EMIRATES Airline 'Sangkar Emas' yang menguatkan lagi 'Budaya takut' - pemberi maklumat laman WEB . . .

ASIA JYy | JamaliahYusofYacob - Kakitangan Emirates Airline merujuk kepada syarikat itu sebagai "sangkar emas," yang didakwa ekzos krew melampaui had mereka dan menggunakan hukuman apabila aduan yang difailkan, pentadbir laman web pemberi maklumat yang berdedikasi telah memberitahu RT.

Bercakap dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan, pentadbir donotflyemirates.wordpress.com, yang mengumpul akaun juruterbang Emirates Airline dan menerbitkan cerita-cerita mereka dalam talian, menegaskan bahawa syarikat itu mencipta "budaya takut," di mana pekerja berasa tidak dilindungi, yang disasarkan dan terperangkap.

Pentadbir laman web menyatakan bahawa United Arab Emirates (UAE) tidak membenarkan kesatuan, yang meninggalkan kakitangan yang banyak terdedah kepada penyalahgunaan.

"Jika anda membuat kesilapan - atau jika anda tidak membuat kesilapan, jika seseorang menyalahkan anda untuk sesuatu - anda tidak mendapat peluang untuk mempertahankan diri sendiri. Anda hanya mendapat amaran, mereka hanya memecat anda."

"Selepas beberapa masa yang dihabiskan di Dubai anda merasa seperti segala-galanya, seluruh hidup anda berada dalam bahaya. Kerana jika anda dipecat, anda akan kehilangan rumah anda, anda akan kehilangan seluruh hidup anda. Inilah sebabnya mengapa mereka merujuk kepadanya sebagai 'sangkar emas. "

Baca lebih lanjut: 60 Flydubai, Emirates juruterbang memberitahu RT keletihan, ugutan, penyalahgunaan kuasa (EKSKLUSIF)

Tapak pemberi maklumat telah pun diharamkan di UAE, tetapi syarikat penerbangan itu mahu menutup mulut ia lagi, sebagai peguam Emirates Airline mendekati Wordpress dan menggesa platform blog untuk mengambil laman web pemberi maklumat, yang ia enggan berbuat.

"Saya menerima notis daripada platform Wordpress, mereka diberitahu saya bahawa peguam Emirates cuba untuk mengambil beberapa kandungan dari blog saya, dan Wordpress menolak mereka."

Pentadbir, yang juga bekas pekerja Emirates Airline, memberitahu RT bahawa cerita-cerita semua juruterbang yang diterima melalui e-mel. Mereka disahkan semua sebelum diterbitkan.

Penyelaras laman web juga menerima surat amaran ketika masih bekerja dengan syarikat penerbangan itu untuk mempunyai "pengaruh yang negatif terhadap orang lain" apabila membincangkan perubahan dan beban kerja.

Terdahulu, RT bercakap dengan semasa serta bekas juruterbang Emirates, yang mengesahkan bahawa syarikat itu memaksa mereka untuk mengambil beban kerja berat dan melaksanakan teknik "buli".

Seorang pekerja bekas Emirates digambarkan senarai nama syarikat sebagai "kejam," sebagai juruterbang "dijangka bertukar dari hari ke malam . . . tugas tanpa cukup rehat di antara," sambil menambah bahawa dia "kehilangan beberapa malam tidur setiap bulan," adalah " sentiasa letih, "dan tiada mempunyai" tenaga untuk melakukan apa-apa. "

Lebih teruk lagi adalah hakikat bahawa Ketua Pihak Berkuasa Penerbangan Awam UAE (GCAA), didakwa mengawal selia keselamatan penerbangan, telah gagal untuk bertindak. Bercakap kepada RT dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan, bekas juruterbang Emirates berkata pemantau penerbangan yang berpangkalan di Dubai tidak bebas dari negeri ini, dan dengan itu tidak boleh secukupnya memenuhi kewajipannya.

Masalah ini diburukkan lagi sebagai GCAA dikawal oleh orang yang sama yang bertanggungjawab bagi syarikat penerbangan itu. Satu lagi juruterbang yang digunakan oleh Emirates mendedahkan bahawa GCAA yang dipengerusikan oleh Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Emirates Airline & Group - Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

Syarikat penerbangan itu sendiri enggan mengakui masalah keletihan juruterbang ketika dihubungi RT.

Sambutan terkini dari seorang jurucakap Emirates mendakwa bahawa syarikat itu memenuhi standard yang diperlukan.

"Emirates beroperasi dalam persekitaran yang selamat, sangat dikawal selia dan rekod keselamatan kami, yang berada di kedudukan antara yang tertinggi dalam industri, menunjukkan standard yang ketat kami. senarai nama anak-anak kapal kami dibina berdasarkan peraturan GCAA, yang selaras dengan piawaian diiktiraf organisasi antarabangsa. Emirates mempunyai sistem Pengurusan Risiko Keletihan Pilot yang berterusan mengkaji corak jadual krew penerbangan dan mengkaji sebarang maklum balas yang diterima daripada juruterbang kami. Oleh itu, kita tidak boleh menyokong mana-mana tuduhan tanpa nama yang telah dilaporkan oleh Rusia Hari ini."

Baca lebih lanjut: 'senarai nama yang kejam': Ex-Emirates juruterbang memberitahu RT bagaimana kuasa-kuasa syarikat penerbangan pekerja untuk bekerja, lebih masa

"Emirates secara aktif menggalakkan kakitangan untuk melaporkan semua aspek keselamatan supaya analisis yang betul dan penyiasatan boleh dijalankan. Semua kakitangan diberi, pamerkan link mudah secara langsung dengan pengurusan untuk membuat laporan dan memberikan maklum balas, tidak kira sifatnya."

Bagaimanapun, yang paling baru-baru ini juruterbang Emirates bercakap dengan RT tidak bersetuju, dengan alasan bahawa walaupun syarikat penerbangan itu mempunyai sistem Pengurusan Risiko Keletihan Pilot, ia jarang melakukan apa-apa untuk menangani masalah tersebut. Sebaliknya, ia mengejar taktik ugutan perintis untuk menggalakkan aduan selanjutnya.

"Kami memfailkan ASRS [Aviation Laporan Keselamatan], kami mengetengahkan masalah dan [untuk] kita boleh mendapat dipanggil oleh pihak pengurusan, dibawa masuk ke pejabat . . . Mereka menekankan masalah, mereka [boleh mempunyai] yang membuat kesilapan, sama ada disebabkan oleh keletihan atau hanya satu kesilapan . . . dan untuk itu mereka hanya memberikan anda satu surat amaran, ini berlaku sepanjang masa. Dan apa yang berlaku ialah, rakyat semakin takut untuk menulis ASRS untuk mengetengahkan isu-isu, dan ia dapat tersembunyi, "kata juruterbang.

Masalahnya ialah bahawa walaupun meletihkan senarai nama tidak menyalahi undang-undang, mereka adalah "tidak bermoral" dan "tidak konsisten dengan corak tidur," kata juruterbang. "Apabila anda terbang lebih daripada 100 jam sebulan isu-isu ini adalah kumulatif, dan mereka membina. Anda hanya mula berasa lebih teruk dan lebih teruk dan lebih teruk . . . Tetapi syarikat penerbangan itu akan memberitahu anda 'senarai nama kami adalah undang-undang.' Ya, mereka adalah senarai nama undang-undang. Mereka mempunyai beberapa amalan penjadualan haram - tetapi mereka tidak akan mengaku".

Apabila menceritakan pengalaman peribadinya keletihan semasa penerbangan, juruterbang berkata beliau dan pembantu juruterbang kedua-dua telah tertidur apabila menghampiri darat, "masa yang apabila anda yang perlukan untuk menjadi yang paling berjaga-jaga ketika itu."

Selain masalah keletihan juruterbang, Emirates Airline cuba untuk kelihatan lebih profesional dengan menggunakan semula nombor pekerja lama pada kakitangan baru, menjadikan ia kelihatan seolah-olah mereka mempunyai pasukan yang berpengalaman yang bertanggungjawab bagi penerbangan, satu anak kapal kabin memberitahu RT.

Walau bagaimanapun, realitinya adalah bahawa "majoriti kakitangan baru meletak jawatan dalam tempoh 6 bulan. Pendatang baru tidak dapat menampung beban kerja dan keletihan."

Emirates Airline a ‘golden cage’ that reinforces ‘culture of fear’ - whistleblower website . . .

Employees of Emirates Airline refer to the company as a “golden cage,” which allegedly exhausts crews beyond their limits and employs punishments when complaints are filed, the administrator of a dedicated whistleblower site has told RT.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the administrator of donotflyemirates.wordpress.com, which collects the accounts of Emirates Airline pilots and publishes their stories online, stressed that the company creates “a culture of fear,” where workers feel unprotected, targeted and trapped.

The site administrator noted that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) does not allow unions, which leaves staff even more vulnerable to abuse.

“If you make a mistake – or even if you don’t make a mistake, if someone blames you for something – you don’t get the chance to defend yourself. You just get the warning, they just fire you.”

“After some time spent in Dubai you feel like everything you have, your whole life is in danger. Because if you get fired, you’re going to lose your house, you’re going to lose your whole life. This is why they are referring to it as a ‘golden cage.’”

Read more: 60 Flydubai, Emirates pilots tell RT of fatigue, intimidation, misuse of authority (EXCLUSIVE)

The whistleblower site is already banned in the UAE, but the airline wanted to silence it further, as Emirates Airline lawyers reached out to Wordpress and urged the blogging platform to take down the whistleblower site, which it refused to do.

“I received a notification from Wordpress platform, they notified me that Emirates lawyers tried to take down some content from my blog, and Wordpress refused them.”

The administrator, who is a former employee of Emirates Airline, told RT that all the pilots’ stories are received via email. They are all verified before they are published.

The site coordinator also received warning letters while still employed by the airline for having a “negative influence on others” when discussing shifts and workloads.

Earlier, RT spoke to current as well as former Emirates pilots, who confirmed that the company forces them to take heavy workloads and implements “bullying” techniques.

An ex-Emirates employee described the company’s rosters as “brutal,” as the pilots are “expected to switch from day to night… duties without enough rest in between,” adding that he “loses several nights of sleep every month,” is “constantly tired,” and has “no energy to do anything.”

Making matters worse is the fact that the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), charged with regulating aviation safety, has failed to act. Speaking to RT on condition of anonymity, a former Emirates pilot said that the Dubai-based aviation watchdog is not independent from the state, and thus cannot adequately fulfill its duties.

The problem is further exacerbated as the GCAA is controlled by the same people in charge of the airline. Another pilot employed by Emirates revealed that the GCAA is chaired by the CEO of Emirates Airline & Group – Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

The airline itself has refused to acknowledge the problem of pilot fatigue when contacted by RT.

The latest response from an Emirates spokesperson claimed that the company meets the required standards.

“Emirates operates in a safe, highly regulated environment and our safety record, which ranks among the top in the industry, demonstrates our rigorous standards. Our crew rosters are built based on GCAA rules, which are in line with recognized international organization standards. Emirates has a Pilot Fatigue Risk Management system that continuously examines flight crew roster patterns and reviews any feedback received from our pilots. Therefore, we cannot substantiate any of the anonymous allegations that have been reported by Russia Today.”

Read more: ‘Rosters are brutal’: Ex-Emirates pilot tells RT how airline forces employees to work extra hours 

“Emirates actively encourages staff to report on all aspects of safety so that proper analysis and investigations can be conducted. All staff are provided with a direct, easy link with management to report and provide feedback, regardless of its nature.”

However, the Emirates pilot that most recently spoke with RT disagrees, arguing that even though the airline has a Pilot Fatigue Risk Management system, it rarely does anything to address the problem. Instead, it pursues tactics of pilot intimidation to discourage further complaints.

“We file ASRs [Aviation Safety Reports], we highlight problems, and [for that] we can get called by the management, brought into the office… They highlighted a problem, they [could have] made a mistake, whether due to tiredness or just an error...and for that they simply give you a warning letter, this is happening all the time. And what happens is, people are becoming afraid to write ASRs to highlight issues, and it gets hidden,” the pilot said.

The problem is that while exhausting rosters are not illegal, they are “immoral” and “not consistent with sleep patterns,” added the pilot. “When you are flying more than 100 hours a month these issues are cumulative, and they build up. You just start to feel worse and worse and worse… But the airline will tell you ‘our rosters are legal.’ Yes, they are legal rosters. They do have some illegal rostering practices – but they won’t admit to that.”

When describing his personal experience of fatigue during flights, the pilot said that he and his co-pilot had both fallen asleep when approaching the ground, “the time when you need to be most alert.”

Aside from the issue of pilot fatigue, Emirates Airline tries to appear more professional by reusing old employee numbers on new staff, thus making it seem that they have a well-experienced team in charge of the flights, one cabin crew member told RT.

However, the reality is that “the majority of new staff are resigning within six months. Newcomers cannot cope with the workload and fatigue.”

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/7956

KUBUR besar-besaran Palmyra: Diseksa wanita & kanak-kanak di kalangan berpuluh-puluh mangsa ISIS digali oleh tentera SYRIA . . .

© Omar Sanadiki/Reuters

JamaliahYusofYacob - Tentera Syria menggali kubur besar-besaran yang terdiri daripada sekurang-kurangnya 40 mayat, kebanyakannya wanita dan kanak-kanak disembelih oleh Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL) di bandar purba yang baru-baru ini dibebaskan Palmyra.

Kubur telah ditemui oleh jurutera dan "pasukan pertahanan popular" di kawasan kejiranan Masakin al-Jahiz di bandar, yang terletak hanya 500 meter dari runtuhan purba, laporan SANA.

Palmyra mass grave: Tortured women & children among dozens of ISIS victims unearthed by Syrian army

The Syrian army is unearthing a mass grave consisting of at least 40 corpses, many of them women and children, butchered by the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in the recently liberated ancient city of Palmyra.

The grave was discovered by engineers and “popular defense forces” in the Masakin al-Jahizia neighborhood in the city, which lies only 500 meters away from the ancient ruins, SANA reports.

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Pada mulanya, tentera telah berjaya menarik 25 mayat keluar dari tanah. Antara yang terbunuh oleh IS 3 kanak-kanak dan 5 perempuan. Sebagai penggalian itu diteruskan, 15 lagi mayat ditemui - semua daripada mereka adalah wanita dan kanak-kanak.

Initially, the army has managed to pull 25 corpses out from the ground. Among those killed by IS were three children and five females. As the excavation proceeded, 15 more corpses were unearthed – all of them women and children.

Read more: ISIS kills 400, mostly women & children, in Palmyra – Syrian state TV

Pemeriksaan awal daripada badan-badan mendapati sebahagian daripada mangsa telah dipenggal manakala yang lain telah diseksa dengan kejam betul sebelum kematian mereka.

Tentera terus menggali kubur massa, takut bahawa lagi mayat itu boleh dijumpai.

Dalam pada itu, unit kejuruteraan meneruskan pencarian mereka untuk periuk api dan bahan letupan seperti ribuan telah disembunyikan oleh jihadis sebelum mereka telah dihalau keluar dari bandar dengan bantuan tentera Rusia bekerjasama dengan tentera Syria.

Jurutera pertempuran Federation tiba di Palmyra pada hari Khamis dengan unit robot khas untuk menawarkan kepakaran mereka dalam mengesan dan merungkai lombong di kawasan yang terdiri daripada lebih 180 hektar (445 ekar) untuk menyelamatkan UNESCO tapak warisan DUNIA, dan membantu penduduk untuk kembali ke kewujudan selamat.

"Sekurang-kurangnya 3,000 bahan letupan telah dipasang di bandar," pencari ranjau yang menjelaskan kepada RT. Beliau berkata ISIS mewujudkan rangkaian saling hampir tidak kelihatan, sebahagiannya tersembunyi di bawah jalan raya berturap keras, yang boleh meletupkan seluruh bandar.

BACA LAGI: Palmyra memasang ranjau: ISIS mempunyai 3,000 bom pemalsu, bersedia untuk meratakan seluruh bandar dengan 1 klik READ MORE:Palmyra booby-trap: ISIS had 3,000 bombs rigged, ready to level entire city with one click

Lokasi yang strategik yang penting, Palmyra telah dirampas oleh jihadis IS sejak Mei 2015. bulan itu, ISIS dilaporkan menyembelih 400 orang, kebanyakannya wanita dan kanak-kanak. Pada masa itu, Reuters melaporkan bahawa video yang disiarkan oleh penyokong IS 'menunjukkan kumpulan militan memasuki bangunan kerajaan dalam mencari tentera Syria. Mereka juga dilihat menarik ke bawah gambar Presiden Syria Bashar Assad dan bapanya, Hafez Assad.

Initial examination of the bodies revealed that some of the victims had been beheaded while other had been brutally tortured right before their death.

The army continues to excavate the mass grave, fearing that more bodies may be found.

In the meantime, engineering units continue their search for landmines and explosives as thousands had been hidden by the jihadists before they were driven out from the city with the help of the Russian forces working with the Syrian army.

Russian combat engineers arrived in Palmyra on Thursday with special robotic units to offer their expertise in detecting and dismantling mines in an area comprising over 180 hectares (445 acres) to save the UNESCO world heritage site, and help locals to return to safe existence.

“At least 3,000 explosive devices were installed in the city,” the sapper explained to RT. He said ISIS created an almost invisible interconnected network, partially hidden under hard paved roads, which could blow up the entire city.

READ MORE:Palmyra booby-trap: ISIS had 3,000 bombs rigged, ready to level entire city with one click

A strategically important location, Palmyra had been seized by IS jihadists since May 2015. That month, ISIS reportedly slaughtered 400 people, mostly women and children. At the time, Reuters reported that a video posted by IS’ supporters showed the militants entering governmental buildings in search of Syrian soldiers. They were also seen pulling down pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his father, Hafez Assad.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/78vp

BOM ISIS & senjata Kimia 'pusat penyelidikan' di Mosul hampir tidak disasarkan dalam penyerangan Amerika Syarikat . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - ISIS telah menggunakan makmal berteknologi tinggi di Mosul untuk membina bom dan senjata kimia dan rekrut latihan membuat bom sejak ditawan pada tahun 2014. Hampir disasarkan oleh serangan udara Amerika Syarikat, kemudahan itu juga telah menyediakan jihadis dengan kira-kira 40 kg sebatian uranium.

"Universiti Mosul adalah yang terbaik Daesh [Negara Islam, yang sebelum/ISIL ISIS] pusat penyelidikan di DUNIA," pegawai bahan letupan bahagian Iraq Kej Hatem Magsisi kepada The Wall Street Journal. "Pelatih pergi ke Raqqa [Syria], kemudian dengan Universiti Mosul untuk menggunakan kemudahan yang sedia ada."

Apabila kemudahan itu telah dirampas oleh ISIS kembali pada tahun 2014, pegawai-pegawai Iraq dilaporkan kepada PBB bahawa kira-kira 40 kilogram sebatian uranium disimpan di sana nampaknya jatuh ke tangan jihadis'.

"Kumpulan pengganas telah merampas kuasa bahan nuklear di tapak yang keluar dari kawalan negeri ini," duta PBB Iraq menulis pada masa itu, sambil menambah bahawa bahan-bahan seperti "boleh digunakan pembuatan dalam senjata pemusnah besar-besaran."

ISIS bomb & chemical weapons ‘research center’ 

in Mosul barely targeted in US strikes

ISIS has been using a high-tech lab in Mosul for building bombs and chemical weapons and training recruits in bomb-making since its capture in 2014. Barely targeted by US airstrikes, the facility has also provided jihadists with some 40 kg of uranium compounds.

“The University of Mosul is the best Daesh [Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL] research center in the world,” Iraq’s top explosives officer Gen. Hatem Magsosi told The Wall Street Journal. “Trainees go to Raqqa [Syria], then to Mosul University to use the existing facilities.”

When the facility was seized by ISIS back in 2014, Iraqi officials reported to UN that some 40 kilos of uranium compounds kept there apparently fell into jihadists’ hands.

“Terrorist groups have seized control of nuclear material at the sites that came out of the control of the state,” Iraq's UN ambassador wrote at the time, adding that such materials “can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.”

Baca lebih lanjut: ISIS mendakwa telah membangunkan bom kotor – laporan (Read more: ISIS claims to have developed dirty bomb – reports)  http://on.rt.com/nmc9yh http://on.rt.com/76ia

Walau bagaimanapun, badan pemantau atom IAEA berkata bahan adalah "gred rendah" dan tidak mendatangkan risiko keselamatan yang besar, agak kebimbangan ancaman nuclear ‘downplaying’. Menurut pegawai tentera, pengganas menggunakan makmal yang dilengkapi dengan baik untuk menghasilkan bahan letupan "konvensional" dan jaket bunuh diri, serta senjata kimia, dan bom berdasarkan peroksida.

Makmal ini yang lengkap dan telah secara dramatik meningkatkan keupayaan kumpulan pengganas untuk melancarkan serangan di Iraq, Magsisi kepada akhbar itu. Katanya sebaik pelatih asing meninggalkan makmal, mereka kembali ke negara asal mereka dengan kemahiran yang cukup untuk membuat bom seperti yang digunakan di Paris dan serangan Brussels.

Mosul jatuh ke tangan ISIS pada musim panas tahun 2014, dan pada Mac 2015 puluhan ahli-ahli sains dan jurutera jihadis 'telah menubuhkan pangkalan mereka di makmal kimia universiti itu. Orang biasa dengan universiti itu berkata unit telah ditubuhkan untuk tujuan tertentu mengkaji bahan letupan kimia, senjata, dan pembinaan bom berani mati.

Ia tidak berapa jelas banyak kerosakan pakatan diketuai Amerika Syarikat yang beroperasi di Iraq telah dikenakan ke atas kemudahan itu yang terkenal telah berada di bawah kawalan ISIS selama hampir 2 tahun. Kampus universiti terpegun pada 19 Mac, menurut Kolonel Steve Warren, jurucakap tentera Amerika Syarikat di Iraq, tanpa menjelaskan jika ia adalah salah satu yang pertama atau satu lagi dalam siri serangan udara ke atas kemudahan itu.

"Kita tahu bahawa Daesh [INI] telah menggunakan beberapa bangunan-bangunan untuk tujuan ketenteraan, dan kita mengebom mereka," Warren memberitahu penerbitan itu, sambil menambah bahawa gabungan itu akan terus menyerang kemudahan itu jika mereka terbongkar.

Pada pertengahan bulan Mac, Warren mengakui tentera Amerika Syarikat sedar bahawa "terdapat satu siri jabatan kimia di sana" dan "mungkin" ada yang masih "berguna", bagaimanapun tidak dapat mengesahkan bahawa pengganas telah "memasang senjata kimia terdapat."

However, the atomic watchdog IAEA said the materials were “low grade” and did not pose any significant security risk, somewhat downplaying the nuclear threat concerns. According to military officials, terrorists are using the well-equipped lab to produce “conventional” explosives and suicide vests, as well as chemical weapons, and peroxide-based bombs.

The lab is well-stocked and has dramatically boosted the terror group’s ability to wage attacks in Iraq, Magsosi told the newspaper. He added that once foreign trainees leave the lab, they return to their home countries with enough skills to make bombs like the ones used in the Paris and Brussels attacks.

Mosul fell into ISIS hands in the summer of 2014, and by March 2015 dozens of jihadists’ scientists and engineers had established their base at the university’s chemistry lab. People familiar with the university said that units were set up for the specific purpose of studying chemical explosives, weapons, and suicide bomb construction.

It is not clear how much damage the US-led coalition operating in Iraq has inflicted on the facility which is well-known to have been under ISIS control for almost two years. The university campus was struck on March 19, according to Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for the US military in Iraq, without clarifying if it was the first or yet another one in a series of airstrikes on the facility.

“We do know that Daesh [IS] has used some of those buildings for military purposes, and we bombed them,” Warren told the publication, adding that the coalition will continue to strike such facilities if they are uncovered.

In mid-March, Warren acknowledged the US military was aware that “there was a series of chemistry departments over there” and “presumably” some of it was still “useful”, however could not confirm that the terrorists were “assembling chemical weapons there.”

Baca lebih lanjut: ISIS mengebom kampung Iraq Kurdis dikawal dengan 'bahan beracun' – Gabenor (Read more: ISIS shelled Kurdish-controlled Iraq village with 'poisonous substances' – governor)

Washington sedar akan laporan mengenai Negara Islam (IS) menggunakan kampus untuk menghasilkan senjata kimia, Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat Elizabeth Trudeau memberitahu RT Gayane Chichakyan pada taklimat berita pada Jumaat. Beliau menambah bahawa Amerika mengambil berat tentang penggunaan senjata kimia oleh pengganas di Iraq dan Syria, dan menekankan bahawa Amerika Syarikat akan terus "untuk bekerja dengan rakan2 untuk mengurangkan ancaman ini."

"Gabungan itu telah menjalankan serangan yang disasarkan terhadap [Negara Islam] Kemudahan disyaki senjata kimia termasuk sekitar [mereka]Mosul. Kami akan terus berbuat demikian sebagai sasaran dikenal pasti, "kata Trudeau, pada masa yang sama enggan memberi sebarang komen mengenai rampasan uranium.

Bandar yang ke-2  terbesar Iraq adalah pusat strategik mengisytiharkan diri khalifa ISIS, bersama-sama dengan bandar Syria Raqqa. Minggu lalu, kerajaan Iraq mengumumkan operasi mengambil kembali Mosul daripada pengganas. Walau bagaimanapun, merebut kembali bandar ini akan menjadi bukan pekerjaan mudah.

Menurut Pentagon, ia akan mengambil masa antara 8 dan 12 briged Iraq - lebih 20,000 anggota tentera - untuk mendapatkan kawalan Mosul. Bulan lepas, Marine Leftenan Jeneral Vincent Stewart, Pengarah Agensi Perisikan Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat, memberi keterangan pada pendengaran kongres yang menawan semula bandar masih kira-kira setahun sahaja lagi.

Senjata kimia praktikal dalam menghentikan tentera, 

bukankah keganasan '- bekas CIA pegawai

Pesara pegawai CIA dan pegawai Jabatan Negara Larry Johnson percaya bahawa hakikat bahawa Barat adalah "menyatakan penggera dan kebimbangan" atas sesuatu yang telah dikenali selama bertahun-tahun menandakan "terdapat beberapa agenda lain untuk itu."

"Tanggapan bahawa mereka akan mempunyai makmal ini dan mewujudkan pusat senjata global ini adalah menggelikan," Johnson memberitahu RT. "Yang berkata, hakikatnya mereka kita tahu mereka berada di sana dan mereka cuba untuk menggunakan dengan cara itu, mereka akan menghancurkan, mereka boleh membunuh. Saya rasa itu begitu jelas, ia semacam mengganggu fikiran saya, bahawa tiada siapa yang telah bersedia untuk ianya menyasarkan."

Johnson, bagaimanapun, menunjukkan bahawa senjata kimia adalah "tidak begitu baik sebagai senjata keganasan kerana mereka juga sukar untuk menghasilkan, dan mereka sukar untuk menggunakan . . . tetapi dari segi penggunaan praktikal mereka adalah senjata sebenar terbaik yang direka untuk cuba untuk menghentikan tentera menyerang."

"Anda boleh menggunakan ancaman dan idea tentang senjata pemusnah besar-besaran untuk mendapatkan orang ramai untuk bertindak dengan cara yang benar-benar agak bodoh," Johnson berkata. Sementara itu beliau percaya idea "keganasan nuklear" hanya "dibangkitkan untuk menakutkan rakyat, dan sekali orang yang takut pada dasarnya membolehkan kerajaan untuk melakukan apa sahaja [mereka boleh] untuk menghentikannya."

"Seperti yang kita lihat kembali, pencerobohan Iraq terbongkar tiada senjata pemusnah besar-besaran tetapi, pada dasarnya, tidak melepaskan gelombang radikal keganasan Islam Sunni yang kami masih dihadapi hari ini . . . [paling] baru-baru serangan di Brussels."

Washington is aware of the reports concerning Islamic State using the campus to produce chemical weapons, US State Department’s Elizabeth Trudeau told RT’s Gayane Chichakyan at a news briefing on Friday. She added that the US is concerned about the use of chemical weapons by the terrorists in both Iraq and Syria, and stressed that the US will continue “to work with partners to mitigate this threat.”

“The coalition has conducted targeted strikes against suspected [Islamic State] chemical weapons facilities including [those] around Mosul. We’ll continue to do that as targets are identified,” Trudeau said, at the same time refusing to give any comment concerning the seizure of uranium.

Iraq’s second-largest city is a strategic center of the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate, along with the Syrian city of Raqqa. Last week, the Iraqi government announced an operation to retake Mosul from the terrorists. However, recapturing the city will be no easy feat.

According to the Pentagon, it will take between eight and 12 Iraqi brigades – more than 20,000 troops – to gain control of Mosul. Last month, Marine Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, testified at a congressional hearing that recapturing the city is still about a year away.

Chemical weapons practical in stopping army, not terrorism’ - ex-CIA officer

Retired CIA officer and State Department official Larry Johnson believes that the fact that the West is “expressing alarm and concern” over something that has been known for years indicates “there is some other agenda for it.”

“The notion that they are going to have this lab and create this global weapon center is laughable,” Johnson told RT. “That said, the fact they we know they’re there and they’re trying to use it that way, they should be destroyed, they should be killed. I think that’s just so obvious, it sort of bothers my mind, that nobody has been willing to target it.”

Johnson, however, pointed out that chemical weapons are “not very good as terror weapons as they are likewise difficult to produce, and they are difficult to use… but in terms of practical use they are real weapons best-designed to try to stop an invading army.”

“You can use the threat and an idea of weapons of mass destruction to get people to act in ways which are really fairly stupid,” Johnson noted. Meanwhile he believes the idea of “nuclear terrorism” is only “raised to scare people, and once people are frightened to basically allow governments to do whatever [they can] to stop it.”

“As we saw in retrospect, the invasion of Iraq uncovered no weapons of mass destruction but, basically, did unleash a wave of radical Sunni Islamic terrorism that we’re still confronting today ... [most] recently the attacks in Brussels.”

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Walaupun pengganas Negara Islam (IS) nampaknya tidak mempunyai keupayaan untuk memperkayakan uranium dan membuat peranti nuklear, mereka sememangnya boleh menggunakan bahan-bahan yang dicuri untuk mencuba dan mewujudkan "bom kotor," kata bekas pegawai CIA dan peguam antarabangsa Jack Rice memberitahu RT.

IS adalah sangat bagus adalah sesuatu bahan nuklear "sedar, sesuatu yang mereka memberi tumpuan ke atas dan jika Barat, Amerika dan Eropah, tidak mengambil perhatian serius sebelum ini, sekarang mereka mesti" kata Rice.

"Perkara yang membuatkan yang ini penting adalah bahawa jika mereka boleh menolak sesuatu seperti itu, apa yang ia boleh lakukan, pada dasarnya membuat suatu kawasan yang mereka menetapkan ia di luar dalam tidak boleh digunakan untuk berpotensi akan datang. Jadi memikirkan kesan daripada sesuatu seperti itu di kawasan metropolitan utama, seperti Paris, atau Frankfurt, atau Berlin, atau New York.

While Islamic State terrorists apparently have no capabilities to enrich uranium and create a nuclear device, they could indeed use the stolen materials to try and create a “dirty bomb,” former CIA officer and international lawyer Jack Rice told RT.

Nuclear material is something IS is very well “aware of, something they’re focusing upon and if the West, the Americans and Europeans, were not taking it seriously before, they must be now,” Rice said.

“The thing that makes this important is that if they could set off something like that, what it could do, is essentially make an area that they set it off in unusable for potentially years to come. So contemplate the ramifications of something like that in a major metropolitan area, like Paris, or Frankfurt, or Berlin, or New York.”

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Rice juga tertanya-tanya mengapa kemudahan itu di Mosul belum melanda kembali pada tahun 2014, apabila ia jatuh ke dalam tangan pengganas.

"Ini adalah kira-kira tidak termasuk keupayaan mereka untuk menyentuh sesuatu dan menggunakannya sebagai alat. Untuk mengecualikan akses mereka adalah salah satu perkara yang paling penting yang boleh anda lakukan . . . Usaha dari awal di sini sentiasa untuk mengasingkan mereka dan membuat perbezaan antara siapa mereka yang lain di Timur Tengah ialah, "katanya. "Tetapi jika apa yang anda lakukan adalah meletakkan alat dalam tangan mereka untuk terus melakukan perbuatan yang mereka [melakukan], ia bukan hanya tidak produktif, ia tidak masuk akal sama sekali."

Rice also wondered why the facility in Mosul hadn’t been struck back in 2014, when it fell into terrorists hands.

“This is about excluding their ability to touch something and use it as a tool. To exclude their access is one of the most important things that you can do… The effort from the beginning here has always been to isolate them and to make a distinction between who they are who the rest of the Middle East is,” he added. “But if what you’re doing is putting tools in their hands to continue to commit the acts that they are [doing], it’s not just counterproductive, it makes no sense whatsoever.”

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1,500 banduan, Kebanyakannya Orang-orang Awam, dibebaskan dari penjara-penjara ISIS di IRAQ . . .

Ahli-ahli tentera kerajaan Iraq merayakan pada tank dengan bendera yang dirampas daripada kumpulan Negara Islam (IS) selepas mereka mengambil semula kawasan dari jihadis itu pada 2 April 2016 di perkampungan Al-Mamoura, dekat Heet di wilayah barat Anbar (Members of Iraqi government forces celebrate on a tank with a seized flag of the Islamic State group (IS) after they retook an area from its jihadists on April 2, 2016 in the village of Al-Mamoura, near Heet in the western province of Anbar)© Moadh Al-Dulaimi/AFP

JamaliahYusofYacob - Sekurang-kurangnya 1,500 banduan telah dibebaskan oleh tentera Iraq dari penjara bawah tanah Negara Islam (IS), kata pegawai Iraq. penjara itu ditemui semasa operasi untuk merebut kembali bandar Heet dari golongan pelampau di wilayah Anbar.

"Semasa kemaraan mereka untuk membebaskan dan membersihkan bandar Heet dari Negara Islam (IS, juga dikenali sebagai ISIS/ISIL), pasukan keselamatan menemui penjara yang besar," kata polis, Kolonel Fadhel al-Nimrawi, seperti yang dipetik oleh AFP.

Beliau berkata ia adalah satu penjara"bawah tanah", yang diadakan kira-kira 1,500 orang. Bilangan itu juga disahkan oleh Malallah al-Obeidi, seorang pegawai tempatan di wilayah Anbar. Beliau berkata majoriti daripada tahanan adalah orang awam.

Pekan ini jatuh kepada militan IS pada bulan Oktober 2014 dan telah dibebaskan Februari ini semasa serangan tentera Iraq yang sedang berlangsung.

1,500 prisoners, mostly civilians, freed 

from ISIS prison dungeon in IRAQ . . .

At least 1,500 prisoners have been liberated by Iraqi forces from an underground Islamic State prison, Iraqi officials said. The jail was found during an operation to retake the town of Heet from the extremists in Anbar province.

“During their advance to liberate and clear the town of Heet from Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS/ISIL), security forces discovered a large prison,” police Colonel Fadhel al-Nimrawi said, as cited by AFP.

He added it was an “underground” jail, which held about 1,500 people. The numbers were also confirmed by Malallah al-Obeidi, a local official in Anbar province. He said the majority of the prisoners were civilians.

The town fell to IS militants in October 2014 and was liberated this February during the ongoing Iraqi Army offensive.

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ADALAH muncul di Iraq pada tahun 2013 sebagai sekutu Al-Qaeda. Pada tahun 2014, pengganas menyerang wilayah Kurdis-diadakan di utara Iraq dan merampas wilayah di kawasan tengah Sunni Iraq, termasuk Mosul dan Tikrit. Pada Ogos 2014, ADALAH telah merampas hampir 1/3 daripada negara ini.

Militan mengawal sebahagian besar Fallujah di wilayah Anbar. Apabila tempat yang makmur digelar "bandar masjid", ia kini dilihat sepenuhnya ditinggalkan sejak militan IS mengambil alih pada Januari 2014.

Puluhan penduduk tempatan telah dibunuh, dan ramai daripada mereka telah mati kebuluran. Ramadi, ibu kota wilayah Anbar, juga telah dirampas oleh militan IS Mei 2015 selepas kira-kira seminggu pertempuran dengan tentera kerajaan, tetapi tentera Iraq berjaya sebahagiannya membebaskannya pada bulan Disember.

IS emerged in Iraq in 2013 as an Al-Qaeda affiliate. In 2014, the terror cell attacked Kurdish-held territory in northern Iraq and seized territories in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, including Mosul and Tikrit. By August of 2014, IS had seized nearly a third of the country.

The militants control large parts of Fallujah in Anbar province. Once a prosperous place dubbed the “city of mosques”, it now appears to be completely deserted since IS militants took control in January 2014.

Scores of local residents have been killed, and many of them have starved to death. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, was also seized by IS militants in May 2015 after about a week of fighting with government forces, but the Iraqi military managed to partially liberate it in December.

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KERTAS Kerja harta ISIS: pasport Rusia mendapati di Syria membawa RT ke rumah militan ini (EKSKLUSIF) . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - Antara timbunan dokumen jihadis pulih dari sebuah bandar dibebaskan oleh Kurdis Syria, krew Documentary RT mendapati beberapa pasport asing. Seorang Rusia telah membawa RT ke bandar rumah lelaki itu, yang membawa keseluruhan keluarganya untuk kematian jelas di tangan pengganas.

Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL) merekrut pengikut dan pejuang yang berpotensi dari seluruh DUNIA, dengan ramai daripada mereka membawa seluruh keluarga mereka ke Syria atau Iraq, hanya untuk mencari tempat akhir mereka berehat di sana.

ISIS paperwork trove: Russian passport found in Syria leads RT to militant’s home (EXCLUSIVE)

Among the pile of jihadi documents recovered from a town liberated by Syrian Kurds, an RT Documentary crew found several foreign passports. A Russian one has led RT to the home city of the man, who brought his entire family to an apparent death at the hands of terrorists.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) recruits its followers and potential fighters from across the entire world, with many of them bringing their whole families to Syria or Iraq, only to find their final resting place there.

Read more: ISIS, oil & Turkey: What RT found in Syrian town liberated from jihadists by Kurds (EXCLUSIVE) 

Selepas pembebasan bandar Shaddad, yang terletak di wilayah Syria Hasakah dari jihad IS, satu pasukan Documentary RT mengembara ke kawasan itu dan mempunyai peluang untuk memeriksa timbunan dokumen yang telah ditinggalkan.

Di tengah-tengah harta itu, beberapa ID asing ditemui oleh pasukan Kurdis, termasuk pasport daripada beberapa rakyat Rusia. Salah seorang daripada mereka, yang dipunyai oleh Alex (namanya telah berubah disebabkan oleh sebab-sebab keselamatan), telah dikesan oleh wartawan RT Maria Finoshina sepanjang jalan ke tempat kelahiran pemiliknya - bandar Volgograd di tengah Rusia.

Anak kepada seorang profesor dihormati mungkin telah dipanggil kejayaan teladan, dengan ijazah sains, kerja yang baik, isteri yang penyayang dan 3 orang anak. Oleh itu, ia datang sebagai kejutan untuk ayah Alex apabila si dia yang mengambil keluarganya dan menyertai pengganas Negara Islam (IS) di Syria.

Bapanya menyalahkan dirinya kerana menjadi buta kepada pelan anaknya dan kerana mempercayai Alex apabila dia mengumumkan bahawa dia telah merancang untuk berpindah ke Jerman. Kini ia dipercayai bahawa Alex dan isterinya, Tamara kedua-dua kehilangan nyawa mereka berjuang untuk jihadis di Syria.

"Dia berakhir di sana bersama-sama dengan isterinya, anak-anak muda, dan apa yang berlaku kepada mereka saya tidak tahu," bapa ini kepada Finoshina. "Saya cuba untuk membuat dia faham, saya berkata: 'Adakah anda tidak takut bahawa anak-anak anda, cucu-cucu saya, akan dibunuh kerana organ mereka?"

After the liberation of the town of Shaddadi, located in the Syrian province Hasakah from IS jihadists, an RT Documentary team traveled to the area and had the chance to examine piles of documents that had been left behind.

Amid the trove, a number of foreign IDs were discovered by Kurdish forces, including passports of several Russian citizens. One of them, belonging to Alex (his name has been changed due to security reasons), has been tracked by RT’s correspondent Maria Finoshina all the way to its owner’s birthplace – the city of Volgograd in central Russia.

The son of a respected professor might have been called a paragon of success, with his science degree, a good job, a loving wife and three children. Therefore, it came as a shock for Alex’s dad when he took his family and joined Islamic State terrorists in Syria.

His father blames himself for being blind to his son’s plans and for trusting Alex when he announced it that he had been planning to move to Germany. Now it is believed that Alex and his wife, Tamara both lost their lives fighting for the jihadists in Syria.

“He ended up there along with his wife, his young children, and what happened to them I don't know,” the father told Finoshina. “I tried to make him understand, I said: ‘Aren't you scared that your children, my grandchildren, will be killed for their organs?”

Rundingan RT Maria Finoshina dengan bapa militan ISIS yang pasportnya telah ditemui di bandar Syria, mencapai pembebasan daripada pengganas/RT (RT’s Maria Finoshina talks with the father of the ISIS militant whose passport was discovered in the Syrian town, liberated from terrorists/RT)

Alex memeluk Islam kira-kira 10 tahun lalu, menurut bapanya, yang menegaskan bahawa sebarang langkah untuk menyertai pengganas mempunyai kaitan dengan agama Islam.

"Dia memeluk Islam sedekad lalu. Seorang Mesir, yang sedang belajar di fakulti perubatan dan pergi ke gym dengan dia, mendapat dia ketagih, "kata bapanya. Sementara itu Tamara "tidak benar-benar ke dalam semua itu (Islam), dia melakukannya semua untuk dia," menurut rakannya.

Alex menghadiri masjid daerah Kirovsky di Volgograd, tetapi beberapa permintaan RT satu temu bual telefon dengan imam yang tidak dijawab. Walaupun di laman Finoshina tidak dapat bercakap dengan imam Rustam Yakubov yang mungkin telah menjadi bertanggungjawab untuk merekrut Alex.

Rupa-rupanya lelaki itu tidak lagi bekerja di masjid. Apabila RT diminta temu bual melalui seorang pengantara imam enggan, mengatakan bahawa dia "adalah bosan dengan semua itu."

Imam Yakubov telah di masjid daerah Kirovsky selama lebih 10 tahun. Ia telah menyaksikan beberapa serbuan polis dan telah secara konsisten ditonton oleh pasukan keselamatan.

"Terdapat masjid ini satu di Volgograd - imam dan kawan-kawannya telah melakukan beberapa jenis kerja. Matlamat mereka adalah untuk merekrut golongan muda untuk ISIS, "kata Sultan Khadji Abibakrov, ketua Kesatuan Muslim Volgograd rantau ini.

"Mereka mengambil petikan dari Al-Quran dan membawa mereka di luar konteks - dan pada akhirnya kita mendapat 'mari kita berjuang menentang orang-orang kafir.' Orang tidak dikenali mendengarnya dan berfikir ini adalah dari Al-Quran - dan supaya mereka percaya bahawa mereka perlu membunuh," katanya dijelaskan.

"Ini bukan soal Islam, ia adalah penyakit," Ayah Alex mempersetujui. Beliau menyeru operasi anti-pengganas di Syria, yang dilancarkan oleh Russia September lepas, "langkah yang bijak dan munasabah."

Apabila ditanya jika dia memahami bahawa operasi ini telah dilaksanakan dengan berkesan terhadap anaknya sendiri, balasan bapa adalah: "Ya, saya faham."

ISIS telah menggunakan berjuta-juta dolar untuk menganjurkan orang kempen pengambilan dalam talian dan di seluruh DUNIA, kebanyakannya memberi tumpuan kepada belia buangan yang sanggup mengorbankan nyawa mereka untuk ideologi jihad berpintal.

Alex converted to Islam about ten years ago, according to his father, who stressed that any move to join the terrorists has little to do with the Muslim faith.

“He converted to Islam a decade ago. One Egyptian, who was studying at the medical faculty and went to the gym with him, got him hooked,” his father said. Meanwhile Tamara “wasn't really into all that (Islam), she did it all for him,” according to her friend.

Alex attended the Kirovsky district mosque in Volgograd, but several RT requests of a phone interview with the imam were left unanswered. Even on site Finoshina wasn’t able to talk with imam Rustam Yakubov who might have been responsible for recruiting Alex.

It turned out that the man was no longer working at the mosque. When RT requested an interview through a mediator the imam refused, saying that he “is tired of all of it.”

Yakubov had been the imam at Kirovsky district mosque for over 10 years. It has seen several police raids and has been consistently watched by security forces.

“There is this one mosque in Volgograd – its imam and his friends have been doing certain kinds of work. Their aim is to recruit young people to ISIS,” Sultan Khadji Abibakrov, the head of Volgograd region’s Muslim Union, said.

“They take quotes from the Koran and take them out of context – and in the end we get ‘let’s fight against infidels.’ Unknowing people hear it and think this is from the Koran – and so they believe they have to kill,” he explained.

“It’s not about Islam, it's a disease,” Alex’s father agreed. He called the anti-terrorist operation in Syria, launched by Russia last September, a “wise and reasonable move.”

When asked if he understood that this operation was effectively carried out against his own son, the father’s reply was:“Yes, I do understand.”

ISIS has deployed millions of dollars to organize online and in person recruitment campaigns worldwide, mostly focusing on outcast youths who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the twisted jihadist ideology.

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Selain daripada jangkauan media sosial mereka, pengganas menggunakan pelbagai perkhidmatan sembang untuk mendapatkan memegang mangsa mereka. sel-sel mereka juga beroperasi dalam masyarakat Islam dan pusat-pusat agama. Sesetengah pengambilan juga dilakukan melalui keluarga dan rakan-rakan, dan sentiasa di bawah alasan palsu.

Besides their social media outreach, the terrorists use numerous chat services to get hold of their victims. Their cells also operate in Muslim communities and religious centers. Some recruitment is also done through family and friends, and always under a false pretext.

Read more: Turkey main transit route of militants, lets Russian ISIS suspects move to 3rd countries –ambassador  (Baca lebih lanjut: laluan transit utama Turki militan, mari kita suspek Rusia ISIS berpindah ke Negara ke-3 –ambassador) 

Satu rangkaian kompleks membantu rekrut mengatur perjalanan mereka dari destinasi antarabangsa ke Syria, biasanya melalui Turki. Selain pejuang, Negara Islam (IS) secara aktif merekrut wanita yang sanggup berkahwin dengan pejuang mereka.

Sementara itu orang-orang yang akhirnya pulang ke rumah menimbulkan ancaman langsung kepada negara mereka. Eropah amat bimbang tentang trend ini, kerana ia dianggarkan bahawa lebih 27,000 pejuang Eropah telah mengembara ke Iraq dan Syria sejak 2011.

Menurut kajian yang dijalankan oleh Pusat Antarabangsa bagi Mencegah Keganasan (ICCT) hampir 4,300 pejuang asing dari EU menyertai Negara Islam (IS) di Syria dan Iraq dan kira-kira 30 % peratus daripada mereka telah kembali ke negara asal mereka.

Rusia datang ke bantuan Damsyik pada bulan September, 2015 sebahagiannya kerana keinginan untuk memerangi pengganas di Syria dan untuk menghalang mereka daripada kembali ke negaranya. Pada permulaan kempen, Vladimir Putin mengumumkan bahawa kira-kira 7,000 pengganas Rusia telah berjuang di Syria.

Apabila pengeluaran sebahagian daripada tentera Rusia telah diumumkan bulan lepas, Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia berkata sejak sekurang-kurangnya 2,000 ahli ISIS yang Rusia musnah dalam tempoh 5 bulan kempen udara di Syria.

A complex network helps recruits organize their travel from international destinations into Syria, usually via Turkey. Besides fighters, Islamic State is actively recruiting women who are willing to marry their fighters.

Meanwhile those who eventually return home pose a direct threat to their countries. Europe is especially worried about the trend, as it is estimated that over 27,000 European fighters have traveled to Iraq and Syria since 2011.

According to the research, conducted by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) almost 4,300 foreign fighters from the EU joined Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and about 30 percent of them already returned to their home countries.

Russia came to Damascus’ aid in September, 2015 partly because of its desire to fight terrorists in Syria and to prevent them from returning home. At the start of the campaign, Vladimir Putin announced that an estimated 7,000 Russian terrorists were fighting in Syria.

When the partial withdrawal of the Russian forces was announced last month, the Russian Defense ministry said that over at least 2,000 Russian ISIS members were destroyed in the five months of the air campaign in Syria.

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