provinceorstate:salaheddin

The #Islamic_State: from Baghdadi the founder to Baghdadi the “caliph”
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An image grab taken from a video uploaded on Youtube on June 17, 2014, allegedly shows militants from the Islamic State of #Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) parading with their group’s flag in the northern city of Baiji in the in Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP/Youtube) An image grab taken from a video uploaded on Youtube on June 17, 2014, allegedly shows militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) parading with their group’s flag in the northern city of Baiji in the in Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP/Youtube)

Suhaib Anjarini The caliph directly supervises the group’s governing councils, each of which acts as an important hinge of the “central command.” The previous leader, #Abu_Omar_al-Baghdadi, can be (...)

#Mideast_&_North_Africa #Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi #Articles #Damascus #ISIS #Omar_al-Shishani #Raqqa #Salah_al_Din #syria

#Raqqa jihadis celebrate #ISIS caliphate declaration
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An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on a jihadi website allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of #Iraq and #syria driving on a street in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP / Wilayat Salaheddin) An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on a jihadi website allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria driving on a street in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP / Wilayat Salaheddin)

Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria’s northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic “caliphate” after the group captured territory in neighboring Iraq, a monitoring service said. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) posted pictures online on Sunday of people waving black flags from (...)

#ISIS’ victories revive fears of Islamic emirate in North #Lebanon
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An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows a militant of the Islamic State of #Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) standing next to a captured vehicle left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP-Welayat Salahuddin) An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows a militant of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) standing next to a captured vehicle left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP-Welayat Salahuddin)

Informed Islamist sources told Al-Akhbar about a discussion that took place between Islamist groups and (...)

#Akkar #al-Qalamoun #Amira_Mosque #Articles #Dinniyeh #Fatah_al-Islam #Future_Movement #Khaled_al-Daher #Lebanon #Najib_Mikati #North_Lebanon #Tarek_Merhi #Tripoli

Militants attack Iraqi oil refinery as Maliki sack military commanders
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An image grab taken from a video uploaded on Youtube on June 17, 2014, allegedly shows militants from the Islamic State of #Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) parading with an Iraqi army vehicle in the northern city of #Baiji in the in Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP / Youtube)

Militants pressing a major offensive in Iraq attacked the country’s biggest oil refinery Wednesday, as the premier scrambled to regain the initiative by sacking security commanders and reaching out to political rivals. The United States, which is mulling air strikes against the insurgents, said it believed Baghdad’s security forces were rallying against the assault, while #Iran pledged not to let Shia shrines in Iraq fall to the Sunni militants leading the charge. read (...)

#Nouri_al-Maliki #US

Iraq: Signs of disagreement emerge between #ISIS and the Baath
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An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) driving on a street at unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP-Welayat Salaheddin) An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) driving on a street at unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP-Welayat Salaheddin)

The mask has fallen. #Mosul is governed by former officers of the old army and the Islamic State in Iraq and #syria (ISIS) controls the top administrative positions in the city. Three days were sufficient to uncover the (...)

#Mideast_&_North_Africa #al-Qaeda #Articles #Baath_Party #Hashem_al-Jammas #Naqshbandiyya_movement #Revolutionaries_Military_Council

Coverage of #ISIS in #Iraq plagued by rumors and misreporting
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An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) riding in a captured vehicle left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP / Welayat Salahuddin) An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) riding in a captured vehicle left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP / Welayat Salahuddin)

Chaos, incitement and sectarian instigation… that is the prevailing situation of Arab and Iraqi media outlets covering the (...)

#Culture_&_Society #Arab_Media #Articles #Mosul #Nouri_al-Maliki #press_freedom #Salah_ad_Din

#suicide attacks, booby trapped corpse kill 20 in #Iraq
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A wave of attacks across Iraq, including twin #car_bombs, killed 20 people Wednesday as a year-long surge of #violence showed no signs of let-up. Nearly 50 people were also wounded in the violence, which struck in and around Baghdad, as well as in Salaheddin and Kirkuk provinces to its north, all areas afflicted by near-daily bloodshed. In the deadliest attack, two vehicles rigged with explosives went off in the center of Kirkuk, killing eight people and leaving nine wounded, said provincial health chief Sabah Mohammed. read more

#Gunmen take hostages at northern #Iraq court house
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Gunmen in military uniform broke into the city council and court house complex in Samarra in northern Iraq on Tuesday and took employees hostage, officials said, in the second such attack in the central Salaheddin province in recent months. Clashes broke out between security forces and two militants, possibly wearing explosives-rigged vests or belts, who took the headquarters, while a suicide bomber targeted police and anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen when they arrived at the scene. read more

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