UK police charge 4 with ISIS-linked terror plot
london: British police charged four men on Friday with intending to commit acts of terrorism, including taking an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State group. They are all charged with seeking to carry out “acts of terrorism, or assisting others to commit such acts”, between July and October this year. The men, all from london, are Nyall Hamlett, 24; Tarik Hassane, 21; Suhaib Majeed, 20; and 21-year-old Momen Motasim, Scotland Yard said in a statement. Details of the charges included taking “an oath of allegiance to the group IS (Islamic State)”, listed as a terrorist organisation.
Qaeda urges worldwide Muslim support of ISIS
Dubai: Al-Qaeda’s deadly Yemen-based franchise on Friday urged Muslims worldwide to support Islamic State jehadis in Syria and Iraq in the face of attacks by a US-led military coalition. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, classified by the United States as the network’s deadliest franchise, “prohibits taking part in the fight against” IS, which controls swathes of both Iraq and Syria, AQAP said in a statement posted on jehadis forums.
ISIS violates Islamic teachings: Pak clerics
Islamabad: Terming anti-Islamic the killing of innocent people by the militant outfit Islamic State (IS), a cleric group in Pakistan on Friday appealed to the people in Muslim countries to stop cooperating with the extremists. “Islam and Muslims cannot support the killing of innocent people and destruction of their properties by the ISIS. We appeal to people and youth in Islamic countries to stop cooperation with the violent group,” Pakistan Ulema Council said in a statement.
‘Iraq is the top priority in fight against ISIS’
Washington: Confronting the ISIS in Iraq is the “main” priority for the US-led fight against the jehadis, while strikes in Syria are designed to disrupt the group's supply lines, the US commander overseeing the air war said on Friday. Even with the world's attention fixed on the fate of Kobane, General lloyd Austin said Iraq was the primary battleground for the air campaign. “Iraq is our main effort, and it has to be,” Austin told reporters. “And the things that we’re doing right now in Syria are being done primarily to shape the conditions in Iraq,” he said. US-led air raids in Syria are serving as a way to undercut the group's ability to reinforce and resupply its fighters in Iraq, he said.