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The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeastern border with Syria, as the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah announced an assault on the militants from the Syrian side of the frontier. The Lebanese army operation got underway at 5 a.m. (0200 GMT), targeting …

The Levant News | BAGHDAD | BY STEPHEN KALIN AND AHMED RASHEED for REUTERS | Iraq’s interior minister said it was difficult to prevent attacks against people fleeing the Islamic State-held city of Falluja, but denied that such actions were systematic and pledged to punish anyone proven guilty of abuses. …

By Graham E. Fuller Published first on Graham Fullet’s Blog – ISIS has particularly targeted Shi’a as a key part of their brutal onslaught against any practice of Islam that does not conform to their narrow ahistorical interpretation view of their religion. We hear a lot from western commentators about …

THE LEVANT EXCLUSIVE – by Jassem Mohammad, Counter-terrorism and Intelligence expert,Translated by Mirvat Sibaii – Following the US invasion in 2003, the western region in Iraq has turned into an incubator and haven for al-Qaeda organization, and later for the organization of “Islamic State of Iraq” and other “Jihadi Organizations” that mingled …

THE LEVANT – By Ishaan Tharoor – The forces of the Sunni extremist Islamic State now control a stretch of territory bigger than quite a few European countries, with a population of some 6 million Iraqis and Syrians living under its watch. Their sustained advance, buoyed by funds gleaned from …

By Catherine Shakdam – “Then fight in the cause of Allah, and know that Allah Heareth and knoweth all things.” Quran 2:244 When ISIL enounced its plan earlier in June to lay waste Shia Islam and destroy everything and everyone related to it, millions across not only Iraq but the Islamic …

By Isaac Chotiner  – New Republic –               With sectarian violence continuing in Iraq, I decided to call up Vali Nasr, who is an expert on the region, and who has written extensively about Shias in the Middle East. Nasr, the Dean of the School of Advanced …