Sunday, April 10, 2016

ISIS Updates

10/04/16 12:34

10/04/16 10:51
The terrorist group abducted 300 members of staff from Al-Badia Cement Company in Dumeir, near Damascus in Syria, earlier this week as they launched a surprise attack on government forces.

10/04/16 10:49
Belgium's federal prosecutor said on Saturday that Mohamed Abrini admitted to being the 'man in white' who was seen at Zaventem airport in Brussels on March 22.

09/04/16 17:35
Mohammed Abrini has been charged with 'terrorist murders' hours after footage emerged showing the moment a man thought to be a suspect in the Paris and Brussels terror attacks was arrested.

09/04/16 16:44
The second man arrested by Brussels police alongside Mohammed Abrini is believed to be a Swedish national who snuck back into Europe with a false passport after fighting with ISIS in Syria.

08/04/16 21:43
John Kerry will gather with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and other top officials as coalition forces make military gains against ISIS amid Iraqi political uncertainty.

08/04/16 21:33
The number of ISIS militants in Libya has doubled in the last year or so to as many as 6,000 fighters, with aspirations to conduct attacks against the U.S. and other nations in the West.

08/04/16 18:52
The discovery of rotting animal testicles in a terrorist's backpack, in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek, has prompted fears that ISIS is planning a primitive biological attack.

08/04/16 18:19
The jihadi group's media arm have denied reports of the workers being massacred and insisted they have been released unharmed.

08/04/16 05:57
Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 38, the schizophrenic Russian nanny who decapitated four-year-old Nastya Meshcheryakova blamed it on voices in her head and jihadi films of beheadings in Syria.

08/04/16 00:21
All four arrested were suspected of breaking Denmark's terrorism law while in Syria, and were arrested during raids in the Copenhagen area, police (pictured) said in a statement.

07/04/16 23:26
Karen Nettleton, the mother of ISIS bride Tara Nettleton who married Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf had flown to Turkey to try and rescue her five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

07/04/16 21:04
Abu Israa (pictured) has spoken of how he was fined because his beard was the wrong length, ISIS threatened to cut off his head and his daughter was almost lashed for not wearing a niqab in Iraq.

07/04/16 19:55
ISIS extremists seized the cement workers from an area close to the town of Dumeir, northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus.

07/04/16 17:50
Mohammed Rizwan Awan (pictured), 27, from Huddersfield, was among five suicide bombers who killed six Iraqi soldiers at a check-point in western Iraq last month.

07/04/16 17:35
The alleged terrorist had attempted to disguise himself as a woman by wearing a burka, and is believed to have been trying to defect from ISIS-affiliates in Sinai, Egypt.

07/04/16 14:56
Although not named by the EU spokesman it is believed Belgian Najim Laachraoui, 25, one of the airport suitcase bombers, worked at the European Parliament for a month in both 2009 and 2010.

07/04/16 01:06
ISIS levelled the fifth century St Elian monastery and church in al-Qaryatain in August 2015 using explosives and bulldozers, as they have done with shrines and other religious buildings elsewhere.

06/04/16 22:29
Pc Amar Tasaddiq Hussain (pictured), 29, is charged with making the 999 call along with Adil Bashir, 25, and Muhammad Sheikh, 30. All three men are from Birmingham.

06/04/16 21:23
ISIS claimed the two victims who were murdered in Raqqa were spying for Bashar al-Assad before they displayed their bodies on a busy roundabout in the centre of the city.

06/04/16 21:12
The propaganda pictures, which include militants dressed in camouflage and firing a range of sniper weapons, were captured in an unknown location in Iraq.

06/04/16 20:07
Theresa May today announced a new offence of breaching pre-charge bail would be created by the Government following demands by the police for more powers.

06/04/16 17:06
Jim Atherton, 53, from Washington, Tyne and Wear spent eight months in Kurdistan in close range combat with ISIS troops as he fought alongside Peshmerga to keep extremists out of Europe.

06/04/16 14:58
German militant Abu Qatadah claimed the bodies of murdered ISIS hostages were just dumped in an interview with Jurgen Todenhofer who spent 10 days with the terror group in Mosul.

06/04/16 10:10
The civilians were sentenced to death for trying to flee Fallujah, which is under siege by Iraqi troops having been held by the terror group since January 2014.

05/04/16 20:58
Father Tom Uzhunnalil was captured from the Yemeni city of Aden by gunmen who killed at least 15 people at an old people's home in an attack that was condemned by Pope Francis.

05/04/16 20:19
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Bloodthirsty jiahdis have released a series of gruesome photographs showing the crucifixion and execution of four men in Raqqa in Syria.

05/04/16 18:40
Propaganda photos released by the jihadi group's media branch shows several ISIS members using magnifying glasses and microscopes to investigate crimes in Iraq.

05/04/16 16:39
Much of the video appears to be made up of news footage from the Brussels attacks as well as ISIS's video of the Paris attackers carrying out beheadings in Syria last summer.

05/04/16 14:36
Hundreds of Iraqi families have been forced to flee their homes in Iraq as government forces tightened their siege on ISIS forces in the city of Hit.

05/04/16 09:24
Khalif Shariff (pictured), 21, and 18-year-old Abdulrahman, from Old Trafford, Manchester, are understood to have fled to the war-torn country in November 2014.

04/04/16 19:10
The grief that nearly killed him. His fears of war after Brexit. And how his love for the great Irish poet WB Yeats made Bob Geldof start believing in Ireland once again.

04/04/16 15:01
Airport officials had the last laugh when they dragged the 35-year-old man away from other passengers and a full search was undertaken after he made the poor taste jokes in Vienna.

04/04/16 13:25
A 24-year-old man has been arrested at Gatwick Airport on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences. A 20-year-old woman has also been detained in west London. File phto

04/04/16 11:33
The members were killed in connection with the assassination of senior Islamic State figure Abu Hija al-Tunisi, who died on Wednesday in an air strike.

04/04/16 11:29
Abdelhak Khiame (pictured right), Morocco's head of counter terrorism, claims his unit has smashed 25 ISIS plots in his country in the past year alone.

04/04/16 09:35
The £43million heli-plane nicknamed the ‘Transformer’ will be used by SAS high alert troops who are currently training to use the V22 Osprey at their headquarters near Hereford.

04/04/16 09:25
A chilling ISIS propaganda video includes a message from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world's most wanted terrorist, claiming the group's fighters are 'tougher, stronger and more determined'.

04/04/16 01:19
Iraqi security forces detained and blindfolded the suspected ISIS fighters who were discovered among civilians returning to their homes in Ramadi, which was recaptured in December.

03/04/16 22:51
Images showing the devastation of priceless ancient artefacts inside Palmyra's national museum have been released as government forces have recaptured a town 60 miles away.

03/04/16 21:33
An Islamic State rocket expert believed to have been responsible for an attack that killed a 27-year-old US marine in March has died in a drone strike in Iraq.

03/04/16 14:40
Terror suspects including four men linked to the notorious Jihadi John, have received nearly £17 million in legal aid over the past five years.

03/04/16 14:24
The star argues the ringleaders of the insurrection who seized the Post Office building in Dublin martyred themselves in a bid to inspire others to take up arms.

03/04/16 13:16
A grave containing the bodies of 45 'officers, soldiers, pro-regime militia and their relatives' was found by Syrian troops in the city of Palmyra after they recaptured it from ISIS forces.

03/04/16 13:09
The airport’s chief executive announced that Zaventem airport in Brussels will initially run at 20 per cent of its capacity, allowing 800 departing passengers to pass through it an hour.

02/04/16 23:55
The Russian Armed Forces have rolled into the historic city of Palmyra, in a convoy of tanks and military vehicles, to aid in the clearing process following the retaking of the city last Sunday.

02/04/16 15:27
Mohamed Abdeslam claims that his brother Salah, who was sensationally captured on 18 March, told him that he 'couldn't go through with it.'

02/04/16 13:34
Shazib Ahmed Khan, 23, viewed adult movies titled Killer Sex and Secrets of a Chambermaid just fifteen minutes after chatting about jihad with an ISIS fighter in Syria.

02/04/16 12:43
The US and UK leaders discussed responses to potential ISIS attacks at a summit in Washington, US, including a scenario where terrorists used drones to spray nuclear waste over cities.

02/04/16 12:35
The Government has issued a warning for the UK to be on alert for terrorists trying to obtain nuclear materials or launch devastating cyber-attacks on nuclear power stations.

02/04/16 12:10
The Bulldozer has never been known to show his face on camera unlike this extremist who made no attempt to hide his identity.

02/04/16 01:23
Junead Khan, from Luton, was aided by a notorious British ISIS fighter in Syria as he plotted to carry out the atrocity outside RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, where US Air Force personel are stationed

01/04/16 22:12
Cameron (pictured in Washington) issued a a strongly-worded warning about the threat to national security as he said terrorists want to 'kill as many people as they possibly could'.

01/04/16 20:34
Belgian police unions have demanded tighter screening of passengers and baggage before they are allowed into the terminal. The airport was expected to partially reopen on Friday evening.

01/04/16 18:32
Known only by his nom-de-guerre Abu Baseer al-Hindi, the British man is shown working as a frontline cameraman and fighting for the al-Qaeda affiliated group in north-western Syria.

01/04/16 18:05
Images posted online by ISIS, included slogans in German inciting Muslims to commit violence against the 'enemy of Allah' at high-profile locations, including the Chancellery in Berlin (pictured).

01/04/16 17:49
Stuck in the Sandholm Asylum Centre in north Zealand, 30km from the capital Copenhagen, hundreds of men, women and children are trapped in a cycle of violence that shows no sign of fading.

01/04/16 17:25
Tiny electronic devices made by a Glendale, Arizona company have been found in IEDs used by ISIS to kill and maim in Iraq and Syria. The firm is one of many unwittingly supplying the fanatics.

01/04/16 15:36
The images show how many notable ancient structures in Palmyra have been torn down by ISIS fanatics who looted precious artefacts before smashing up the Syrian city’s historical landmarks.

01/04/16 14:47
Invoking the Germany Army's historical strategy of 'Auftragstaktik', the policy helps ISIS carry out attacks abroad when its chain of command is restricted by Western intelligence agencies.

01/04/16 13:54
A GoFundMe page was launched this week for 20-year-old Sydney man Milad Atai (pictured), who is accused of raising money for the Islamic State. The page raised over $3000 in 2 days.

01/04/16 13:33
Saja al-Dulaimi, speaking near the Lebanon-Syria border, told how she met and married who she thought was a university lecturer, only to discover seven years later he was ISIS's leader (pictured).

01/04/16 11:28
Officers at Brussels Airport said they have warned about the terrorist sympathisers whose security badges give them access to planes, but they remain employed.

31/03/16 21:54
The 26-year-old, suspected of being the logistics chief behind the deadly Paris terror attacks in November, was captured earlier this month during a raid in Brussels.

31/03/16 15:07
Syrian activists say ISIS has 'issued a new decision' to block any Christian or Armenians from leaving its self-declared capital.

31/03/16 14:49
The terror suspect, who appears to be fighting with ISIS in Iraq, warned on Instagram that jihadis would bring carnage to the country's second largest airport using 'sleeper cells' sent from Syria.

31/03/16 11:28
Mohammed Moshin Ameen, 23, from Dagenham pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to five counts of encouraging the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism on Twitter.

31/03/16 07:37
The possibility of a nuclear-armed ISIS may not be as far-off as many experts suggest, a Harvard researcher has warned in recent report for Project on Managing the Atom from Harvard’s Belfer Center.

30/03/16 20:01
Jaelyn Young, 20, grew up the daughter of a school administrator and a cop in Mississippi, becoming a cheerleader and honor student, but became radicalized online before trying to join ISIS.

30/03/16 18:07
ISIS may have planned to attack the Belgian prime minister Charles Michel after pictures and plans of his residence and office were found on a laptop in a bin outside a raided flat linked to terrorists.

30/03/16 15:54
Noora, who tried to conceal her daughter's ages to save them from slavery, told MailOnline how an ISIS thug struck her in the face with a rifle and took her daughters Basima, three, and Sahira, 13.

30/03/16 14:17
Mohammed Amin said he no longer recognises the radicalised murderer his brother Hicham has become and that his Belgian family have received threats and hate messages.

30/03/16 12:50
Surrounded by jihadists near the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, Alexander Prokhorenko (left, with his pregnant wife Ekaterina), 25, ordered Russian warplanes to obliterate the area.

30/03/16 08:37
Abdul Raheem Habil Ali-Skelton, 23, faces felony counts of making terroristic threats after he allegedly walked into a Minneapolis Walgreens on Sunday and said he was part of a terrorist organization.

30/03/16 07:16
A far right group known as Casuals United Belgium (pictured) has called for another violent march, just days after 450 of its football hooligans rampaged through Place de la Bourse, Brussels.

30/03/16 00:37
The harrowing footage shows the bearded ISIS fighter, thought to be of Kurdish origin, ranting to the camera and threatening Peshmerga forces and the Kurdish president Masoud Barzani.

29/03/16 18:59
The posts, which have been condemned as a 'war crime' if genuine, have been seen by up to 84,000 people who follow the account purporting to show images from the war in Iraq.

29/03/16 17:08
Heads were sledgehammered off sculptures while priceless carvings were ripped off walls of museums during the terror group's devastating occupation of Palmyra.

29/03/16 14:15
Donald Trump called for the surveillance of Muslims on American soil and advocated the use of waterboarding or more aggressive forms of torture on suspects in terror attacks Tuesday.

29/03/16 13:40
Father Thomas Uzhunnalil was taken by Islamist gunmen who attacked an old people's home in Aden, southern Yemen, killing at least 15 people, on March 4.

5 Expert Predictions for the Global Economy in 2016

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The world will face economic challenges on multiple fronts in 2016. As the U.S. Federal Reserve begins its monetary tightening, Europe is struggling to manage migrant and debt crises, China’s financial stability is in doubt, and emerging economies are increasingly fragile.
The global economy “could be doing much worse,” writes the Harvard economistKenneth Rogoff, who is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Low oil prices and weak currencies are keeping the European and Japanese economies afloat, but Rogoff warns of “a slowing Chinese economy, collapsing commodity prices, and the beginning of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate-hiking cycle.”
Emerging economies like Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey, rather than China, will be the real sources of concern in 2016, argues U.C. Berkeley’s Barry Eichengreen. With their high levels of short-term debt, these countries are vulnerable to currency crisis, “potentially leading to economic collapse.”

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For CFR’s Varun Sivaram, new investments announced at the Paris climate talks are reason for optimism in the energy sector. In particular, the $20 billion earmarked for clean-energy research and development “could make it more likely for breakthrough technologies to emerge.”
In the United States, meanwhile, steady GDP and job growth has been constrained by weak productivity gains, writes the American Enterprise Institute’s James Pethokoukis. Without increased productivity delivering higher living standards, the United States could face decades of “unhealthy economic populism.”
Europe continues to face the risk of debt crises, writes CFR’s Robert Kahn, but the most dangerous economic risk for the continent in 2016 is “a growing populist challenge from both the Left and Right,” which could create economic-policy uncertainty and constrain policymakers.
Kenneth S. Rogoff, senior fellow for economics, Council on Foreign Relations: The best thing that can be said about the global economy as 2016 begins is that it could be doing much worse.
In Europe, Greece’s Syriza government—closely adhering to the advice of left-leaning U.S. economists—has flirted with pushing the Greek economy off a cliff. The country’s membership in the euro zone survived, however, even if the Greek government needlessly squandered both precious time and tens of billions of dollars.
Europe, like Japan, is also facing profound existential problems around aging populations, difficulty in absorbing refugees and immigrants, and slow productivity growth due to lack of structural reform. As 2016 dawns, low oil prices and weak currencies are continuing to keep both economies on positive—though not exactly vigorous—growth trajectories.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government suffered a major dent in its credibility by badly mishandling a collapsing stock-market bubble, raising questions about how well it will be able to manage the ongoing shift in its economy to slower, but more sustainable, growth. Although the government has managed to alleviate any immediate sense of crisis, the challenges in 2016 remain formidable.
Between a slowing Chinese economy, collapsing commodity prices, and the beginning of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate-hiking cycle, many emerging-market economies have become quite fragile, notably Russia and Brazil. Twenty years ago, with inflexible exchange rates and massive foreign-currency debt, the kind of duress these countries are experiencing now would have inevitably led to financial crisis. Now, with flexible exchange rates and most government debt denominated in local currency, their economies are more robust: They are suffering deep recessions, yes, but not yet the start of “lost decades.” However, with Brazil’s multibillion-dollar corruption scandal deepening by the day and plummeting oil prices undermining Russia’s fiscal sustainability, 2016 will further test these economies.
Can the U.S. economy continue to recover even if growth elsewhere is tepid? For now, it seems that advanced economies will continue to heal from the financial crisis, albeit still suffering from hangovers due to high debt levels and post-crisis trauma, especially in Europe. Still, 2016 promises to be anything but a quiet year.
Barry J. Eichengreen, George & Helen Pardee Professor of Economics & Political Science, University of California, Berkeley: It will be another rough year for emerging markets in 2016. But unlike 2015, when investors were fixated on instability in Chinese markets and the bungled devaluation of the renminbi, in 2016 they will realize that the situation in China is under control and the real problems are elsewhere.
Financial crises erupt when a country has two problems at once: financial weakness and political weakness. China has financial weaknesses, to be sure, in the balance sheets of state-owned enterprises, regional government debt, and the shadow banking system. But there is little reason to question the government’s capacity to intervene if something goes seriously wrong, particularly given the country’s nearly $3.5 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves. These can be used to support the exchange rate if the renminbi shows undue weakness. In an extreme situation, the authorities can resort to direct controls on financial transactions, and they have no reluctance to use them.
Every unhappy emerging market is unhappy in its own way.
The situation is different in other emerging markets like Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey. Like China, these countries are financially vulnerable. Their corporations are saddled with large amounts of short-term, dollar-denominated debt which becomes increasingly difficult to service as the dollar strengthens, as it is again likely to do in 2016. In turn, worries about corporate defaults—which damage fiscal accounts either directly by prompting bailouts or indirectly by depressing tax revenues—can cause investors to flee. Since these countries lack the ability to impose controls on financial transactions, the result could be a currency collapse, potentially leading to economic collapse.
To avoid that outcome, a strong government could cut public spending to restore confidence and allow the central bank to raise interest rates in order to attract capital back to the economy. In Brazil, however, President Dilma Rousseff’s government has so far failed to push through the necessary, but painful, fiscal measures. The central bank has hesitated to raise its main interest rate, the Selic, for fear it would erode public support for the administration. Instead, it has relied on unsustainable intervention in the foreign-exchange market.

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