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The United States military wants to ramp up its campaign against the Taliban, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), and other jihadist groups in Afghanistan beyond the fighting season and into the winter months, declared the top American commander in the Middle East and South Asia.

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The New York Police Department is expected to take “unprecedented” security measures to keep visitors safe during the historically crowded New Year’s celebration in Times Square, including enhancing surveillance of large trucks, often used as killing machines by jihadists.

Turkey detained nearly 200 people over suspected links to Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists over a two-day period as part of enhanced counterterrorism efforts ahead of New Year celebrations.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for targeting a Shiite cultural center in Kabul with bombs, killing more than 40 people and wounding over 80 others.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its rival al-Qaeda are engaged in a “fierce competition” for jihadi recruits in India, reports the Hindu.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joined forces with the FBI to issue a public service announcement urging Americans to stay “alert” during the holidays, conceding that there are no “credible threats at this time.”

Australia will no longer fly combat sorties in airspace over Iraq and Syria, although air-to-air refuelling and surveillance aircraft will remain to assist in operations.

Contents: Thousands of Kurds in violent protests against Kurdistan government in northern Iraq; Iraq’s Baghdad government splits over role of Iran-backed Shia militias

A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, has convicted a former D.C. Metro Transit Police Department officer affiliated with Nazi ideology of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), announced the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Federal inspectors charged with keeping America’s transportation system safe only spend “half their working hours” doing work, reveals an audit by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’ watchdog arm.

(AFP) — An estimated 40,000 people travelled from around the world to take up arms for the Islamic State group as it occupied territory in Syria and Iraq and declared a caliphate in 2014.

The U.S. military is setting its eyes on combating state sponsor of terrorism Iran as the war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) dwindles in the Middle East, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Islamic State terrorists have threatened to attack the United States with “showers of bullets and explosive vehicles” in a series of online propaganda posters depicting New York’s Police Commissioner James O’Neill as a prisoner in an orange outfit kneeling before a terrorist, among other mocked-up images.

The U.S. State Department has reproached Russia’s assertion that the terrorism problem in Syria has been “solved,” saying America’s war against jihadists in Iraq and Syria “is not done.”

Counterterrorism and transnational crime authorities in Bangladesh interrogated relatives of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-affiliated terrorists who set off a “pipe bomb” in the New York City subway on Tuesday.

Iraqi Shiite Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, in response to the backlash, had a change of heart and added the Kurdish Peshmerga into his speech about Iraq’s victory of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), listing them among the armed groups he praised for their contribution to the demise of the jihadist group.

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Kremlin President Vladimir Putin has reportedly ordered his Ministry of Defense to begin pulling out Russian troops from Syria, declaring that the end of “large-scale combat actions” against jihadists in the war-devastated country is imminent.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has added a prominent jihadi ideologue based in Jamaica to the American government’s list of specially designated global terrorists for recruiting prospective militants for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.

WASHINGTON, DC — The United States is gripped by an “elevated threat” as the Christmas holiday approaches posed by homegrown violent extremists (HVEs) seeking to carry out “stray dog attacks” on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), warned a top U.S. national security official.

The terrorist-linked Muslim Brotherhood (MB), echoing other jihadist groups, has pledged to “shed blood” and “wage war” against the United States after President Donald Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and directed his government to move the American embassy to the city.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is developing networks across North Africa that seek to attack the continent, Europe, and the United States while it loses control of its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, a top U.S. State Department counterterrorism official warned lawmakers.

The United States “remains fully committed” to continue providing millions of dollars in American taxpayer-funded military assistance to Lebanon, home to Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, considered the most influential player in the country’s fractious political environment, confirmed a Pentagon spokesman.

The dramatic losses the Islamic State (ISIS) has sustained at the hands of the American-led coalition and its local allies have failed to take a toll on the jihadist group’s global reach, the head of U.S. National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) told a House panel.

The United States is facing a plethora of terror threats that are progressively more menacing than the dangers faced during the 9/11 time period, top U.S. national security officials told lawmakers.

Multiple media outlets have reported that Beijing is planning to send its elite special forces, known as the “Tigers of Siberia” and the “Night Tigers,” to support troops loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) jihadists killed at least 17 people and injured 28 others in Baghdad, a testament to the ongoing threat it poses to Iraq despite the dramatic losses it has suffered at the hands of the U.S.-led coalition and its local allies.

Between 25 and 30 men suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) carried out the deadly assault on a Sufi mosque in Egypt’s Sinai while donning military combat uniforms.

The estimated 640 young girls from Iraq’s Turkmen minority community who remain under the shackles of sexual slavery at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) face honor killings if they escape and return to their families, a former Iraqi lawmaker representing the ethnic group told Fox News.

A federal grand jury charged the Uzbek terrorist allegedly responsible for the Halloween attack in Manhattan that killed eight people and injured 12 others with 22 criminal counts, including murder in aid of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked racketeering activity, according to the U.S Department of Justice (DOJ).

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The plight of Christian minorities suffering persecution in Muslim-majority nations is on the brink of being forgotten, indicated the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace.

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The prime minister of Turkey has accused America of turning a blind eye when the U.S.-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) allegedly granted the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) permission to flee Syria’s Raqqa along with their weapons and munitions.

The much-needed “tidal wave of air power” that a U.S.-supplied fleet of 159 new Black Hawk helicopters is expected to bring to the Afghan military’s war against the Taliban and other jihadists will not be fully operational until 2022, reports the Washington Post (WaPo).