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Iraqi officials and Syrian groups’ claims that Islamic State War Minister Omar al-Shishani has succumbed to his wounds from a March 5 airstrike have now been confirmed by American officials.

The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution that puts pressure on the Obama administration to acknowledge that the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria constitute “genocide.”

Monday night, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution labeling the Islamist slaughter of Christians in the Middle East “genocide.”

Contents: Saudi’s Prince Faisal sharply rebukes Obama’s ‘free riders’ accusation; The World View of President Barack Hussein Obama

The Islamic State has retreated towards Raqqa, Syria, the self-declared capital of its Caliphate, as Syrian forces gain ground in Aleppo, according to several reports.

Contents: Yet another terrorist bombing in Ankara Turkey kills 34; AQIM takes credit for armed terror attack on Ivory Coast beach resort

Contents: Google’s AlphaGo computer defeats world champion at game of Go; Despite rapid growth of ISIS in Libya, West cannot agree on a strategy

The new Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader in Libya issued a statement this week, asserting that the group continues to grow “stronger every day.”

U.S. officials captured the Islamic State’s top chemical engineer, who has provided information that has so far led to two airstrikes.

Pentagon officials believe airstrikes in Syria might have killed the Islamic State’s “minister of war” Abu Omar al-Shishani.

A report indicates there is evidence that members of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have forced children to play soccer with decapitated heads as a way to desensitize them to violence.

A report claims that Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists have impregnated 31,000 women and girls inside their Caliphate.

Indian and Yemeni officials believe the Islamic State kidnapped an Indian priest in an attack that left 16 dead at a nursing home in Yemen.

Sheikh Aaidh al-Qarni, a renowned cleric from Saudi Arabia who is on the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) hit list, was shot and wounded in the Philippines at the beginning of this month.

Contents: Italy debates military intervention in Libya after ISIS kills Italian hostages; Looking back at the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ Libya military intervention; Russian media calls Gaddafi’s Libya an ‘oasis of stability’; Police in Turkey use force to shut down opposition newspaper

For the first time, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has allowed women to participate in combat roles in Libya. The London Times reports that the government there has arrested seven women while attacks killed three last week in Sabratha, located 50 miles from Tripoli.

An Islamic State fighter accidentally filmed his own death on a GoPro in Syria.

German doctor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, treating Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS), tells the Agence France-Presse he has treated an 8-year-old girl who set herself on fire to stop jihadists from raping her.

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad assigned Nada al-Qahtani, a female jihadi, to lead a battalion in Hasakah, located in northeast Syria.

The Moroccan government has broken up an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) cell that planned to carry out attacks across the country.

Secretary of State John Kerry said this week he is seeking more evidence against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to label their crimes genocide.

Forty percent of intelligence analysts working at the U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM), which is charged with the war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), warned that the “analytic integrity” of their work is flawed, the chairman of a top House panel said on Thursday.

The Pentagon and CIA do not believe Russia will honor the ceasefire agreement in Syria arrived at this week, according to sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal.

Contents: China building powerful new radar system in South China Sea; Report: China’s military buildup neutralizes America’s aircraft carriers; John Kerry and Russia announce a new Syria peace plan

Contents: Delhi in crisis as India sends thousands of troops to quash Jat riots; Jats demand entry into the ‘reservation system’ for jobs and education; Bomb explosions strike Assad strongholds in Syria as Kerry speaks of ‘provisional’ peace

Contents: Latest Syria peace plan officially fails; Shifting alliances across the Mideast

Contents: US warplanes strike suspected ISIS training base in Libya; US warplane attack on Libya raises question of ground troops; Europe plans to expand Operation Sophia into Libyan waters

Contents: Six Turkish soldiers killed in explosion a day after Ankara attack; New terrorist attacks cause further splits in US-Turkey relationship; Russia’s attacks on civilian hospitals in Aleppo follow the ‘Grozny model’

Iranian officials have organized the “Sixth National Children’s Memorial,” an event to train children for possible war against the United States and Israel.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) could weaponize “highly dangerous” radioactive material still considered missing after it was stolen last year from a storage facility in Iraq, Reuters exclusively reports.

Contents: Car bomb attack on military in Ankara Turkey kills 28; Erdogan slams US, UN policy, renews demand by Syria ‘safe zone’

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) militants raped four women and then stoned them for adultery in Mosul, Iraq.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has released a report concluding that Russian airstrikes have killed more Syrian civilians than the Syrian forces or the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in January.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has resorted to recruiting child soldiers and drugging adult jihadis to keep Mosul, Iraq, under its control.

Contents: Turkey doubles down on shelling Kurds in Syria; Qatar says it will join Saudi Arabia, UAE sending troops to Syria; John Kerry suggests that al-Assad and the Russians are delusional

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration has “significantly” increased its air strikes against the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan since the president granted commanders broader authority last month to target the jihadist group there, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday.