The BBC has exclusively confirmed to INSURGE intelligence that a news report claiming to have discovered widespread extremism amongst Muslim Deobandi communities in Britain, was produced by a BBC editor who had secretly briefed Whitehall officials in February.

The Isis advance appeared to catch the opposition off guard after 12 days of gains in the same area, which had seen it move closer to Dabiq than at any time in the past three years.
Units linked to the Free Syria Army, which led the offensive, said they never intended to seize the village, and were instead intending to push further across the north towards the town of Minbij, which lies roughly halfway between Isis’s two largest hubs in the area, al-Bab and Raqqa.

He explained that Iran’s military strategy for dealing with the Takfiri terrorists is to destroy them outside the borders, before they even take the time to approach the frontier.
The commander then gave an assurance that Iranian military forces will never face a surprise attack, because the whole moves on the ground, in the sea of in the air are being analyzed to develop the necessary defense strategies.

„General Soleimani traveled to Moscow last night to discuss issues including the delivery of S-300s and further military cooperation,“ one senior Iranian security official told Reuters, referring to an air defense system Russia is supplying Iran.
One Moscow-based Western diplomat said he understood Soleimani would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. A Kremlin spokesman said a meeting with Soleimani was not on Putin‘s schedule.

After completing the initial one-year contract with Google, the Tshering Tobgay government has renewed the service for three more years, and the new deal was signed around six months ago.
While the government has not revealed the total cost of the subscription, officials said that the government is paying Google Apps for 9,000 accounts for three years. For its initial one-year deal, the government was reportedly charged Nu 158 (2.5 U.S. dollars) per account a month.
The government has asked the education sector to move onto the platform, and was provided with 250,000 Google accounts for free.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Friday led Philippine security officials in boarding a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sailing in the South China Sea, informed sources said.(…)
Sources from the Philippine defense department said Carter was joined by the Southeast Asian country‘s Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, Undersecretary Emmanuel Bautista of the government‘s Cabinet cluster on security and military chief Hernando Iriberri.

The Speaker of the council of the Nation Abdelkader Bensalah said Thursday, in Istanbul (Turkey), that Algeria rejects all attempts to attribute the phenomenon of terrorism to a precise geographical, civilizational or religious space, recalling that the Muslim people are the “first victims” of this scourge.

Ähnlich hatte sich zuvor André Treuenfels geäußert, der Gruppenleiter unter Berzen ist. Das BfV überwache „rein passiv“, lasse sich von Providern Daten über seine Standardanlage Perseus zur Telekommunikationsüberwachung ausleiten und erfasse diese nicht selbst vor Ort etwa an Internetkabeln. Das System sei „angekoppelt“ an die verpflichteten Unternehmen. Auch „Begleitumstände“ des Telekommunikationsverkehrs gehörten mit zu den ausgeleiteten Informationen.

In his words, the bulk of the positions the Armenian side surrendered initially were fought back, and as for the up-and-down movement on 400-500-meter area, ‘this is not a protected and not significant to us territory – it serves only for maneuvering’.