daesh

The big lie we are being sold about ISIS in the Philippines and Manchester

Once upon a time you needed to be Al Qaeda to get the US government’s attention.  Today it is ISIS that has the brand recognition that Jihadists crave.  If you are an unemployed teenager living in squalor, and perhaps influenced by an Islamist ideology in your neighborhood, the one thing you really want is to […]

Watch: The real, ‘ISIS Hunting Club’ – More than a trendy patch

The ISIS Hunting Club: Kurds Hunting Daesh Taking Daesh (ISIS,) down in the Middle East means less attacks on Western soil. If they control less territory, then they have less income. Which means less funds for terrorist attacks abroad. After battles like Kobane, a lot of their capable fighters have died and there are more and more […]

Reports keep emerging that US-backed forces are executing ISIS fighters in Mosul

As US-backed forces stand on the brink of retaking Mosul, reports continue to emerge that they are summarily executing captured ISIS fighters. ISIS fighters are sometimes executed at the front lines, while others are executed after being interrogated, a Mosul-based commander told Integrated Regional Information Networks, a nonprofit media site that focuses on conflict zones. Extrajudicial killings […]

Pentagon: ‘Conditions have been set’ for ISIS defeat in western Mosul

Air Force Colonel John Dorrian conducted a press briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday, in which he indicated that the progress made by coalition forces and the Iraqi military in recent days will have reverberating effects throughout the ISIS command structure, and will eventually lead to their defeat. The ISIS-controlled area is “shrinking steadily with […]

Anis Amri: How a terror suspect eluded German authorities

German authorities try to identify the errors that allowed Anis Amri to elude them until it was too late. -Vasilis Chronopoulos When German authorities announced that Anis Amri, a Tunisian national suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, had been on their radar for more than a year, questions arose as to […]

Five people suspected of jihadist links arrested in Spain and Hungary

On two separate operations, police in Spain and Hungary arrested five persons with suspected ties to Islamic extremists. -Vasilis Chronopoulos  Spain’s interior ministry said police detained a Moroccan man with Dutch identity documents in the northwestern city of Figueras suspected of belonging to IS who recently returned to Spain from Turkey. The authorities are investigating […]

Istanbul New Years gunman arrested, Turkish officials claim

Turkish authorities claim that they have apprehended the man responsible for the deaths of 39 people in the New Years celebration attack at club Reina in Istanbul, Turkey. What we know so far is that the Uzbek national has been caught in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district while at a friend’s house. Abdulkadir Masharipov is believed that committed […]

Germany arrests Syrian migrant over police car bomb plot

A potentially lethal Daesh plot has been foiled by German police. They detained a man from Syria who intended to buy eight cars and convert them into VBIEDs. The man claimed that he only planned to defraud the Daesh and take their money since his family that is still in Syria need economic support  -Vasilis Chronopoulos German police […]

Turkey ‘close to identifying Istanbul gunman’ as eight suspects detained

The latest evidence, such as fingerprints, photos taken from CCTV and probably the information provided by eight individuals detained for connection to the attack make the Turkish authorities believe, that they are close in the capture of the New Year’s nightclub attacker   -Vasilis Chronopoulos Turkish officials say they are close to identifying the gunman who killed […]

UK minister sees threat of Islamic State chemical attack in Britain

Ben Wallace, the UK security minister, expressed his concerns about a possible chemical attack by Daesh militants in the UK in a interview he gave in Sunday Times. – Vasilis Chronopoulos. Islamic State militants have aspirations to launch mass-casualty chemical attacks on targets in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the British security minister said in a newspaper […]

The mainstream media failed us in Aleppo

The battle for Aleppo is coming to a close and we can hope that the slaughter that has resulted from rebels and terrorists fighting the Syrian military and Russian Air Force is drawing to a conclusion as well.  When I was in Syria last month, I remember being ushered into a large conference room for […]

In fight for Mosul, an effort to bridge divide with Sunnis

MOSUL, Iraq — The Mosul district of Gogjali was captured from the Islamic State group weeks ago. So the commander of Iraqi troops here was alarmed when a surprise attack by militants sparked an hour-long gunbattle with his forces. None of his men were hurt, but the assault meant IS sleeper cells remained among the […]