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Saudi clerics condemn ISIS but preach intolerance Reuters When Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh described Islamic State and al Qaeda as "kharijites" last month, he was casting them as the ultimate heretics of Muslim history, a sect that caused the faith's first and most...

Daily Times Reap what you sow Saudi Arabia took into custody 88 people for allegedly being members of an al Qaeda cell. This came after the Saudi authorities recently banned its citizens from fighting for or being part of any jihadist militant movement. They have officially denounced extremist...

Agreed.

Express Tribune PESHAWAR: In a bid to extend its influence in the South Asian region, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, (ISIS), commonly known as Daish, distributed pamphlets in Peshawar and border provinces of Afghanistan as well. The booklet titled Fatah (victory) is published in Pashto...

Tahir Mustafa It was premature to write off Bandar when he was relieved of his duties as the Saudi spy chief in May. He has re-emerged as special advisor to the king. Public pronouncements by Saudi officials against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), now renamed the Islamic State (IS...

Executive Intelligence Review Aug. 25—The sudden emergence of another organized militant Islamist-terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), aka the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or simply IS, along the Iraqi-Syria borders, was not really "sudden" at all. A...

ISLAMABAD: The army on Sunday strongly denied reports that it was sending troops to Saudi Arabia in an effort to secure the Kingdom’s border with Iraq, where the Islamic State (IS) is gaining ground. “No Pakistani troops are being sent or being deployed in Saudi Arabia as reported in a section...

Cutting off Saudi funding to the TTP/Al Qaeda/LeJ combine is essential. Simply killing TTP/Al Qaeda/LeJ militants alone won't address the root of the problem. The funding is what gives the militant network its strength. TTP thugs will keep recruiting and procuring arms so long as the funding is...

Saudi Arabia bankrolling ISIS in Iraq Robert Fisk So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia’s latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul...

The Independent UK - Excerpt Saudi sympathy for anti-Shia "militancy" is identified in leaked US official documents. The then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote in December 2009 in a cable released by Wikileaks that "Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa'ida...

How Saudis helped ISIS take over North of Iraq The Independent UK How far is Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the Islamic world? Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful...

The Saudi Shadow The Nation Recent diplomacy between Riyadh and Islamabad reminds me of delinquents daring a hornet’s nest. Iran spared no moment to threaten Pakistan with a military raid while Russia was curt to caution Pakistan about meddling in Syria. Deep in trouble itself and grappling...

What Islamic Caliphate Means for Pakistan DAWN Among many factors, the Pakistani state's protracted apathy and inaction on the issue of security has provided non-state actors the spaces to grow and expand their influence. They used these spaces not only to propagate their ideologies and...

Josh Rogin The extremist group that is threatening the existence of the Iraqi state was built and grown for years with the help of elite donors from American supposed allies in the Persian Gulf region. There, the threat of Iran, Assad, and the Sunni-Shiite sectarian war trumps the U.S. goal of...

Excellent point. Its time the US and Pakistan re-adjust their worldview of the saudi-led salafi jihadi movement . The goal of this "Saudi-led adventure' is not just to mitigate shia influence, but to also capture resource-rich regions as part of its expansionist agenda of setting up a salafi...

You've summed it up nicely. However, the violent conflict between shia and sunni is actually a war being driven by the salafi militants, who have also targeted Sunnis in Iraq, Pakistan, Syria and elsewhere. As you rightly point out, the goal of the Salafi-Wahhabi movement is to establish a...

ISIL(Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) making inroads in Iraq and Syria today while the TTP/Al Qaeda/LeJ combine fights for a "Islamic State of Waziristan and Kunar" tomorrow?? All are foot soldiers of the global salafi jihadist movement bankrolled by their masters in Saudi- a movement that is...

Cutting off Saudi funding to the TTP/AQ/LeJ combine is essential. Simply killing TTP/AQ/LeJ militants alone won't address the root of the problem. The funding is what gives the militant network its strength. TTP thugs will keep recruiting and procuring arms so long as the funding is intact. A...

Cutting off Saudi funding to the TTP/AQ/LeJ combine is essential. Simply killing TTP/AQ/LeJ militants alone won't address the root of the problem. The funding is what gives the militant network its strength. TTP thugs will keep recruiting and procuring arms so long as the funding is intact. A...

Express Tribune I think the time to talk about the justification of this war is over, especially after the attack on Karachi airport. When is war justified — if not now? Cross-border raids from Afghanistan and suicide attacks on military officers and targets in the heartland of the country...