daesh

A lot of attention has been given to a supposed “rogue” sniper laying waste to Daesh fighters. Whoever it is, they likely have backing from JSOC due to the professional and precise nature of the work being done.

A report from Libya confirms that an Islamic State commander, Abu Anas Al-Muhajer, was assassinated by a sniper within the city of Sirte.

Amnesty International has accused the Kurds in both Rojava and Bashur of human-rights violations.

The hackers are being asked to create a database of potential Indian candidates from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. And they are being offered lucrative deals too. For every ‘job’ that they do, a hacker would be paid in excess of $10,000. Experts are saying this has been the most anyone has been […]

A Lockheed-Martin F-22A Raptor belonging to the “Fighting Eagles” of the 27th Fighter Squadron from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia spent some time with the F-22 Combined Test Force at Edwards AFB, California this past year, playing a part in the Signature Management Program designed to help maintain the Raptor’s low-observable traits as radar and detection technologies improve. While that […]

Good evening, FighterSweep Fans! We hope you’ve had a spectacular day and, as always, we’re delighted to bring you the latest and greatest from the world of aviation–especially on the tactical side. So tonight we bring you a data-dump on what could certainly be categorized as a terrorist’s worst nightmare. Take a moment–if you would–and […]

I’m not a betting man, but I’m fairly certain Daesh isn’t using their shooters to run their propaganda offices. If they were, maybe we wouldn’t be having such a difficult time countering them.

Happy Sunday, FighterSweep Faithful! We know the articles have been coming through in a trickle for the past couple weeks, but please bear with us; we’ve been on the road doing our thing and generating original content for your eyes and imagination to feast upon, and we promise you won’t be disappointed! So with that […]

The majority of the Syrian civilian kidnap victims are reported to be women and children. As food supplies run low, they not only face the threat of being massacred by Daesh, they also struggle not to die from hunger. BEIRUT, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Islamic State militants kidnapped at least 400 civilians when they attacked […]

Of course their tactics will continue to evolve even after the last Daesh bastions have fallen. They will shave their beards, throw on their civis, and melt back into the populace—a vanishing act all too familiar to them.

Within the guide’s pages, one sees an evolution in the tactics, techniques, and procedures commonly deployed by terrorist organizations similar to ISIS.

[Editor’s Note: Since the U.S.-led coalition has expanded its airstrikes against Daesh, we have talked about one of the key ways to hurt the Islamic State: targeting its finances. Be it destroying oil trucks or its cash reserves, if you cripple an enemy’s ability to pay for its war, you’re making headway] Airstrikes by the […]