Afghanistan has provided what it claims to be proof to Islamabad that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Taliban attackers who killed about 200 people on Afghan soil over the last month trained and planned the assaults in Pakistan.
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s main intelligence agency says it has killed a suspected member of the Islamic State group who it says was plotting an attack on the country’s presidential election day next month.
Contents: Russia’s Syria peace talks in Sochi dissolve into farce as Lavrov gets heckled; Russia sidelines the failed United Nations Syria peace process; War continues in full force, with Syria and Turkey killing ‘terrorists’
An estimated 45,000 students have enrolled at the University of Mosul after it was reduced to ruins at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), prompting the school’s officials to voice optimism about the future of the facility, the second largest higher education institution in Iraq.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army post near a military academy in the Afghan capital of Kabul that reportedly killed 11 soldiers and wounded 16 others.
Facebook suspended, but then reinstated an Islamic extremist’s account nine times, after he warned the company would have to answer to “Allah the All Merciful,” according to a report.
The remnants of the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq reportedly attacked members a Baghdad-sanctioned, Iranian-backed umbrella organization for mainly Shiite militias located in the central part of the nation in Salahaddin province.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) remains a top threat against the Middle East, the West, and beyond despite the ongoing demise of its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, where experts believe at least 3,000 active terrorists and about 7,000 loyalists are ready to engage in jihad on behalf of the group.
Contents: Multiple Afghanistan Taliban terror attacks leave ‘victory’ plans in tatters; Sunday’s attacks throw new doubts into claims of ‘victory’ in Afghanistan
Contents: Turkey begins its air and ground invasion of Syria’s Afrin; China lies about ‘indisputable sovereignty’ in new confrontation in South China Sea; Summary of major Generational Dynamics predictions
(AFP) — An Iraqi court said Sunday it had condemned to death by hanging a German woman of Moroccan origin after finding her guilty of belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group.
Contents: Turkey’s troops mass on border, preparing to invade northern Syria; Collapse of the Russian ‘peace process’; The growing conflagration in northwest Syria
The Trump administration has “functionally destroyed” the “physical” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) caliphate in the Middle East, but “the war is not over,” warned Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to the U.S. president, in written testimony prepared for a House panel hearing on Wednesday.
Turkey vows to take action against a United States-supported plan to establish a Kurdish-majority force of 30,000 troops in Syria “regardless of who backs them,” cautioned Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Contents: US in Syria announces a Border Security Force to prevent repeat of Iraq withdrawal blunder; Turkey, Russia and Syria infuriated by the Border Security Force announcement
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Monday to annihilate a 30,000-strong Kurdish-majority force in Syria that has the backing of the United States.
The son of an Albanian-American has reportedly pulled himself into the upper echelons of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), allegedly becoming an executioner suspected of beheading Kurdish prisoners, reports Defense One, citing a two-year investigation.
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials say gunmen have shot dead a Christian man in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula, the latest attack to target members of the country’s Christian minority.
The number of suicide bombings carried out by women and girls across the world on behalf of terrorist groups reached an unprecedented level last year, reveals a new study by Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
TEL AVIV – Jordan on Monday said it foiled a series of massive attacks planned by the Islamic State on shopping malls, religious and security buildings aimed at wreaking havoc in the country, its state media reported.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) wing in South Asia is intensifying its presence in Pakistan, particularly in areas along the country’s border with war-ravaged Afghanistan, the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) think tank cautions in a new report.
Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad targets civilians and hospitals in never-ending war of extermination; Russia’s ‘de-escalation zones’ turn into total farce
An MP of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party slammed protests in his city directed against returning Islamic State fighters, calling the protestors “racists” and “white supremacists.” Liberal Party MP for St. Catherines Chris Bittle took to Facebook earlier
The Director-General of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has confessed that terrorism is now the “new normal” in his country.
The United States military wants to ramp up its campaign against the Taliban, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), and other jihadist groups in Afghanistan beyond the fighting season and into the winter months, declared the top American commander in the Middle East and South Asia.
The Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) “repressive ideology” and the Yemen-based al-Qaeda wing continue to pose a significant threat to the United States despite the territory they have lost to the American military and its allies, according to the U.S. military.
Contents: With ISIS collapsing, US forces will remain in Syria to restore ‘normalcy’; US warns Assad regime to stay west of Euphrates river
The New York Police Department is expected to take “unprecedented” security measures to keep visitors safe during the historically crowded New Year’s celebration in Times Square, including enhancing surveillance of large trucks, often used as killing machines by jihadists.
Turkey detained nearly 200 people over suspected links to Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists over a two-day period as part of enhanced counterterrorism efforts ahead of New Year celebrations.
Contents: Uzbekistan’s Shavkat Mirziyoyev promises to end atrocities of previous leader Islam Karimov; Rise of Islamic radicalism and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU); Who’s going to pick the cotton in Uzbekistan?
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for targeting a Shiite cultural center in Kabul with bombs, killing more than 40 people and wounding over 80 others.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its rival al-Qaeda are engaged in a “fierce competition” for jihadi recruits in India, reports the Hindu.
“Christmas is essential to our understanding of Western Civilization and our values,” said Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour on Sunday.
Mansour made her comments while co-hosting Breitbart News Sunday alongside Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon during a special Christmas Eve live broadcast on SiriusXM.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joined forces with the FBI to issue a public service announcement urging Americans to stay “alert” during the holidays, conceding that there are no “credible threats at this time.”
The U.S. military under President Donald Trump has intensified its involvement in Afghanistan this year, resulting in a record number of airstrikes targeting jihadists, an unprecedented offensive against the Taliban’s lucrative opium business, and a low number of successful terrorist attacks in the last few months of 2017.
Contents: Thousands of Kurds in violent protests against Kurdistan government in northern Iraq; Iraq’s Baghdad government splits over role of Iran-backed Shia militias
A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, has convicted a former D.C. Metro Transit Police Department officer affiliated with Nazi ideology of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), announced the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Federal inspectors charged with keeping America’s transportation system safe only spend “half their working hours” doing work, reveals an audit by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’ watchdog arm.
(AFP) — An estimated 40,000 people travelled from around the world to take up arms for the Islamic State group as it occupied territory in Syria and Iraq and declared a caliphate in 2014.
The U.S. military is setting its eyes on combating state sponsor of terrorism Iran as the war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) dwindles in the Middle East, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
