Schlagwort: Islamischer Staat

„On February 1, Tharwat Bukhit, a Coptic Christian member of Egypt’s parliament, said that ‚there are approximately 50 churches in Egypt that are closed for reasons of security.‘ In 2011 – when the ‚Arab Spring‘ began – the nation’s Christians had compiled a list of 43 churches that were shut…

„Wer glaubt, mit dem Assad-Regime sei eine Stabilisierung Syriens möglich, geht dem Kreml auf den Leim. Auch die sunnitische Mehrheitsbevölkerung würde sich nicht mit der Dominanz des Iran abfinden.“ (Richard Herzinger kritisiert westliche Illusionen über Russland und das Assad-Regime)

„The breathless reports this weekend that a ceasefire for Syria had been reached ‚in principle’ reveal once again how unrealistic our thinking has become about this particular national security issue. If a temporary ceasefire can help get food to the starving, that is excellent news. Beyond that, however, it is…

„Here’s a fresh story form  Al Arabiya in Arabic, dated Saturday 12 Jumada Al-Awwal 1437 (that’s February 20, 2016 to you and me), headlined: ‚See ISIS man putting his child in car to detonate himself in Syria.‘ The shocking video and accompanying images have newly emerged from a suicide bombing carried…

Sehr geehrte Presse-Redaktion, in seiner Reaktion auf einen Artikel über den jüngsten Bombenanschlag in Ankara beschwert sich der türkische Botschafter in Österreich über eine von ihm konstatierte „Doppelmoral“: Bei den Anschlägen des Islamischen Staats in Paris sei in der Presse von „Terror“ die Rede gewesen, Attentate „der gleichen Art, die…

„So put all this together and you have a fair approximation of the current state of the Middle East, as reflected in miniature in the cauldron that is northern Syria: emergent Iranian-Russian strategic alliance, US noninvolvement, hapless US-aligned Sunni powers flailing as a result of this absence, state fragmentation, the…

„According to Kurdish media reports, the jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq beheaded a 15-year-old boy in Mosul for the crime of listening to Western pop music. Reports cite officials in the northern Iraqi city as saying that the boy, Ayham Hussein, was discovered by…

„When the morality police belonging to the extremist group known as the Islamic State arrested him in Mosul, Sadoun didn’t know what to expect. He thought he might be flogged for his crime of selling cigarettes, fined, imprisoned or, worst of all, put to death. But none of this happened.…

„The Islamic State (ISIS) has executed four women in the city of Mosul in Iraq‘s northwestern Nineveh province, after accusing them of ‚committing adultery‘, local sources reported on Thursday. ‚The four victims were arrested earlier on wednesday [sic] in a raid by ISIS jihadis,‘ said Raafat Zarari, spokesman of the…

„Im fünften Jahr des Kriegs in Syrien, in dem Hunderttausende gestorben sind und Millionen ihre Heimat verloren haben, sprechen es zwar nicht alle offen aus, aber die meisten wissen: Es ist zu spät. Und der Blick zurück ist der Blick auf das Versagen … Gilt dies auch trotz der Einigung…

„An ISIS video shows ‚Jihadi Junior‘– the young son of a British-born jihadi bride – executing four men by detonating a car with them inside. Last month little Isa Dare was seen in a film released by the terror group, saying: ‚We will kill kuffar (non-believers) out there.‘ His 24-year-old mother…

„Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the news conference that Moscow would not stop bombing, as the deal did not apply to Islamic State and to a rebel group called the Nusra Front, which is affiliated with al Qaeda. ‚Our airspace forces will continue working against these organizations,‘ he said. But…

Was bislang in das Ressort der deutschen Friedensbewegung fiel, kommt mehr und mehr im Mainstream an: die Forderung, der Barbarei des Islamischen Staates mit internationaler Anerkennung zu begegnen, da anders ein Frieden in Syrien nicht zu erreichen sei. So formulierte der ehemalige ORF-Korrespondent Friedrich Orter im ZiB24-Interview am 5. Februar…

„Ein Mitglied einer vierköpfigen Exekutionszelle des Islamischen Staats, die einst von ‚Jihadi John‘ angeführt wurde, ist als britischer Staatsangehöriger identifiziert worden. Er war zuvor 2009 an Bord eines [gegen Israel gerichteten, Anm.] Konvoi in den Gaza-Streifen gereist, berichtete Buzzfeed am Sonntag. Amerikanische und britische Geheimdienste identifizierten den Mann als Alexanda Kotey, ein…

„Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that IS had previously utilized mustard gas, evidencing the continued advancement of the terrorist organization’s sophistication on the battlefield. ‚[The Syrian government] has used chemicals against the opposition on multiple occasions since Syria joined the Chemical Weapons Convention.…