ISIS has been looking to expand its territorial holdings outside of Iraq and Syria as its strongholds there are increasingly targeted by the US and its coalition partners…
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Patrick Skinner Interviewed on NPR Morning Edition: Osama Bin Laden Warned Of Civil War Between Jihadi Groups
Here’s one way to think about Osama bin Laden: as the one-time leader of a now fading terror network. Most terror experts believe that al-Qaida today has been eclipsed by the even more savage Islamic State, or ISIS…
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted in Newsweek: ISIS Has Acquired Some of Qaddafi’s Deadly Shoulder-Held Missiles
Deep in Libya’s Sahara Desert, in the sun-baked town of Sabha, a ragtag group of gunmen loyal to one of the country’s two rival militias agreed to show Timothy Michetti their most prized weapons. Michetti, an experienced investigator for a London-based company that tracks the sources of small arms in conflict zones…
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on Middle East Eye: Islamic State: The Enemy That Refuses to Die
Despite losing territory and suffering economic strife, IS continues to represent a dangerous threat outside areas it controls…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted on International Business Times: ISIS: Islamic State Kidnapper-in-Chief Amr al-Absi ‘Killed in Aleppo’
A leading Islamic State (Isis) operative in Syria who oversaw numerous abductions, including those of some Western journalists, has been killed in an airstrike, according to a monitoring group. Amr al-Absi, a Saudi-born Syrian who became infamous as…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted on AFP: Arrested Jihadists Planned ‘Biological’ Attacks: Morocco
Rabat (AFP) – Morocco said Thursday that the alleged members of a jihadist cell it arrested in mid-February, including a French national, were plotting to carry out “biological” attacks in the kingdom…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted on Mashable: Pentagon Divulges a New Weapon Against ISIS: Cyberattacks
The U.S. airstrike campaign against the Islamic State is public knowledge. But on Monday, the Pentagon admitted for the first time during an active war that it had used cyberattacks against the extremist group, too…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted on Vox: Watch: A 15-year-old Swedish Girl Explains Why She Joined ISIS — And Why She Regrets It
Marlin Stivani Nivarlain is a 15-year-old Swedish girl. Last year, her boyfriend became obsessed with ISIS, and she followed him to Syria to join the group…
Read MoreSusan Sim Quoted in Today Singapore: Singapore Deports Four Indonesians Suspected of Travelling to Fight for ISIS
SINGAPORE — Singapore authorities confirmed on Tuesday (Feb 23) the deportation of four Indonesians who were apparently planning to go to Syria to fight for the Islamic State (IS). Confirming reports from Indonesia,…
Read MoreMartin Reardon Quoted on Refinery29: The Five Things You Need to Know About Obama’s Plan to Close Gitmo
He admitted it would take more than his first 100 days in office, but seven years later, President Barack Obama is still trying to fulfill a long-ago made promise to close the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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