The coalescence of his Orthodox students into a militant unit is viewed as a potentially dangerous power play.
The U.S Central Command on Monday reported nine new airstrikes in the Kobani area, hitting Islamic State fighting positions, staging areas and one "tactical" militant unit.
The Femen protest group describe themselves as "sextremists" on their website, the "special force of feminism, its spearhead militant unit, modern incarnation of fearless and free Amazons".
Its units are scattered across much of the country and its supply lines are vulnerable to attack by highly mobile militant units.
It is common to observe, based on congressional testimony and other public comments he has made, that Mattis has taken a hard line toward Iran, particularly the activities of the Revolutionary Guards and other allied or expeditionary Iranian militant units in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.
"The airstrikes are not precise," said Walat Bakir, a Kobani resident reached via telephone, who noted that militant units were dispersing to decrease their vulnerability.
At the time, he was the head of the C.I.A.'s Islamic-militant unit, whose job was to "detect, disrupt, and dismantle" terrorist operations.
Many civilians hide at home, fearing masked vigilantes with the Ittehad-e-Mujahedeen Khorasan, a militant enforcement unit that hunts for American spies.
The story, told through the eyes of Menachem (Aki Avni), a highly respected commander of a militant army unit composed entirely of Orthodox members of the yeshiva, takes the axiom that the personal is political and gives it a savage twist.
On Thursday, Ukrainian national guard troops killed three people, wounded 13 and detained 63 suspects after armed militants attacked their unit in the port of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov reported.
He was not tagging along with the United States Marines or some other coalition force — he was on the other side of the war, riding in minivans and walking through dusty fields with a small unit of militants in Baghlan Province, north of Kabul.
