#history of how #Daesh took #Mosul in June 02014, from the 4th to the 10th, capturing a city of 2 million with maybe 3000 fighters.
on 02026-04-03the terrorist Casio F-91W watch used by #Daesh and by Ramzi Yousef in 01994
on 02025-08-13#news #video #interview with Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi, who refers to ISIS as #Daesh. #politics #Afghanistan
on 02025-03-31Taking Mosul, #Iraq from #Daesh is planned to take months. #war
on 02016-10-19More on today’s attack on Mosul. Rebels from #Syria backed by #Turkey retook Dabiq this morning. Says the total anti-#Daesh forces are only about 30000. Also says the peshmerga number about 4000. #USA has 5000 troops in #Iraq overall, not just in this attack. #war
on 02016-10-17#Iraq attack to retake Mosul begins; 4000 peshmerga, 30000 “pro-government troops”, tanks, Shia militiamen advancing, against 4000 to 8000 #Daesh troops. Daesh has held it since 2014. Arrival at Mosul expected in November or December. No mention of Turkey. #war
on 02016-10-17“#Turkey’s President Tells Iraqi Leader to ‘Know His Place’” Erdogan refuses to withdraw troops at Bashiqa, #Iraq, near Mosul, where they are to fight #Daesh; also he personally insulted Haider al-Abadi. #politics
on 02016-10-14#Daesh attack with #drones in #Iraq near Erbil, kills two peshmerga, asshole French newspaper headlines with “gravely wounds two French commandos”
on 02016-10-11#Daesh attacks with #drones in #Iraq near Erbil/Irbil; one drone, four casualties; #USA equips troops with Battelle DroneDefender jammer rifles
on 02016-10-11on the #Daesh killing by #drones of two peshmerga last week #politics
on 02016-10-11acclaimed feature on the #history of #Daesh #toread
on 02016-09-29#daesh #breastfeeding #human-rights
on 02016-09-23#Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was previously known as Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry and was held in 2004 in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, where US soldiers tortured and sexually abused prisoners for their own amusement
on 02016-09-2360 lawyers killed in a hospital bombing in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan, #Pakistan; credit for the attack is claimed by #Taliban and #Daesh.
on 02016-08-11Apparently #Turkey has a "secret pact" with #Daesh, and Turkish intelligence agencies defend Daesh agents against Turkish police? #politics
on 02016-07-24#Daesh is using #drones with #weaponry and #surveillance cameras for #war in #Iraq
on 02016-07-11“#Al-Qaeda in Yemen threatened Wednesday to target the homes of officers and soldiers who took part in a government offensive that drove militants out of key areas.” The same tactic #Daesh and FARC have used: targeting soldiers’ families individually.
on 02016-05-04Milo #Yiannopoulos approves of a game where you can play a #Daesh character that throws him off a roof for being gay, but Google Play doesn’t.
on 02016-05-04“#Daesh said it would kill any official holding Daesh prisoners in #Saudi Arabia.” A page from FARC’s playbook.
on 02016-05-04In 2014, by contrast, #Juan-Cole suggested high Saudi #oil #energy production would weaken the recognized government of #Iraq, providing opportunities to #Daesh. He also predicts, “By 2016, solar and wind will be grid parity everywhere in the US with coal and natural gas for heating and cooling buildings.” #predictions
on 02016-05-04Saudi Arabia maintains high #oil #energy production possibly in order to squeeze #Daesh revenues.
on 02016-05-04The US is supplying arms to #al-Qaeda groups in #Syria in order to retake territory from #Daesh.
on 02016-04-16The PKK is in open rebellion against #Turkey as well as fighting against #Daesh (which Ajansa Nûçeyan a Firatê refers to as “gangs”), killing thousands of Turkish soldiers and even more Daesh fighters. This is a sort of English republication of a release from the “People’s Defense Forces Press Office (HPG-BIM)”. #Kurds
on 02016-01-13what’s going on in #Iraq today in the wake of #Daesh. There’s a financial crisis in Kurdistan as the authorities have run out of money and stopped paying salaries.
on 02016-01-02Juan Cole compares #Daesh to early modern marine pirates and their safe havens such as Tortuga and Jamaica’s Port Royal.
on 02015-12-13Business Insider #video claiming #Daesh has a (probably nonworking) ballistic missile. #weaponry
on 02015-12-01why people go to fight for #Daesh in #politics
on 02015-11-18what #Daesh really wants in #politics
on 02015-11-18“#Weaponry and morale determine outcomes. The 2nd largest city of Iraq (Mosul) fell when 1k ISIS fighters attacked “60k” Iraqi army. 40k soldiers were artifacts of embezzlement, and of 20k real only 1.5k fought - these mostly the AK47 armed local police. An AK47 loses to a 12.7mm machine gun and armored suicide vehicle bombs. Finally, the attack was personal - soldiers received calls mid-fight threatening relatives by name and address. One army captain did not leave quickly enough and had two teenage sons executed.” #violence #Iraq #daesh
on 02015-11-11apparently the UK just assassinated two British citizens in Syria, who were working for #Daesh, with Reaper #drones: Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin. Specifically the Prime Minister defended this as necessary in order to prevent them from inspiring people in Britain from killing people there; they were not expected to return to Britain.
on 02015-09-07