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jshnide

How Hamas uses its tunnels to kill and capture Israeli soldiers - The Washington Post - 0 views

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Hamas Israel palestine gaza capture tunnels

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  • jshnide on 23 Feb 15
     
    Hamas has a complex tunnel system that they use to capture soldiers and is next to impossible to decode
cbrock5654

BBC News - Mosul Dam: Why the battle for water matters in Iraq - 0 views

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IS ISIS Iraq Mosul water

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  • cbrock5654 on 22 Sep 14
     
    The Mosul Dam is an incredibly important strategic location in the war between IS and Iraqi and Kurdish forces. This is because the dam controls water flow and generates electricity for most of Iraq. After it was captured by IS on 09/11/14, President Obama authorized air support for Iraqi and Kurdish forces, in response to the treat posed by the flooding of the Tigris river. The dam was recaptured, but the third largest dam in Iraq, the Fallujah dam, is still under IS control.
  • cbrock5654 on 22 Sep 14
     
    The Mosul Dam is an incredibly important strategic location in the war between IS and Iraqi and Kurdish forces. This is because the dam controls water flow and generates electricity for most of Iraq. After it was captured by IS on 09/11/14, President Obama authorized air support for Iraqi and Kurdish forces, in response to the treat posed by the flooding of the Tigris river. The dam was recaptured, but the third largest dam in Iraq, the Fallujah dam, is still under IS control.
  • cbrock5654 on 22 Sep 14
     
    The Mosul Dam is an incredibly important strategic location in the war between IS and Iraqi and Kurdish forces. This is because the dam controls water flow and generates electricity for most of Iraq. After it was captured by IS on 09/11/14, President Obama authorized air support for Iraqi and Kurdish forces, in response to the treat posed by the flooding of the Tigris river. The dam was recaptured, but the third largest dam in Iraq, the Fallujah dam, is still under IS control.
jreyesc

Captured by ISIS and sold into slavery: 15-year-old Yazidi girl tells of her ... - 0 views

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ISIL politics Yazidi slaves

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  • jreyesc on 12 Oct 14
     
    This article is about how a Yazidi girl escaped the ISIL territory. It also states how many women who are captured by the group are being treated and how they are forced into marriage and conversion.
csosa14

ISIS Destroys Police Academy - 0 views

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ISIS destroys police academy

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  • csosa14 on 31 Mar 15
     
    At least seven captured journalists relocated to Syria.
  • csosa14 on 31 Mar 15
     
    At least seven captured journalists relocated to Syria.
  • csosa14 on 31 Mar 15
     
    At least seven captured journalists relocated to Syria.
mwrightc

US Special Operations troops capture ISIS operative in Iraq | Fox News - 0 views

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ISIS troops Syria fox news

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  • mwrightc on 02 Mar 16
     
    The United States is beginning to make their presence known in the middle east. A special operations force captured an ISIS operative who has been described as a "significant" member of the terror group.
csosa14

ISIS hostage release gives hope to Modesto family - 0 views

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hostage release hope family Christians

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  • csosa14 on 03 Mar 15
     
    After ISIS captured 220 Christians they have released 19 and this gives hope that they may release more.
  • csosa14 on 03 Mar 15
     
    After ISIS captured 220 Christians they have released 19 and this gives hope that they may release more.
fcastro2

Syrian aircraft bomb area near captured Jordan crossing | Reuters - 0 views

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jordan crossing ISIS syria war

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  • Syrian military aircraft bombed areas close to its main crossing into Jordan on Thursday, witnesses and a group monitoring the conflict said, hours after insurgents had captured the border post
  • Insurgents fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad said they had seized the Nasib crossing in southern Syria late on Wednesday, putting most of 370-km (230-mile) border area stretching up to Israel in the hands of the rebels
  • weaken the regime's hold in the south and to increase the areas under our control
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  • he al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front also said it had captured the crossing but rival rebels denied this and accused them of looting after the crossing fell into rebel hands.
  • Jordan closed its side of the crossing on Wednesday. A Jordanian source said on Thursday the kingdom had stepped up security and redeployed some troops to the border
  • The Syrian army, which accuses the staunch U.S. ally of harboring rebels on its soil, said the kingdom had deployed its troops inside the crossing after the rebels took control. Amman denies providing training and arms for the insurgents
  • ordan has pressured rebels in the past not to overrun the Nasib crossing so the highway could stay open to trade and traffic with Damascus
  • Nasib, one of Syria's last official border crossings, is now crucial for importing goods into a country hit hard by Western sanctions
  • fcastro2 on 06 Apr 15
     
    Tensions are rising even higher as the Syrian government take actions to regain the crossing to Jordan. This crossing was lost to the rebels not long ago and has closed an important crossing. 
blantonjack

US forces captured head of Isis chemical weapons program in Iraq last month - 0 views

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ISIS Syria war America

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  • blantonjack on 09 Mar 16
     
    US special forces captured the head of the Islamic State militant group's effort to develop chemical weapons in a raid last month in northern Iraq, two senior Iraqi intelligence officials have told the Associated Press, the first known major success of Washington's more aggressive policy of pursuing the jihadis on the ground. This is a huge step in obtaining more information regarding the ISIS front.
mwrightc

ISIS Detainee Tells U.S. of Militants' Plan to Use Mustard Gas - The New York Times - 0 views

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ISIS mustard gas new york times

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  • The Islamic State’s use of chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria has been known, but Mr. Afari’s capture has provided the United States with the opportunity to learn detailed information about the group’s secretive program, including where chemical agents were being stored and produced.
  • Mr. al-Afari was captured last month by a new Special Operations force made up primarily of Delta Force commandos shortly after they arrived in Iraq. They are the first major American combat force on the ground there since the United States pulled out of the country at the end of 2011.
  • Until recently, the United States has largely targeted Islamic State fighters with airstrikes. But the 200-member Special Operations team has been assigned to both kill and capture Islamic State operatives, the latter for use in gathering intelligence. Military officials said the team had set up safe houses and worked with Iraqi and Kurdish forces to establish informant networks and conduct raids on Islamic State leaders and other important militants.
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  • Under interrogation, Mr. Afari, told his captors how the group had weaponized sulfur mustard and loaded it into artillery shells, the officials said.
  • Sleiman Daoud al-Afari
  • mwrightc on 09 Mar 16
     
    US special forces were able to take an ISIS member into custody. Through questioning, the military men were able to learn that ISIS is now beginning to make plans to use mustard gas as a chemical weapon. The Red Cross has been identified because of the possible use of chemical weapons.
  • blantonjack on 09 Mar 16
     
    An Islamic State detainee currently in American custody at a temporary detention facility in Erbil, Iraq, is a specialist in chemical weapons whom American military officials are questioning about the militant Sunni group's plans to use the banned substances in Iraq and Syria, Defense officials said. The member of ISIS who is probably dead at this point reports say, told the miltants that they were planning on using mustard gas with upcoming attacks planned.
micklethwait

Israel Murders IDF Soldier to Prevent His Capture Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון... - 0 views

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israel idf soldier capture Hannibal Directive

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  • micklethwait on 27 Jul 14
     
    There seems to be pretty thin evidence to support these claims.
kbrisba

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  • kbrisba on 08 Mar 15
     
    Tunisian troops captured a large arms cache near the border of Libya, that had rifles, rockets, and landmines. Tunisia is waging a campaign against hardline Islamist groups who emerged after their dictator stepped down. Tunisia is worried that the violence will spill over from neighboring Libya, where the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has expanded.
alarsso

Understanding Syria: From Pre-Civil War to Post-Assad - The Atlantic - 0 views

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syria understanding history causes war revolution transition

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  • xtreme temperatures
  • drought from 2006 to 2011
  • 2001 to 2010, Syria had 60 “significant” dust storms.
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  • lessening of rainfall
  • as of the last year before the civil war, only about 13,500 square kilometers could be irrigated
  • agriculture
  • 20 percent of national income
  • employed about 17 percent
  • Syria’s oil is of poor quality, sour, and expensive to refine
  • densely populated
  • less than 0.25 hectares (just over a third of an acre) of agricultural land per person
  • population/resource ratio is out of balance.
  • So it is important to understand how their “social contract”—their view of their relationship with one another and with the government—evolved and then shattered.
  • threw the country into the arms of
  • Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • or three and a half years
  • part of the United Arab Republic
  • A fundamental problem they faced was what it meant to be a Syrian.
  • 1961 Syrians were thrown back on their own resources
  • The majority of those who became Syrians were Arabic-speaking Sunni Muslims
  • seven and eight in 10 Syrians saw themselves as Muslim Arab
  • being a Muslim Arab as the very definition of Syrian identity.
  • Nationalists took this diversity as a primary cause of weakness and adopted as their primary task integrating the population into a single political and social structure.
  • Israel
  • Looming over Syrian politics and heightening the tensions
  • A ceasefire, negotiated in 1974, has held, but today the two states are still legally at war.
  • or Hafez al-Assad, the secular, nationalist Baath Party was a natural choice: it offered, or seemed to offer, the means to overcome his origins in a minority community and to point toward a solution to the disunity of Syrian politics
  • bridge the gaps between rich and poor
  • socialism
  • Muslims and minorities
  • Islam
  • society
  • hould be modern
  • secular
  • defined by a culture of “Arabism”
  • the very antithesis of
  • Muslim Brotherhood
  • military, which seemed
  • o embody the nation.
  • help the Syrian people to live better provided only that they not challenge his rule
  • his stern and often-brutal monopoly of power
  • foreign troublemakers
  • Hafez al-Assad sided with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war
  • During the rule of the two Assads, Syria made considerable progress.
  • locked into the cities and towns
  • they f
  • had to compete
  • Palestinians
  • Iraqis
  • Syria was already a refuge
  • March 15, 2011
  • small group gathered in the southwestern town of Daraa to protest against government failure to help them
  • government saw them as subversives.
  • He ordered a crackdown
  • And the army,
  • responded violently.
  • Riots broke out
  • attempted to quell them with military
  • what had begun as a food and water issue gradually turned into a political and religious cause.
  • interpretation of Islam
  • the Syrian government is charged with using illegal chemical weapons
  • All observers agree that the foreign-controlled and foreign-constituted insurgent groups are the most coherent, organized, and effective
  • astonishing as they share no common language and come from a wide variety of cultures
  • slam has at least so far failed to provide an effective unifying force
  • all the rebels regard the conflict in Syria as fundamentally a religious issue
  • pwards of $150 billion
  • a whole generation of Syrians have been subjected to either or both the loss of their homes and their trust in fellow human beings.
  • How the victims and the perpetrators can be returned to a “normal life”
  • First, the war might continue.
  • Second, if the Syrian government continues or even prevails, there is no assurance that,
  • t will be able to suppress the insurgency.
  • Third,
  • Syria will remain effectively “balkanized”
  • alarsso on 08 Feb 15
     
    This article captures Syria's geography, history, and all events leading up to the state Syria is in today.
tdford333

Why Yemen has come undone - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • tdford333 on 13 Apr 15
     
    As the United States has closed its embassy and withdrawn its last troops, Yemen has slid into total chaos, with rebels and jihadists on both sides capturing military bases and seizing tanks and heavy weapons.
petergrossmanseu

German World War II Era Wehrmacht Howitzer Used By Syrian Rebels On The Battlefield In ... - 0 views

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german world world war ii youtube Howitzer

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  • petergrossmanseu on 17 Feb 16
     
    A video from YouTube showing Syrian rebels using a German 10.5 cm LeFH 18 which is a 105 mm howitzer from the 1930s. The info section of the video claims that the Syrian army supposedly operated a few of these so the rebels most likely captured it from a base. I tagged this because it ties into my question from last week of where did Syria get all of these formerly Nazi made weapons.
irede123

U.S. Special Ops Troops Aim To Round Up ISIS Leaders In Iraq : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views

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ISIS Syria

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  • irede123 on 04 Mar 16
     
    "merican troops in Iraq are interrogating a leader of the Islamic State after capturing him in a special operations raid, according to national security officials in Washington."
mwrightc

ISIS carries out Good Friday crucifixion of Catholic priest Tom Uzhunnalil in Yemen | D... - 0 views

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ISIS priest yemen catholic

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  • mwrightc on 29 Mar 16
     
    An Indian Priest was captured three weeks ago by ISIS gunmen in Yemen. Father Thomas was then used as a message to the rest of the world from ISIS when the group crucified him on Easter Sunday
joepouttu

Syria retakes Palmyra from Islamic State. - 0 views

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Palmyra Syria IS

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  • joepouttu on 29 Mar 16
     
    Syrian forces, backed by Russian military, have captured the city of Palmyra from IS after three week offensive. This is seen as a big victory for Assad and is expected to increase support for the president. 
stuartsayes

What Led Those American Ships Into Iranian Waters? - 0 views

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international waters Iran ships american Navy

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  • stuartsayes on 07 Apr 16
     
    The first official report regarding the capture of two American ships was release at the beginning of this year (2016). This is an important concept in relations between two countries and helps see the power that exists with a country's international water line,
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