Terrorism
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 09:29
But as the days turn into weeks and the Syrian operation settles into the day-in, day-out grind of a protracted war, the big waves of weaponry are likely to give way to smaller, more precise targeting that will increase the importance of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft.
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 09:27
Jordan, which has joined a US-led coalition waging airstrikes on the Islamic State group, said Sunday it has secured the country’s borders against “any threat.”
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 09:21
Despite operating under an $85 billion supplemental wartime budget, the Pentagon is going back to Congress to ensure that it has the funding to continue its air operations against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, top officials said Friday.
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 07:04
The deal was done on September 5 during the NATO summit in Wales. U.S. President Barack Obama got the backing he wanted to confront the Islamic State, or IS. A group of European countries agreed to provide some kind of military support to the United States as it prepared to carry out aerial bombardments of IS targets. But NATO as a military alliance was not going to get involved. It was going to stay at home. Coalitions would take its place.
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 07:02
The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group is growing, with dozens of countries among its ranks. The coalition is contributing a wide range of efforts, from carrying out airstrikes to providing military assistance and humanitarian aid.
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 06:18
The United States and Russia see Daesh as a common enemy but are failing to overcome deep mutual distrust and agree on how to tackle the threat together, making any role for Moscow in the US-led campaign unlikely, say US officials.
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 05:44
Al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and Boko Haram, while all different, each display three common characteristics that aid in understanding terrorist actors in Africa.
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 05:43
Economics and deprivation were as important, if not more so, than religious factors in explaining why Somalis joined al-Shabaab. This is one of the main findings of a new study released on 26 September that provides empirical data on radicalisation in Somalia.
Friday, September 26, 2014 - 11:49
An echo of the ISIS war reached the nation of Georgia again this week. A local television channel, Rustavi-2, reported that yet another teenager had been killed in Syria: 18-year-old Beso Kushanashvili would not be coming home to his family in the Pankisi Gorge, the mountain area of Georgia mostly populated with Chechen Muslims. Kushanashvili, according to local reports, was one of about 50 teenagers between 16 and 18 who had left to fight the jihadist war in Syria.
Friday, September 26, 2014 - 11:38
Russia's Security Council has sounded the alarm about Islamic State fighters from former Soviet countries returning home "politically and religiously 'loaded,'" TASS news agency reported Friday.