An Arab intelligence source warned against getting excited by the reported retreats of the Islamic State across the region, revealing Al-Qaeda is moving in to fill the void.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) core in Iraq and Syria is losing territory, fighters, leaders, and financial resources, while its Syrian rival Jabhat al-Nusra flourishes, becoming the “largest” al Qaeda affiliate “in history,” President Barack Obama’s special envoy for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS told lawmakers.
TEL AVIV – If the United States were to try and cajole President Bashar al-Assad into negotiating with the rebels by launching a military attack against the Syrian regime, the move would only strengthen the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, a Syrian official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The hot new meme about Orlando jihadi Omar Mateen is that he became “self-radicalized.”
A series of airstrikes in an insurgent-held Syrian province on Sunday killed at least 27 people, including four children, activists said.
Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda has been missing since he entered Syria in June 2015. He resurfaced in a video that was posted online in March, purportedly recorded on his birthday.
JAFFA, Israel – Fierce fighting has been taking place in Alghouta region, near Damascus, for several weeks, but the parties are rebel groups fighting each other.
TEL AVIV – The Islamic State organization has published pictures of its militants destroying stacks of alcohol and cigarettes found in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the vicinity of Damascus. The pictures, obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem from the Islamic State Telegraph Forum, an encrypted message service for IS and its supporters, seem part of a new public relations push attempting to discredit the al-Qaeda-aligned Nusra Front, a rival jihadi organization that controlled the camp until recently.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s top cleric has reportedly issued a religious decree, or fatwa, ordering the tyrant’s military to “show us their rage in exterminating” civilians in the besieged and divided city of Aleppo.
Air strikes and shelling pounded Aleppo for a third straight day on Sunday, killing two young siblings and at least 24 others in Syria’s largest city and former commercial capital. The northern city has been bitterly contested between insurgents and
The New York Times reports: BEIRUT, Lebanon — For 38 straight days, the streets of the northwestern Syrian town of Maarat al-Noaman had been the scene of protests against the government and the Islamic extremists of the Nusra Front. On
Syria’s Prime Minister is discussing a joint operation with Russia against rebel forces in Aleppo, a region with no significant Islamic State presence.
Al-Qaeda linked jihadists reportedly shot down a warplane from Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s air force and captured its pilot alive near Syria’s Aleppo province.
Rebels shot down a second Syrian warplane in less than a month on Tuesday and a monitoring group said they captured its pilot in an area near Aleppo where heavy fighting has erupted in recent days despite a cessation of
The U.S. military carried out an airstrike Sunday on “a senior Al Qaeda operational meeting in northwest Syria” that resulted in “several enemy killed,” including a prominent leader in the jihadist group’s Syrian offshoot, known as the Nusra Front, according to the Pentagon.
The alleged ex-wife of the notorious Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has reportedly described him as a “normal family man” before the jihadist group declared him the “Caliph” and “leader for Muslims everywhere.”
The last remaining Christians in Syria’s Raqqa are being forbidden from leaving “under any condition” by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists who control the de-facto capital of the terrorist group, as forces loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad and their allies advance towards the city.
The Syrian-based Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda offshoot, has launched a surprise attack against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Western Syria, prompting a war between the two terrorist groups, reports AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA).
TEL AVIV, Israel – The Syrian army’s recent victories over the Islamic State will foster cooperation between Syria and the U.S., despite the latter’s reticence, a Damascus official told Breitbart Jerusalem. Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad succeeded in pushing IS
Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra on Sunday, inflicting what the army called a “mortal blow” to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. The loss
Russia has warned it may take unilateral action against violations of the cease-fire agreement in Syria, accusing the United States of failing to develop plans to enforce the agreement and punish violations.
Last year, Japan was rocked by the kidnapping and murder of journalist Kenji Goto and his friend Haruna Yukawa by the Islamic State in Syria. Another Japanese journalist, Junpei Yasuda, was abducted in Syria last year, and on Thursday, he
There are many different factions fighting in Syria: well over a hundred of them, according to the architects of the current cease-fire plan. Al-Arabiya judges one of the more unusual factions to be the Uighurs, a Muslim minority from China.
A Syrian rebel commander said on Saturday that government shelling had stopped in some parts of Syria but continued elsewhere in what he described as a violation of a cessation of hostilities agreement that came into effect at midnight. Fares
Foreign Desk News reported on Wednesday that Syrian jihadis have been using Facebook as a marketplace to “buy, sell and barter a wide variety of American-made weapons and munitions ranging from rocket launchers to machine guns.” Shortly after this report was posted, Facebook administrators took the page down.
CNN offers a man-on-the-street view of the Syrian civil war, showing residents of the mostly Shiite town of Nubl, close to the Turkish border, celebrating the ejection of rebel forces by dictator Bashar Assad’s troops. Citizens displayed photos and banners of Assad, as well as photos of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran.
Several sources, within both law enforcement and outside think tanks, have recently warned the Western world not to underestimate the threat of the Islamic State.
Two gunmen opened fire on a group of twenty tourists at Russia’s Naryn-Kala fortress in Dagestan on Tuesday night, killing one and wounding 11 more.
Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that al-Qaeda’s al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) should not participate in any Syrian peace talks.
The chaotic nature of the Syrian civil war was illustrated by the presence of over a hundred representatives from opposition groups in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to lay the groundwork for peace talks with dictator Bashar Assad.
An interesting bit of information from the ongoing investigation into the backgrounds of San Bernardino jihadis Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik comes from Reuters, which was told by U.S. government sources that Malik “tried in vain to contact multiple Islamic militant groups in the months before she and Farook staged their attack, but her overtures were ignored” because the terrorists were concerned she might be a government informant.
San Berardino jihadis Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik took some steps to clean up their online footprint before launching the attack.
Iranian media are denying a report circulating in various Arab media sources, which has reached the White House, claiming that General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s notorious special Quds Forces, was injured in Syria by rebel fire while fighting on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA), which includes fighters trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has reportedly been decimated by widespread desertions.
Forces from the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad have been able to break the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) siege of a key military airbase in the northern province of Aleppo, handing ISIS one of its worst defeats to date.
Al Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a new audio recording on Sunday, in which he called for an Islamist alliance against Russia and the West, and said his organization was ready to work with its previously despised offshoot ISIS against those common foes.
The Lebanese army reports the arrest of three Palestinians linked to the Islamic State, who were building an ISIS cell in the refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh.
A round of Russian air strikes on the ISIS-free province of Latakia reportedly killed Basil Zimmo, a brigade commander in the U.S.-aligned “moderate” Free Syrian Army, along with a number of civilians.
After several days of pounding enemies of the Assad regime from the air – with a preference for bombing forces trained by the CIA and backed by the United States – Russia kicked in a swarm of 26 cruise missiles launched by its Caspian Sea fleet, some 900 miles away
The leader of the Kurdish YPG militia – the indispensable ground forces that have been holding the Islamic State at bay – reportedly welcomed the Russian bombing campaign, calling it “an important step” in the battle against ISIS.
