Omar al-Shishani, one of the Isis leaders most wanted by Washington with a $5m bounty on his head, had been declared ‘clinically dead’ for several days prior…
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Patrick Skinner Quoted on PBS NewsHour: Conviction in First ISIS Trial in the U.S. Underscores Foreign Fighter Threat
NEW YORK – On Jan. 10 of last year, Tairod Pugh, a U.S. Air Force veteran who spent two decades as an airplane mechanic, boarded EgyptAir Flight 737 with a one-way ticket from Cairo to Istanbul, Turkey.
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on AFP: Rise of the Jihadists in Yemen May be Unstoppable: Analysts
Rivals Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group are cementing their presence in south Yemen in the absence of state authority and little opposition from pro-government Arab coalition forces, experts say…
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted on ThinkProgress: A Republican President Means American Boots On The Ground In The Middle East – Again
Thursday night’s Republican debate at the University of Miami revealed one startling thing: all four Republican candidates for president would put more boots on the ground to fight ISIS…
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on Wired: Hack Brief: ISIS Data Breach Identifies 22,000 Members
As Snowden taught the NSA, a single insider can obliterate the data security of even the most secretive organizations. Now ISIS may have sprung a Snowden-sized leak of its own, one that could give security agencies fighting the brutal terrorist group some highly useful intelligence…
Read MoreRichard Barrett Quoted on France 24: Questions Raised Over Authenticity of ‘Leaked’ IS Group Documents
Documents purportedly from the Islamic State (IS) group and acquired by German and British media contain several inconsistencies that have raised doubts about the credibility of the files…
Read MoreRichard Barrett Quoted on Sky News: Islamic State Files: ‘Goldmine of Information’
The sheer scale of the Islamic State documents uncovered by Sky News is extraordinary.
Read MoreRichard Barrett Quoted by AFP: IS Commander ‘Omar the Chechen’ Survived US Strike: Monitor
Beirut (AFP) – Top Islamic State commander leader Omar al-Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, was “seriously injured” in a recent strike in northeastern Syria but not killed despite US suggestions to the contrary, a monitoring group said…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted by AFP: IS Commander ‘Likely Killed’ in Syria Air Strike: US Official
Washington (AFP) – The Islamic State group’s battle-tested equivalent of a defense minister is believed to have been killed in a US air strike in northeastern Syria, a US official said.
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted in BBC News: Islamic State Group: The Full story
Abu Anis only realised something unusual was happening when he heard the sound of explosions coming from the old city on the western bank of the Tigris as it runs through Mosul…
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