groups or shot individually".
A survivor from the Kocho killings said jihadists "just filled up vehicles indiscriminately".
Amnesty also related the fate of brothers Saeed and Khaled who had lost seven brothers in the massacre.
"Saeed... was shot five times, three times in his left knee and once in the hip and shoulder," it said.
Salem, another survivor, told Amnesty how he hid near a massacre site for 12 days before being able to flee, while other villagers lay helpless.
"Some could not move and could not save themselves, they lay there in agony waiting to die. They died a horrible death. I managed to drag myself away and was saved by a Muslim neighbour," he said.
Amnesty reported mass abductions of women and children, saying "hundreds, possibly thousands" of Yazidis were seized by IS jihadists along with scores of men.
"The mass killings and abductions have succeeded in terrorising the entire population in northern Iraq, leading thousands to flee in fear for their lives," said the watchdog.
In some cases entire families were abducted, it said, adding that one family provided Amnesty with a list of 45 missing relatives.
Amnesty's Rovera urged Iraqi authorities to track down and bring to justice "those ordering, carrying out or assisting in these war crimes".
Source : Sapa-AFP /mm
Date : 02 Sep 2014 02:03
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
IRAQI FORCES PRESS ADVANCE AS PARLIAMENT STORMED
Iraqi forces made more progress Tuesday in their fightback against jihadists, but in Baghdad anger boiled over as hundreds stormed parliament over the fate of missing soldiers who surrendered in June.
After breaking a months-long jihadist siege of the Shiite Turkmen town of Amerli by Islamic State (IS) fighters, troops on Tuesday regained control of part of a key highway linking Baghdad to the north.
Two towns north of Amerli were also taken from the jihadists on Monday as Iraqi forces -- backed by US air strikes -- score their first major victories since the army's collapse across much of the north in June.
That collapse left some 1,700 soldiers in jihadist hands, with many believed to have been executed.
Demanding to know their fates, angry relatives stormed parliament in Baghdad, attacked MPs and began a sit-in in its main chamber, an official said.
Anti-riot police were trying to evict the hundreds of protesters, who were also calling for some officers to be held accountable, said the official, who was present at parliament.
Concern over those in jihadist hands has been fuelled by reports of widespread atrocities, including accusations from Amnesty International of war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
The Sunni extremist IS declared an Islamic "caliphate" in regions under its control in Iraq and Syria after it swept through much of the Sunni Arab heartland north of Baghdad in June and then stormed minority Christian and Yazidi Kurdish areas.
IS has carried out beheadings, crucifixions and public stonings, and Amnesty on Tuesday accused it of "war crimes, including mass summary killings and abductions" in areas it controls.
"The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities is sweeping across northern Iraq," said its senior crisis response adviser Donatella Rovera.
The UN Human Rights Council unanimously agreed to send an emergency mission to Iraq to investigate IS atrocities, after a senior UN official said the jihadist group had carried out "acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale".
Concern over the scale of the humanitarian crisis helped prompt limited US air strikes in support of Iraqi forces, Shiite militia and Kurdish troops battling the jihadists.
Such strikes were used in the area during the Amerli operation -- the first time Washington has expanded its more than three-week air campaign against IS outside the north.
Desperate residents rushed to receive aid deliveries after Iraqi forces moved in to the town, scrambling to grab food and bottles of water from flatbed trucks.
A day after seizing Amerli, troops and Shiite militiamen on Monday retook Sulaiman Bek and Yankaja, two towns to its north that had been important militant strongholds.
Army Staff Lieutenant General Abdulamir al-Zaidi said they had continued the advance on Tuesday, regaining control of a stretch of the main highway to the north which had been closed by the militants for almost three months.
A senior militia commander said it would be several days before the road reopened as sappers needed to clear it of mines and booby-traps planted by the retreating militants.
The United States said it launched four air strikes in the Amerli area, meaning that it effectively supported operations involving militia forces that previously fought against US troops in Iraq.
The government's reliance on Shiite militiamen in this and other operations risks entrenching groups which themselves have a history of brutal sectarian killings.
David Petraeus, a former commander-in-chief of US-led forces in Iraq, has warned against America becoming an "air force for Shiite militias".
But worries over the rise of IS seem to be outweighing other concerns, with Western leaders warning the group poses a security risk far outside the areas under its control.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday said that "extreme force" was justified against IS militants, describing them as worse than Nazis or Communists.
"As soon as they've done something gruesome and ghastly and unspeakable, they're advertising it on the Internet for all to see which makes them, in my mind, nothing but a death cult," Abbott said.
Fiji, meanwhile, revealed that Al-Qaeda-linked Syria rebels who are holding 45 United Nations peacekeepers hostage in the Golan Heights are demanding they be expunged from a UN terror blacklist.
The Fijians, part of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), were captured last Wednesday when Al-Nusra Front rebels stormed a Golan Heights crossing.
Another group of 75 Philippine peacekeepers refused to surrender and eventually escaped from two camps on the Syrian side of the demarcation line after the rebels besieged them.
Fiji's army chief Mosese Tikoitoga said a UN team had arrived in the Golans from New York to take over negotiations for their release.
"Unfortunately we have not made any improvement in the situation, our troops remain at an undisclosed location, the rebels are not telling us where they are," Tikoitoga said, adding that the hostage-takers also want humanitarian aid for areas they control and compensation for wounded fighters.
Source : Sapa-AFP /aa
Date : 02 Sep 2014 14:48
Iraqi forces made more progress Tuesday in their fightback against jihadists, but in Baghdad anger boiled over as hundreds stormed parliament over the fate of missing soldiers who surrendered in June.
After breaking a months-long jihadist siege of the Shiite Turkmen town of Amerli by Islamic State (IS) fighters, troops on Tuesday regained control of part of a key highway linking Baghdad to the north.
Two towns north of Amerli were also taken from the jihadists on Monday as Iraqi forces -- backed by US air strikes -- score their first major victories since the army's collapse across much of the north in June.
That collapse left some 1,700 soldiers in jihadist hands, with many believed to have been executed.
Demanding to know their fates, angry relatives stormed parliament in Baghdad, attacked MPs and began a sit-in in its main chamber, an official said.
Anti-riot police were trying to evict the hundreds of protesters, who were also calling for some officers to be held accountable, said the official, who was present at parliament.
Concern over those in jihadist hands has been fuelled by reports of widespread atrocities, including accusations from Amnesty International of war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
The Sunni extremist IS declared an Islamic "caliphate" in regions under its control in Iraq and Syria after it swept through much of the Sunni Arab heartland north of Baghdad in June and then stormed minority Christian and Yazidi Kurdish areas.
IS has carried out beheadings, crucifixions and public stonings, and Amnesty on Tuesday accused it of "war crimes, including mass summary killings and abductions" in areas it controls.
"The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities is sweeping across northern Iraq," said its senior crisis response adviser Donatella Rovera.
The UN Human Rights Council unanimously agreed to send an emergency mission to Iraq to investigate IS atrocities, after a senior UN official said the jihadist group had carried out "acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale".
Concern over the scale of the humanitarian crisis helped prompt limited US air strikes in support of Iraqi forces, Shiite militia and Kurdish troops battling the jihadists.
Such strikes were used in the area during the Amerli operation -- the first time Washington has expanded its more than three-week air campaign against IS outside the north.
Desperate residents rushed to receive aid deliveries after Iraqi forces moved in to the town, scrambling to grab food and bottles of water from flatbed trucks.
A day after seizing Amerli, troops and Shiite militiamen on Monday retook Sulaiman Bek and Yankaja, two towns to its north that had been important militant strongholds.
Army Staff Lieutenant General Abdulamir al-Zaidi said they had continued the advance on Tuesday, regaining control of a stretch of the main highway to the north which had been closed by the militants for almost three months.
A senior militia commander said it would be several days before the road reopened as sappers needed to clear it of mines and booby-traps planted by the retreating militants.
The United States said it launched four air strikes in the Amerli area, meaning that it effectively supported operations involving militia forces that previously fought against US troops in Iraq.
The government's reliance on Shiite militiamen in this and other operations risks entrenching groups which themselves have a history of brutal sectarian killings.
David Petraeus, a former commander-in-chief of US-led forces in Iraq, has warned against America becoming an "air force for Shiite militias".
But worries over the rise of IS seem to be outweighing other concerns, with Western leaders warning the group poses a security risk far outside the areas under its control.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday said that "extreme force" was justified against IS militants, describing them as worse than Nazis or Communists.
"As soon as they've done something gruesome and ghastly and unspeakable, they're advertising it on the Internet for all to see which makes them, in my mind, nothing but a death cult," Abbott said.
Fiji, meanwhile, revealed that Al-Qaeda-linked Syria rebels who are holding 45 United Nations peacekeepers hostage in the Golan Heights are demanding they be expunged from a UN terror blacklist.
The Fijians, part of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), were captured last Wednesday when Al-Nusra Front rebels stormed a Golan Heights crossing.
Another group of 75 Philippine peacekeepers refused to surrender and eventually escaped from two camps on the Syrian side of the demarcation line after the rebels besieged them.
Fiji's army chief Mosese Tikoitoga said a UN team had arrived in the Golans from New York to take over negotiations for their release.
"Unfortunately we have not made any improvement in the situation, our troops remain at an undisclosed location, the rebels are not telling us where they are," Tikoitoga said, adding that the hostage-takers also want humanitarian aid for areas they control and compensation for wounded fighters.
Source : Sapa-AFP /aa
Date : 02 Sep 2014 14:48
falcon786
Honorary Master
Sounds very rough,but isn't the USA arming FSA,so what's happening with FSA?
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
OBAMA SENDS 350 MORE TROOPS TO BAGHDAD
by Dan De Luce
President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered about 350 more US troops to Baghdad to safeguard American diplomats in the Iraqi capital, increasing the US military presence to more than 1,000 forces.
The move comes after a request last month from the State Department for additional US troops to bolster security for the US embassy and other facilities in Iraq, where Islamic State (IS) extremists have seized territory in the north and west of the country.
White House and Pentagon officials issued the announcement hours after the IS jihadists released another grisly video showing a masked militant with a British accent cutting the throat of an American captive.
The Sunni extremist group, also known as ISIL, has declared an Islamic "caliphate" in regions under its control in Iraq and Syria, after it swept through much of the Sunni Arab heartland north of Baghdad and then stormed minority Christian and Yazidi areas.
US aircraft have been bombing IS extremists in Iraq since August 8, particularly around the Mosul dam in the north, and Washington already has deployed hundreds of troops to shore up security for its diplomats in Baghdad.
"The president authorized the Department of Defense to fulfill a Department of State request for approximately 350 additional US military personnel to protect our diplomatic facilities and personnel in Baghdad, Iraq," the White House said in a statement.
The United States will "continue to support the government of Iraq's efforts to counter ISIL, which poses a threat not only to Iraq, but to the broader Middle East and US personnel and interests in the region," it said.
Obama, on his way to Estonia and a NATO summit in Wales, said Washington "will be consulting this week with NATO allies regarding additional actions to take against ISIL and to develop a broad-based international coalition to implement a comprehensive strategy to protect our people and to support our partners in the fight against ISIL."
The latest troop deployment brings the number of forces devoted to security for US diplomats in Iraq to 820, the Pentagon said. An additional 300 troops are serving as "advisors" to Iraqi security forces, for a total footprint of more than 1,000 troops.
Under the president's decision, about 400 troops will head to Baghdad and about 55 forces that have been on the ground will rotate out of the country, officials said.
The additional US forces will come from bases in the Middle East and will include a headquarters element, medical personnel, an air liaison team and a number of helicopters, according to Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby.
The troop deployment is designed "to provide a more robust and sustainable security presence to help the Department of State continue their critical mission," Kirby said in a statement.
The troop decision was announced with little fanfare in emails to reporters, instead of at White House or Pentagon briefings in front of television cameras.
Obama was elected in 2008 on a promise to end the US war in Iraq and he touted the departure of all US forces from the country in 2011 when he ran for re-election in 2012.
But the onslaught of the IS jihadists has prompted a reluctant Obama to reverse course, sending in troops and ordering air strikes to try to counter the advance of the extremists.
The Obama administration has said the US military intervention is limited to safeguarding US personnel, supporting humanitarian efforts to protect threatened civilians and assisting Iraqi government forces battling the IS extremists.
But Obama's critics say he has moved too slowly in the face of the threat posed by the IS militants.
Source : Sapa-AFP /mm
Date : 03 Sep 2014 04:19
by Dan De Luce
President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered about 350 more US troops to Baghdad to safeguard American diplomats in the Iraqi capital, increasing the US military presence to more than 1,000 forces.
The move comes after a request last month from the State Department for additional US troops to bolster security for the US embassy and other facilities in Iraq, where Islamic State (IS) extremists have seized territory in the north and west of the country.
White House and Pentagon officials issued the announcement hours after the IS jihadists released another grisly video showing a masked militant with a British accent cutting the throat of an American captive.
The Sunni extremist group, also known as ISIL, has declared an Islamic "caliphate" in regions under its control in Iraq and Syria, after it swept through much of the Sunni Arab heartland north of Baghdad and then stormed minority Christian and Yazidi areas.
US aircraft have been bombing IS extremists in Iraq since August 8, particularly around the Mosul dam in the north, and Washington already has deployed hundreds of troops to shore up security for its diplomats in Baghdad.
"The president authorized the Department of Defense to fulfill a Department of State request for approximately 350 additional US military personnel to protect our diplomatic facilities and personnel in Baghdad, Iraq," the White House said in a statement.
The United States will "continue to support the government of Iraq's efforts to counter ISIL, which poses a threat not only to Iraq, but to the broader Middle East and US personnel and interests in the region," it said.
Obama, on his way to Estonia and a NATO summit in Wales, said Washington "will be consulting this week with NATO allies regarding additional actions to take against ISIL and to develop a broad-based international coalition to implement a comprehensive strategy to protect our people and to support our partners in the fight against ISIL."
The latest troop deployment brings the number of forces devoted to security for US diplomats in Iraq to 820, the Pentagon said. An additional 300 troops are serving as "advisors" to Iraqi security forces, for a total footprint of more than 1,000 troops.
Under the president's decision, about 400 troops will head to Baghdad and about 55 forces that have been on the ground will rotate out of the country, officials said.
The additional US forces will come from bases in the Middle East and will include a headquarters element, medical personnel, an air liaison team and a number of helicopters, according to Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby.
The troop deployment is designed "to provide a more robust and sustainable security presence to help the Department of State continue their critical mission," Kirby said in a statement.
The troop decision was announced with little fanfare in emails to reporters, instead of at White House or Pentagon briefings in front of television cameras.
Obama was elected in 2008 on a promise to end the US war in Iraq and he touted the departure of all US forces from the country in 2011 when he ran for re-election in 2012.
But the onslaught of the IS jihadists has prompted a reluctant Obama to reverse course, sending in troops and ordering air strikes to try to counter the advance of the extremists.
The Obama administration has said the US military intervention is limited to safeguarding US personnel, supporting humanitarian efforts to protect threatened civilians and assisting Iraqi government forces battling the IS extremists.
But Obama's critics say he has moved too slowly in the face of the threat posed by the IS militants.
Source : Sapa-AFP /mm
Date : 03 Sep 2014 04:19
falcon786
Honorary Master
So if they manage to get IS out of Iraq do they pursue them into Syria?because if they don't then IS will simply regroup there and come back again later.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
GROUP: ISLAMIC MILITANTS KILLED 770 IRAQI TROOPS
An international rights group says Islamic State militants carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June.
Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that new evidence indicates the Islamic State group killed between 560 and 770 men captured at Camp Speicher, near the city of Tikrit.
The New York-based watchdog says the number of slain Iraqi soldiers is several times higher than previously reported. Earlier, Human Rights Watch said between 160 and 190 men were killed.
Human Rights Watch says the new number is based on analysis of new satellite imagery, militant videos and a survivor's account.
In June, the Islamic State group claimed it had "executed" about 1,700 soldiers and military personnel captured from Camp Speicher.
Source : Sapa-AP /nsm
Date : 03 Sep 2014 12:45
An international rights group says Islamic State militants carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June.
Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that new evidence indicates the Islamic State group killed between 560 and 770 men captured at Camp Speicher, near the city of Tikrit.
The New York-based watchdog says the number of slain Iraqi soldiers is several times higher than previously reported. Earlier, Human Rights Watch said between 160 and 190 men were killed.
Human Rights Watch says the new number is based on analysis of new satellite imagery, militant videos and a survivor's account.
In June, the Islamic State group claimed it had "executed" about 1,700 soldiers and military personnel captured from Camp Speicher.
Source : Sapa-AP /nsm
Date : 03 Sep 2014 12:45
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
ISLAMIC STATE PAMPHLETS DISTRIBUTED IN PAKISTAN
Booklets calling for support for the terrorist organization Islamic State and its self-proclaimed caliphate have been handed out in north-western Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.
"The booklet is in Pashto and Dari languages," widely spoken in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has been in circulation for around two weeks, police official Muhammad Altaf told dpa.
Titled al-Fatah, or Victory, the 12-page booklet bears an Islamic motto in traditional calligraphy and a picture of AK-47 assault rifle on the cover.
Media reports suggested the booklet was also distributed in several districts on the other side of the border in Afghanistan.
It explains the objectives of the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in northern Syria and Iraq, and urges the Muslims of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia to support it, according to government official Amjad Khan, who has seen copies.
He said police were investigating the source.
Observers said Islamic State sympathizers could be exploiting the suppression of local militants by a recent military offensive.
"The Pakistan Taliban have been in disarray since the offensive started in June," analyst Fida Khan said. "There is certainly room for a new group to capitalize on jihadi sentiments."
"Islamic State supporters may be thinking this is their best chance to establish themselves in this part of the world."
The Pakistani military said on Wednesday it had killed over 900 militants in two-and-a-half-month campaign near the Afghan border, a region thought to harbour al-Qaeda-linked groups.
Source : Sapa-dpa /nsm
Date : 03 Sep 2014 14:47
Booklets calling for support for the terrorist organization Islamic State and its self-proclaimed caliphate have been handed out in north-western Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.
"The booklet is in Pashto and Dari languages," widely spoken in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has been in circulation for around two weeks, police official Muhammad Altaf told dpa.
Titled al-Fatah, or Victory, the 12-page booklet bears an Islamic motto in traditional calligraphy and a picture of AK-47 assault rifle on the cover.
Media reports suggested the booklet was also distributed in several districts on the other side of the border in Afghanistan.
It explains the objectives of the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in northern Syria and Iraq, and urges the Muslims of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia to support it, according to government official Amjad Khan, who has seen copies.
He said police were investigating the source.
Observers said Islamic State sympathizers could be exploiting the suppression of local militants by a recent military offensive.
"The Pakistan Taliban have been in disarray since the offensive started in June," analyst Fida Khan said. "There is certainly room for a new group to capitalize on jihadi sentiments."
"Islamic State supporters may be thinking this is their best chance to establish themselves in this part of the world."
The Pakistani military said on Wednesday it had killed over 900 militants in two-and-a-half-month campaign near the Afghan border, a region thought to harbour al-Qaeda-linked groups.
Source : Sapa-dpa /nsm
Date : 03 Sep 2014 14:47
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
JIHADISTS KIDNAP DOZENS IN NORTH IRAQ VILLAGE: POLICE
Jihadists kidnapped dozens of residents of a northern Iraq village on Thursday after villagers burned one of their positions along with the jihadist flag, police and witnesses said.
The militants of the Islamic State (IS) group had withdrawn from Tal Ali in Kirkuk province on Wednesday, but returned in force on Thursday and carried out the abductions, the sources said.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 04 Sep 2014 14:35
Jihadists kidnapped dozens of residents of a northern Iraq village on Thursday after villagers burned one of their positions along with the jihadist flag, police and witnesses said.
The militants of the Islamic State (IS) group had withdrawn from Tal Ali in Kirkuk province on Wednesday, but returned in force on Thursday and carried out the abductions, the sources said.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 04 Sep 2014 14:35
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Yeah I'm sure all the Chechens want to be "liberated" by this bunch of backward savages... 
Fulcrum29
Honorary Master
The last thing IS wants to do in the East is to piss on the Decepticons. I think Putin will unleash the Chinese on them, dumping power.
falcon786
Honorary Master
It is possible that they can take Chechenya,just like the Afghans defeated the Russians,but yeah I don't think the Chechens would be any happier under IS crooked views.Would just be a case of being ruled by a different oppressor for them.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
KERRY, HAGEL URGE COALITION AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE
Associated Press
America's top diplomatic and defense leaders are pressing a core coalition of 10 nations to summon the willpower to go after the Islamic State group in Iraq militarily and financially.
They are calling for solid plans by the time the United Nations General Assembly meets in two weeks.
Secretary of State John Kerry tells foreign and defense ministers from the United Kingdom, France, Australia and other nations that they need a clear strategy and plan for what each will contribute. He says he knows many won't want to do military strikes, but can provide intelligence, equipment or weapons.
He and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke Friday during a meeting of nearly two dozen leaders. Kerry says NATO allies have technology and know-how, but need willpower to stick with the fight.
Source : Sapa-AP /gf
Date : 05 Sep 2014 12:34
Associated Press
America's top diplomatic and defense leaders are pressing a core coalition of 10 nations to summon the willpower to go after the Islamic State group in Iraq militarily and financially.
They are calling for solid plans by the time the United Nations General Assembly meets in two weeks.
Secretary of State John Kerry tells foreign and defense ministers from the United Kingdom, France, Australia and other nations that they need a clear strategy and plan for what each will contribute. He says he knows many won't want to do military strikes, but can provide intelligence, equipment or weapons.
He and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke Friday during a meeting of nearly two dozen leaders. Kerry says NATO allies have technology and know-how, but need willpower to stick with the fight.
Source : Sapa-AP /gf
Date : 05 Sep 2014 12:34
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
How will they take it? Rebuffing an invasion and launching your own invasion are two totally different animals.
Pitbull
Verboten
Why is it, that when it's a sensitive topic, not one country has the balls to just fight it head on. They need a coalition to make it feel like a global effort and no one can blame one country for fighting against the cause? Look at WW2... same thing. No one wanted to be THE country to take on Germany. They needed a coalition first... Just grown some balls America and go in there full on War. it will be over in a week. Not another half arsed attempt like in Afghanistan. Just rip that part of the map a new one and get it over with.
falcon786
Honorary Master
By targeting those that are easily swayed in Chechenya and convincing them that they are a legitimate Caliphate whose intention is to help the innocent people of Chechenya's cause for freedom.
There are people willing to fight in these places with political instability you just have to know how to recruit them by making it seem as if you are aligned to their cause.Judging by the videos and leaflets etc being produced by IS it seems they are actively recruiting worldwide,they wont have much success in most areas especially peaceful ones,but where there is political instability they will succeed in getting victims to fall for their false caliphate.
Edit:Just look at how they hijacked the Syrian peoples rebellion for freedom,that's how they will do it!
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Nanfeishen
Executive Member
It may be considered false by some , but there is historical precedent and relevance to be considered, as various caliphates have existed in the past.
So history plays a certain part in the idea.
Also unlike Iraq and Libya and Syria, there is no regime to topple, no party to oust, no political ideology to overcome.
This is a religious ideology, based on faith and history, it not easy to eradicate the idea's that go along with it.
You can bomb some infrastructure here and there, take out some fighters, knock them down here, they pop up there, or go underground altogether, which causes even bigger issues.
This situation is not going to have simple solution.
falcon786
Honorary Master
If a Caliphate were to be regarded as legitimate it would need to be recognised by the majority of that religions members.Believe me they are a small obscure group trying to claim Caliphate,the vast majority of Muslims are not supporting them,if they did then they would have MILLIONS of fighters by now.What they have basically done is put a war lord type character in charge and hijacked the Syrian freedom fight.Due to the political instability in neighbouring Iraq since the removal of Saddam they have managed to get a few thousand supporters there also.
It honestly wont be surprising to me if they get the same type of support in Chechenya due to political instability,they know this and hence they are targeting places like Afghanistan also.They are very sly and clearly led by people with smarts but no morals.