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Military experts claim that the only known #Middle_Eastern groups capable of building such tunnels are #Hamas in the #Gaza_Strip, #Hezbollah in #Lebanon, some groups in #Kurdistan, and possibly the #Islamic_State.

📷 Migrants arrested while exiting the tunnel into #Poland

Military experts claim that the only known #Middle_Eastern groups capable of building such tunnels are #Hamas in the #Gaza_Strip, #Hezbollah in #Lebanon, some groups in #Kurdistan, and possibly the #Islamic_State.

📷 Migrants arrested while exiting the tunnel into #Poland

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

The high degree of specificity conveyed in the warning underscores #Washington’s confidence that the #Islamic_State was preparing an attack that threatened large numbers of civilians, and it directly contradicts #Moscow’s claims that the #US warnings were too general to help preempt the assault.

Full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/02/us-warning-russia-isis-crocus/

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

U.S. told Russia that Crocus City Hall was possible target of attack

In an unusual move, U.S. officials shared highly specific information about a terrorist plot with an adversary country.

The Washington Post
The Civilians’ Dilemma: How Religious and Ethnic #Minorities Survived the #Islamic_State Occupation of Northern #Iraq - Austin J. Knuppe, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21520844.2022.2128001
The Civilians’ Dilemma: How Religious and Ethnic Minorities Survived the Islamic State Occupation of Northern Iraq

How did Iraq’s ethnic and religious minorities survive the Islamic State (ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah, IS) occupation of Ninewa Governorate? Existing accounts of wartime survival either essentialize soc...

Taylor & Francis
The #Islamic_State is barely operating in #Iraq. For another week incidents were in the single digits. http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/11/security-in-iraq-nov-1-7-2022.html
Security In Iraq Nov 1-7, 2022

The Islamic State is barely operating in Iraq. For another week incidents were in the single digits.