The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its rival al-Qaeda have recently published propaganda videos explicitly calling on jihadists from China’s Uighur minority who have joined the terrorist groups to attack the communist country.
A 26-year-old American citizen from Long Island, NY, who twice allegedly attempted to travel to Syria join the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) and its rival al-Qaeda’s jihad, threatened to behead his mother, prosecutors have revealed.
A five-member Afghan Taliban delegation reportedly visited China last month at the behest of Beijing, which has been participating in efforts to bring the terrorist group to the negotiating table with the Afghan government.
The United States is aware of, but not openly reacting to, Chinese military ground operations inside war-ravaged Afghanistan.
The medical treatment of women and children, including a two-month-old baby, for exposure to chemical agents near Iraq’s second-largest city Mosul has prompted suspicion that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) may have used chemical weapons.
A radicalised white convert, who worked in Asda, planned to leave the UK and join Islamic State because Brexit caused “division” in the Muslim community, a court has heard.
(REUTERS) – A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in France with a machete was sentenced to seven years in jail on Thursday by a French juvenile court, judicial sources said.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is urging jihadists in the United States to attack the American homeland soon after the terrorist group’s leader allegedly admitted defeat in Iraq and directed his combatants there to “disguise and escape.”
Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have dramatically reduced the number of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Afghanistan by nearly 80 percent, from a peak of nearly 3,000 to about 700 now, according to the American military.
Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in a recent “farewell speech,” admits defeat and tells his Iraqi fighters in the battlefield to “flee and hide” or “ blow themselves up when surrounded by Iraqi forces,” reports a local Iraqi news outlet.
A Muslim convert from London, who wrote in his diary how he planned to buy a nine-year-old virgin slave girl after he joined Islamic State, faces jail for terrorism offences.
Contents: ISIS forces hundreds of Christians to flee Egypt’s North Sinai; ISIS-linked Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in Sinai continues to confound Egypt’s army
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists are strapping bombs on stray dogs, including a puppy, to use them against U.S.-backed coalition forces in Iraq, a video posted by Iraqi government-sanctioned paramilitary fighters purportedly shows.
Former ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told a crowd at the CPAC 2017 conference that Americans must protect the United State’s sovereignty against foreign influence.
Contents: Terrorist bombings in Homs Syria trigger retaliation by al-Assad regime; Once again, so-called Syria ‘peace talks’ are near collapse
Women in Syria liberated from Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) control celebrate their newfound freedom by setting their face veils ablaze and smoking cigarettes, reveals video footage published by the Iraqi Kurdish news outlet Rudaw.
Baghdad government-sanctioned paramilitary forces predominantly made up of Shiite militiamen backed by Iran have launched a new effort to recapture more Iraqi villages from the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group.
The Pentagon is reportedly unable to confirm whether an Islamic State British jihadist spent time at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba before blowing himself up in a vehicle full of explosives at an Iraqi army base near Mosul, Iraq.
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Russian citizen accused of financially supporting the Islamic State group and of dealing drugs.
The Islamic State branch that operates in and around Egypt has designated the northern African country’s Christian minority their “favorite prey” in a propaganda video released this week.
The CIA suspended military aid to some rebels fighting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a move that some opposition fighters believe is intended to prevent U.S. weapons and cash from falling into the hands of Islamic extremists, reports Reuters.
A jihadist from the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group captured by Kurdish forces has shown little remorse after admitting to raping more than 200 women, reveals Reuters.
BAGHDAD (AFP) – The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Mosul it said was carried out by a British suicide bomber, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
Up to 125 jihadists and their relatives have traveled from the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago to join the Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East, making the country “the largest per-capita source” of recruits for the jihadist group in the Western Hemisphere, reports the Associated Press (AP).
A massive suicide bombing by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) on a prominent Sufi Muslim shrine in Pakistan killed up to 88 people, including women and children, and wounded more than 300 others — a rude reminder of the terrorist group’s expanding presence in the region.
Contents: Pakistan again in shock as Sufi shrine bombing is fifth terror attack in a week; Monday’s terror attack in Lahore Pakistan kills dozens; Pakistan’s government promises that each drop of blood will be avenged
Retaking the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) will only push the jihadist group to other parts of the war-ravaged country, a Kurdish intelligence official predicted during an interview with Reuters.
The Department of Defense (DOD) is “considering” sending American ground combat troops to Syria as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to “hasten the defeat” of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), a Pentagon spokesman has confirmed.
An estimated 49 percent of individuals indicted for carrying out or conspiring to perpetrate a terrorist attack linked to the Islamic State are “from established Muslim countries,” according to the Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST), a global security affairs research institute based at the University of Chicago.
Islamic State terrorists consider the mainstream media to be “more important than military jihad” with a “far-reaching” power that exceeds even the “most powerful bombs,” reports the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence (ICSR).
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ main intelligence service says it is treating a small group of Dutch children in conflict zones in Iraq and Syria as “Jihadist travelers” since they may have received military training.
PARIS (AFP) – Two men and a 16-year-old girl were charged in southern France on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a terror attack that the authorities believe was imminent, judicial sources said.
The new United Nations chief, to the ire of the United States, has nominated former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to serve as the global body’s envoy to volatile Libya where the Islamic State continues to cause havoc despite losing its stronghold in the African country.
LONDON (AP) — A report based on a translated Islamic State group document says the extremists consider mainstream media to be an effective weapon for spreading its radical message.
MILAN (AP) — An Italian court has convicted a Moroccan-born man and his wife on charges of international terrorism in connection with an Islamic State plot to carry out attacks in Rome during the Holy Year in 2016.
Spain’s Interior Ministry said two separate arrests have been made in connection with Islamic extremism, bringing to 188 the number of people accused of jihadi links in Spain since 2015.
Pakistan has launched a concerted campaign to push Afghan refugees out of the country, a move considered the “world’s largest unlawful” removal of refugees, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that warns the move may further strain conflict between the two neighboring countries.
Contents: Iraq: Supporters of al-Sadr and al-Maliki turn again to violence in Baghdad; Iraq’s army poised to begin Battle of Mosul in the west
Turkish prosecutors are reportedly investigating allegations that suspected Islamic State terrorists have established a school in Istanbul to spread their jihadist ideology to children.
The 2017 terrorism forecast for the United States and the rate at which Americans are being radicalized at home is “alarming,” according to a monthly assessment by the House Homeland Security Committee.
