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December, 2021

  • 28 December

    Turkey nabs 9 Daesh suspects in counterterrorism raids

    Turkish police detained at least nine foreign nationals over their links to the Daesh terrorist group in Istanbul, security sources said Saturday. Anti-terror police squads launched an operation to nab the suspects, believed to be a part of groups planning attacks on behalf of Daesh, said the sources, who requested …

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  • 28 December

    Kurdish-led SDF defuses ISIS car bomb near Syria’s Hasakah

    US-backed, Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria announced on Thursday that they had safely deactivated explosives that had been attached to a vehicle outside the city of Hasakah on the previous day. “On the 22nd of this December, the special units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) defused a car bomb …

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  • 28 December

    TERROR TOP 20 World’s 20 most dangerous extremists revealed — including UK-based Anjem Choudary and Tommy Robinson

    THE world’s 20 most dangerous extremists have been revealed — including UK-based Anjem Choudary and Tommy ­Robinson. The list is compiled by experts who warn our nation has never been at such a heightened risk of a terror attack. Chiefs of rival terror organisations such as the Taliban and IS …

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  • 28 December

    Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success

    Al Qaeda Changed the World—but Not in the Way It Expected Al Qaeda Changed the World—but Not in the Way It Expected On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda carried out the deadliest foreign terrorist attack the United States had ever experienced. To Osama bin Laden and the other men who …

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  • 28 December

    Russia Is Playing With Fire in the Balkans

    This year marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Yugoslav wars, Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II. Although the Balkan states moved toward democratic governance and integration with NATO and the European Union in the immediate aftermath of the wars, consistent neglect on the part of the …

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  • 28 December

    Currency crisis threatens Turkey’s Syria strategy

    Turkey’s economic turmoil might challenge Ankara’s grip over opposition-held areas in Syria, where in-house rivalries among the armed factions over financial resources have escalated. With economic turbulence rattling Turkey’s economy, the question is rising of whether Ankara can maintain its grip on Syria’s opposition-held areas where the Turkish lira is …

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  • 28 December

    Iraqi court certifies election results

    Many Iran-backed militias rejected the results of the October election in which they performed poorly. Iraq’s Supreme Court today certified the results of the October elections. Judge Jasim Muhammad Abud announced the decision in a statement that was published by the official Iraq Media Network. Iraq held nationwide elections in …

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  • 28 December

    Iraq continues to kill, capture IS members as effectiveness questioned

    Iraqi security forces have captured and killed a number of key Islamic State facilitators and others in the past month amid a US mission transition and concerns over coordination. Iraqi security forces continued their operations against Islamic State (IS) cells and sources of funding in December with a number of …

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  • 28 December

    Syrian jihadist group opens food market north of Idlib

    Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which controls Idlib in northwestern Syria, is supporting development projects in various economic sectors. A food market has been opened in the city of Sarmada, north of Idlib, under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The opening ceremony, which was held Dec. 12, was attended by …

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  • 28 December

    Israel plans to double Golan Heights population

    Relocating its weekly meeting to the Golan Heights Kibbutz Mevo Hama, the government approved a 1 billion-shekel plan for the development of the region. Israel’s Cabinet approved Dec. 26 a 1 billion-shekel ($317 million) plan for encouraging demographic and economic growth in the Golan Heights. Aiming at doubling the Israeli …

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