Obsessively secret ISIL intelligence unit built global network
A secretive intelligence branch of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is exporting terrorism worldwide. The unit, known in Arabic as the Emni, is a combination of an (more…)
U.S. claims belated gains against ISIL’s social media propaganda
The United States is making some progress in slowing Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) online propaganda machine. Focusing primarily on Twitter, the U.S. has found success in (more…)
U.S. approves sale of $785 million worth of bombs to UAE
The Pentagon has given the go-ahead for UAE, a top U.S. ally in the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), to purchase $785 million worth of (more…)
ISIL crisis: U.S. quietly convenes security summit as threat grows
At a meeting last week at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Gen. Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command, hosted (more…)
ISIL using makeshift refineries to offset losses from airstrikes
After losing much of its oil infrastructure to airstrikes, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has constructed hundreds of micro-refineries in oil fields remaining under its control. Satellite (more…)
Nice attack: Why terrorists are winning intelligence war with West
In the eyes of Western Muslims, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and Al Qaida appear to be winning the intelligence war by “humiliating the security services of (more…)
ISIL expands in Europe, Mideast, North Africa and Asia
Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has expanded to and is building “support networks” in seven new theaters of operation, according to the U.S. State Department. The terror (more…)
Jordan widens crackdown on ISIL, social media ‘sympathizers’
Jordanian authorities are expanding their crackdown on “anyone they find sympathizing” with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Jordan’s state security court recently adjudicated some two dozen men (more…)
ISIL captures 900 Kurdish civilians in northern Syria
Kurdish civilians captured by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have been forced to build fortifications for the terror group as it tries to fight off advancing U.S.-backed (more…)