Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Umm Sayyaf

Index Umm Sayyaf

Nasrin As'ad Ibrahim, better known by the nom de guerre Umm Sayyaf, is the widow of Abu Sayyaf, captured in May 2015 by US Delta Force soldiers on the mission where they killed her husband, a suspected leader of the Islamic State. [1]

30 relations: ABC News, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Sayyaf (ISIL leader), Administrative detention, Al Jazeera, Ash Carter, Barack Obama, Barbara Starr, Bernadette Meehan, CNN, Delta Force, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi nationality law, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Kayla Mueller, MSN, President of the United States, Pseudonym, Ray Sánchez, Reuters, Slavery, The Daily Beast, United States, United States Department of Defense, United States National Security Council, Virginia, Washington, D.C., White House, Yazidis.

ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and ABC News · See more »

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi (أبو بكر البغدادي; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد البدري السامرائي in 1971) is the leader of the Salafi jihadist militant terrorist organisation known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),Rewards for Justice – Retrieved 25 January 2017 which controls territory in several countries.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi · See more »

Abu Sayyaf (ISIL leader)

Abu Sayyaf is the nom de guerre of a senior leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who was described as overseeing gas and oil operations.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Abu Sayyaf (ISIL leader) · See more »

Administrative detention

Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial, usually for security reasons.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Administrative detention · See more »

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera (translit,, literally "The Island", though referring to the Arabian Peninsula in context), also known as JSC (Jazeera Satellite Channel), is a state-funded broadcaster in Doha, Qatar, owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Al Jazeera · See more »

Ash Carter

Ashton Baldwin Carter (born September 24, 1954) is an American physicist and former Harvard University professor of Science and International Affairs who served as the 25th United States Secretary of Defense from February 2015 to January 2017.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Ash Carter · See more »

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Barack Obama · See more »

Barbara Starr

Barbara Starr (born 1938) is an American television news journalist for CNN.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Barbara Starr · See more »

Bernadette Meehan

Bernadette Meehan (born 1975) is an American diplomat and former spokesperson for the United States National Security Council.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Bernadette Meehan · See more »

CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and CNN · See more »

Delta Force

The 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D), commonly referred to as Delta Force, Combat Applications Group (CAG), "The Unit", Army Compartmented Element (ACE), or within JSOC as Task Force Green, is an elite special mission unit of the United States Army, under operational control of the Joint Special Operations Command.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Delta Force · See more »

Erbil

Erbil, also spelt Arbil or Irbil, locally called Hawler by the Kurdish people (ھەولێر Hewlêr; أربيل, Arbīl; ܐܲܪܒܝܠ, Arbela), is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and the largest city in northern Iraq.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Erbil · See more »

Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan, officially called the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Herêmî Kurdistan) by the Iraqi constitution, is an autonomous region located in northern Iraq.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Iraqi Kurdistan · See more »

Iraqi nationality law

Iraqi nationality is transmitted by one's parents.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Iraqi nationality law · See more »

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (داعش dāʿish), is a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Salafi/Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant · See more »

Kayla Mueller

Kayla Jean Mueller (August 14, 1988 – February 6, 2015) was a Christian human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Kayla Mueller · See more »

MSN

MSN (stylized as msn) is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, the same release date as Windows 95.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and MSN · See more »

President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and President of the United States · See more »

Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Pseudonym · See more »

Ray Sánchez

Ray Sánchez (born January 28, 1983 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a Mexican American professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Ray Sánchez · See more »

Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Reuters · See more »

Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Slavery · See more »

The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is an American news and opinion website focused on politics and pop culture.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and The Daily Beast · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and United States · See more »

United States Department of Defense

The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and United States Department of Defense · See more »

United States National Security Council

The White House National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for consideration of national security, military matters, and foreign policy matters with senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the executive office of the president of the United States.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and United States National Security Council · See more »

Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Virginia · See more »

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Washington, D.C. · See more »

White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and White House · See more »

Yazidis

The Yazidis, or Yezidis (Êzidî), are a Kurdish-speaking people, indigenous to a region of northern Mesopotamia (known natively as Ezidkhan) who are strictly endogamous.

New!!: Umm Sayyaf and Yazidis · See more »

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Sayyaf

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »