Salvini, Orban Alliance: “If The Left Wins, Europe Will Become an Islamic Caliphate”
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Voice of Europe ^
| 5/8/19 | Stan M
The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the Italian Interior Ministe Matteo Salvini are planning to fight the current EU agenda. Salvini
visited Orbán to inform himself about the border fence between Hungary and Serbia. Orban even referred to Salvini as the most important man in Europe. Orban stated that he is ready to work with dynamic and vital men while calling the EU tired and powerless. “I hope new powers will rise up and accomplish to build something”, ending with “Europe needs Matteo Salvini.” Salvini underlined that he is not right-wing but that his party simply represents an alternative...
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Despite crumbled caliphate, hunt for Baghdadi continues in Syria
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Fox News ^
| April 1, 2019 | Hollie McKay
The ISIS territorial “caliphate” may have crumbled, but the terror group's heart beats on for at least as long as its illusory leader evades capture or death and Iraqi intelligence officials insist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 47, is alive and in hiding.“The latest information is that he is still in the Syrian desert,
and could not enter into the Iraqi side because of concerns about evading the security measures on the borders,” Sabah al Namaan, Baghdad’s spokesperson for the counterterrorism agency, told Fox News, stressing that finding the shadowy figure remains of critical importance..Namaan said efforts are still underway to track down Baghdadi.“Killing...
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80,000 Caliphate Women, Children Still Living In Remote Syrian Camp Despite ISIS Elimination
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Breitbart ^
| 4-2-2019 | Penny Starr
The United States and Syrian-Kurdish forces have successfully driven Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) fighters out of Syria, ending the terrorists’ stronghold in the country that, in 2014, covered 34,000 square miles; however, aid groups and the media are reporting that the almost 80,000 people who lived under ISIS rule for years have now
been relocated to a remote camp in northeastern Syria. The United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on Monday that the Syria Humanitarian Fund (SHF) has given $4.3 million in U.S. dollars to organizations that are “delivering life-saving assistance to people displaced from the last...
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ISIS Caliphate Crumbles as Last Village in Syria Falls
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The New York Times ^
| 3/23/19 | Rukmini Callimachi
A four-year military operation to flush the Islamic State from its territory in Iraq and Syria ended on Saturday as the last village held by the terrorist group was retaken, erasing a militant theocracy that once spanned two countries. Cornered
in Baghuz, Syria, the last 1.5-square-mile remnant of the group’s territory in the region, the remaining militants waged a surprisingly fierce defense and kept the American-backed coalition at bay for months. They detonated car bombs and hurled explosives from drones. Suicide bombers ran across the front line under cover of darkness to attack the sleeping quarters of the coalition. In...
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The Islamic State’s caliphate has officially ended as its last stronghold is liberated
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JIHAD WATCH ^
| MAR 21, 2019 4:00 PM | ROBERT SPENCER
The Islamic State’s caliphate has officially ended as its last stronghold is liberated The Islamic State declared its caliphate on June 29, 2014. At
one point it controlled a territory larger than Britain, and it attracted 30,000 Muslims from 100 different countries to join it. Unfortunately, few, if any, Islamic State jihadis will take its collapse as a sign that their premises were wrong; they will just go wage jihad somewhere else, which is why Western countries are suicidal to take back the ISIS jihadis who are their citizens. This collapse is due to President Trump. When Obama left office,...
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Islamic State women defiant in face of lost caliphate
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BBC World News ^
| March 13 , 2019 | Jewan Abdi
As the battle against the Islamic State (IS) group in eastern Syria enters its final stages, the BBC's Jewan Abdi says the mood amongst many of the jihadists' supporters who have left the area, including many women, remains defiant. As
I walked among them with my camera, trying to talk to them and film, several IS women suddenly attacked me and threw stones, dust and cans. "Go film the brothers, don't come here. Go. Leave. Go film them, we're the woman of the Islamic State, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar (God is greatest)," they said.
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THE CALIPHATE IS OVER, BUT ISIS ISN’T: Watch for more jihad in the U.S.
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Frontpage Mag ^
| 03/11/2019 | Robert Spencer
AFP reported Friday that the jihadists straggling out of the last stronghold of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria remain defiant, still vowing to murder Americans. In fact, this has been their longstanding plan, as revealed in a guide to destroying the United States that the jihad group published in its
heyday, back in 2015. The AFP report quoted one woman leaving the tiny remaining ISIS domain declaring, “The caliphate will not end, because it has been ingrained in the hearts and brains of the newborns and the little ones.” Another exclaimed: “We have left, but there will be...
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The Caliphate is Over, But ISIS Isn’t
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Front Page ^
| March 11, 2019 | Robert Spencer
AFP reported Friday that the jihadists straggling out of the last stronghold of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria remain defiant, still vowing to murder Americans. In fact, this has been their longstanding plan, as revealed in a guide to destroying the United States that the jihad group published in its heyday,
back in 2015. The AFP report quoted one woman leaving the tiny remaining ISIS domain declaring, “The caliphate will not end, because it has been ingrained in the hearts and brains of the newborns and the little ones.” Another exclaimed: “We have left, but there will be new...
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The caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire – Isis has nowhere left to go
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The Guardian UK ^
| 03 Mar 2019 | Bethan McKernan and Mohammed Rasool in Baghuz, Syria
There is a flash of light in the dark town as an airstrike hits an Islamic State weapons depot. A
few seconds later, a ball of flame engulfs the entire neighbourhood. The sonic boom sends shockwaves through Baghuz, shaking the ground miles away, and for a second everything and everyone is stunned into silence. Then the artillery fire starts up again...(snip) Trapped from the east and the west by advancing Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and by the Syrian regime and Russia on the other side of the river, the caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire. There is...
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Islamic State's 'caliphate' on brink of defeat
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Reuters ^
| FEBRUARY 15, 2019 | Rodi Said
U.S.-backed fighters are poised to capture Islamic State’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates. The remaining militants in a neighborhood of Baghouz village near the Iraqi border, under fire from all sides. Civilians
fled the few square miles of hamlets and farmland that remain within Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’, along with defeated jihadists trying to escape unnoticed. Most of the fighters left in Baghouz are foreigners, in an encircled pocket some 700 meters square. Army General Joseph Votel said the end of the territorial caliphate would lead to a more dispersed, harder-to-detect network of fighters waging guerrilla warfare. That should require...
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Erdogan’s caliphate dream put in motion in Turkey
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Turkish Minute ^
| November 27, 2018 | Abdullah Bozkurt
Further evidence was revealed in Turkey earlier this month accentuating the long-held ambitions of the corrupt President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan to steer the Muslim world, or Ummah as it is called in religious discourse, into sort of a caliph-like leadership position. Away
from the spotlight, his close advisors convened a gathering in Istanbul of Islamists from various countries to cultivate and promote the idea of an Islamic union to be spearheaded by the Turkish president as early as 2023. Not surprisingly the Muslim BrotherhoodÂ’s international network has been tapped as the main conveyer for fulfilling the Turkish leaderÂ’s dreams of...
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Sabah correspondent calls for caliphate (Sabah = Turkish propaganda news source)
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Ahval ^
| Apr 20 2018 | none stated
A Germany correspondent for Turkish pro-government newspaper Sabah has tweeted that the June election should represent the end of the Turkish republic and the beginning of a caliphate, left-nationalist OdaTV said . “95
years ago Atatürk got rid of both the Ottoman state and the caliphate with the words ‘Gentlemen, tomorrow we announce a republic’,” Martin Lejeune said on Twitter. “On June 24, the Kemalist republic will be gotten rid of, and with Allah’s blessing when the time comes the caliphate will again be born in Turkey. May Allah protect Muslims.”
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Christians Ready for Christmas After the Caliphate’s Collapse
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The National Catholic Register ^
| 12/22/17 | Peter Jesserer Smith
Christmas in Qaraqosh is not just a celebration of Christ’s birth, but an exercise in hope for Christianity in Iraq’s resurrection after ISIS.QARAQOSH, Iraq — In their villages on the Nineveh Plain, Iraq’s Christians are celebrating their first Christmas since the region’s liberation from the Islamic State (ISIS). In the little town
of Qaraqosh (also known as Baghdida), there will be no flocks of sheep grazing, or cows lowing, as in years past, on the holy night of Christ’s birth — just the sound of Christians singing the Divine Liturgy at midnight in their burned churches. More than three years...
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ISIS holds caliphate-wide safety stand-down after botched NYC terror attack (Satire)
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Duffleblog ^
| 12 Dec 2017
SYRIA — ISIS is initiating a caliphate-wide safety stand-down after one of its members injured himself on Monday with his own explosive device in New York City, sources confirmed today. “This
is a chance for us to stop operations and come together as a family to figure out what we are doing wrong,” said Akbar Muhammad, Director of Standardization and Training for ISIS. What should have been a routine operation on Monday to maim innocent civilians instead turned into another embarrassing stain on the caliphate’s already sullied reputation. Akayed Ullah’s failed attempt resulted in zero casualties while injuring himself in...
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ISIS: The Caliphate Dream Is Over But The Killing Isn't.
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FrontPageMag ^
| Dec 11, 2017 | Robert Spencer
The caliphate is dead. Last Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that the Islamic State (ISIS) had been driven out of Iraq: Today, our troops were able to purge islands of Nineveh and Anbar in full, and they (the forces) are now fully controlling the Iraqi-Syrian borders. These
victories are not only for the Iraqis alone, though the Iraqis were themselves who achieved such victories with their sacrifices. But the victories are for all Arabs, Muslims and the world alike...Honorable Iraqis, your land has been completely liberated....The flag of Iraq is flying high today over all Iraqi territory and...
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Trump, Mattis turn military loose on ISIS, leaving terror caliphate in tatters
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Fox news.com ^
| 12-8-17 | Holly McKay
BAGHDAD – Hundreds of ISIS fighters had just been chased out of a northern Syrian city and were fleeing through the desert in long convoys, presenting an easy target to U.S. A-10 "warthogs." But
the orders to bomb the black-clad jihadists never came, and the terrorists melted into their caliphate -- living to fight another day. The events came in August 2016, even as then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was vowing on the campaign trail to let generals in his administration crush the organization that, under President Obama, had grown from the “jayvee team” to the world’s most feared terrorist...
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Trump, Mattis turn military loose on ISIS, leaving terror caliphate in tatters
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Fox News ^
| Dec. 8, 2017 | Hollie McKay
“I will…quickly and decisively bomb the hell out of ISIS,” Trump, who would name legendary Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as secretary of defense, promised. “We
will not have to listen to the politicians who are losing the war on terrorism." Just over a year later, ISIS has been routed from Iraq and Syria with an ease and speed that's surprised even the men and women who carried out the mission. Experts say it's a prime example of a campaign promise kept. President Trump scrapped his predecessor’s rules of engagement, which critics say hamstrung the military, and let battlefield decisions...
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Trump, Mattis Turn Military Loose On ISIS, Leaving Terror Caliphate In Tatters
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Fox News ^
| 12-8-2017 | Holly McKay
BAGHDAD – Hundreds of ISIS fighters had just been chased out of a northern Syrian city and were fleeing through the desert in long convoys, presenting an easy target to U.S. A-10 "warthogs." But
the orders to bomb the black-clad jihadists never came, and the terrorists melted into their caliphate -- living to fight another day. The events came in August 2016, even as then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was vowing on the campaign trail to let generals in his administration crush the organization that, under President Obama, had grown from the “jayvee team” to the world’s most feared terrorist...
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ISIS Last Stand; End Times For The Caliphate
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Market Oracle ^
| 11-26-2017 | Mike Whitney
Hezbollah, recaptured the city of Abu Kamal in Deir Ezzor province. The
city was the last bastion for the terrorist group, ISIS, which, at one time, controlled a vast swathe of land stretching from northern Iraq to central Syria. Now the group has been chased from its last urban hideaway and scattered across the arid wastelands like a nomadic tribe wandering the dessert. Abu Kamal was ISIS’s “last stand”, the final chance to fend off the advancing loyalist forces and reverse the course of the war. But the three-pronged attack proved to be too much for the demoralized jihadists who...
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The terrorist diaspora: After the fall of the caliphate
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Long War Journal ^
| 13 July 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn
[Editor’s Note: Below is Thomas Joscelyn’s testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee’s Task Force on Denying Terrorists Entry into the United States. The hearing is titled, “The Terrorist Diaspora: After the Fall of the Caliphate.” A version with footnotes will also be posted.] Chairman
Gallagher, Ranking Member Watson Coleman, and other distinguished Committee Members, thank you for inviting me to testify today concerning foreign fighters and the threat some of them pose to the U.S. and Europe. The fall of Mosul and the likely fall of Raqqa won’t be the end of the Islamic State. The group has already...
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