Islamic State Beheads Man Accused of Performing ‘Magic’
Posted: May 2, 2017 Filed under: Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Sayyaf, Arish, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamism, Jihadism, Middle East, Philippines, United States 1 Comment
Ali Waked reports: According to group members, IS police officers beheaded the man in the town of Tasil in the Dara district in southern Syria.
In an accompanying statement, the terrorist organization said that the man was beheaded with a sword and had performed “magic and sorcery.”
In the photos, one member of IS can be seen reading the ruling of the Sharia court, noting the Islamic penalty for the alleged transgressions.
Those who carried out the punishment of beheading, according to IS, were members of the Khaled Bin Waleed militia – a jihadist militia affiliated with IS active in southern Syria in the triangular area between the borders of Syria, Jordan and Israel. Read the rest of this entry »
Syria Strikes Signal an End of ‘Leading From Behind’
Posted: April 9, 2017 Filed under: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Mediasphere, War Room, White House | Tags: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Abdullah II of Jordan, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Donald Trump, John Kerry, Rex Tillerson, Syria, Syrian civil war, United States Leave a comment
Hugh Dugan writes: With his surprise, 180-degree decision to avenge innocents in Syria, President Donald Trump entered the particle accelerator that is foreign affairs.
The barrage of urgencies—inhumanity, chemical weapons, Syrian civil war, North Korean missiles, Russian warships, truck bombings, ISIS—has streamed his focus into a statesmanship that impresses even his detractors. This reminds us of Trump’s speech to Congress in February where he grew visibly into his presidential shoes.
Taking decisive action in Syria indeed was in the U.S. national interest, not only an understandable human response to a human atrocity. How is it in the national interest? Chemical weapons cannot be tolerated a bit. No excuse exists. Any shadow of their acceptability would quickly become a black cloud over a world cowed into suspicion and fear. Our national interest depends upon a world open to itself and to the future. Read the rest of this entry »
Kosovo Arrests 19 in Islamic State Plot to Attack Israel Soccer Match
Posted: November 17, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Al-Raqqah, Ayn Issa, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Donald Trump, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Israel, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Middle East, Mosul, Syria, Syrian civil war, United States Leave a comment
Suspects planned ‘synchronized’ attacks in Kosovo and Albania, police say; weapons, ammunition and a drone seized in sweep
Police said the arrests were made over the past 10 days and that the suspects had planned “synchronized terror attacks,” without going into further detail.
“They were planning to commit terrorist attacks in Kosovo and also [an attack] against [the] Israeli football team and their fans during the Albania-Israel match,” Kosovo police said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that weapons, explosives, ammunition and a drone were seized during the sweep.
The police said the suspects were communicating and receiving orders from an Islamic State member, Lavdrim Muhaxheri, the self-declared “commander of Albanians in Syria and Iraq.” Read the rest of this entry »
