As the world focuses on Israel’s war against Hamas, Turkey is exploiting the opportunity to expand its military assaults on the Kurds, now including in them Syrian Christians accused of aiding the Kurds. Turkey has reportedly “carried out 76 drone strikes in the northeast” this year, but Turkey continues to present these attacks as fighting […]
Syria: Islamic State jihadis murder six Kurdish-led security forces members
Insecure security. “Islamic State attack in Syria’s Raqqa kills 6 Kurdish security forces – official,” Reuters, December 26, 2022: BEIRUT, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Six Kurdish-led security force members were killed in an Islamic State suicide attack on Monday on a security forces centre in Syria’s Raqqa, the chief of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, […]
Turkey accused of killing commander of US-backed group that helped defeat the Islamic State
There is abundant reason to reevaluate Turkey’s membership in NATO. But they’ve steadfastly ignored it all in Washington up to now; why stop now? “Turkey accused of killing Kurdish female commander in Syria,” by Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, July 28, 2022: A Kurdish commander in the Syrian Democratic Forces, the US-backed group that helped […]
Syria: Islamic State’s religious police burn liquor store, prosecute those who violate Islamic law
Virtually every politician in the Western world has assured us with supreme confidence that the Islamic State (ISIS) has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islam. That is now taken for granted everywhere. The only ones who haven’t gotten the message are the ISIS jihadis themselves. “Islamic State revives religious police in northeast Syria,” by […]
Syria: Islamic State raids two women’s homes, murders them with machine guns, for working for ‘apostate’ group
Remember: the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, so its members wouldn’t really care if someone was working for a group that had departed from Islamic norms. Right? Everyone in the West tells us so: every last non-Muslim politician in the U.S. and Europe is sure that ISIS has hijacked Islam, which is […]
Syrian Government Enraged That Kurds Intend to Sell Kurdish Oil
Northeastern Syria is inhabited – and has been for many centuries – by the Kurdish people. That territory also happens to be the oil-bearing part of Syria, currently held by local Kurdish forces of the YPG (People’s Protection Units), and by the American troops still in Syria, as President Trump said, to “guard the oil.” […]
Syria: 14-year-old girl murdered by her grandparents for not wearing niqab in Islamic State camp
“Welcome to hell” is the description of an Islamic State camp in Syria where a 14-year-old girl was murdered by her grandparents for not wearing a niqab, and where “women are still adhering to extremist ideology and could be a threat to society, with foreign women thought to be the most radicalised.” This hellish place […]
Switzerland: Man converts to Islam, is “radicalized” at mosque, now known as “the most dangerous Swiss jihadist”
“Born into a Catholic family, he turned to Islam after failing to complete his education. It is believed that he was radicalized at the Petit-Saconnex mosque in Geneva.” Has that mosque been investigated? Shut down? If not, why not? “Switzerland’s ‘most dangerous jihadist’ captured in Syria,” SwissInfo, July 21, 2019: The Geneva native turned Islamic […]
Belgium takes back six children of Islamic State jihadis from Syrian camps
What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. Many of the children of Islamic State jihadis have themselves been trained to hate and kill, and to see the world as a battleground between Muslims and unbelievers. What are the chances of their becoming loyal, productive Belgian citizens? “Belgium takes back six children of Isis fighters from Syrian […]
Muslim from USA, 16, captured while waging jihad with the Islamic State in Syria
Seamus Hughes, the deputy director of the George Washington University Program on Extremism, which is actually the George Washington University Program on Obfuscating the Islamic Doctrinal Roots of Jihad Terror, says: “Here’s the concern with this case. How long has this young man been in Syria? Did he go early on with family? Or is […]