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3. @washingtonpost story says woman shooting 2 soldiers was "first time a female combat fighter from an Islamist group has been seen in Somalia".
This is only true if suicide bombers don't count. Though rare, women have acted as suicide bombers for #AlShabaab several times before.
#Somalia #Puntland #military #geopolitics #ISIS #ISIL #war #gender #MiddleEast #Africa
@geography @geopolitics
The title of the @washingtonpost story, "The Islamic State has regrouped in Somalia — and has global ambitions" is also strikingly off-base, since journalist Katharine Houreld is in fact reporting on the group's dramatic retreat in face of offensive by #Puntland state forces.
#Somalia #ISIS #ISIL #geography #HornOfAfrica #military #middleeast
@geography @geopolitics
Story in @washingtonpost calls itself "most complete account to date of how the Islamic State was able to regroup [in #Somalia] over the past decade". Yet all but the most recent of such info had already been covered several times over by reports from UN, Intl Crisis Group, etc
#geography #ISIS #ISIL #geopolitics #security #Puntland #IslamicState #HornOfAfrica #security #journalism #factcheck @geography @geopolitics @unitednations
Investigative journalism in #Somalia is welcome, and @washingtonpost report from Feb made valuable contributions to story of #ISIS foreign recruitment in #Puntland state. But the story vastly exaggerates its own importance, among other issues...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/09/somalia-islamic-state-puntland-terrorism/
#geography #security #ISIL #HornOfAfrica #Africa #journalist #factcheck @geography @geopolitics #MiddleEast
Assistant Secretary-General Natalia Gherman, Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) briefed the Security Council on the 20th report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by #ISIL (Da’esh) to international peace and security & the range of United Nations efforts in support of Member States in countering the threat (S/2025/72).
![The ancient Roman city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus in Syria, where ISIL beheaded one of the country’s most prominent antiquities scholars, Khaled Asaad, in 2015 [Youssef Badawi/EPA]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/637/678/652/353/965/original/9e24d0f9b2d1200d.webp "The ancient Roman city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus in Syria, where ISIL beheaded one of the country’s most prominent antiquities scholars, Khaled Asaad, in 2015 [Youssef Badawi/EPA]")
more #turkey than #usa or #israel
although israel's attacks on #hezbollah significantly weakened hezbollah which was fighting for #assad in #syria
and the rebel group ascendant now is not #daesh/ #ISIL, but they are #jihadi. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham #HTS broke ranks with #AlQaeda and has attacked #ISIS
confusing
but i would tend to think assad and his cruel #baathist regime's time is many years past its expiration date, merely propped up by #iran and #russia
Prosecutors said the accused exchanged information with a member of ISIL in a messenger chat and was planning to use firearms in his assault... #israeliembassy #ISIL
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/20/libyan-arrested-in-germany-on-suspicion-of-planning-israeli-embassy-attack
AT LEAST 65 active-duty troops died in hostile action during #Trump’s presidency, the records show, as he ramped up commitments in #Iraq & #Syria to fight #ISIL / #ISIS while also launching airstrikes on Syria as punishment for a chemical weapons attack. Trump also escalated hostilities w/ #Iran, including the killing of #Soleimani. Trump claimed at the time the strike was carried out in accordance w/the Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution of 2001.
The "link" is that they are ideological and factual enemies in #Palestine and uninvolved in the global arena (since #Hamas is a national movement seeking to liberate #Palestine and has no ambition to conquer or control anything beyond that, let alone build a global "#caliphate"). If there has ever been "tolerance" of #ISIL related groups by Hamas it was out of sheer necessity in order to survive the blockade/siege.
We don't engage with #hasbarists, so farewell.
This is the core information: "The group did not provide any evidence".
#Palestine has zero to do with #ISIL (except that it's among their targets) and #Muslims all over the world hate and despise them as much as anyone else (maybe with the exception of the United Deep State).
However, #Germany's complicity in the Zionist #genocide of the Palestinian people in #Gaza and beyond makes it particularly easy for them to come up with this stupid and destabilizing claim.
This is the core information: "The group did not provide any evidence".
#Palestine has zero to do with #ISIL (except that it's among their targets) and #Muslims all over the world hate and despise them as much as anyone else (maybe with the exception of the United Deep State).
However, #Germany's complicity in the Zionist #genocide of the Palestinian people in #Gaza and beyond makes it particularly easy for them to come up with this stupid and destabilizing claim.
These Faggots Kill Fascists!
Today in Labor History July 24, 2017: The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (TQILA) was established in Rojava, Syria to combat the persecution of LGBT people by ISIL. The TQILA was a queer anarchist subunit of the IRPGF, who fought alongside the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG).
#workingclass #LaborHistory #queer #insurrection #liberation #anarchsim #syria #isis #ISIL#kurdish #lgbtq #ypg #Rojava
@RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel
not surprised, #china simply follows the #money
#CatsOfMastodon and friends of #TheGlobalJigsaw - on this ##Caturday the boss lady is bringing you a Special episode, as we are nearing the 10th anniversary of the declaration of the so called #caliphate of the Islamic State group - #daesh #IS #ISIS #ISIL - talking about its evolution and 're-emergence'. While subbing it, she sometimes had to hide... yet learned a lot:
Responsibility for the attack was officially claimed by the Afghan branch of #ISIL, also known as the #IslamicState in Khorasan Province or #ISKP. Four suspected men, all #Tajikistan citizens, have since been arrested but #Russia has not confirmed whether they are linked to ISIL. #CrocusCityMassacre #Ukraine
Fear stalks Russia after #Moscow massacre as Putin’s allies play blame game
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/25/fear-stalks-russia-after-moscow-massacre-as-putins-allies-play-blame-game
#FRpol #Terrorism #ISIL "#ISIS"
UPDATE:
Here's a report about President #Macron's announcement.
My hypothesis was not correct. He foresees security threats for #France in general, not limited to #Jews:
"France’s government 
increased its security alert posture to the highest level
Sunday, March 24, after the deadly attack at a #Russian concert hall
...taking into account the Islamic State’s claim of responsibility for the (#Moscow) attack...″
...like the illegal leader of the #Russian regime (aka #Putler) claiming that "#ISIS" (aka #ISIL) were working for #Ukraine when even several Western intelligence services had warned their local nationals about an imminent terrorist attack by #ISIL and all the right channels have been used in the confession announcements.
However, this can be beaten:
I saw interviews with people in #Moscow stating that they only believed what the office channels were telling them! 
putin tries to reframe real threats to the russian people as his threats of choice.