Killed 1,000 ISIS Fighters In Mosul: Iraqi Forces
IRAQ: Iraqi special forces battling to clear ISIS from eastern Mosul have killed nearly 1,000 militants but fighting has slowed as troops face a mobile enemy hidden among thousands of civilians in the city, a top commander said. Six weeks into a major offensive, Iraqi forces have captured nearly half of eastern Mosul, moving from district to district against jihadist snipers, suicide attackers and car bombs. Elite Iraqi troops, known as the "Golden Division", are the only brigades to have entered Mosul from the east, …
ISIS’s Oil Revenue Is Falling, Administration Says
The Obama administration believes it has sharply cut back the oil revenues that have made the Islamic State the best funded terrorist organization in history, according to senior US officials. The US has been combining military strikes that target energy infrastructure controlled by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with heightened tracking of smuggling routes used to move oil through Turkey and Kurdistan, according to these officials. In October, the US Treasury Department estimated that Islamic State , also known as ISIS or ISIL, w…
Syrian war death toll crosses 200,000
Syria n Observatory for Human Rights documents killing of 202,354 people including 63,074 civilians of which 10,377 are children. Syria ’s civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. “We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March 2011,” Syria n Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said, adding that more than 130,000 of them were combatants. “Of the total, 63,074 of the killed were…
Militant group says it killed U.S. oil worker in Egypt
An Egyptian militant organization aligned with the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for killing an American oil worker. American petroleum expert William Henderson Killed by Militants William Henderson, who worked for the Houston-based energy company Apache Corp., was killed in Egypt's Western Desert on Aug. 6, the SITE Intelligence Group first reported. "The tragic carjacking incident this past August involving our colleague Bill Henderson is still under investigation by the U.S. government," Apache spoke…
ISIS may possesss nuclear material stolen from Iraq
LONDON: Islamic State terror group may have developed a nuclear device by using radioactive uranium stolen from Iraq 's Mosul University after seizing control of the city last June, a British media report says. Militants boasted of the device on social media, with one even commenting on the destruction such a bomb would wreak in London, four months after the chemical went missing from Mosul University, Mirror newspaper reported. One of the extremists making online threats to the west is British explosives expert Hamayun T…
US flies roughly 85 percent of airstrikes against Islamic State, in complex mix of tactics, politics
The United States is conducting roughly 85 percent of the multi-national air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to the most recent Pentagon report. U.S. fighter planes and drones have conducted 819 strikes, compared to 157 from the 10 other countries, states the detailed report obtained last week. The U.S. began the strikes in Iraq on Aug. 8 and was joined roughly five weeks later by Australia, followed by France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. They joined as part of President Obama’s plan …
Air Strikes Kill Dozens of ISIS Fighters North of Mosul
Dozens of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group were killed in air raids in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, Al Hadath television reported. ISIS seized Mosul, Iraq 's second largest city and home to around 2 million Iraqis, in June as part of its sweeping advance through northern Iraq almost unchallenged by Iraq's national army. Thousands of Yazidis had to flee their homes, in addition to Christians living in Mosul, in fear of being targeted by the extremist group. ISIS fighters claim…
ISIS claims beheading of US aid worker Peter Kassig
The ISIS has beheaded another American -- a former Army Ranger and aid worker who had converted to Islam, the execution video released on Sunday purportedly shows. Abdul-Rahman Kassig, 26, who was earlier called Peter, had been captured in October 2013, but had managed to send a letter to his family with a released hostage. That was his last contact with them. Kassig, who is the third American to be executed by the Sunni militant group, appears in the video with the same ISIS terrorist as the one in all others. The militant was covered…
Modi urges 'people-driven' reforms, seeks black money cooperation at G20 meet
Economic reforms are bound to face resistance and, hence, must be insulated from political pressure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, but emphasised that such policy should also be “people-centric and people-driven”. Modi’s comments made at a private retreat of G20 leaders in Brisbane come days before the start of the winter session of parliament in which key but controversial legislation on opening up the pensions and insurance sectors are expected to be taken up. The government may also seek to tweak the contentious ne…
US: Obama signals 'new phase' against Islamic State in Iraq has begun
President Barack Obama has said the deployment of 1,500 more US troops to Iraq marks a "new phase" against Islamic State militants. He told CBS TV that the new troops, although non-combat advisers, could help Iraq go on the attack against IS. A US-led coalition has been helping Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces with hundreds of air strikes since August. Iraqi forces have now reportedly seized large parts of Baiji - home to Iraq's biggest oil refinery - from IS. Officials said troops now controlled so…
India, Israel discuss counter-terrorism, homeland security
New Delhi: India and Israel on Friday discussed the implementation of agreement on counter-terrorism and homeland security between the two countries. Israel's Ambassador to India Daniel Carmon met Home Minister Rajnath Singh here. The ambassador told the Home Minister that Israel is looking forward to a meaningful cooperation with India in the area of homeland security. He said that the recently signed agreement is a step further in this direction. The Home Minister welcomed the ceasefire in Gaza and hoped that it would usher in p…
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