#isil — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #isil, aggregated by home.social.
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The Sky Becomes a Minefield: How Drone Swarms Are Ending the Age of Air Superiority by Gandalv
NN reports that the pilot of a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle, shot down over Iran in April, described a sight that immediately triggered debate inside the U.S. Intelligence Community: multiple Iranian drones in the air, apparently interconnected or coordinated, moving as one. One source described larger drones with smaller drones beneath them, “like legs.” Another described it as a “minefield of drones” in the sky. -
Our full 2026 control map report for #Somalia is still a ways out, but subscribers can now see an April 15 version of the map:
https://www.polgeonow.com/2026/07/somalia-civil-war-map-2026.html
What do you want to know about territorial control in Somalia?
#HornOfAfrica #conflicttracking #conflictmapping #map #mapping #cartography #Somaliland #Khaatumo #Puntland #AlShabaab #AlQaeda #geopolitics #maps #Africa #geography #ISIS #ISIL #security #refugees #humanitarian #GulfOfAden @geography @geopolitics @cartography
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IS Responds to Military Pressure in Nigeria
Despite Nigeria's assessment, the emerging consensus was that Lakurawa was not a unified entity but rather an umbrella term, and that attacks attributed to the group were likely perpetrated by a mix of Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP). JNIM, bandits. and potentially a separate new group operating under the label without claiming responsibility.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/07/25/is-responds-to-military-pressure-in-nigeria/
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Could ex-ISIL fighters be used against Iran, as a Russian official claimed? | Russia-Ukraine war News
Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s Federal Security Service, claimed late in May that the West is trying to…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Europe #Iran #ISIL/ISIS #Russia #Russia-Ukrainewar #Ukraine
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Why is piracy rising off Somalia again — and is the Iran war responsible? | Crime News
At least three vessels have been targeted in hijackings this week off the coast of Somalia in what analysts…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Africa #alqaeda #breakingnews #Crime #Djibouti #Explainer #Iran #ISIL/ISIS #MiddleEast #NATO #Shipping #somalia #US-IsraelwaronIran #WorldBank
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What It Means To Kill in Combat
“DEFENSE ONE” By Phil Zabriskie
“The killing a country does through its soldiers is part of its fabric and identity. The less it is examined, the less a country will know about itself, its impulses, and the impact of what it has trained and dispatched its sons and daughters to do.“
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“If a war fails to achieve its stated objectives—as Vietnam did—it can make the reasons for killing even harder to accept. Some recent vets of Iraq and Afghanistan, said the psychiatrist, are already asking, “What was it all for?”
This is not to cast troops who kill in combat as victims. They should carry the weight of what they did. But they should not be forced to carry it alone. Their leadership, from the company level all the way to the Chief of Staff, is part of every killing that’s carried out. So too are the civilian architects of these wars. And the rest of us bear some responsibility as well.
The killing a country does through its soldiers is part of its fabric and identity. The less it is examined, the less a country will know about itself, its impulses, and the impact of what it has trained and dispatched its sons and daughters to do.
A more honest conversation about what war is and what war does is a good place to start. Those who [called] for boots on the ground in Iraq, Syria, or anywhere else, should be first to have it. They should understand and explain exactly what it [means] if troops are deployed, and they should press the military to give its charges tools that not only help them kill when they should, but also how to live with the killing they’ve done later in life.
More counseling must be made available as well, as part of the broader overhaul of the VA, and steps taken to remove the stigma that still exists around seeking help for the psychological wounds of war. And no one should ask a veteran if he or she has killed anybody unless they really want to hear the answer—and are prepared to listen.”
What It Means To Kill In Combat
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Phil Zabriskie, a writer living in New York, is the author of The Kill Switch. Previously, he lived and worked throughout Asia and the Middle East, including in Iraq and Afghanistan.
#COMBAT #GoodLeaders #GovernmentAccoutability #GovernmentWaste #healthCareReform #history #Iran #iraq #isil #ISIS #Israel #LabelsBigGovernment #MIC #MiddleEast #Pentagon #politics #PTSD #VeteranSAssistance #VetsAgainstWar #war #WORLDHISTORY -
Good video reporting from frontlines of still-ongoing #Puntland vs. #ISIS war in northern #Somalia by @bastien_rnl, @willswanson, and @ARTEfr for @France24_en. Seemingly shot last Nov - reporters visited ISIS-Somalia's former "so-called capital", Sheebaab village in Almiskat Mts.
https://www.france24.com/en/somalia-islamic-state-group-new-front-line-africa
#geography #geopolitics #HornOfAfrica #journalism #armedconflict #ISIL #war #GulfOfAden #security #worldnews #Africa @geography @geopolitics @internationalrelations
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Zuhur News MENA Highlights - 9 Feb. ‘26 on: #WestBank #UAE #Jordan #Epstein #Norway #Israel #Morocco #Turkiye #Italy #Hamas #SaudiArabia #Egypt #LakeQarun #Iraq #Syria #ISIL #Yemen #Iran #Oman #Qatar
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CW: Bad news: Syria & Islamic State. "This is a threat against you wherever you are"
Honestly, I think the liberation of Islamic State/Daesh by Turkish-backed Syrian jihadists worry me more than the latest Twitter stunts about Greenland.
We *really* don't want to have the
Islamic state resurrected just because of Erdogan's geopolitic ambitions. Have we forgotten how the Kurdish and Syrian fighters liberated the world from this menace?As @b9AcE wrote somewhere today: "This is a threat against you wherever you are."
https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/115922060006439019
The (naturally imperfect) project of Rojava is an example for a positive society in the region and the world. Now is the moment to show them our support.
Accounts to follow for news about Rojava and the conflict in Syria:
@a_in_nes (very good english coverage)
@KCK_Kurdistan_ (ENG)
@ksild (ES)
@newsblogkurdistan (DE)
@wdr (DE)
@rofaustin (PT)
@Libre_Flot (FR)
feel free to recommend other accounts below! :rojava3:#Daesh #IslamicState #ISIL #HTS #Syria #Kurdistan #YPG #YPJ # SDF #Riseup4Rojava #Turkey #Turkyie #Erdogan #Jolani
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Syrian Australian Muslim Halts #Indian #Australian #ISIL Attack on #Jewish Australians
from #WorldOutlook
Dec. 18, 2025[originally published by Informed Comment on December 16, 2025 - https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/syrian-australian-australians.html]
The disdain for mindless violence exhibited by most of the world’s 2 billion Muslims is exemplified by Ahmed al-Ahmed. He interrupted the negative stereotypes of #Muslims so powerfully that white nationalists spread false allegations that he was actually a British IT specialist with a Christian name. Others attempted to maintain that he was a Christian Lebanese, which his name makes impossible. The #NewYorkTimes declined to mention his #religion. That there should have been a Muslim Schindler, a hero who followed the toleration promoted by the #ProphetMuhammad, was so insupportable to Islamophobes that they felt constrained to make up fantasies and obscure reality.
#FreePalestine
#NoToAntisemitism
#Palestine
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Cosplay Kristi out here describing #antifa as just as dangerous as #MS13, #Hamas, #Hezbollah, and #ISIS / #ISIL.
if they don't shoot at least a few people in the streets before this presidency is over i will be shocked.
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#DemocracyNow
#ISIL-backed rebels kill 52 in #EastCongo#M23 suspend #peacetalks
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#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #hamas / #covertaction / #incongruence / #isis / #daesh / #abushabab / #isil / #opinion
„Benjamin Netanyahu often spread the slogan to solidify Western support for Israel’s savagery in Gaza. Now the lie has been exposed once and for all, writes Joe Lauria.“
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/06/what-happened-to-hamas-is-isis-isis-is-hamas/
See also:
„Israel Is Arming An ‘ISIS-Affiliated’ Gang In Southern Gaza“
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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
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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
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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
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🧵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
