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Chaos-ridden Libya is experiencing an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) resurgence that is posing a clear and present danger to Europe while the jihadist group’s so-called caliphate continues to dwindle in Iraq and Syria, primarily at the hands of the U.S-led coalition.

Pro-Syrian opposition Turkey along with allies of the country’s dictator Russia and Iran are getting close to finalizing an agreement on establishing four de-escalation zones in Syria, according to a senior Kremlin negotiator.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in a recently released propaganda video, is urging would-be terrorists to travel to the Philippines to engage in jihad instead of Iraq and Syria, home to the group’s dwindling caliphate.

Shiite Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah, fighting on behalf of forces loyal to Russian-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria, has reportedly declared victory in the war-ravaged country despite recent claims that al-Qaeda has set up the conditions to establish an Islamic emirate there.

Contents: UN report confirms al-Assad’s massive Sarin gas attack on April 4; Israeli warplanes strike Syrian chemical weapons site in Masyaf

Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, backed by dictator Bashar al-Assad’s Russian-allied army, has captured most of an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-controlled region on Syria’s side of its border with Lebanon, according to the Shiite group’s leader.

Conservative Hungary has declared that EU politicians not up to the task of securing the continent’s safety “have no place among the leaders of Europe” following recent terror attacks.

Channel 4 has aired the first part of a drama set in the Islamic State, described as “an English-language jihadist recruiting video” by a counter-terrorism expert, days after an Islamist terror attack in Barcelona.

Contents: Done with Mosul, Iraqi forces begin operation to eject ISIS from Tal Afar; Turkey warns of sectarian war following battle of Tal Afar; President Trump to announce US strategy in Afghanistan

(AFP) — The Islamic State jihadist group on Saturday claimed responsibility after a man stabbed seven people on the street in a Russian city before being shot dead by police, despite investigators saying it was probably not a terrorist attack.

Contents: Barcelona attackers apparently had multiple coordinated attacks planned; ISIS takes credit for the Barcelona attack; White House officials appear to differ on North Korea military option

WASHINGTON – A proposed piece of U.S. legislation that places a clear priority on helping Christians and other victims of Islamic State-perpetrated genocide in the Middle East may be able to help President Donald Trump’s administration keep its promise to help persecuted minority groups in Iraq and Syria.

The U.S. military has ruled out enemy contact as the cause of the recent deaths of two American service members and injury of five others while they were participating in the U.S.-led offensive against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq Sunday.

Hope has returned to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world as they struggle to bring life again to their historical homeland in northern Iraq, where they suffered a genocide campaign at the hands of the now crumbling Islamic State.

Pushing the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) out of its de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria may take months, predicted a commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces fighting against the jihadists, according to Reuters.

Contents: Turkey reshuffles top military leaders in preparation for action in Syria; Turkey announces plans for military action against Kurds in northern Syria

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the Taliban, an al-Qaeda ally, stand accused again of joining forces to carry out a deadly terrorist attack in Afghanistan that left up to 50 mostly Shiite civilians dead and hundreds of others in captivity

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its alleged rival al-Qaeda are expanding their Sunni jihadi operations into the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir, claimed by Pakistan, India, and China, according to a report published Wednesday.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to flee Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) holdouts in Iraq as U.S.-backed local forces intensify the pressure against the jihadist group, according to the United Nations.

The U.S. is reportedly deploying dozens of additional Marines to join an estimated 300 others in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an opium-rich Taliban hotspot located along the Pakistan border.

Contents: Dozens of Shia Muslims in Afghanistan killed in fourth Taliban victory in 3 weeks; Did ISIS team up with the Taliban in Sar-e-Pul massacre?; Trump’s review of the Afghanistan war seeks solution where none exists

About 30 percent of the territory the American-led coalition has retaken from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria since 2014 has been liberated under U.S. President Donald Trump’s watch, a senior State Department official tells reporters.

A Boko Haram splinter group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) recently marked its resurgence by kidnapping a Nigerian oil prospecting team, killing at least 37 people.

Hamza Bin Laden, the son of the late Osama Bin Laden who has vowed to take revenge against the United States for executing his father, is expected to take over al-Qaeda.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is capitalizing on the chaotic situation in jihadi breeding ground Libya, establishing a new stronghold in the North African nation as U.S.-backed local troops in Iraq and Syria push the terrorist group out of their territory.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States hopes to prevent a civil war from erupting in Syria after the defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters Tuesday.

Shiite Iran’s terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, and a Sunni jihadist organization linked to al-Qaeda recently reached a ceasefire after clashes in Lebanon near the country’s border with Syria left more than 150 people dead.

Contents: Indian Kashmir separatists split over announcement of Zakir Musa as al-Qaeda leader; India says that Kashmir’s law and order situation is improving

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is “trying to regroup” in Libya following its defeat at the end of last year in its former stronghold of Sirte, a coastal city located a few hundred miles from the shores of Europe, revealed a Libyan militia, echoing the U.S. military.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has killed at least three American volunteers so far this month who traveled to Syria to fight the jihadist group alongside U.S.-backed Kurdish troops.

A Taliban jihadist killed about 29 people and wounded 40 others in a suicide car bombing Monday that targeted Afghan intelligence staff onboard a bus in the country’s capital of Kabul, but it ended up murdering and wounding civilians, including women and children.

The corpses of Islamic State-linked foreigners killed while defending the group’s former stronghold of Sirte remain in freezers, while Libya’s authorities negotiate their fate with other governments nearly seven months after U.S.-backed Libyan troops defeated the terrorist organization in the coastal city.

An Iran-backed Shiite terrorist organization appears on the U.S. State Department list of the top deadliest and most prolific jihadist groups in the world for the first time in years.

Latin America and the Caribbean continue to provide “financial and ideological support” for the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Shiite Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, reveals the most recent Country Reports on Terrorism issued by the U.S. State Department.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has lost an estimated 70 percent of the territory it held in Iraq and Syria at the beginning of 2015, courtesy of the ongoing efforts by the U.S.-led coalition and its local allies, the U.S. special presidential envoy for the alliance against the terrorist group has revealed.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has established a presence in Kashmir, New Delhi claims, while Islamabad warns that people in the region are facing a serious “threat” from its rival India.