updated Tue. December 26, 2023
-
U.S. News & World Report
January 4, 2018
BEIRUT — This week President Donald Trump threatened to cut U.S. funding to the U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees, and to the Palestinian Authority. On Twitter he chastised the Palestinian Authority for taking U.S. aid while showing no "appreciation or respect" and threatened to cut offÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 21, 2017
The UAE sent nine fully-armed and crewed SA-342L Gazelle helicopters to help the Lebanese government crush Al-Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Islam at Tripoli's Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in May 2007. In 2009, a year after Saudi's King Abdullah called for the U.S. to “cut the head off the snake” by bombingÃÂ ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
June 11, 2017
Riyadh – Documents obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat prove that the Qatar-based Sheikh Eid al Thani Charity (“Eid Charity”) was involved in financing and supporting the Lebanon-based Fatah al-Islam members and had also helped in the fracture between the group and the Palestinian Fatah al-IntifadaÃÂ ...
Voice of America
May 14, 2017
This has helped fuel the rise of radical Islam - a shift in the occupied Palestinian territories that is reflected by Hamas' rising popularity, and one outside the territories in the meteoric trajectory of militant groups such as Fatah al-Islam in the volatile and deprived Nahr al-Bared camp. Growing up in NahrÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
May 2, 2017
He is also suspected of having participated in the 2007 battle of Nahr Al Bared between the Lebanese Army and the al Qaeda-linked Fatah Al Islam in the country's north, which led to the destruction of that refugee camp and the defeat of the terrorist group. Although it is unclear who Badr currently supportsÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
April 13, 2017
Badr heads the radical group al-Shabab al-Muslim (Muslim Youth), a coalition that includes remnants of extremist organizations such as Fatah al-Islam and Jund al-Sham. Fatah al-Islam fought the Lebanese army in a three-month battle in 2007 in North Lebanon. Jund al-Sham was also implicated inÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
August 18, 2010
The leader of a Lebanon-based al Qaeda affiliate has been killed while attempting to travel to Iraq to join the insurgency. Abdulrahman Awad, the leader of Fatah al Islam, was killed along with his deputy, Ghazi Faysal Abdullah, by Lebanese security forces during a clash in the Bekaa Valley over theÃÂ ...
TIME
June 3, 2007
Although Fatah al-Islam has past links to al-Qaeda, the Lebanese government says it has evidence that Syrian intelligence operatives are coordinating with it now. From where I am watching, near a frontline army position, there is a loud crack of artillery shells passing overhead every few seconds and anÃÂ ...
ABC News
May 25, 2007
The withdrawal of Syrian intelligence and security agents in 2005, following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, left a security vacuum that Fatah al-Islam has exploited. The group's several hundred fighters are concentrated in the camp but have also established small footholdsÃÂ ...
BBC News
May 23, 2007
Fatah al-Islam emerged in November 2006 when it split from Fatah al-Intifada (Fatah Uprising), a Syrian-backed Palestinian group based in Lebanon. But it first came to prominence in 2007 when it began fighting the Lebanese army from its stronghold in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near the northernÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
November 15, 2017
A series of rare and complex investigative reports on militant movements, especially al-Qaeda, ISIS and Fatah al-Islam, filed over the years by journalist and director Medyan Dairieh, is set to take the form of a book soon. The investigations conducted by Medyan have led to unraveling of secret documents, ...
Long War Journal
June 17, 2017
This may be a reference to Fatah al-Islam, an al Qaeda-linked group with a complicated history. It is also possibly a reference to a predecessor to the group, which was formally launched after Atar's imprisonment. Fatah al-Islam apparently had a relationship with Syrian intelligence, but Assad's forces ended ...
Foreign Affairs
May 2, 2017
He is also suspected of having participated in the 2007 battle of Nahr Al Bared between the Lebanese Army and the al Qaeda-linked Fatah Al Islam in the country's north, which led to the destruction of that refugee camp and the defeat of the terrorist group. Although it is unclear who Badr currently supports ...
Al-Monitor
April 13, 2017
Badr heads the radical group al-Shabab al-Muslim (Muslim Youth), a coalition that includes remnants of extremist organizations such as Fatah al-Islam and Jund al-Sham. Fatah al-Islam fought the Lebanese army in a three-month battle in 2007 in North Lebanon. Jund al-Sham was also implicated in ...
Long War Journal
September 20, 2010
Last month, Lebanese troops killed Abdulrahman Awad, the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Fatah al Islam terror group, and his deputy, Ghazi Faysal Abdullah, during a clash in the Bekaa Valley. Awad and Abdullah were killed while traveling to Iraq to wage jihad, according to a statement released by Fatah ...
Long War Journal
August 18, 2010
The leader of a Lebanon-based al Qaeda affiliate has been killed while attempting to travel to Iraq to join the insurgency. Abdulrahman Awad, the leader of Fatah al Islam, was killed along with his deputy, Ghazi Faysal Abdullah, by Lebanese security forces during a clash in the Bekaa Valley over the ...
Al-Arabiya
December 10, 2008
Abu Mohamad Awad had been named to succeed Abssi at the head of Fatah al-Islam, said the group. ... Fatah al-Islam fought a fierce three-month battle with the Lebanese army last year in the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, which left some 400 people dead, including 168 soldiers.
TIME
June 3, 2007
Although Fatah al-Islam has past links to al-Qaeda, the Lebanese government says it has evidence that Syrian intelligence operatives are coordinating with it now. From where I am watching, near a frontline army position, there is a loud crack of artillery shells passing overhead every few seconds and an ...
ABC News
May 25, 2007
The withdrawal of Syrian intelligence and security agents in 2005, following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, left a security vacuum that Fatah al-Islam has exploited. The group's several hundred fighters are concentrated in the camp but have also established small footholds ...
BBC News
May 23, 2007
Fatah al-Islam emerged in November 2006 when it split from Fatah al-Intifada (Fatah Uprising), a Syrian-backed Palestinian group based in Lebanon. But it first came to prominence in 2007 when it began fighting the Lebanese army from its stronghold in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near the northern ...
The Drive
August 15, 2017
... and deployed a small number of special operators in response to an outbreak of fighting with the Palestinian militant group Fatah al-Islam.
News Deeply
August 9, 2017
In May 2007, the Lebanese army started shelling the camp to oust Islamist fighters from the Palestinian militant group Fatah al-Islam. WithinÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
June 17, 2017
This may be a reference to Fatah al-Islam, an al Qaeda-linked group with a complicated history. It is also possibly a reference to a predecessorÃÂ ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
June 11, 2017
At least 140 Fatah al-Islam members were killed, while more than 50 civilians were killed or injured at the camp. The clashes also left at leastÃÂ ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 12, 2017
Beirut- Clashes in the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon came to a halt on Tuesday after Lebanese and PalestinianÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
September 20, 2010
Last month, Lebanese troops killed Abdulrahman Awad, the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Fatah al Islam terror group, and his deputy, GhaziÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
August 18, 2010
Abdulrahman Awad, the leader of Fatah al Islam, was killed along with his deputy, Ghazi Faysal Abdullah, by Lebanese security forces during aÃÂ ...
ABC News
May 25, 2007
Fatah al-Islam, a radical Sunni Islamist group, has come under the spotlight this week. Lebanese officials say the group is at the center of theÃÂ ...
BBC News
May 23, 2007
Fatah al-Islam emerged in November 2006 when it split from Fatah al-Intifada (Fatah Uprising), a Syrian-backed Palestinian group based inÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
March 7, 2017
They fear there will be a repeat of the tragedy of north Lebanon's Nahr al-Bared camp, where, from May to September 2007, armed clashes broke out between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants, destroying the camp and displacing its residents.
Lawfare (blog)
March 6, 2017
With the exception of a protracted showdown in 2007 between the LAF and the jihadist movement Fatah al-Islam, the LAF of the 2000s played an unmistakably secondary role.
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 6, 2017
According to PLO's politburo member Salah al-Youssef, the number of Lebanese outlaws in Ain Al-Hilweh exceeds 20, while fugitives from other nationalities, who belong to extremist factions like Jund al-Sham, Fatah al-Islam, and Al-Qaeda, are more thanÃÂ ...
Arab News
March 4, 2017
There is an obsession in the Palestinian camp following the bitter experience sustained at Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon, in which the Lebanese Army fought a fierce battle to eliminate the hard-line Fatah Al-Islam group. This led to ...
TopYaps
February 25, 2017
Political reporter and columnist Tavleen Singh has requested author and political commentator Tarek Fatah to expand his crusade beyond Islam.
Dhaka Tribune
February 16, 2017
... Islamic State, Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement of Somalia, Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Iraq-based Ansar al-Islam, Lebanon-based Fatah al-Islam and Al-Faroq Media of Egypt.
MENAFN.COM
February 13, 2017
According to Asharq Al-Awsat, political expert AbdelRahman Al Hajj, was quoted as saying that the Astana meeting has launched battles between opposition factions and Fatah al-Islam. He said, 'What happens nowadays is the first step towards endingÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
February 4, 2017
Shabab Muslim includes remnants of the extremist organizations Jund al-Sham and Fatah al-Islam. "We know that many of Assir's youth pledged allegiance to IS and have connections with people inside the camp," a Palestinian source speaking on conditionÃÂ ...
Arab News
February 4, 2017
These leaders are fully aware of Iran's way of managing its wars by using local forces, or proxies, such as Hezbollah and Fatah Al-Islam in Lebanon, Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and Al-Qaeda-affiliated branches in Syria and Iraq.
Naharnet
January 29, 2017
Sixteen held by the Jabhat Fateh al-Islam were freed in December 2015 through a Qatari-mediated deal that also included a prisoner swap to release a number of inmates from Lebanese jails.
Asharq Al-awsat English
January 25, 2017
Political expert Abdelrahman al-Hajj told Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday that the Astana meeting has launched the battles between opposition factions and Fatah al-Islam. "What is happening today is the first step towards ending Jabhat Fatah al-Sham orÃÂ ...
Jadaliyya
January 23, 2017
The destruction was caused by a conflict between the Lebanese government and Fatah al-Islam, a clandestine militia group. Initially, it was unclear if the camp would be rebuilt.
Jadaliyya
January 23, 2017
The destruction was caused by a conflict between the Lebanese government and Fatah al-Islam, a clandestine militia group. Initially, it was unclear if the camp would be rebuilt.
Jadaliyya
January 23, 2017
The destruction was caused by a conflict between the Lebanese government and Fatah al-Islam, a clandestine militia group. Initially, it was unclear if the camp would be rebuilt.
Jadaliyya
January 23, 2017
The destruction was caused by a conflict between the Lebanese government and Fatah al-Islam, a clandestine militia group. Initially, it was unclear if the camp would be rebuilt.
Naharnet
January 5, 2017
Sixteen held by the Jabhat Fateh al-Islam were freed in December 2015 through a Qatari-mediated deal that also included a prisoner swap to release a number of inmates from Lebanese jails.
Naharnet
December 31, 2016
Sixteen held by the Jabhat Fateh al-Islam were freed in December last year through a Qatari-mediated deal that also included a prisoner swap to release a number of inmates from Lebanese jails.
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 29, 2016
The UAE sent nine fully-armed and crewed SA-342L Gazelle helicopters to help the Lebanese government crush Al-Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Islam at Tripoli's Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in May 2007. In 2009, a year after Saudi's King Abdullah called for theÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 29, 2016
The UAE sent nine fully-armed and crewed SA-342L Gazelle helicopters to help the Lebanese government crush Al-Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Islam at Tripoli's Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in May 2007. In 2009, a year after Saudi's King Abdullah called for theÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 28, 2016
The UAE sent nine fully-armed and crewed SA-342L Gazelle helicopters to help the Lebanese government crush Al-Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Islam at Tripoli's Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in May 2007. In 2009, a year after Saudi's King Abdullah called for theÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
December 23, 2016
The situation in the refugee camp south of the city of Sidon deteriorated in April when a member of Fateh al-Islam allegedly assassinated Hamza al-Natour, a member of the Harakat Fateh group.
|
news and opinion
|
