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Middle East Monitor
February 12, 2018
Haftar's eastern-based LNA, one of a number of factions that have vied for power in Libya since a 2011 uprising ended Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule, is waging a military campaign against a coalition of militants and ex-rebels known as the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC) that controlsÃÂ ...
LobeLog
February 5, 2018
These factions—once mainly affiliated with al-Qaeda (such as the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem and Jaljalat) and later with IS (such as Supporters of Islamic State in Jerusalem)—have recruited from disaffected Hamas members. These defectors concluded that the PalestinianÃÂ ...
Valdai Discussion Club
January 31, 2018
The Al-Nusra Front is considered the most powerful terrorist organization in Syria after ISIS.Actually both are two sides of one coin. The emergence of al-Nusra in January 2012 came with strong support from the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq at that time, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who sent Abu MuhammadÃÂ ...
defenceWeb
January 30, 2018
In Derna, the LNA has long been battling the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC), an armed alliance controlling the city. The DMSC arrested three people last week for allegedly plotting attacks on behalf of the LNA. A Derna resident said the three were the same men whose bodies were found onÃÂ ...
B92
January 8, 2018
PFLP? PFLP-GC? Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades? Asbat an-Ansar? al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb? Al-Qaeda Kurdish Battalions? Kata'ib Hezbollah? AQAP? Army of Islam? Abdullah Azzam Brigades? Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis? Al-Nusra Front? Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem? JRTN?
Egypt Independent
November 16, 2017
“Sheikh Hatem decided to leave the Mujahideen Shura Council in Derna and establish a new militant group aiming to apply Islamic Sharia law in Muslim countries, and he decided to start with Egypt,” El-Mosmari explained. In early 2015, El-Mosmari met Sheikh Hatem in Derna where he was working as aÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
October 31, 2017
The UN-backed government of Libya has strongly condemned the air strike on the eastern city of Derna and called on the UN Security Council to investigate the attack that killed at least 17 civilians. A statement issued on Tuesday by the Presidential Council on behalf of Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of theÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
June 22, 2017
Realising they'd been surrounded, "ISIL contacted the Derna mujahideen shura council and requested safe passage, but we all refused and decided not to provide it," says Colonel Hamza. "Some turned themselves in and others were killed or escaped. Their numbers decreased and their power andÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
April 22, 2016
The Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) released a short video showing Derna after its “liberation” from the Islamic State. A media arm of the Islamic State concedes that the so-called caliphate's fighters have retreated from their positions outside of Derna, Libya. The jihadists withdrew from their bases earlierÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
June 12, 2015
The Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) in Derna, which was established in December 2014, is an alliance of several groups brought together to fight General Khalifa al Haftar's anti-Islamist forces. But the MSC has served another purpose as well, acting as a barrier to the Islamic State's expansionist plans.
Long War Journal
January 14, 2015
The US State Department added Abdallah al Ashqar, a leader in the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC), to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists today. State described Ashqar as “a Palestinian national reported to be a leader of the Mujahidin Shura Council in theÃÂ ...
International Business Times
August 19, 2014
Mujahideen Shura Council Residents read a banner posted on a wall by the al Qaeda-linked group Mujahideen Shura Council in Ramadi, about 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, October 18, 2006. Dozens of al Qaeda-linked gunmen took to the streets of Ramadi on Wednesday in a show of force toÃÂ ...
Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center
April 23, 2013
1. The Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, a jihadist organization operating in the Gaza Strip, claimed responsibility for two Grad rocket attacks on Eilat, Israel's southernmost city, on April 17, 2013. The Mujahideen Shura Council was also behind the rocket and mortar shell attacks inÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
October 14, 2012
As previously noted at The Long War Journal, the description of al Maqdisi as both emir of Tawhid and Jihad and a member of the Mujahideen Shura Council may not be contradictory, but may actually provide evidence of the consolidation of the smaller Salafi-Jihadist groups into the Mujahideen ShuraÃÂ ...
The Media Line
December 11, 2017
In 2006, AQI joined with several smaller Iraqi Sunni groups under an umbrella organization called the Mujahideen Shura Council, which eventually grew into ISI. In other words, Washington's cautious response suggests that it has learned from historical precedent: namely, that terrorist groups are resilientÃÂ ...
CSS Resources (blog)
November 28, 2017
The Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) is another of the more prominent groups. Founded in 2012, MSC is an umbrella group comprising several jihadi groups based in Gaza. It opposes the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty and has tended to focus on Israeli targets.
Egypttoday (blog)
November 18, 2017
Egypt Today delved deeper behind the story of the Mujahideen Shura Council in Derna in Libya's existence in Egypt, compiling the most ...
CHAT News Today
November 10, 2017
Khalifa Hifter has allegedly intensified restrictions on access to the city of Derna in recent months, blocking medicine and fuel from entering because of fighting with the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council. She said hundreds of residents attempting to leave the city had been arrested, and she condemnedÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
November 9, 2017
... to the city of Derna in recent months, blocking medicine and fuel from entering because of fighting with the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council.
ABC News
November 8, 2017
... to the city of Derna in recent months, blocking medicine and fuel from entering because of fighting with the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council.
Eurasia Review
November 7, 2017
... imposed a siege on Derna in August 2016 in an effort to drive out fighters from the militant alliance Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC)Â ...
ReliefWeb
November 6, 2017
... imposed a siege on Derna in August 2016 in an effort to drive out fighters from the militant alliance Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC)Â ...
defenceWeb
November 1, 2017
It is controlled by a coalition of Islamist militants and former rebels from Libya's 2011 uprising known as the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council ...
Aljazeera.com
October 31, 2017
The UN-backed government of Libya has strongly condemned the air strike on the eastern city of Derna and called on the UN Security Council to investigate the attack that killed at least 17 civilians. A statement issued on Tuesday by the Presidential Council on behalf of Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of the ...
TRT World
October 31, 2017
It is controlled by a coalition of militants and former rebels from Libya's 2011 uprising known as the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC).
African Independent
October 31, 2017
... is under the control of Islamist militants and former rebels from Libya's 2011 uprising known as the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC)Â ...
TRT World
October 31, 2017
It is controlled by a coalition of militants and former rebels from Libya's 2011 uprising known as the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC).
Anadolu Agency
October 30, 2017
The Mujahideen Shura Council, which is currently in de facto control of Darnah, took the city from Daesh in 2015. Darnah is the only city in ...
Mada Masr
October 22, 2017
The Egyptian airstrikes mostly targeted Derna, the city where the Qaeda-affiliated Mujahideen Shura Council is based, and Jufrah, where the ...
Daily News Egypt
October 7, 2017
Islamist militants and reportedly the Al-Qaeda-affiliate Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC) control the city of Derna, which the ...
Libya Herald
September 29, 2017
The Libyan eastern city of Derna (currently under the control of the Derna Mujahidin Shura Council and being sieged by Hafter's Libyan ...
defenceWeb
September 22, 2017
The Derna Mujahideen Shura Council, a group in Derna, said this week it recovered the bodies of five workers in May 2015 during clashes with ...
U.S. News & World Report
September 20, 2017
The Derna Mujahideen Shura Council, a group based in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, said this week that it had recovered the bodies of five ...
Aljazeera.com
June 22, 2017
Realising they'd been surrounded, "ISIL contacted the Derna mujahideen shura council and requested safe passage, but we all refused and decided not to provide it," says Colonel Hamza. "Some turned themselves in and others were killed or escaped. Their numbers decreased and their power and ...
Long War Journal
April 22, 2016
The Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) released a short video showing Derna after its “liberation” from the Islamic State. A media arm of the ...
Long War Journal
June 12, 2015
The Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) in Derna, which was established in December 2014, is an alliance of several groups brought together to ...
Long War Journal
January 14, 2015
State described Ashqar as “a Palestinian national reported to be a leader of the Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC),” ...
International Business Times
August 19, 2014
Mujahideen Shura Council Residents read a banner posted on a wall by the al Qaeda-linked group Mujahideen Shura Council in Ramadi, ...
Long War Journal
October 14, 2012
On Saturday, the Israeli Air Force killed Abu al Walid al Maqdisi (a.k.a. Hisham Saidani), the former emir of the Tawhid and Jihad Group in ...
Egypt Independent
December 31, 1999
“Sheikh Hatem decided to leave the Mujahideen Shura Council in Derna and establish a new militant group aiming to apply Islamic Sharia law ...
Gears Of Biz
December 31, 1999
For the last three years, forces commanded by Haftar have kept the city of Derna — currently held by the Mujahideen Shura Council — under a ...
Anadolu Agency
December 31, 1999
Derna is currently held by the Mujahideen Shura Council, a politically independent local militia group that expelled the Daesh terrorist group ...
Libya Herald
September 29, 2017
The Libyan eastern city of Derna (currently under the control of the Derna Mujahidin Shura Council and being sieged by Hafter's LibyanÃÂ ...
defenceWeb
September 22, 2017
The Derna Mujahideen Shura Council, a group in Derna, said this week it recovered the bodies of five workers in May 2015 during clashes withÃÂ ...
Business Insider
September 21, 2017
The Derna Mujahideen Shura Council, a group based in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, said this week that it had recovered the bodies of fiveÃÂ ...
Malta Independent Online
September 20, 2017
The Derna Mujahideen Shura Council, a group based in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, said on its website this week that that it hadÃÂ ...
Council on Foreign Relations
August 17, 2017
This was not an isolated incident: the Mujahideen Shura Council—active in the Gaza Strip and considered a foreign terrorist organization byÃÂ ...
defenceWeb
August 9, 2017
... campaign against a coalition of Islamist militants and ex-rebels known as the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC) that controls Derna.
Long War Journal
April 22, 2016
The Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) released a short video showing Derna after its “liberation” from the Islamic State. A media arm of theÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
April 22, 2016
The Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) released a short video showing Derna after its “liberation” from the Islamic State. A media arm of theÃÂ ...
