Tué en juin par les forces armées françaises, le djihadiste Abdelmalek Droukdel a été remplacé par l’Algérien Abou Oubaïda Youssef al-Annabi à la tête de l’organisation terroriste Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique.
Après des décennies de violence on ne peut plus dire que l’islam n’a rien à voir avec l’islamisme. Chaque attentat met en évidence une cascade de complicités allant de la relativisation à l’apologie, de l’indulgence à la justification, le tout enrobé d’un complotisme victimaire.
Cairo is said to be waiting for what will emerge from the recent phone conversation between the Saudi monarch, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan.
Well-informed Egyptian sources revealed that the close relations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia did not prevent “each country from keeping a margin of independence to move as it sees fit at the level of the region.”
To start with, the mini-victory he [Erdogan] has won against Armenia may have whetted Erdogan’s appetite for further conquests. Pro-Erdogan papers in Turkey are beating the drums about “victory in the Caucasus” as the first time, since the end of the Ottoman Empire, that Turks have managed to “liberate” a chunk of Islamdom from “infidel” rule.
“In certain districts and on the internet, groups… are teaching hatred of the republic to our children, calling on them to disregard its laws. That is what I called ‘separatism’ …. If you do not believe me, read the social media postings of hatred… that resulted in Paty’s death. Visit the districts where small girls aged three or four are wearing a full veil, separated from boys, and, from a very young age, separated from the rest of society, raised in hatred of France’s values”. — French President Emmanuel Macron, Financial Times, November 1, 2020.
Top official says other countries must take responsibility for IS-linked suspects and families and tells them ‘give us a call’
The United States is ready to repatriate foreign nationals being held by Kurdish forces in camps and prisons in northeastern Syria, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday.
Last week, the New York Times reported that in August of this year, Israeli agents killed al-Qaeda’s number two, Abu Mohammed al-Masri, in Tehran.
Credible rumors recently circulated that al-Qaeda’s current leader Ayman al-Zawahiri died of natural causes, although this remains unconfirmed.
The Islamic State’s external province in Congo and Mozambique coordinates ISIS core on attack claims, but also the timing of attacks.
The ISIS spokesman’s October speech calling for prison break operations preceded a successful prison break by jihadists in Congo and an attempted prison break ISIS fighters in Mozambique.
On Friday, Spain’s government announced that it would create 7.000 placements for shelters in the Canary Islands to face the massive arrivals of migrants in the last weeks.
The Turkey-backed Syrian National Army’s (SNA) ranks may include some four percent child soldiers, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), an Ankara-based research company known for its close relations with the Turkish government. child soldiers