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A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan targeting the region’s Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in their stronghold of eastern Nangarhar province killed top Pakistani Taliban-linked jihadist Umar Khalifa on July 9 along with four other terrorists, according to the Pentagon and officials from Pakistan.

An Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) convict in Turkey — who skipped out during his trial and has yet to be located by police — was rewarded with a jail sentence reduction of over one year due to “good conduct,” according to some news outlets.

The Iraqi parliament in Baghdad is expected to convene for the first time in three months amid deadly attacks that continue to plague the Iraqi capital.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Saudi Arabia is focusing its recruitment efforts on young Saudis, many of them brothers in their 20s, reports the Saudi Gazette.

Contents: Increasingly angry China rams Vietnamese boat as tribunal ruling expected; Japan’s election opens the way to repeal ‘pacifism’ constitution clause; US will send 560 more troops to Iraq

The territory in Iraq and Syria controlled by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists shrunk by another 12 percent during the first half of 2016, according to an analysis by IHS, a defense research firm.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare tells Breitbart News that America’s longtime ally Egypt is turning to Russia for military assistance because the Obama administration has “abandoned” the North African country.

Satellite images show that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has constructed hundreds of makeshift refineries in Iraq to offset the losses from U.S.-led airstrikes against the oil infrastructure that fuels and funds the jihadist group to the tune of tens of millions of dollars per month.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States government is struggling to prevent the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) from gaining ground in cyberspace, recently declared a Senate panel chairman, echoing top Obama administration officials.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has begun circulating its own currency dubbed the “Golden Dinar,” hoping it will collapse the U.S. dollar, reports The Foreign Desk.

A recent study of individuals arrested in the United States for Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-related crimes found that U.S.-based recruits are more interested in conducting attacks at home than traveling to the Middle East to engage in jihad.

Contents: Hard issues prevent full reconciliation between Turkey and Russia; Turkey’s reconciliation with Egypt appears to be unlikely

Bangladeshi authorities failed to heed online warnings of an imminent attack in the capital of Dhaka on July 1, reports Reuters.

Twin brothers in Saudi Arabia allegedly stabbed their 67-year-old mother to death after she tried to prevent them from traveling to Syria to engage in jihad on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports Reuters.

TEL AVIV – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday blamed the U.S., UK and Israel for the spate of Islamic State bombings that took place over the month of Ramadan.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) warns that more terrorist assaults in the U.S. are “inevitable” but notes that hundreds of heavily armed officers are well-prepared to confront the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and other jihadists groups seeking to attack from the air, over water, and on the streets, reports ABC News.

An analyst claims the wrath of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists that has killed hundreds of people and injured hundreds more over the last week underscore a “desperate” jihadist group.

Jihadists killed an estimated 421 people and wounded at least another 729 in nearly 15 countries during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan this year, marking one of the bloodiest Ramadans in modern history. The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has been

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama announced changes to his plans to draw down the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, saying the United States will maintain 8,400 troops in the country into 2017 as he acknowledged that after more than 14 years of war “the security situation in Afghanistan remains precarious.”

Contents: Attack on Islam’s holy site in Medina caps end-of-Ramadan jihadist carnage; Bond yields continue to plummet globally into negative territory after Brexit

A suicide bombing that killed four security force members and wounded five others took place in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Medina near the Prophet’s Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, marking the third attack in the kingdom amid Ramadan violence.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly boiled alive seven of its own jihadists Monday as punishment for deserting an Iraqi battlefield.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Bangladesh that killed at least 20 hostages, but some officials doubt the jihadist group carried out the massacre.

China has reportedly begun to provide military aid to Afghanistan via a Russian plane as the Obama administration plans to further reduce the presence of U.S. troops in the country remain in place.

Contents: Iraq declares 3 days of national mourning after massive Baghdad bombing; Iraq orders police to stop using bogus ‘bomb detectors’; Former ambassador Jim Moriarty describes the dancing people of Bangladesh

Contents: Bangladesh tries to recover from Dhaka terror attack, the worst in 40 years; Suspicions that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency supported the Dhaka attack

Pakistan is funding the Afghanistan-based terrorist activities of the regional Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch, Afghan political experts have declared, echoing a national security adviser for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

Turkish intelligence officials, nearly three weeks before Istanbul fell victim to multiple suicide bombings linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), alerted the government about a potential terrorist attack by the jihadist group targeting the historic city, reports a senior Ankara-based journalist.

Contents: Mutual UK-EU loathing at the European Parliament in Brussels; Bombing of Turkey’s airport affects a swirl of diplomatic actions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) core in Iraq and Syria is losing territory, fighters, leaders, and financial resources, while its Syrian rival Jabhat al-Nusra flourishes, becoming the “largest” al Qaeda affiliate “in history,” President Barack Obama’s special envoy for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS told lawmakers.

The closure of Jordan’s northeastern border with Syria, prompted by an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked suicide attack, has left thousands of Syrian refugees on the Jordanian side stranded and hungry in the midst of a spiraling humanitarian crisis, according to international

The revamped Pentagon program to train so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels to combat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has produced less than 100 fighters since it was launched nearly six months ago, according to U.S. officials.

Contents: Rating agencies downgrade Britain’s AAA credit rating; Christian community in Lebanon targeted by suicide bombers; June 12 bombing of Beirut’s Blom Bank blamed on Hezbollah; Nasrallah responds: Hezbollah gets all its funding from Iran

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. general who has been nominated to lead the American military’s Africa Command told lawmakers he does not know if the Obama administration has a “grand strategy” in war-ravaged Libya, where U.S.-backed armed groups are fighting Islamic State jihadists.

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists repelled a Russian-backed Syrian regime offensive in the northern province of Raqqa, killing at least 40 troops loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad, reports a monitoring group.

The Obama administration has the capability to take out the vast oil infrastructure that fuels and funds the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), the richest terrorist group in modern history, but chooses not to, suggests the chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.