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International Business Times UK
June 4, 2015
The first rocket was widely believed to have been fired by Islamic Jihad and the IS-affiliated Omar Brigade claim – which came in a statement on June 1 – cannot be independently verified. The group took responsibility for Wednesday night's rocket in a second statement. We, the Sheikh Omar HadeedÃâà...
Middle East Eye
December 18, 2014
The water war is not confined to a conflict between pro-government forces and Islamic State militants. On Tuesday, the Syrian government released 60 prisoners after being threatened by the Omar Brigade, one of an estimated 1,000 militant groups fighting Assad's forces in Syria, Lebanese news site NowÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
November 16, 2014
55- Abu Omar brigade in Syria 56- Ahrar Shumar or Free Shumars brigade in Syria 57- Hezbollah brigades in Iraq 58- Brigade of Abu Al-Fadl al-Abbas in Syria 59- Brigades of Al-Yom Al-Mawood (Destined Day in Iraq) 60- Battalion of Omar bin Yasir in Syria 61- Ansar Al-Islam group in Iraq 62- Nusra FrontÃâà...
The National
November 16, 2014
Qawafil Al-shuhada (Caravans of martyrs). The Badr Organisation in Iraq. Abu Sayyaf Organisation in the Philippines. Abu Omar Brigade in Syria. Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq in Iraq (The Leagues of the Righteous). Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Ahrar Shoummar Brigade in Syria (Brigade of the freeÃâà...
Long War Journal
November 27, 2013
A Chechen-led group of fighters in Syria has sworn allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, who heads the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), an official al Qaeda affiliate. Jaish al-Muhajireen wa Ansar, or Army of the Emigrants and Helpers, is led by a jihadist known as Omar al Chechen. On Nov.
The Friday Times
August 30, 2012
A 150-strong mob of pious Muslims in Islamabad committed vandalism, baying for the blood of a mentally challenged Christian child Ramsha because they thought she had burned the Quran. The police had her under arrest pretending it was for her own security. Earlier, a mad 'blaspheming' man inÃâà...
Long War Journal
August 22, 2012
The jihadist at the Hanein forum also said that the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi “is the Omar Brigade of Taliban-Pakistan as the Omar Brigade of al Qaeda Organization targeted Badr Brigade and others among the [Shi'ites].” The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is an anti-Shia terror group that has integrated with al Qaeda and theÃâà...
New Yorker
July 1, 2012
Indeed, Omar's militia appears to be the only effective government on the south side of the Khanabad River. “Without Omar, we could never defeat the Taliban,” a local police chief, Mohammad Sharif, said. “I've got two hundred men. Omar has four thousand.” The N.D.S. and American Special Forces haveÃâà...
BBC News
July 19, 2006
The group, known as the Omar Brigade, has been blamed for a bomb attack in early July which killed 60 people in Sadr City, a poor Shia area of Baghdad and a stronghold of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Mr Rubaie described the men as "die-hard Saddamists" who had killed hundreds of ShiaÃâà...
