The leader of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has reportedly suffered yet another “fatal injury” at the hands of the Nigerian military more than a year after his alleged death.
Contents: Kurdish forces in Syria take Tabqa city en route to Raqqa; US military moves to protect Syrian Kurds from Turkey’s military
Contents: Israel’s warplanes strike weapons depot inside Syria near Damascus; Israeli analyst: A new war with Hezbollah might involve all of Lebanon
Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is growing stronger with the resurgence of the Taliban in recent years and “remains a direct threat” to America more than a decade and a half after the United States began targeting both terrorist groups in response to 9/11, an expert tells House lawmakers.
Jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan have attacked Taliban militants in the northern part of the country over the lucrative opium trafficking business, reportedly revealed a spokesman for the governor of Jawzjan province where the clashes took place.
Contents: Turkey’s warplanes strike Kurdish militias fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq; PKK conducts new terror attack in southeastern Turkey; US State Dept. says that it’s ‘deeply concerned’ about the Turkish airstrikes
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters this week that his administration’s involvement in stabilizing war-devastated Libya would be limited to combating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Dropping the “mother of all bombs” on Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Afghanistan was “necessary to break” the terrorist group, declared U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for an attack on a security checkpoint near the ancient St. Catherine’s monastery in the volatile Sinai peninsula that killed at least one policeman and wounded four others.
The Christian religion in the Muslim-majority North African country of Libya has disappeared, declared an expert from United Kingdom-based University of Sussex.
WASHINGTON, DC — Nearly one Christian is killed every hour around the world for practicing their faith, said the Archbishop of the U.S. capital. Cardinal Donald Wuerl made those comments on Thursday while delivering the keynote address during the one-day symposium at the National Press Club focused on Christian prosecution.
The Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan is likely involved in the lucrative trade of opium and its deadly heroin derivative despite its claims to the contrary, experts tell Breitbart News.
Fighters from an anti-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad Christian militia have urged U.S. President Donald Trump to assist them in combating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda in Syria.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its rival al-Qaeda are considering joining forces as U.S.-backed local troops get closer to pushing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s group out if its last major stronghold in Iraq, Mosul, said the Iraqi vice president.
Contents: UN says lengthy Mosul operation leading to major humanitarian disaster; ISIS using both mustard gas and chlorine gas attacks in Mosul; Iraq says that ISIS and al-Qaeda are in talks to join forces
The “nexus” between Latin American drug cartels and Islamic terrorist groups like the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate Boko Haram, which controls Africa-based smuggling routes towards Europe, “is real” and expected to “get more sophisticated,” declared U.S. Department of Defense Secretary John Kelly.
Battled-hardened “holy warriors” who traveled from outside the Middle East to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria are expected to “wreak murderous havoc” in the United States and other countries once they return home, warns the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The U.S. military using the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal to target Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Afghanistan is “an immense atrocity against the Afghan people,” proclaimed the former president of the country.
Pakistani authorities have detained at least 22 individuals in connection to the lynching of a university student accused of committing an act of blasphemy against Islam.
Contents: Deadly explosion in Syria targets buses carrying 5,000 al-Assad supporters; Evidence of Bashar al-Assad’s war crimes and atrocities continues to grow
The most powerful non-nuclear bomb dropped by the U.S. military on an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) stronghold along the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 36 jihadists, according to Afghan officials.
The massive U.S. military strike on a network of tunnels along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border used by the local Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch may have plugged the hole that allowed the flow of jihadi reinforcements from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
The Kabul-based ministry of interior (MoI) has refuted claims by the police chief of Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province that Russian military officers are training Afghan Taliban jihadists “in tactical maneuvers and planting of mines,” reports TOLO News.
The U.S. military said it had degraded the number of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) fighters in Afghanistan by an estimated 80 percent to about 600 jihadists before dropping the largest non-nuclear bomb on the terrorist group on Thursday.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq cut one ear off 33 jihadists it caught deserting the Mosul battlefield, where U.S.-backed local troops are engaged in a fierce fight against the terrorist organization, an Iraqi news outlet has learned.
The Africa-based jihadist groups Boko Haram and al-Shabaab have intensified their efforts against U.S. interests in response to increasing American military pressure against their operations approved by President Donald Trump.
Defeating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) remains the United States’ primary goal in Syria, not toppling the country’s dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to high-ranking officials in President Donald Trump’s administration.
The United States, as the “biggest stakeholder” in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, must be involved in the Russia-initiated discussions to negotiate peace between Kabul and the Afghan Taliban, according to Pakistan.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who said “goodbye” to diplomacy with the United States last year, is now urging his American counterparts to work with Manila in combating terrorism and other mutual threats.
An American special forces soldier was killed while combating Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in their Afghanistan stronghold, located in the eastern part of the country along its border with Pakistan, revealed the U.S./NATO-led international coalition.
Contents: Egypt in 3-month state of emergency after Coptic church bombings; US aircraft carrier strike force heads for Korean peninsula; South Korean anxiety over North Korea and anger at China grow over THAAD deployment
A United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based international gold refinery has established a branch that launders money for criminal and terrorist groups alike in the small “criminalized” South American country of Suriname, according to a national security think tank.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in the latest edition of its online propaganda magazine Rumiyah, eulogized a French-born U.S.-Syria dual citizen wanted by the FBI and considered a recruiter and essential operative in the jihadist group’s media efforts.
Russian nationals make up the largest number of jihadists from non-predominantly Muslim countries fighting on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to data from a U.S.-based intelligence consulting firm.
Jihadist groups like the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) are engaged in efforts to “radicalize and recruit” people in Latin American regions home to violent street gangs that maintain links with U.S. counterparts, namely MS-13, according to the top American commander in the area.
Christian and Yazidi Iraqis lament the dire future facing their minority communities in new video footage obtained by Breitbart News. Both groups have nearly been eradicated by the genocidal Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
WASHINGTON – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told Breitbart News that, while his country does not have “any problems with the Kurds,” they are not amenable to an independent, Kurdish state at the moment.
Contents: Explosion in St. Petersburg subway kills 11, injures dozens; Suspicion falls on blowback from Russia’s military intervention into Syria
Contents: With Arab world in chaos, Arab League summit displays lack of leadership and influence; Arab League plays it safe by only condemning Israel and terrorism
Snipers from both the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the U.S.-backed Iraqi army are fatally shooting civilians who try to flee the besieged western side of the city of Mosul, reports the Independent, citing an eyewitness.
