A number of jihadist groups in Southeast Asia have pledged loyalty to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and up to 1,000 people have left Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines to join the terrorist organization in Iraq and Syria, reports BBC.
Some Yazidi boys who have been subjected to Islamic State indoctrination are hesitating to escape the jihadist group’s training camps when given the chance, Reuters reports.
Russia’s envoy to Afghanistan denied reports that Moscow had provided support to the Taliban in the terrorist group’s turf battles against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Attackers have killed three more people in Bangladesh, including the editor of the country’s only LGBT magazine.
The Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf group, based in the Philippines, has decapitated one of its four hostages taken captive on Samal Island in September 2015.
A rival Islamist group, known as the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC), has forced the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) out of the key eastern city of Derna and its outskirts in Libya.
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Kurdish news outlets have reported the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) executed 250 girls and women who refused to become their sex slaves or enter temporary marriages with terrorists.
Kidnappings by the Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf group have prompted Indonesia to call for joint maritime patrols with the Philippines and Malaysia.
A Tunisian recruit told The London Times that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is training a female jihadi army in Libya.
National Geographic has published photos depicting the devastation the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has wrought to Nineveh, Iraq, demolishing the 2,000-year-old Nineveh Gates.
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The four African countries bordering Lake Chad currently combating the Nigeria-based jihadist group Boko Haram will receive $40 million in humanitarian assistance from the United States, according to Samantha Power, the American ambassador to the United Nations.
Some Yezidis, echoing the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), tell Breitbart News that the damage to the infrastructure in Iraq’s Sinjar district and the threat that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) still poses to the region prevents them from returning home.
Expert witnesses, while testifying before a House panel about the unprecedented level of looting and destruction of priceless antiques by jihadist groups across the Middle East, identified collectors from Europe and the United States as top buyers of ancient artifacts illegally sold by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS).
The Obama administration has authorized the deployment of 200-plus additional troops to Iraq, which would bring the total number already there to more than 4,000.
Two Canadian hostages have surfaced in a video to make a “final urgent appeal” for their government to save them from imminent decapitation by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked jihadist group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines.
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A new report has found that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has lost 30 percent of its income due to lost territory and revenue.
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Brazilians are using Twitter to comment on the threat they face at the hands of the Islamic State as their country prepares to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Game.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is reportedly concerned about an increase in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) recruitment at religious schools and universities within its borders and the jihadist group’s growing presence in and around the country despite a crackdown on Islamist organizations carried out by the Pakistani military.
The latest issue of Islamic State magazine Dabiq features two pieces calling for more jihadists activities in Bangladesh, where a string of lynching of secular bloggers indicate popular support for Sharia law may be increasing.
Memorials scheduled across the city marked the third anniversary of the deadly 2013 marathon bombings in Boston, as some fear the lessons of that attack have been lost on the Obama administration.
The fragile Syrian ceasefire is “tenuous,” and has been breached repeatedly by the Russian-backed Bashar al-Assad regime, said President Barack Obama.
The Sunni Islamic State terrorist group, in the latest edition of its propaganda magazine Dabiq, criticizes the Muslim Brotherhood organization for its alleged support of Shiite-led nations and the “pagan democratic religion.”
The United States-led coalition has damaged the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) in Syria and Iraq, but evidence shows the strikes have done little to stop the terrorist group’s expansion.
Sources in Mosul, Iraq, have reported that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) used military equipment to destroy the ancient monument known as the Gate of God.
Some Afghan security forces trained by the United States are defecting to the Taliban, CNN reports.
Iraqi security forces recaptured the western city of Hit in Anbar province from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) repelled an offensive launched by Shiite militiamen, many of them backed by Iran, to recapture the village of Bashir south of northern Iraq’s Kirkuk, Kurdish media outlet Rudaw reports.
At least 13 Islamic State-linked jihadists were killed by the Philippine Army this past weekend during a major offensive in the southern part of the country.
A United Nations-brokered ceasefire in Yemen between Iran-allied Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led military coalition has reportedly started amid allegations of fighting among the warring sides.
Kurdish women continue to pick up arms in Iraq to fight against the Islamic State, emboldened by the fact that jihadis believe being killed by a woman means Allah will not reward them with virgins.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists attacked troops loyal to Syrian dicatator Bashar al-Assad with mustard gas at a military airport in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders Iraq, state-owned media has alleged.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Libya who aspire to attack Europe or the United States has more than doubled to between 4,000 and 6,000 in the last 12 to 18 months, but militias there have managed to limit the terrorist group’s growth, says the commander of U.S. forces in Africa.
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations alleged this week that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is making between $100-$200 million a year by selling priceless antiques they seize.
Syrian state media SANA has reported the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has kidnapped 300 cement workers just 30 miles northeast of Damascus.
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The U.S. military carried out an airstrike Sunday on “a senior Al Qaeda operational meeting in northwest Syria” that resulted in “several enemy killed,” including a prominent leader in the jihadist group’s Syrian offshoot, known as the Nusra Front, according to the Pentagon.
