More than 40 women and girls believed to have fled UK for Syria in 12 months

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Police believe 43 women and girls have travelled to Syria from Britain in the last year. The missing adults and children are “all feared to have travelled to Syria, putting them in serious danger and leaving their families devastated”, Scotland Yard said.

They were reported missing by their families to forces around the country in the 12 months from July 2014. Police disclosed the numbers as a radio advertising campaign was launched to encourage mothers to talk to their daughters about the dangers of travelling to the war-torn country.

Deputy assistant commissioner Helen Ball said: “Syria is an extremely dangerous place – the reality of life there is far from the image that terrorist groups actively promote to young women here in the UK. Families and communities are terrified that their daughters may be lured into travelling there.”

She warned that some may be lured by their religious belief or a misguided idea of having a glamorous lifestyle.

Ball said: “In some cases the appeal for women and girls may be a belief that their life will hold more meaning if they travel; it may be a misplaced sense of ‘glamour’ of marrying a fighter, or perceived difficulty as to how to reconcile their religion with modern life so that they feel compelled to follow, as they may see it, their religious obligation by joining other women in Syria.

Stories of families who have suffered the devastating consequences of loved ones travelling to Syria are sadly becoming more common. These are young women who are highly unlikely ever to have the option of returning home.

“Our radio campaign has a clear message – we are urging mothers to talk to their daughters and, if they have any concerns at all, to have the confidence to come forward to talk to police and our partners at the earliest opportunity so that we can intervene and help.”

Tue, 2015-07-14The GuardianFemale Foreign Fighters in Syria and IraqUK Foreign Fighters in Syria Islamic State (IS) / Islamic State of Iraq and ash Sham (ISIS) / Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS or ISIL, IS)United KingdomSyria

ISIS' chief singer and songwriter killed in Syria, activists say

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Supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) confirmed on Twitter that the extremist group's chief singer and songwriter has been killed in airstrikes in eastern Syria, CBS News' Khaled Wassef reports.

The activists said Maher Meshaal, also known as Abu Hajar al-Hadrami, a Saudi National, was killed Saturday in airstrikes south of the city of Al Hasaka.

Meshaal is the author of jihadi hymns such as "Saleel al-Sawarem" and "Halomoo Halomoo O' lions of war," which are regularly played as background music in combat and execution videos released by ISIS.

According to Mother Jones, "Saleel al-Sawarem" celebrates martyrdom and holy war, with lyrics such as: "The banner has called us, to brighten the path of destiny, to wage war on the enemy, whosoever among us dies, in sacrifice for defense, will enjoy eternity in paradise."

Reuters reported that U.S.-led forces conducted 16 air strikes targeting ISIS positions in Syria on Saturday. The bomb and drone attacks were conducted near Al Hasakah, Ar Raqqah, Aleppo and Kobani, according to a statement from the U.S. military.

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ISIL claims responsibility for deadly Baghdad bombings

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The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for a string of bomb attacks that killed at least 35 people in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

In a statement posted on social media on Monday, ISIL said Sunday night's operation was dubbed "The Pounce of the Monotheists on the Chests of the Apostates".

Explosions have rocked a string of Shia neighbourhoods across the Iraqi capital, killing at least 35 people and wounding another 70, police said on Monday.

The deadliest bombing took place in Baghdad's northern Shaab neighbourhood when a man detonated an explosive vest in a crowded market, killing nine people and wounding 25.

Earlier on Sunday, in Baghdad's Khazimiyah district, a suicide car bombing targeted the Aden checkpoint, killing eight people, including five civilians, and wounding 23.

And in the Banook district, six people were killed and 15 injured in a car bombing, police said.

In Baghdad's al-Askan district, a car bomb killed at least four people and wounded 11 on a commercial street as people gathered after sunset to break their fast for Ramadan.

Police also said a roadside bomb on a commercial street in Baghdad's al-Amal neighbourhood killed two people and wounded seven.

Source: Associated Press

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IS sells 42 Yazidi women to fighters in Syria: monitor

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The Islamic State group on Thursday sold 42 Iraqi women it had abducted from the Yazidi religious minority to its fighters in eastern Syria, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the women were being treated as "slaves" by the jihadists and were sold "for between $500 (447 euros) and $2,000 dollars (1,785 euros)".

The women were kidnapped last year in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq where IS had launched a wide offensive, the Britain-based monitor said.

Earlier this month they were brought to the IS-held town of Mayadeen in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province.

"Some were abducted with their children but we do not know their fate," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

The Yazidis, a religious minority which lives mainly in Iraq's Sinjar region, are neither Muslims nor Arabs and follow a unique faith. They are considered infidels by the jihadists.

In 2014, the jihadists massacred Yazidis, forced tens of thousands of them to flee, captured thousands of girls and women as spoils of war and used them as sex slaves.

The UN has said the atrocities committed against the small community may amount to genocide.

Thu, 2015-06-25France 24Gender and Terrorism (Female Suicide Missions)Kidnapping/Hostage Taking as a Terrorist Tactic Islamic State (IS) / Islamic State of Iraq and ash Sham (ISIS) / Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS or ISIL, IS)SyriaSyria & Islamic State -- Wilayat HamahIraq

3 Men in Brooklyn Charged With Supporting ISIS

Hylda FentonMost Usefulhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/nyregion/3-men-in-brooklyn-charged-supporting-...Three men living in Brooklyn were arrested and charged on Wednesday with providing material support to the Islamic State, a terrorist organization that controls large parts of Iraq and Syria and has been actively recruiting Westerners to its fight. One of the men was arrested early Wednesday morning at Kennedy International Airport, where he was attempting to board a flight to Istanbul and then planned to travel to Syria, according to the authorities. The men were identified as Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, Akhror Saidakhmetov, and Abror Habibov. According to a criminal complaint unsealed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, the authorities first became suspicious about at least two of the men in August and are concerned that more individuals might have been involved. According to the complaint, one of the men who sought to travel to Syria to fight said that if he failed to make it overseas, he would launch attacks in the United States, including planting a bomb on Coney Island and attacking President Obama.Wed, 2015-02-25The New York TimesRecruitment TacticsFinance and Terrorism Islamic State (IS) / Islamic State of Iraq and ash Sham (ISIS) / Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS or ISIL, IS)IraqSyriaUnited States - New York

Bahrain Regime Forces Directly Fire at a Woman (Video)

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Bahrain regime forces directly fire at a peaceful woman who was calling for the release of al-wefaq secretary general sheikh Ali Salman.

Bahrain regime forces directly fire at a peaceful woman who was calling for the release of al-wefaq secretary general sheikh Ali Salman.

Sheikh Ali Salman, Secretary General of the main opposition group al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, was arrested on 28 December following interrogation at the Ministry of Interior’s Criminal Investigations Directorate in connection with statements made in his speeches in 2012 and 2014, including most recently at the party’s General Assembly meeting on 26 December.

Security forces in Bahrain have crack down anti-government protesters demanding the release of a prominent jailed opposition leader.

Bahrain has been witnessing almost daily protests against the minority Al Khalifa dynasty since early 2011, when an uprising began in the kingdom. Since then, thousands of protesters have held numerous rallies in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power.

Bahrain has been witnessing almost daily protests against the minority Al Khalifa dynasty since early 2011, when an uprising began in the kingdom. Since then, thousands of protesters have held numerous rallies in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power.

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Isis Issues Booklet for “Sister’s Role” to Raise “Jihadi Babies”

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Isis has released a guide for mothers in its self-proclaimed caliphate on how to raise a “jihadi baby” in preparation for war, the Independent reports.

The publication, entitled “Sister’s Role in Jihad”, suggests that the “most important” way women can contribute to the so-called Islamic State is by indoctrinating children with the militant group’s values.

“Don't wait until they are seven to start, for it may be too late by then!” the handbook reads.

Its suggestions include showing children “jihadi” websites with graphic content, reading them stories about militants’ exploits at bedtime and encouraging them to play with toy guns.

The list of “dos” and “don’ts” has surfaced online via Isis social media accounts, and was highlighted by the monitoring group Memri as part of a report into the militants’ treatment of children.

Its suggestions include showing children “jihadi" websites with graphic content, reading them stories about militants’ exploits at bedtime and encouraging them to play with toy guns, the Mail Online reported.

Steven Stalinsky, executive director of Memri, told the website that 2015 was expected to see a marked increase in “effort to indoctrinate the next generation of fighters”.

He said: “'No matter what happens in Iraq and Syria in the near future, the next generation – the children of Baghdadi and grandchildren of bin Laden - have already been brainwashed to hate the West and to strive for jihad and martyrdom.”

A girl stages a mock execution using a toy doll as the guide recommends introducing violence to children through play

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(Video & Claim) Nusra Front Suicide Bombers Attack on a Cafe in Tripoli, Lebanon- 11 January 2015

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A suicide bomber blew himself up in a coffee shop in Jabal Mohsen in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, before a second suicide bomber detonated himself when the local residents gathered, what claimed 9 martyrs and over 50 wounded.

Security officials speaking on condition of anonymity on Saturday said explosions targeted the Omran café in the majority Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen.

The security source told AFP: "The first suicide bomber entered into the Ashqar cafe at around 7:30 pm (1730 GMT) and blew himself up."

"Then, a second suicide attacker arrived, and blew himself up too," he said, updating his initial account of a single suicide bomber.

Security officials cordoned off the coffee shop after the blasts.

According to sources from the Arab Democratic Party, the dominant party in Jabal Mohsen, two bombers were behind the attacks. One of them entered the café, but the second one couldn't and blew his bomb outside.

The terrorist Nusra Front claimed via Twitter responsibility for the terrorist attack as the National News Agency (NNA) mentioned that the two suicide bombers who carried out the Jabal Mohsen blasts are Taha Samir Khayal and Bilal Mohammed Mare'yan, known as Ibrahim, from the area of Mankoubeen adjacent to Jabal Mohsen.

Over the past months, Lebanon’s second largest city, Tripoli, has been rocked by turmoil due to the conflict between supporters and opponents of the government of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.

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The manhunt for France's most wanted: What we know so far

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The massive manhunt for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo deepened on Thursday.

Here's what we know...

The identity of the suspects

Police have issued arrest warrants for 32-year-old Cherif Kouachi, a known jihadist convicted in 2008 for involvement in a network sending fighters to Iraq, and his 34-year-old brother Said.

Authorities also identified a third suspect, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in. French police published photos of the two men still on the run in an appeal to the public for information. Police are warning that the men are “likely armed and dangerous.”

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This photo provided by the Paris Police Prefecture Thursday, Jan.8, 2015. Image: Prefecture de Police de Paris/Associated Press

Where police are searching

French police sealed off a gas station in Villers-Cotterets, northern France, where eyewitnesses said the two suspects were seen in a car Thursday morning.

Police are also blocking some roads and going to homes in the town of Corcy in northern France, according to reporters on scene.

However, as of Thursday afternoon local time, the suspects' whereabouts remain unknown as thousands of French security forces scour the country for the alleged perpetrators of the worst attack on French soil in decades.

French police arrested several people overnight

Thousands of Paris police, French national police, the country's General Directorate for Internal Security and others, including an elite SWAT-team-like force called Research Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (RAID), are leading the counterterrorism operation.

"Several arrests" were made in the manhunt overnight, said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. A French security official told The Associated Press that seven people were arrested overnight in the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

A police officer was killed in a separate shooting

A female officer was shot to death in southern Paris, near Montrouge, in a separate attack. A street sweeper was also injured and is in serious condition. A convoy of heavily armed police forces responded and were on the scene after the pre-dawn shooting. It is not clear if there is a connection to Wednesday's attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices.

"It didn't look like a big gun because he held it with one hand," said Ahmed Sassi, who witnesses the shooting. He added that the shooter wore dark clothes but no mask.

A Montrouge resident posted images of the scene to Instagram early morning local time.

Thu, 2015-01-08MashableArmed AssaultDeterring Terrorism FranceIraq

ISIS Issued Mandate for Slavery (Video)

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So-called “Islamic State” militants fighting in Syria and Iraq have been provided with a chilling list of dos and don'ts explaining how to treat the thousands of slaves held in the terror group's prison-brothels, Daily Mail reports.

A document issued earlier this month by the group's 'Department for Prisoners and Women's Affairs' explains in sickening detail exactly who can be made a sex slave, when a woman should be beaten, and under what circumstances it is justified to rape prepubescent girls.

Up to 5,000 kidnapped women and children are held as sex slaves in the vast swathes of Syria and Iraq controlled by ISIS, many of them in the group's stronghold and de facto capital Raqqa.

The vast majority of the captives are members of the Yazidi religion who were kidnapped during the Mount Sinjar massacre in early August. The rules state that these women can be imprisoned and raped on a daily basis by militants who purchase them as slaves for as little as £27 each.

The document outlining the rules by which ISIS militants can take and hold slaves was released by the terror group's 'Department for Prisoners and Women's Affairs' on December 3.

The department, headed by a militant known as Abu Suja, helps the terror group enforce policy decisions made by the Shura Council - a kind of religious advisory body appointed by leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to study and make rulings based on their interpretation of law.

Supporters: Taking the form of a 'Slavery for Dummies' guide, the document is laid out in a notably simplistic question and answer format designed to assist even the least intelligent terrorists in his treatment of sex slaves

Taking the form of a 'Slavery for Dummies' guide, the document is laid out in a distinctly simplistic question and answer format designed to assist even the least intelligent terrorist in his slave treatment.

The U.S.-based Middle East Media Research Institute obtained an original copy of the document, and published full details of it on the monitoring group's website.

Answers are provided to sickening questions such as 'Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female captive immediately after taking possession?', and “If the female captive was impregnated by her owner, can he then sell her?.”

According to the document, slave women are known as al-Sabi by ISIS militants, and can only be taken from 'ahl al-harb' - any group of people with which the terror groups considers itself at war.

It goes on to make detailed cases for why polytheists and 'People of the Book' such as Christians and Jews are permissible to take as slaves, but explains the ISIS 'leans toward accepting the consensus view' among Islamic scholars that ex-Muslims are not allowed to be captured.

The rape of a female captive, the document explains, is perfectly acceptable even for married men.The ISIS guide claims the above 'right hands' statement is a reference to captured women.

One chilling passage in ISIS' sex slave document explains that virgins can be raped immediately after their 'owners' purchase them.

Those who have previously had sexual intercourse must have their uterus' 'purified' first.Another line says it is legal to have sex with a prepubescent child providing she is 'fit for intercourse.'

There is no further explanation as to what such a horrific statement may mean.

The document was released as it emerged dozens of young British women are using social media to boast of joining the ISIS terrifying all-female police force – claiming to be doling out savage beatings, punishment lashings, ordering executions and managing brothels where thousands of Yazidi sex slaves are imprisoned and raped daily after being sold for as little as £27.

Britons including privately-educated Glaswegian Aqsa Mahmood, 20, and Lewisham-born Khadijah Dare, 22, are understood to have joined the Al-Khansa Brigade in ISIS' Syrian de facto capital Raqqa, helping to patrol the city with guns and daggers hidden beneath their robes.

The group, which is largely made-up of educated Western women, operates as an ultra-oppressive police force monitoring the behaviour of females in Raqqa - meting out brutal punishments to anyone wearing shoes that aren't black, or those wearing veils made from the wrong material.

One woman notorious for the references to the Al Khansa Brigade is British national Umm Farriss, who also calls herself Umm Anwar.

Horror: The vast majority of the captives are members of the Yazidi religion who were kidnapped during the Mount Sinjar massacre in early August. This young woman is one of the lucky few who managed to escape

Earlier this year she described a chilling encounter with a Yazidi slave girl. Umm Farriss claims she entered a building in the city of Raqqa and greeted the entire room. She then described in sickeningly mocking tones how the abused Yazidi sex slave offered a 'salam' [hello] in response.

SIS has attempted to justify the keeping of sex slaves by claiming that members of the Yazidi religion are devil worshippers - making them worse than so-called 'people of the book' such as Christians and Jews, who can escape imprisonment by paying a monthly tax known as jizyah.

Captured Yazidis - whose belief system mixes elements from a range of religions and whose central figure of worship is a 'Peacock Angel' - are not able to pay their way out of jail, however.

Men and boys are told to convert to Islam or face immediate death, while women and children are often transported to Raqqa, where the Al-Khansa Brigade force them into sex slavery.

The price of humen misery

Earlier this month a chilling document emerged purporting to show the 'price list' for sex slaves.

According to the document, obtained by website Iraqinews.com, just £27 will fetch a Yazidi or Christian woman aged between 40 and 50. Chillingly, a child between one and nine will fetch four times that.

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