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The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked Abu Sayyaf group, based in the southern Philippines, is threatening to behead the two remaining hostages from a group of four it kidnapped last year if a ransom of nearly $13 million is not paid.

Some Pakistanis gathered for vigils to remember and honor the victims of the recent terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, defying Taliban militants and other jihadists in their country who revile the LGBT community as abhorrent to Islam.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Ryan Zinke, a former commander at Navy Seal Team Six and member of the House Armed Services Committee, said the June 12 massacre at an Orlando, FL, LGBT nightclub serves as “a tragic reminder” that the United States is at war with “radical Islamic terrorists.”

The US citizen of Afghan descent responsible for the deadly Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorist attack in Orlando, FL traveled twice to Saudi Arabia between 2011 and 2012 for Umrah, a Muslim religious pilgrimage, NBC News reports, citing an unnamed spokesman for the kingdom’s interior ministry.

Contents: Al-Qaeda leader swears allegiance to Taliban’s new leader; ISIS losing ground may have led to Orlando terror attack

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has stepped up its chemical attacks against Peshmerga fighters of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, a top commander of the Kurdish force told Breitbart News.

The Christian mother of one of the estimated 218 Chibok schoolgirls who remain in the clutches of the jihadist group Boko Haram after being kidnapped from Nigeria’s Borno state more than two years ago told Breitbart News Saturday that her faith in God has helped and consoled her through the ongoing ordeal.

Disillusioned Western jihadis who joined the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in the Middle East are now increasingly pleading with their governments to help them return home, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports, citing diplomats and a pro-defectors Syrian network.

The threat of a terrorist group like the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) using nuclear material to carry out a “dirty bomb” attack against the West is the highest since the Cold War came to an end, warns a leading international think tank on proliferation

Contents: Israel’s Netanyahu responds cautiously to Tel Aviv terror attack; West Bank Palestinians reject call to end security cooperation with Israel; Turkey endures two days of terror bombing attacks; Terror attacks in Turkey complicate EU-Turkey migrant deal

Taliban jihadists replaced their Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) counterparts as the world’s chief perpetrators of terrorism attacks last year, with 1,093 individual attacks, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2015.

A resurgent Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has expanded its reach in Yemen to unprecedented levels and quadrupled its manpower from “approximately 1,000 members” in 2014 to “4,000” last year, according to the Department of State (DOS)..

Some civilians in Fallujah have reportedly turned to suicide and killing their own children amid the Iraqi military’s offensive to retake the city from brutal Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists who are allegedly using “hundreds” of residents as “human shields.”

Brutal Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists are shooting dead civilians who try to flee the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an aid agency. According to BBC, families interviewed by NRC revealed that civilians are

The State Department released its annual report on global terrorism and deemed the Islamic Republic of Iran, the focus of a now-historic nuclear agreement, the world’s top sponsor of terrorism, second only to the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), which was labeled as “the greatest threat globally.”

Contents: Violent terror attack on Kazakhstan blamed on Islamic militants; Islamist militants in Bangladesh kill police officer’s wife in revenge

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. military is confronting an “extremist Islamist movement” in the Americas that has been linked to the use of illicit trafficking networks by criminals and terrorists, likely working together, revealed U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) chief Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd during a roundtable discussion with reporters.

Iraqi forces have recently stalled offensive operations against Islamic State (ISIS/IS/ISIL) jihadists at Fallujah’s outskirts, as concerns over the ultimate fate of trapped civilians and resistance from the jihadist group slowed their advance.

Islamic State jihadists wounded one U.S. service member in the vicinity of the Kurdish capital of Erbil in northern Iraq and another north of the terrorist group’s de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria last weekend, according to the Pentagon.

At least 20,000 children remain inside Fallujah, facing food and water shortages in addition to the extreme violence that has erupted as Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S. military and Iran-allied Shiite militias, fight to retake the Iraqi city from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reveals a component of the United Nations.

Contents: Death of Afghan Taliban leader exposes Iran-Taliban links; 50,000 civilians in danger as Iraq tries to liberate Fallujah from ISIS

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists are using “several hundred families” in Fallujah as “human shields” as they engage in bloody battles with Iraqi troops, backed by the United States and Iran-allied Shiite militias, for control over the strategic city, reports the United Nations Refugee Agency.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The participation of Iran-allied Shiite militias in the U.S-backed operation to retake Fallujah from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is testament to the Islamic Republic’s growing and troubling influence in Iraq, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) told Breitbart News.

Contents: Report: Israel and Saudi Arabia are allying against Iran and Hezbollah; Iran and Hezbollah turn focus of hostility from Israel to Saudi Arabia; Shifting Israeli alliances in the Mideast

Russia has dismissed as “propaganda” claims that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) destroyed four Russian helicopters and 20 supply trucks deployed to a military airbase in Syria which is loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has promoted two young men, Fahad Tanveer Shaikh and Aman Naeem Tandel, to top leadership positions in the territory the jihadist group claims to control in India.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has “destroyed” Russian military equipment kept at a strategic Bashar al-Assad airbase in central Syria, according to recently released satellite images.

The Obama administration is using U.S. taxpayer funds to support an Afghan government program that is providing financial and military aid to a Taliban splinter faction, one allegedly linked to the growing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Afghanistan.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in a new propaganda message, is urging supporters to carry out violent attacks against civilian and military targets within the United States and Europe during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins in early June.

A naturalized U.S. citizen of Albanian descent was arrested by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in the Bronx early Tuesday on charges of providing material support to terrorism, according to Breitbart News sources. Breitbart News has learned that

Contents: Death of Afghan Taliban leader complicates America’s relationship with Pakistan; Massive explosions in Syria target Bashar al-Assad’s heartland

The Iraqi military said it has recaptured the western town of Rutba from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The town is located along the militants’ supply route into neighboring Syria, and is considered an essential “support zone” used by the terrorist group to launch attacks in both countries.

U.S. Special Forces are fighting the growing threat posed by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadist group in Libya.

Contents: Venezuela’s Maduro accuses US of planning an imminent invasion; Syria peace talks in Vienna collapse in farce – again

Police in Bangladesh have arrested four members of the jihadist group Jumatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) suspected of hacking an English professor to death.

Iraqi Major General Najm Abdullah al-Jubbouri says ISIS is bombing soft civilian targets in Baghdad because they’ve become weak on the battlefield.