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Russian Teen Forgoes Top University for ISIS S7Q4eKI.jpg - Moscow State University philosophy student Varvara Karaulova, who was caught trying to cross the Turkey-Syria border illegally, reportedly to join ISIS, was part of a group of 13 Russian citizens, the Russian embassy in Turkey says. - Varvara went missing on May 27, flying to Istanbul without telling her parents. Russian investigators suspect she was recruited by the terrorist organization Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS or ISIL). - Varvara is a straight-A student of the Moscow State University philosophy faculty. She has no Muslim background. Her parents say she is fluent in English and French. She has also recently started studying the Arabic language and Islamic cultures. That is when books about Islam started to appearing in their apartment. But her family didn't pay much attention, thinking learning about other cultures and religions was part of her philosophy studies, Varvara's father said in an interview to The Insider. - Varvara's friends say that while she left home every morning wearing secular clothes, in the university she put on a Muslim headscarf and long-sleeved dark dresses. She also changed her name in WhatsApp to Amina and wrote it in Arabic script. http://rt.com/news/265327-russian-isis-student-group/ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/196342#.VXNeZ1KZTIV

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World Muay Thai boxing champion from Germany joins ISIS in Syria - A 29-year-old German kickboxer and two-time Muay Thai world champion of Albanian origin, Valdet Gashi, has joined ISIS and left for Syria to fight for the Islamists, Swiss media reports. nqBPs6d.jpg - According to the Swiss SRF (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen) program Rundschau, Gashi joined ISIS in early January 2015 but he had been concealing his whereabouts for several months, so that his family believed he was in Thailand. EgpaSyN.jpg - SRF journalists managed to reach him via telephone in mid-May. During a 90-minute telephone conversation, Gashi reportedly told journalists that he had a deep and profound understanding of the ISIS ideology and had gotten used to ISIS’s ideas by now. “I want to do something good and to die while doing it. That is what would make me happy,” he said. He also asked his friends and family not to denounce his decision as “they did not know the whole story,” he Switzerland’s 20 Minuten news. iBgEcV7.jpg - In Syria, Gashi is taking part in the establishment of a Caliphate, the SRF news network reports. In particular, he patrols an area along a stretch of the Euphrates tracking down smugglers and spies. He operates primarily near the city of Membij, close to the Turkish border. - However, it is reported that he had not immediately left for Syria after joining ISIS. Initially, he came to the Swiss town of Winterthur, where he established a sports school named MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) Sunna. There he had trained three young men at the ages from 16 to 20, all of whom along with the sister of the one of the trainees also joined ISIS and left for Syria. All three trainees attended the same mosque in Winterthur, 20 Minuten reported. - One of the trainees, 20-year-old Hajan, also known as Ibn Muhamad al-Kurdi, has reportedly died in Syria fighting for ISIS. Gashi mourned the death of his “Kurdish friend’’ on his Facebook page and claimed they would soon meet again in “Jannah-al-firdaus,” the so-called Muslim seventh sky. Ndmu8N4.jpg - According to the SRF, Valdet Gashi has a wife and two small daughters, one of which was born just few months before he left for Syria.

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The Kurds are starting to panic in the war against ISIS Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/kurds-needs-arms-to-fight-against-isis-2015-6#ixzz3cNn6K8RU
Kurds are to be supported more by US and allies. They are their best bet against ISIS. Iraqi forces whom US wants to use on the ground have been proved totally incompetent despite all the efforts US made in training them. They should rather train and arm Kurdish Peshmegra forces even at the risk of increase in ethnic strife within Iraq. Kurdish fighters are more commited and passionate and resolute in fighting ISIS. In combination with US air power they can tilt the scale.
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