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Do you think ISIS should be taken out?
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ISIS Commander 'Omar the Chechen' Allegedly Killed
The Islamic State military commander "Omar the Chechen, who threatened Russia with a jihadist onslaught, has been eliminated, said Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov. He posted a photo on Instagram which he says is proof.
"The enemy of Islam, Tarkhan Batirashvili, who called himself Omar Ash-Shishani ("Shishani" is Arabic for "Chechen"), has been killed," Kadyrov posted. "That will happen to everyone who will threaten Russia and the people of Chechnya. This will happen to everyone who sheds Muslims' blood."
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ISIS Beheads US Hostage Peter Kassig
US President Obama has confirmed the beheading of US aid worker Peter Kassig by Islamic State militants, after a video on social media purported to show his death. The militant group has further threatened to kill other US citizens "on your streets."
"Today we offer our prayers and condolences to the parents and family of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known to us as Peter," Obama told reporters on Air Force One during his homeward bound trip from Australia.
Obama went on to praise Kassig, labeling the act in which he was killed as one of "pure evil."
Kassig, 26, was captured on October 1, 2013, by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants on his way to the city of Deir Ezzour in eastern Syria.
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Looks like the UK 22nd SAS doesn't like being left out of the fight. If this turns out to be true (I have only found one source) this will require ISIS to react to a page out of their own playbook, I wonder how good they are at COIN. I hope this continues and that their liberal ROE keeps them safe.
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http://metro.co.uk wrote SAS on quad bikes are killing up to eight Jihadis a day in Iraq
Members of the elite SAS are now thought to have taken out 200 Isis jihadis after just four weeks in quad bike squads after having targets confirmed by drone reconnaissance planes.
Defence sources have revealed that the Special Air Service had been killing up to eight terrorists a day in co-ordinated raids.
This is the first time British troops have been acknowledged to be involved in combat missions against IS.
Previously, it had been stated that these special force units were only performing reconnaissance missions.An SAS source told the Mail on Sunday: Our tactics are putting the fear of God into IS as they dont know where were going to strike next and theres frankly nothing they can do to stop us.
Elite sniper units are being transported to 50 miles of a target by Chinook helicopters with their quad bikes stowed aboard.
These covert missions behind enemy lines are in preparation for a spring offensive against the terrorist state by over 20,000 Iraqi and Kurdish forces
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Lets not miss out the SRR and SBS who are with them
SAS always get the limelight hahaha
SAS always get the limelight hahaha
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Found a little bit of information.
A Canadian woman may have been kidnapped by ISIS.
A Canadian woman may have been kidnapped by ISIS.
The Canadian government has said it is trying to verify reports that one of its citizens has been kidnapped in Syria.
The woman was believed to be helping Kurdish militias in the fight against Islamic State, according to Haaretz.
It cites a blog used by the extremist organisation, which claims a 31-year-old Canadian-Israeli had been taken captive.
Israel has banned its people from travelling to countries deemed as enemy states, including Iraq and Syria.
When asked about the reports, Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's Defence Minister, said "I cannot confirm that and I hope that it isn't true."
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Islamist Plan Christmas Attacks on 5 Planes - Reports
An alive and real Muslim terrorist bomb plot is in progress in Europe, security sources have told the UKs Sunday Express newspaper. Authorities are considering banning all hand luggage as a countermeasure, the report claims.
"We've been told that five planes are being targeted in a high profile hit before Christmas. They've been waiting for the big one", a high-ranking airport security source told the Sunday Express.
"We have many scares but this one nearly got hand baggage pulled from all airlines. The threat is still alive and real."
The attacks are expected to center on "major" European destinations, according to the insider.
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Lebanese Army Detain Wife, Son of ISIS Leader
A wife and a son of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have been arrested by the Lebanese Army, Beirut security officials said. They were detained in coordination with "foreign intelligence apparatus, reported the local press.
The woman was described by officials as one of al-Baghdadi's wives, Safir daily newspaper reported. However, they didn't provide any details on her nationality or name.
The woman, who was accompanied by her son, was arrested while crossing the border from Syria. According to the officials, she was using a fake ID.
The pair was taken to Lebanons Ministry of Defense in Beirut for interrogation.
He probably doesn't even care, lol.
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General: Islamic State fighters on their heels
Islamic State fighters have lost the initiative in Iraq and are now "on defense" with far less ability to generate the kind of ground maneuvers that enabled the extremists to capture large chunks of Iraq earlier this year, a senior U.S. general said Monday.
Army Lt. Gen. James Terry, the top commander of Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. campaign to defeat IS, also said the nascent effort to rebuild Iraq's army will soon get a boost from coalition countries that plan to commit roughly 1,500 military trainers. Much of the Iraq army collapsed or proved ineffective in the face of IS's onslaught last summer.
In his first extensive interview since taking command of the counter-Islamic State campaign in October, Terry told a small group of reporters that IS is "on defense, trying to hold what they have gained." He added that the group, which is armed with tanks and other U.S.-made war equipment captured from the Iraqi army, is "still able to conduct some limited attacks."
Terry said his first priority is to develop more fully an international military coalition against IS.
The U.S. intervened directly starting in August with airstrikes that have damaged IS's fighting force, as well as its economic and logistics bases in Syria. But questions remain about the Iraqis' ability to retake the ground they lost and to sustain a military campaign with President Barack Obama ruling out the use of American ground combat forces.
Terry said he sees no need now for additional U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the extra 1,500 that Obama recently approved. The U.S. mission there is limited to training and advising the Iraqis, as well as coordinating U.S. air power with Iraq ground operations.
"I'm comfortable with the boots on the ground that we have right now," he said.
Asked whether the conflict in Iraq is at a stalemate, Terry said, "In some places it's stalemated; in some places it's to the advantage of the Iraqis," meaning the Iraqis have the upper hand now in places like Bayji, site of a key oil refinery north of Baghdad.
Terry spoke cautiously of prospects for rebuilding the Iraqi army, which is riddled with sectarian issues and other problems. He said it would be months before the Iraqis are ready to launch a major counteroffensive.
"While they still have a long way to go, I think they're becoming more capable every day," he said. That comment is all the more notable for the fact that the U.S. invested billions of dollars in developing the Iraqi security forces during more than eight years of war following the American invasion in March 2003 that toppled President Saddam Hussein.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who was in Kuwait on Monday to meet with Kuwaiti government officials and visit with U.S. troops, told reporters the Iraqi security forces have achieved a "new momentum" in their battle to regain territory from IS.
Speaking to reporters at Camp Buehring, a U.S. Army camp in northern Kuwait that serves as a staging and logistics hub for U.S. military operations in the Middle East, Hagel offered an upbeat assessment of progress in Iraq since the U.S. intervened in August.
"It's given them some new momentum," he said.
Hagel said that the Islamic State group remains a formidable threat, not only to Iraq but also to neighboring Iran and other countries in the region. He repeated the U.S. government's policy of not coordinating military action in Iraq with Iran, but he also suggested that Iran has reason to be concerned about the long-term ambitions of the Islamic State.
"They are threatened by ISIL, just like every government in the Middle East is clearly threatened by ISIL," Hagel said, using an alternative acronym for the extremist group.
U.S. officials said last week that Iran had recently conducted airstrikes in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala.
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Islamic State fighters have lost the initiative in Iraq and are now "on defense" with far less ability to generate the kind of ground maneuvers that enabled the extremists to capture large chunks of Iraq earlier this year, a senior U.S. general said Monday.
Army Lt. Gen. James Terry, the top commander of Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. campaign to defeat IS, also said the nascent effort to rebuild Iraq's army will soon get a boost from coalition countries that plan to commit roughly 1,500 military trainers. Much of the Iraq army collapsed or proved ineffective in the face of IS's onslaught last summer.
In his first extensive interview since taking command of the counter-Islamic State campaign in October, Terry told a small group of reporters that IS is "on defense, trying to hold what they have gained." He added that the group, which is armed with tanks and other U.S.-made war equipment captured from the Iraqi army, is "still able to conduct some limited attacks."
Terry said his first priority is to develop more fully an international military coalition against IS.
The U.S. intervened directly starting in August with airstrikes that have damaged IS's fighting force, as well as its economic and logistics bases in Syria. But questions remain about the Iraqis' ability to retake the ground they lost and to sustain a military campaign with President Barack Obama ruling out the use of American ground combat forces.
Terry said he sees no need now for additional U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the extra 1,500 that Obama recently approved. The U.S. mission there is limited to training and advising the Iraqis, as well as coordinating U.S. air power with Iraq ground operations.
"I'm comfortable with the boots on the ground that we have right now," he said.
Asked whether the conflict in Iraq is at a stalemate, Terry said, "In some places it's stalemated; in some places it's to the advantage of the Iraqis," meaning the Iraqis have the upper hand now in places like Bayji, site of a key oil refinery north of Baghdad.
Terry spoke cautiously of prospects for rebuilding the Iraqi army, which is riddled with sectarian issues and other problems. He said it would be months before the Iraqis are ready to launch a major counteroffensive.
"While they still have a long way to go, I think they're becoming more capable every day," he said. That comment is all the more notable for the fact that the U.S. invested billions of dollars in developing the Iraqi security forces during more than eight years of war following the American invasion in March 2003 that toppled President Saddam Hussein.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who was in Kuwait on Monday to meet with Kuwaiti government officials and visit with U.S. troops, told reporters the Iraqi security forces have achieved a "new momentum" in their battle to regain territory from IS.
Speaking to reporters at Camp Buehring, a U.S. Army camp in northern Kuwait that serves as a staging and logistics hub for U.S. military operations in the Middle East, Hagel offered an upbeat assessment of progress in Iraq since the U.S. intervened in August.
"It's given them some new momentum," he said.
Hagel said that the Islamic State group remains a formidable threat, not only to Iraq but also to neighboring Iran and other countries in the region. He repeated the U.S. government's policy of not coordinating military action in Iraq with Iran, but he also suggested that Iran has reason to be concerned about the long-term ambitions of the Islamic State.
"They are threatened by ISIL, just like every government in the Middle East is clearly threatened by ISIL," Hagel said, using an alternative acronym for the extremist group.
U.S. officials said last week that Iran had recently conducted airstrikes in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala.
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ISIS Trying to Sell James Foley's Body for $1 Million
Three middlemen one a businessman, one a former rebel fighter in Syria, and one a senior official in the Free Syrian Army told Buzzfeed that the Islamic State (IS, or ISIS/ISIL) is trying to sell Foley's remains to either the United States government or the journalist's family.
Under the known terms of the proposed deal, the militants would hand over Foley's body in Turkey in exchange for the money. The extremist group, which gained wide swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria over the summer, said it would offer a DNA sample to prove the remains really belonged to Foley.
"They ask for $1 million, and they will send DNA to Turkey, but they want the money first," said the former rebel to the website. "They will not give the DNA without the money."
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Miss wroteISIS Trying to Sell James Foley's Body for $1 Million
Three middlemen one a businessman, one a former rebel fighter in Syria, and one a senior official in the Free Syrian Army told Buzzfeed that the Islamic State (IS, or ISIS/ISIL) is trying to sell Foley's remains to either the United States government or the journalist's family.
Under the known terms of the proposed deal, the militants would hand over Foley's body in Turkey in exchange for the money. The extremist group, which gained wide swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria over the summer, said it would offer a DNA sample to prove the remains really belonged to Foley.
"They ask for $1 million, and they will send DNA to Turkey, but they want the money first," said the former rebel to the website. "They will not give the DNA without the money."
"It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards east and / or west (in prayers); but righteous is one who gives his/her wealth, inspite of love for it." - Aayah No. 177, Surah Al-Baqarah, Chapter No. 2 Holy Quran
On disposal of the dead in the Hadiths:
Bunch of self-righteous hypocrites who can't even follow their own religious teachings.
and I'm not saying here that they should follow these teachings, they should give the body back for free, that would be the decent thing to do, but they aren't decent, and they are hypocrites, so of course they're going to do something like this.
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