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The article cites U.S. and Syrian officials to state that the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama attempted to secretly communicate with the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in order to persuade Assad to limit political violence in Syria and relinquish power. According to the article, Assad also attempted to contact the Obama administration to persuade the U.S. government to ally with Assad in counterterrorism operations.

The article states that the U.S. and Russian governments were expected to attempt to persuade the international organization the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council on December 17, 2015, to enforce more forceful measures to cut the funding of the militant organization Islamic State and other terrorist groups including al Qaeda and the Taliban. According to the article, the joint effort would signal a change in U.S.-Russian disagreements concerning counterterrorism strategies.

The article states that world leaders that gathered in Paris, France, for a climate change summit in late 2015 discussed difficulties and breakthroughs in forging an international alliance to combat the militant group Islamic State. According to the article, French and U.S. officials acknowledged that Russian military operations in Syria had moved in a more favorable direction. The article also states that Great Britain appeared ready to join U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria.

The article states that Turkish F-16 fighter jets shot down a Russian military jet on the Syrian border on November 24, 2015, a move that may have undermined efforts to form an international alliance to fight the militant group Islamic State. According to the article, the Russian government suspended military contacts and meetings with Turkey. The article states that the Turkish government accused Russia of repeatedly violating Turkish airspace from Syria. The article presents comments from Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The article discusses the responses of world leaders to the November 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris, France, particularly those of French president François Hollande, U.S. president Barack Obama, and Russian president Vladimir Putin. According to the article, Hollande proposed that Russia and the U.S. unite to combat the militant group Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attacks. The article presents comments from Obama and Putin made at a meeting of the organization the Group of 20 summit in Antalya, Turkey.

The article states that the Iraq Defense Ministry announced on September 27, 2015, that Iraq had signed an intelligence and security cooperation agreement with Russia, Iran, and Syria concerning a cooperative effort to gather intelligence on the militant group Islamic State. The article also discusses the extent of Russian influence in the Middle East and the potential impact of the agreement on U.S.-Russian relations. According to the article, U.S. secretary of state John Kerry and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met at the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly on September 27.

The article discusses military advances by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group in Kobani, Syria, along the Turkish border despite airstrikes by the U.S. and allies. Topics include U.S. and international military forces' strategy for combating the group, speculation on the military preparedness of the Iraqi army, and Turkish domestic politics and involvement in the counterterrorism campaign.

The article discusses international efforts to combat the Islamic State terrorist organization, focusing on the impact of disagreements between Sunni and Shiite Muslim Arab countries on the appropriate military strategy. Topics include U.S. plans for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against the militants, controversy over the role of the Syrian and Iranian governments in the mission, and Sunni Arab concerns that the plan will promote Shiite dominance.

The article focuses on the additional tanks send by Turkey into Syria to control the territorial advances by the terrorist group Islamic State and American-backed Kurdish forces. Topics mentioned include the cooperation by the U.S. and Turkey to fight the terrorist group, the national security management in Syria, and the planned development of buffer zone, neutral zone or area, in the northwest Syria.

The article reports on the collaboration of Turkey and the U.S. with Syrian rebels to fight terrorist organization Islamic State in Syria. Topics include the Euphrates Shield military operation in Turkey, Cold War-style dispute between Turkey and Russia, and concern by the Russian Foreign Ministry about the tension on the Turkish-Syrian border.

The article offers global political news briefs, as of August 2016. Topics discussed include relations between U.S. and Iran; Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong efforts for preventing terrorism; Uganda's central bank's act of cutting its key lending rate by 1 percentage point; and dropping of terrorism charges against a 16-year-old French girl.

The article informs that Saudi authorities have offered help to Germany in investigating two attacks claimed by Islamic State in Germany in July 2016. It reports the comments of German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Sawsan Chebli on Germany and other Western countries collaboration with Saudi Arabia to fight the terror militia.

The article discusses cooperation between Israel and Egypt in thwarting Islamic radicals along their common border. In August 2013 a drone strike by Israel killed four Islamic militants in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, apparently with the consent of Egyptian officials. Cooperation between the two countries has reportedly increased following the July 2013 ouster by the Egyptian military of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

The article discusses attempts from Western armed forces to locate fundamentalist insurgents, including terrorist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, hiding in the Sahara desert. It notes that U.S. and French military forces have cooperated to use equipment such as drone aircraft, fighter jets, and wiretapping technology to locate the terrorists, who are believed to be responsible for the January 2013 hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant and are members of the group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). INSET: Elusive Target.

The article, citing anonymous U.S. intelligence service officials, reports that a terrorist bombing plot of the branch of al-Qaeda in Yemen was prevented because the person who was thought to be the volunteer suicide bomber was actually an informer for the U.S. and an unidentified foreign intelligence service. The construction of the bomb seized by the U.S. to prevent the plot is discussed.

The article examines a visit to Pakistan by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The lack of reaction by Pakistan's government to Clinton's call for that country to take even more aggressive action against Islamic militants and terrorists is discussed in terms of an overall deterioration in relations between the two countries since the U.S. raid in which terrorist Osama bin Laden was killed.

The article reports that U.S. intelligence services no longer know of the whereabouts of suspected terrorists once held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba who were released and returned to their home countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Cooperation on information on the terrorists from the intelligence services of Arab countries has been disrupted due to political instability in countries such as Libya and Yemen.

The article reports that the U.S. has urging Pakistan to have its armed forces take action against the Haqqani network, Islamic militants in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region which has been implicated in several acts of terrorism in Afghanistan. U.S. officials are said to have concluded that continuing to press the issue will damage relations between the two countries.

The article discusses the Fallujah operation by Iraq Army and the U.S.-led coalition forces in Baghdad, Iraq against the organization Islamic State. Topics discussed include police, tribal fighters and Shiite Muslim militias joining the assault; the coalition forces targeting Islamic State's weapon facilities, bunkers and tunnels; and beginning of the operation three days after people's protest in Baghdad to demand security.

The article reports on the plan of U.S. President Obama is set to meet several leaders world wide to discuss the threat related to the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) including the aspects of the group's nuclear terror attack. Topics discussed include the advantages of the plan in improving the capabilities to prevent nuclear terrorism, the aspects of the state's military strategy, and the death of several terrorist leaders such as Abu Umar al-Shishani by U.S. coalition.

The article focuses on the intervention of Russia in Syria to fight the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) that gives encouragement to Syrian Kurdish Forces in its fight for the same terrorist group.

The article reports on a counterterrorism resolution passed by the United Nations (UN) Security Council that authorizes the use of military force against the extermist militant group Islamic State (ISIS) and Nusra Front.

The article focuses on the prevention of Islamist radicalization in Europe, with topics including the international cooperation to prevent terrorism, the effects of social media in radicalization process of people, and the social aspects of terrorism.

The article focuses on the need for international cooperation to stop the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS), with topics including the social aspects of terrorism, the counterterrorism operation by the U.S. against ISIS, and the terrorism in France.

The article reports on the acceptance by Syrian Prime Minister Walid Moallem on the airstrikes conducted by the Russian military forces on the bases of the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.

The article reports on the U.S. military's first strike against the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) from Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey on August 4, 2015 and mentions the planned use of the base to launch fighter jets and armed drones to attack IS targets.

This section offers world news briefs as of July 11, 2015 including the meeting of India and Pakistan's national-security advisers to discuss all issues connected to terrorism, arrest and extradition of former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb as part of a corruption investigation in the soccer sector and shut down of airports in Bali and Lombok, Indonesia due to drifting ash from a volcanic eruption.

The author discusses U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to add more U.S. military advisers in Iraq as part of his strategy against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group and mentions the need for a more robust military training program for Iraqi soldiers and Sunni tribesmen.

The article reports on some U.S. legislators's criticism of U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to send U.S. troops to Iraq to advise and support Sunni forces in Anbar province and mentions Republican lawmakers' belief that the move will not help cast out the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.

The author calls for concerted action among the world's civilized nations against Islamic terrorism in the form of an action plan that includes formal declarations or war against Islamic terrorism by nations that have been targeted by it, and a global alliance against terrorism of military, intelligence, economic, and diplomatic assets led by the U.S.

The article discusses how the failure of U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to send a high-level representative to a global march of solidarity against terrorism in Paris, France is a lost opportunity for the U.S. government in regards to stemming the tide of extremism and intolerance.

The author discusses combat against the militant and terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and his reasons for optimism in defeating the group. Topics discussed include statements by U.S. Marine Corps General John Allen and U.S. General David Patreaus regarding IS, the ideology and recruitment efforts of IS, and combat against IS in the countries of Iraq and Syria.

The article discusses the decline of U.S. counterterrorism measures against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in Yemen due to the fall of the Yemeni government to Houthi rebels, and the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terrorist group. Topics include declined military capabilities of the Yemeni military, bombings in Yemen by the AQAP including that of Iranian ambassador's residence, and U.S. support of Shiite-dominant governments.