Tuesday, May 31, 2016

ISIS using human shields to counter attacks by Iraq military


The battle for Fallujah is on and ISIS is making use of human shields to counter the Iraqi attacks. As per UNHCR, 'several hundred' innocent families lie trapped in the center of trying to retain hold of Islamic State's Iraqi hub of Fallujah. They have resorted to using human shields and the United Nations refugee agency has termed it as a 'human catastrophe'.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 31 May 2016.
Spokesman of UNHCR has informed that nearly 50,000 people remained trapped. It seems the ISIS are locking some families down inside the hospital building. They are instilling fear in their minds by saying that the army and militia are coming to kill them. ISIS fighters have even resorted to distributing some sweets among the kids in an effort to win them over - ISIS probably understand for the first time that the net is closing around them and that the end is close.
The trapped people are facing lack of food, medicine, safe drinking water and electricity in the city and these were pushing them to the brink of desperation. The ISIS militants are using tunnels and deploying snipers.


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Monday, May 30, 2016

Seized laptop of suspected terrorist reveals plan to target fans in London during Euro 2016


Based on data found on a laptop used by Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam, there is evidence that ISIS wants to use target England fans as they gather in Marseille to follow the Three Lions at the Euro 2016. The sinister plan involves suicide bombs, assault rifles and even drones carrying chemical weapons to carry out the attacks.
The laptop had been was seized during raids that led to the arrest of Abdeslam in Molenbeek, Brussels, in March.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 30 May 2016.
The data retrieved from the laptop shows photographs and mention of the French city's Old Port which will be the venue where England fans will assemble for their opening game against Russia in an official fan zone. In the opinion of security chiefs, there could be a repeat of Paris attacks in November, when coordinated groups of ISIS killers gunned down people in the streets.
As a Belgium security source has indicated, ISIS was drawing up plans to attack fans of England and Russia before the game. The suspect is under lock and key but there are fears that others are at large and they are equally fanatical and could strike. Fans of England and Russia are obvious targets because both these countries are bombing ISIS in Syria and Iraq.


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Saturday, May 28, 2016

Airstrikes in Fallujah kill 70 ISIS fighters including one of its leaders


Airstrikes crried out by US led coalition forces have killed more than 70 Islamic State fighters, including the one of the leaders of the group in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. As indicated by a spokesman of the American military based in Baghdad, IS fighting positions have been destroyed in 20 strikes over four days. According to him, the group's Fallujah commander had died in the aerial attacks on the city.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 27 May 2016.
Elimination of the leader will not cause the enemy to completely stop fighting, but it does create a problem as it causes the second-in-command to have to move up and disturbs the balance of power. The airstrikes are almost constant. One of the residents revealed that they had been living for weeks on rice, canned food and processed cheese and the stocks were fast depleting.
The authorities have already told tens of thousands of civilians to flee the city, which has been under IS control since 2014. Iraqi troops have been trying to drive IS militants from their stronghold west of Baghdad after launching the new offensive on Sunday night. US planes also dropped leaflets telling locals to avoid IS areas. The leaflets directed those who cannot leave to put white sheets on their roofs to mark their locations.


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Friday, May 27, 2016

Nearly 4000 migrants fleeing from Libya rescued from the Mediterranean Sea


As indicated by the Italian coastguard, nearly 4,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea even as tens of thousands of migrants continue to flee Libya and head towards Europe. The total may be a record in spite of the fact that around 4,400 migrants were pulled from unseaworthy boats in the region in a single day in August last year.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 27 May 2016.
Some 20 bodies were spotted in the sea while a spokesman of the Libyan has said that 766 migrants were rescued by the Libyan coastguard. Another 550 were found near the coastal city of Sabratha and 216 off Zwara. As per reports of Interpol last week, another 800,000 migrants in the lawless north African country are waiting for an opportunity to make the journey to Europe.
A study has claimed that people smugglers were organized in loosely connected networks and they continue to facilitate passage of migrants to Europe - the annual turnover of migrant smuggling was believed to have been in excess of $5bn in 2015.
Incidentally, annual EU net migration to the UK is of the order of a record 184,000 - this is based on the last immigration figures to be released before Britain votes in the EU referendum. This figure is an increase of 10,000 on the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics. The number of migrants arriving at Calais has started to rise in recent weeks. This has led to apprehensions of another summer of humanitarian problems and cross-Channel disruption.


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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Kurdish and Arab forces battle with ISIS near Raqqa


There is no sight of an end to the war against ISIS in Iraq and, Kurdish and Arab forces have begun a new assault near Raqqa which is the group's de-facto capital in Syria. This assault is against the backdrop of offensive of Iraqi troops against the jihadists in the city of Fallujah for a second day.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 24 May 2016.
These are believed to be the most serious ground operations against IS since the militants declared their self-styled 'caliphate' covering large areas of Syria and Iraq in 2014. The purpose of the assault in Raqqa province by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was to dislodge IS from the northern part and, simultaneously, secure other areas.
The SDF is having the backing of the US - it is a seven-month-old alliance of Syrian militias, including the Kurdish YPG and with the help of American-led coalition airstrikes, the YPG has successfully driven the jihadist organisation from large areas of northern Syria in the last year. However, the activists claim that in Raqqa, IS fighters make use of civilians as shields in Raqqa and, therefore, will be found in the same building. It seems inside a civilian building, there will be groups of ISIS fighters.
Moreover, they also use schools as places to stay. The reason is that schools have basements which protects them from the air strikes.


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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Syria rocked by seven bombings by ISIS in which nearly 150 are killed


Nearly 150 people have been killed in seven near-simultaneous explosions in northwest Syria for which ISIS has claimed responsibility. The targets chosen were bus stations, hospitals and other civilian sites in two seaside cities within President Bashar al Assad's coastal heartland. As indicated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHR, 100 people were killed in Jableh and another 48 in Tartus - the dead included children.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 23 May 2016.
The breakup of the seven were five suicide attacks and two car bombs. In one of the attacks in a hospital, the attacker detonated explosives in the hospital emergency room after carrying victims of an earlier attack there. In the opinion of SOHR head, these were "without a doubt the deadliest attacks" in the cities since the six-year civil war began.
The attacks began at 7am BST with three explosions at a bus station in Tartus - this is the place where regime ally Russia has a naval facility. The ISIS has said that the explosions were in retaliation for Syrian and Russian airstrikes against the jihadists. They vowed to carry out "more devastating and bitter attacks".
Till now, more than 270,000 people have been killed in the civil war, while millions have been displaced. The Islamic State had emerged in 2014 and it had seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq and declared an Islamic caliphate.


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Friday, May 20, 2016

Was the EgyptAir crash an act of terrorism by the ISIS?


EgyptAir Flight MS804 has gone missing over the Mediterranean with 66 people on board and there are reports of a merchant ship captain having seen a 'flame in the sky'. Obviously, there are fears that it could be an act of terrorism. The head of France's internal intelligence agency had already warned that France was being 'clearly targeted' by ISIS - and the warning had come a week before the Paris to Cairo flight took off.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 19 May 2016.
An Egyptian civil aviation authority spokesman has revealed that the Airbus A320 with 15 French passengers and one Briton on board has most likely crashed into the sea. The cause of the disaster is not known but it has come seven months after a bomb blew up a Russian airliner over the Sinai desert - it killed all 224 people on board. ISIS has, subsequently, admitted that a soda can bomb had been used to bring down the Metrojet plane.
In this connection, the warnings of Patrick Calvar, the head of France's DGSI agency, are relevant. On 10 May, he had told a parliamentary committee on national defense in Paris that ISIS was planning 'a new form of attack'. France had been targeted twice last year. First it was the Charlie Hebdo attack in January and then the Paris attacks in November. The attack in November killed 130 people and were conducted by suicide bombers and jihadists armed with Kalashnikovs.
He said that a new form of attack was possible because ISIS had suffered military setbacks in Syria and Iraq and wanted to take revenge on members of the coalition, including France because France was behind the air strikes on ISIS targets.


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With the rescue of a second Chibok girl who had been kidnapped, along with 275 others, by Boko Haram militants in April 2014, the matter has once again come to the forefront. The girls were in the age group 16 to 18. This second girl was found in Nigeria, two years after she and 275 others were taken from their secondary school. She was rescued during a military operation against IS-affiliated fighters Boko Haram and was taken to hospital.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 20 May 2016.
The rescued girl is the daughter of a pastor and had only started at the boarding school in Chibok a little more than two months before the Boko Haram raid and her kidnap. This news comes just two days after another of the abducted students was found.
It seems most of the girls were still in the Sambisa forest which is the biggest stronghold of Boko Haram. However, the 19-year-old was traumatised and was carrying a baby. She has said that six of her classmates were already dead.
The girl and her mother met Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari at his official residence in Abuja and were assured that the government was "doing all it can to rescue the remaining Chibok girls". There was international outrage when the girls were abducted from their school during a Boko Haram raid on Chibok in April 2014. While fifty-seven of them managed to escape the same day, the others are held prisoners. It led to high-profile figures, including America's first lady Michelle Obama, joining the campaign #BringBackOurGirls. But - noting much has been done.
Boko Haram militants have, till now, killed an estimated 15,000 people and kidnapped hundreds of men, women and children during a six-year campaign - they want to establish an Islamic caliphate in northeastern Nigeria.


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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Suicide bombings in Baghdad kill 43 - brings total death in 7 days to more than 145


Baghdad is witnessing suicide bomb attacks and in the latest one, at least 43 people have been killed. It was the second attack within a week in the Iraqi capital and it brings the death toll to more than 145 in just seven days. Such an unrest highlights the continued existence of significant flaws in the security procedures in Baghdad. Obviously, this subject has gone largely unaddressed even though US-led forces are imparting training to Iraqi forces for the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 18 May 2016.
The deadliest attack was in the Sadr City area in northern Baghdad. Here, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle and killed at least 21 people. The second attack was in the Shaab area, also in northern Baghdad where the number of casualties was at least 19. It seems a female suicide bomber had carried out the attack. A police colonel said a roadside bombing was followed by the suicide attack. The third attack was a car bombing in the Rashid area of southern Baghdad in which at least three people died.
However, the ISIS has issued a statement claiming the attack and saying it was carried out by a man who first threw hand grenades and then detonated a suicide belt.
Incidentally, attacks by female suicide bombers are rare in Iraq even though they were once more common than they have become in recent years. It may be recalled that two mentally handicapped women wearing suicide vests had killed nearly 100 people at Baghdad pet markets in early 2008. The next year, two women detonated explosives at one of the country`s holiest Shiite sites the following year, killing more than 60 people. And, later, in 2010, an attack on Shiite pilgrims by a female bomber left over 40 dead.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Rashid and Sadr City, but IS has claimed a series of other attacks in and near Baghdad that have killed more than 100 people in seven days.


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Saturday, May 14, 2016

No buyers for Zimmerman's gun that killed Trayvon Martin in 2012


Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman had used a gun to shoot dead teenager 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He had used a 9mm Kel-Tec pistol and had been charged with Martin's murder. Zimmerman had claimed it was in self defence and was acquitted in 2013 under Florida's controversial self-defence laws.
He now want to sell off the gun but is not finding any takers. Auctioneers have refused to accept it for auction. This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 14 May 2016.
Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old black American student who lived on the gated housing estate that Zimmerman was patrolling when the pair got into an altercation before the shooting. The killing ignited a passionate debate in America over guns, the right to self-defence and black civil rights. Zimmerman, who is Hispanic American, had insisted that he had been attacked by Martin and had no option but to defend himself under Florida's "stand your ground" law.
Auctioneers have admitted that Zimmeman had approached them but they have refused to accept the gun because, as one of them has said, Zimmerman was "despicable," while another one likened it to trading in Nazi memorabilia.
An antique firearms consultant has indicated that the negative publicity for an auctioneer should they agree to accept the weapon for sale would outweigh any profit.


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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Bombs rock Baghdad - ISIS car bombs kill at least 89


Baghdad was the center of car bombings carried out by ISIS - there were two separate car bombs in which at least 89 people have been killed and over 50 injured. These are believed to be the worst single bombing of the year in the capital of Iraq.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 11 May 2016.
The explosions targeted the Kadhimiya and Jamea districts and killed at least 25 while a pickup truck, packed with explosives and disguised as fruit truck, slaughtered another 64 people in Sadr City. Most of the victims were women, and a large number of the injured, estimated to be around 50, are in critical condition.
The car bombing occurred in the Shi'ite Muslim district of Sadr City, Baghdad, and responsibility has been claimed by ISIS. The initial bombing took place outside a beauty salon in a packed marketplace in Sadr City and ISIS has claimed that it was the city's single worst bombing of 2016.
The second blast hit the entrance to Kadhimiya, a mostly Shi'ite Muslim district in the northwest of the Iraqi capital - it killed 18 and five of whom were policemen. There were another 34 wounded. The third bombing was on a commercial thoroughfare in a predominately Sunni district of western Baghdad - it killed seven and wounded 22.


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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Australian police arrest five men who planned to go to Syria by boat to joiin ISIS


Prompt by Australian police help nab five men who had drawn up plans to move to Syria in a boat to fight alongside the ISIS - already, as per estimates of security officials, 110 Australians are fighting for the Islamic State group in the Middle East.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 11 May 2016.
The five men aged between 21 and 33 had planned to leave Australia in a 7m boat and had towed the half-cabin power boat with a car 2800-Km from their homes in Melbourne to Cairns before the police arrested them from Queensland north of Cairns. They had been under police investigation for weeks and the police have not disclosed when they left Melbourne or where they intended to leave Australia.
All their passports have been cancelled to prevent them leaving the country. They were being held on suspicion of breaking a federal law banning foreign incursions. Entering or preparing to enter a foreign country to engage in a hostile activity is a crime punishable by life imprisonment.
As per information with the Victoria Police, they intended to travel by boat through Indonesia to the Philippines and, subsequently, to Syria.


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