Month: August 2014

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1. Iraq forces begin Amerli moves against Islamic State
2. Iran Bolsters Phone, Internet Surveillance
3. Iraq Bombing Kills 11
4. Philippine peacekeepers rescued from militants on Golan: U.N.
5. 1.6 mn people displaced in Iraq: UN
6. Iran President Hassan Rouhani calls US sanctions an ‘invasion’
7. Egypt Court Hands Life Sentence to Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Badie
8. Taliban suicide bombers hit Afghan intelligence agency
9. Gulf rivals struggle to build anti-jihadist front
10. To fight Isil and its genocidal agenda, we need a global coalition, says John Kerry

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1. You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
2. UN Security Council urges Yemenis to resolve differences through dialogue
3. Iraqi Kurds Expand Autonomy as ISIS Reorders the Landscape
4. U.S. delivers arms to bolster Lebanese army
5. An Iraqi Shiite Town Is Getting Desperate After A 6-Week ISIS Siege
6. IS planning to weaponise bubonic plague?
7. Besieged UN peacekeepers in Syria ready to use […]
   

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1. Pak terror groups sent recruits for ISIS […]
   

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1. Bahrain regime forces brutalize protesters
2. ISIS Ethnic Cleansing: 670 Prisoners Murdered In Shia Prison Massacre, UN Reports
3. Pakistan’s Protests Risk Another Military Coup
4. Syrian rebels storm Israeli-held Golan Heights border crossing
5. 15 Australian Fighters Killed in Iraq, Syria: Spy Chief
6. Afghan Presidential Candidates Pull out of Audit
7. Peace prevailing between Shias and Sunnis, why disturb it, SC asks?
8. Executions a ‘common spectacle’ in jihadist-held Syria: UN
9. Indian youth from Kalyan who joined ISIS killed in clashes in Syria
10. Many Officers Under Saddam Are Now Islamic State Leaders

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1. Significant number of Australians taking up leadership roles in Islamic State says Julie Bishop
2. Twin disasters spark Malaysia Airlines crew resignations
3. Afghanistan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah threatens to pull out of election process
4. UAE, Egypt air strikes on Libya take US by surprise
5. Pakistani opposition party’s ends deadlock in dialogue
6. Obama approves air surveillance of IS in Syria
7. Pakistani court orders filing of murder case against Nawaz Sharif, brother Shahbaz Sharif
8. Baghdad car bomb kills 11 people, injures dozens
9. U.S. rules out joint Syrian effort to target Islamic State

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1. Taliban commander among 3 killed in Pakistan
2. Iraq Pleads For Global Help in Fight Against Jihadists
3. Iraqi Kurds advance on ISIS
4. Syria warns against U.S. strikes on Islamic State on its soil
5. Political crisis in Pakistan deepens; cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri issues 48-hour deadline to government
6. Bahrain: Prominent Human Rights Defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja to Start a New Hunger Strike
7. Grand Ayatollah Ja […]
   

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1. Holy Astans of the Infallible Imams (A.S.) are the Soft Power of the Islamic World
2. Book Featuring Hazrat Zahra’s (AS) Life Published in English by Ahlulbayt (AS) World Assembly
3. ‘Love Jihad threatenes to unleah new wave of hatred in Uttar Pradesh
4. Saudis demand release of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr
5. Official: 3 killed in failed Afghan prison break
6. Islamists carry out […]
   

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1. French teenage girls held over Syria jihad plans
2. How Isil is funded, trained and operating in Iraq and Syria
3. Syria jihadists post video of hostages
4. Terrorists killed captive Iranian border guard: Official
5. Deadly air strikes target fighters in Tripoli
6. Iran refuses to open key base to IAEA
7. Iraq conflict: UN warns of possible Amerli ‘massacre’
8. White House edges closer to strikes on Syria as pressure grows on Obama to act on ISIS
9. UPDATE 1-Yemen government offers to resign to end Houthi protests – source
10. Massacre derails talks on new Iraq government

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1. Nigeria Boko Haram seizes police academy in Borno State
2. Libya militants engage in fresh fighting
3. Briton vows to be […]