The Islamic State and al-Qaeda

Various outlets use the acronyms.

The Ramadi stalemate has stood in sharp contrast to what happened earlier this month in northern Iraq, where Kurdish peshmerga troops once again showed their willingness to defend their Iraqi homeland. The Jordanian armed forces said they hit and destroyed an ISIS training center and arms and ammunition depots.

“It’s a brilliant plan, if that’s in fact what they’re doing”, he said.

At this point, however, three things are certain: whoever the commodity trading house may be that is paying ISIS-affiliated “innocent civilians” hundreds of millions of dollars for their products, they are flawless aware just who the source of this deeply discounted crude is. They have crucified others. Most of the people on the ground fighting ISIS are Muslim.

The Western illusion of safety from large-scale terror attacks was once again shattered last Friday.

As a result, “it’s going to become more and more hard to differentiate between a pickup truck that is carrying crude oil and a pickup truck that just belongs to a baker or a farmer”.

Experts and eye-witnesses describe their brutality as the worse ever seen.

Still, USA intelligence officials say they don’t believe the extremist group has the technological capability to produce nerve gas or biological agents, and the militants were more likely to harm themselves trying to make them.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has led ISIS since 2010. He and other prisoners joined IS after they were released. He was ousted and later executed. The Paris terror attacks have sparked widespread calls from a few to end or limit US refugee admissions from Syria.

As IS’s statement of responsibility indicated, France was probably chosen as its first Western target because of the government’s active involvement in the anti-IS coalition, its intervention against Islamists in Mali, the state’s strong secularism – which prohibits public displays of religion including the hijab – and the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, both by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the newspaper Liberation, which republished the notorious Danish cartoons of 2007.

France also has a growing population of Muslims, most of whom come into the country as refugees from the Middle East. The country is host to 3.5-5 million Muslims, which translates to 6.0-8.5 percent of its total population.

The council resolution “calls upon member states that have the ability to do so to take all necessary measures … on the territory below the control of ISIL … in Syria and Iraq”. He couldn’t survive, after all, without sustaining the narrative of the Islamic State as a growing power to be reckoned with. “There is no such recognized country or entity, so our scripts should refer to Islamic State fighters or militants or terrorists or insurgents”, Alan Sunderland, director of editorial policy at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, told us. It also receives money from supporters in a few Persian Gulf nations. It says they illegally transported it to Turkey and Iran, or sold it to the Syrian government.

This includes priority targeting of the oil fields ISIS controls for huge profits in northeast Syria and the bureaucratic headquarters identified in Raqqa, the “capitol” of the illegitimate ISIS state.

Syrian friend Russian Federation also revived on Wednesday its drive for United Nations approval of global military campaigns combating Islamic State by circulating a somewhat updated version of a draft resolution it initially submitted on September 30. It says its holy book – the Quran – supports the enslavement of women and girls.

The issue brief outlines options the anti-ISIS coalition can use to defeat ISIS by increasing support to local partners in the fight, increasing coalition resources and airstrikes, improving intelligence cooperation with allies, continuing diplomatic efforts to wind down Syria’s civil war, and degrading ISIS sanctuaries and networks outside of Iraq and Syria through law enforcement, military, and diplomatic means.

The attacks last week that killed 132 people, along with the downing of a plane in Egypt that killed 224, have served to focus worldwide attention on Syria and Islamic State.