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Four experts of geostrategic analysis and business consultancy at Wikistrat experts weigh in on the long-term significance of the Islamic State leader’s death.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “died like a dog,” says U.S. president, thanking Turkey, Syria, Russia, Iraq and the Syrian Kurds for their assistance and support with the raid on al-Baghdadi’s compound.
U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly approved major raid targeting terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi less than a week ago.
Sanctions target Turkey’s defense, interior and energy ministries • U.S. also raises tariffs on Turkish steel imports to 50 percent and cancels negotiations on “$100 billion” trade deal.
According to Israeli intelligence expert Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, while events in northeast Syria are still at an early stage, there’s already a lot to worry about, from the resurgence of ISIS to Iran exploiting the situation to create a land corridor.
The president of the nation that’s known as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, said, “Today, America, unfortunately, is the supporter of terrorism in our region—and wherever America has gone, terrorism has expanded in the wake.”
“Today, America, unfortunately, is the supporter of terrorism in our region,” says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York.
Islamic State is believed to be behind deadly blasts near Gaza City • Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh calls on Gaza to “maintain its cool,” vows situation will be deal with in a “forceful and wise manner.”
Amin Yassin, 22, and Ali al-Aroush, 28, residents of Tamra in the Lower Galilee, face charges of supporting a terrorist group and conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack.
The video further points fingers at Hamas for helping the British government of releasing BBC journalist Alan Johnston in 2007, who was a former captive of Jaysh Al-Islam.
Arab Israeli jailed for joining ISIS pleads for Netanyahu to help him return
“I am having a very, very tough time in this prison. … I will return as a better [person],” said Sayyaf Sharif Daoud in Hebrew.
ISIS leader: Sri Lanka attacks ‘a fraction of the revenge awaiting the Crusaders’
In first appearance since declaration of caliphate, ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi calls for attacks against France, its allies, and Saudi Arabia, and urges Algerians and Sudanese to wage jihad against their regimes.
