The IS (Islamic State) aka ISIS updates

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How many fighters of caliphate aka ISIS returned to Europe from Syria and Iraq

 

[Butter Chicken]

First ever video released by Islamic State from Syria(Raqqah)


SAA operations in rural Raqqah

 

[Butter Chicken]

Videos of some SVBIED attacks by Islamic State in Raqqah(against YPG)

 

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How many fighters of caliphate aka ISIS returned to Europe from Syria and Iraq

The brown dots might have died there, but the red dots should be assassinated brutally, no rehabilitation for the nut jobs.

 

[Cutting Edge 2]

BREAKING:
India Offers Military Assistance to Iraq in Its Fight Against Daesh - Envoy

11:35 20.07.2017

Iraqi ambassador to India, Fakhri H Al Issa has said that India had offered humanitarian and military support to Iraqi troops to fight against Daesh terrorists in Mosul, which was recently liberated by Iraq.

New Delhi (Sputnik) — Iraq is celebrating the liberation of Mosul from Daesh as a grand victory at its missions. The envoy said India had expressed keen support in the fight against Daesh for liberating the second largest city in Iraq after Baghdad.

“India had offered humanitarian and military assistance against Daesh forces in Mosul. India is assisting and collaborating with Iraq to counter Daesh forces in the region. Both the countries will discuss more about the nature of cooperation during the visit of our foreign minister,” Iraqi ambassador Fakhri H Al Issa told Sputnik.

“Iraqis have fought terrorism on behalf of the world, in a war that was, by all means, brutal and crucial. The liberation of Mosul City has evidently shown everyone that Iraqis were united in their fight against terrorism and that they are people of civilization and history,” Al Issa added.

“The united stand of the Iraqi political forces in the face of terrorism also gave our heroic soldiers an enormous momentum in achieving victory,” Al Issa said.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/201707201055712505-india-iraq-military-assistance/

 

[Mikesingh]

'Military assistance' would only include mobile field hospitals and nothing more. No combat troops!

 

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'She Was a Quiet Girl': German Village In Shock At Schoolgirl Jihadist Discovery

 

[OneGrimPilgrim]

'She Was a Quiet Girl': German Village In Shock At Schoolgirl Jihadist Discovery

gem of the whole romantic saga - she was increasingly harbouring sentiments for (radical) islam, & before she left, she was actually gifted a copy of koran by her dolt parents!

the girl looks cute. feel sympathy for her; none for her parents!

 

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At 15, She Joined ISIS After Converting To Islam. Now German Teen Wants To Go Home

Linda W Has been arrested by Iraqi authorities for her involvement with ISIS


When 15-year-old Lisa W. started to wear long-sleeved clothes early last year, it quickly struck her classmates and teachers in the sleepy eastern German town of Pulsnitz as odd. Her conversion to Islam was noticed almost immediately in a part of Germany where only 0.5 percent of the population is Muslim and where the backlash against Chancellor Angela Merkel's pro-refugee policy had been stronger than almost anywhere else in the country.

Speaking to ARD, the 16-year old said that she hoped for a quick return to Germany and that she regretted her decision to join the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL. "I want to go home to my family," she said.

If sentenced in Iraq, Lisa W. could face the death penalty, although German intelligence officials are reportedly in talks with their Iraqi counterparts over her return to Europe.

 

[Amrk]

Video of combat in Falluja b/w ISIS and Iraqi forces:

 

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[Hindustani78]

A man sits among awards, certificates of appreciation and posters belonging to the sniper Ali Jayad al-Salhi, 65, a volunteer with Popular Mobilization Forces killed fighting Islamic State militants, in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. | Photo Credit: AP


http://www.thehindu.com/news/intern...itias-power/article22332107.ece?homepage=true



Ali Jayad al-Salhi, an expert sniper in his early 60s and veteran of multiple wars, was killed in September in clashes with IS in northern Iraq. He then was vaulted into legend. Shiites around Iraq trade stories of how, out of piety, he left his home, wife, 10 children and 20 grandchildren to join a Shiite militia to fight in what he saw as a war between humanity and evil.

Al-Salhi is a powerful symbol in the religious, near messianic that has grown up around Iraq’s Shiite militias in tandem with their increasing political and military might after they helped defeat the Islamic State group. Known as the “Popular Mobilization Forces” or “Hashed” in Arabic, the militias have emerged from the war with the image of an almost holy force protecting the Iraq. That popular aura helps enshrine the Hashed as a major player in post-IS Iraq.

It’s a stark contrast to how the Sunni Muslim minority views the fighters. The Hashed controls significant areas in northern and western Iraq seized back from IS, and they are accused of abuses against the Sunni population. Sunnis see the militias as a tool for Shiite powerhouse Iran to dominate Iraq.

The war against the Islamic State group left a divided legacy in Iraq. The Sunni community has been shattered, its cities wrecked, its population scattered and unsure of their future, with some 3 million people uprooted and mostly languishing in camps. Meanwhile, Shiites are riding on victory, having defeated a fanatical group that targeted their sect as heretics.

Many Shiites trumpet the Hashed militias as the champions bringing their community out of centuries of oppression and embodying a belief central to Shiism that victory will come from martyrdom. The militiamen are seen as the successors to one of the faith’s most revered figures, Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who was killed in the 7th century by rival Muslims at Karbala, in what is now southern Iraq, in a battle that led to the Sunni-Shiite split.

Some even speak of the Hashed in apocalyptic terms, linking it to Imam Mahdi, a Shiite religious leader said to have vanished 1,100 years ago and expected to return, leading an army of the faithful to defeat evil in the world. The Hashed, supporters say, will be that army.

“When the time comes for the reappearance of Imam Mahdi, we will be ready and honored to be among his soldiers,” Sajad al-Mubarkaa, head of the Hashed’s Indoctrination Department, told The Associated Press at his Baghdad office.

The Hashed emerged out of a call in June 2014 by Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, for volunteers to join jihad against IS militants, who had overrun the northern city of Mosul and swept nearly to Baghdad and Shiite shrines farther south as the military and security forces collapsed. Tens of thousands heeded the call, enlisting in multiple militia factions, many of which existed for years and fought American forces in Iraq in the 2000s.

The Shiite-led government has rejected demands that the force now be disbanded, and parliament has given it legal status as part of the country’s armed forces.

The whipping up of religious fervor around the militiamen is also part of an ongoing struggle for leadership of Iraq’s Shiites between Iran and al-Sistani. Though Iranian-born, the aging al-Sistani has resisted Iran’s doctrine of direct rule by clerics. Iraqi Shiites’ deep devotion to him and nationalist sentiment have hindered Tehran’s attempts to dominate the community.

That rivalry is played out within the Hashed. Three of its strongest brigades were directly created and bankrolled by the “Marjaiyah,” the Shiite religious leadership that al-Sistani heads. Many of the others are backed by Iran.

Iranian-backed militias evoke connections with Imam Hussein and Imam Mahdi to gain legitimacy among the Shiite community. That forces supporters of al-Sistani, who has traditionally played down talk of Imam Mahdi’s imminent return, to also join the apocalyptic and martyrdom narratives to compete with “the well-oiled propaganda machine of Iran and its proxies,” said Philip Smyth, a researcher on Shiites at the Washington Institute for Middle East Policy. Ultimately, Iran is angling to ensure a pro-Tehran cleric succeeds al-Sistani, he said.

The result is a passionate mix of religious tradition and pop culture, poetry and song surrounding the Hashed.

“We will not stay speechless any longer,” chants singer Muhanad al-Mowali, alluding to oppression of Shiites since Hussein’s martyrdom. Another, Mahdi al-Aboodi, sings that he wishes the Hashed was at the battle of Karbala to fight on the side of Hussein. At a recent gathering of hundreds of Shiites in Karbala, a poet recited a verse telling Imam Mahdi he should not bother bringing an army with him when he returns because the Hashed was ready.

Supernatural stories are passed among Hashed supporters on social media. One video purports to be drone footage showing Imam Mahdi himself backing militiamen defending the shrine of Mahdi’s father in the city of Samarra. In another story, a Hashed fighter says the imam came to him when he was mortally wounded, saving his life by washing his wounds and telling him, “I am by your side and will never abandon you.”

One of al-Salhi’s sons, Tayseer, says his father came to him in a dream the night he was killed, instructing him not to allow women to wear black, a reference to the belief that martyrs remain alive in the eyes of God and should not be mourned.

The Hashed has intensely publicized the deaths of its commanders, announcing their martyrdom on giant street posters in Baghdad, the mostly Shiite south and even Sunni majority areas taken back from IS.

Since his martyrdom, al-Salhi has been held up as the ideal pious Shiite.

Poems in his honor have been read to mournful crowds. Thousands showed up for his funeral in the holy city of Najaf, where he was laid to rest in the Valley of Peace, a vast Shiite cemetery near the shrine of Imam Ali, the Shiites’ most revered figure. His rifle is on display at a museum near the shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala.

Neighbors in al-Salhi’s home district in the southern city of Basra decorate cars and homes with posters of him in military gear, rifle in hand, standing next to Shiite saints. His face appears on wristwatches for sale in the markets and on cakes in a bakery. One of Iraq’s top sculptors, Ahmed al-Bahraini, has started work on a 6-meter (20-foot) bronze statue of al-Salhi for a main square in Basra.

A bear of a man with a long bushy salt-and-pepper beard, al-Salhi’s real life has intertwined with the hagiography, making it difficult to confirm the stories told of him.

As a young man, he dabbled in boxing, athletics and horseback riding and swam in the Shatt al-Arab, the riverway where the Tigris and Euphrates meet, family say.

In the early 1970s, he graduated from an elite snipers’ school in Belarus. During his career in the Iraqi army, he fought alongside Syrian forces in the Golan Heights against Israel in the 1973 Middle East war. A year later, he fought Kurdish separatists in Iraq’s north. He is also a veteran of Iraq’s 1980-88 war against Iran and lost a brother to Saddam Hussein’s executioners in the 1991 Shiite uprising in southern Iraq.

In 2014, al-Salhi answered al-Sistani’s call to fight IS and joined the Ali al-Akbar Brigade, one of the three created by the Marjaiyah. He didn’t consult his family, Tayseer told the AP. “He said ‘I am going and that’s that.’”

The 33-year-old Tayseer spoke at the family’s Basra home, where the walls of the reception room were hung with his father’s relics a Russian-made sniper rifle inside a glass box, along with a pistol and an ammunition belt, and a large portrait of al-Salhi in military fatigues.

Al-Salhi took part in the Hashed’s biggest battles against IS, from Fallujah and Jurf el-Sakhr near Baghdad to Mosul in the north. Along the way, he became well known, appearing in television interviews that have since racked up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.

“Iraqis, we are here in the trenches on your behalf,” he said in one interview. “For you, we fight to win freedom for the Iraqi people and for humanity. We want nothing from you except your prayers.”

“I finally killed her when I tricked her into thinking I was dead and she rose from her hiding place,” he said, adding that he then killed two fighters trying to retrieve her body.

Al-Salhi picked off four IS fighters, bringing his kill tally to 384, Mukhtar said. But then he and two other snipers were surrounded by the militants and killed. He died on September 28, the 8th day of Muharram, a holy month in the Muslim calendar when Imam Hussein was also martyred.

Mukhtar retrieved a final relic of al-Salhi- The casing from the last bullet he fired, jammed in his rifle. “I have kept it as a souvenir.”

 

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