Schlagwort: Islamischer Staat

Man kann dem Islamischen Staat vieles vorwerfen. Dazu gehört aber nicht, dass er seine Ziele verschweigen oder verharmlosen würde. So ist in der jüngsten Ausgabe seines Internet-Magazins Dabiq zu lesen: „Der Tod eines einzigen Moslems, egal wie seine gesellschaftliche Stellung aussehen mag, ist schlimmer als das Massakrieren jedes einzelnen Ungläubigen…

„What do Western women who join Islamic State want? One prominent theory is what these women ‚really‘ want is to get laid. Another is that they don’t know what they ‚really‘ want, because what they want has been decided for them by male jihadi ‚groomers.‘ Both theories are meant to…

„An American heritage organization says the Russian military is constructing a new army base in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, within the protected zone that holds the archaeological site listed by UNESCO as world heritage. The American School of Oriental Research’s Cultural Heritage Initiative posted DigitalGlobe satellite imagery that…

Von Thomas von der Osten-Sacken Über 18 Millionen Menschen sind seit 2010 im Nahen Osten zu Flüchtlingen und Binnevertriebenen geworden. Eine Katastrophe, wie die Welt sie seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges nicht gesehen hat. Ihr Leben ist nicht nur perspektivlos und entbehrungsreich, die Geschichte hat auch gezeigt: Kaum ein Ort…

„Iraqi civilians and officials have voiced concern over the humanitarian situation in the country’s western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. ‚The situation is deteriorating every day – the shortage of food is becoming worse,‘ a member of the Anbar Province’s security committee, Rajeh Barakat al-Issawi, told Al Jazeera. ‚ISIL fighters…

„A senior Israeli general, speaking with an Arab news site, explained that ISIS militants are receiving treatment in Gaza’s hospitals in exchange for weapons and money; Hamas and ISIS are also participating in joint military exercises.“ (hier)

„The up to 300 babies fathered by members of the Islamic State – known as ‚children of the terror‘ – are seen as a disgrace to their communities, have no citizenship and can’t go to school.“ (hier)

„According to the report, the IDF is concerned about a potential large-scale ISIS terrorist attack against Israel. The report quotes an IDF officer who said such an attack could include even the use of tanks and artillery by ISIS terrorists. The Sinai based Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis, a terrorist organization which…

„The Islamic State has executed a seven-year-old little boy for swearing while he was playing soccer with friends in the terror group’s de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria. … A source told the news agency that IS members heard the boy ‚cursing divinity,‘ while playing in the street…

„Im Süden Syriens haben Soldaten der syrischen Armee eine Waffenlieferung abgefangen, die sich auf dem Weg zu Kämpfern der Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat befand. Pikantes Detail: Bei den Minen, Mörsergranaten, Raketenwerfern und Handgranaten soll es sich um Waffen aus israelischer Produktion handeln, berichtet die Zeitung Jerusalem Post und verschiedene syrische Medien. Demnach…

„Eine neue Dimension der Bedrohung durch die Terrororganisation ‚Islamischer Staat‘ (IS) sieht Verfassungsschutzpräsident Hans-Georg Maaßen. Der Begriff Terrormiliz verniedliche die Gefahr, sagte Maaßen am Montag bei einem Symposium in Berlin. Es gehe vielmehr um Terrorismus als Teil einer asymmetrischen militärischen Auseinandersetzung. Der IS wolle auch Anschläge gegen Deutschland und deutsche…

„According to a TV report on Tuesday, Israeli defense officials are concerned an IS offshoot based on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights may have recently acquired chemical weapons which once belonged to the Assad regime. … The report noted while the jihadist group was preoccupied with fighting other…

„The Syrian government cut deals with Islamic State to help the jihadists earn more than $40 million a month from the sale of oil, documents recovered from a US and British raid on a key commander have revealed. Thousands of spreadsheets and accounts kept by the group’s oil boss Abu…

„On a crisp morning last October, 198 migrants arrived on the Greek island of Leros, all of them seemingly desperate people seeking sanctuary in Europe. But hiding among them were four men with a very different agenda. The four were posing as war-weary Syrians – all carrying doctored passports with…

„The Islamic State, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report. The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families, for their refusal to be…