Russian authorities have apprehended at least seven people for allegedly plotting to carry out terrorist attacks on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) during the New Year’s celebrations in Moscow.
Nearly three dozen young people affiliated with the Nigeria-based Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch Boko Haram have reportedly surrendered to authorities in neighboring Niger, according to Niger’s interior minister.
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Contents: Man who shot Russia’s ambassador in Turkey was in security forces; Turkey and Russia blame Fethullah Gulen and the US for the assassination; Both Turkey and Russia stand to gain by blaming US for assassination
Contents: Russia’s ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara; Large truck kills 12 driving into a crowded Berlin market
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing near a military base in the capital of the United Nations-backed government in Yemen, killing and wounding dozens of troops.
There are still about 9,000 families from the Yazidi minority community displaced in and around Iraq’s Sinjar district without fuel, food, clothes, and electricity amid a ferocious winter, Rudaw has learned.
Social media channels linked to the jihadist rivals Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda are celebrating and capitalizing on Monday’s assassination of Russian ambassador in Ankara by a Turkish policeman, who shouted the common battle cry of Islamic extremists as they commit mass murder, “Allahu Akbar,” during the attack.
Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad calls Aleppo’s ‘liberation’ a historic event; Syria and Russia suffer a big military setback in Palmyra; Syria’s civil war shows similarities to America’s Vietnam war
The number of “battle-ready” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis in Iraq and Syria has plummeted to “its lowest point” ever, dropping by more than half from up to 25,000 earlier this year to between 12,000 and 15,000 now, according to the White House.
The American commander of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria told reporters that losing the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra to the terrorist group “is probably an embarrassment” to the Russians, and it is up to them to take it back, noting that the city is “theirs” to defend.
The estimated 40,000 Christians in Aleppo are not among the civilians who are dreading the fall of the city to the Russia and Iran-backed regime of dictator Bashar al Assad, according to a charity group that helps persecuted Christians.
Contents: Syria’s Al-Assad, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah score victory in Aleppo; US’s Samantha Power makes excoriating attack on Syria’s al-Assad, Russia, Iran; Human Rights Watch reveals more ethnic cleansing imagery from Burma (Myanmar)
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadist group has reportedly claimed responsibility for carrying out a suicide bombing that killed at least 25 and wounded an estimated 49 others inside a Coptic Christian Church in the Egyptian capital Cairo during Sunday service.
Contents: Egypt’s Christians demand revenge after Sunday’s church bombing; Italy’s bank crisis seems likely to cost thousands of people their savings
Contents: Furious Turkey vows revenge, as PKK/TAK takes credit for Istanbul bombing; Terror bombing of Coptic Christian church in Cairo Egypt kills 25; Europeans call Cairo bombing ‘terror’, but not the Istanbul bombing
Contents: A new terrorist bombing in Istanbul Turkey kills dozens; Erdogan says some Greek islands should really belong to Turkey; Greece delays extraditing Turkish officers implicated in coup attempt
Drawing the US deeper into the Syria conflict, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Saturday he is sending 200 more troops to accelerate the push on the Islamic State’s self-declared capital of Raqqa.
The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan along with Afghan officials have expressed concerns about Russian support to Taliban terrorists fighting American-backed troops.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has lost 50,000 jihadis at the hands of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria over the last two years, Fox News has learned from an unnamed American military official.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in the latest edition of its online propaganda magazine Rumiyah, applauds the “martyrdom” of the Ohio State University (OSU) jihadi who used a butcher knife and vehicle to attack people and repeats instructions on carrying out more knife attacks.
Iraqi Christians have not only suffered genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS), the jihadist group has vandalized and destroyed many ancient churches in an attempt to erase all traces of their existence in the cradle of Christianity.
A Pentagon investigation found that an “unintentional, regrettable” error resulted in the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) firing more than three dozen airstrikes in September that killed troops loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Contents: China and Russia in military competition in Tajikistan; Russia promises Tajikistan a ‘large quantity’ of military aircraft
The Somali college student who used a vehicle and a butcher knife to attack people at Ohio State University (OSU) this week was inspired by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and deceased Yemeni-American al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, according to the FBI.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have claimed this week that they kidnapped two Turkish soldiers in northern Syria.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) only controls a “sliver of territory” in its Libyan stronghold, but the terrorist group may be “forming cells” elsewhere in the African country, warns the U.S. special envoy for Libya.
Somali college student Abdul Razak Ali Artan resided in Pakistan — known as a breeding ground for Islamic terrorist groups — for seven years before he was admitted into the U.S. and used a vehicle and a butcher knife to attack people at the Ohio State University (OSU) campus on Monday morning, wounding 11 people.
The month-old operation to rid the Iraqi city of Mosul of the Islamic State terrorist group continues, with Iraqi officers confirming nearly 1,000 jihadi deaths since it began. The tedious street-by-street assault has left a sea of bodies in its wake, however, and civilians demanding the government do something to clear the streets of blood.
Contents: Iraq sending Shia militias to Mosul, directly violating promise to Turkey; The chaotic operation to liberate Mosul
Contents: Egypt to send troops to Syria to aid Bashar al-Assad and Russia; Egypt rejects its former benefactor, Saudi Arabia, in favor of Russia and Iran
Contents: Turkey, Syria, Kurds, ISIS converging on a major military confrontation in al-Bab; Syrian airstrike on Turkish forces threatens wider war
Contents: Terrorist car bomb in southern Turkey kills two; Turkey furious at EU parliament’s vote to end accession talks
The Thanksgiving holiday has reached the thousands of U.S. troops fighting terrorist groups in the Middle East and Afghanistan, ensuring Americans at home enjoy a peaceful day next to their loved ones.
The chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, in an interview with Breitbart News after meeting with various government officials in South America last weekend, warns that the nexus between radical Islamic terrorists and criminal groups in Latin America is “growing” and poses a major threat to the United States.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) is expanding its terrorist activities and getting stronger in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region as it loses fighters and territory in the Middle East, reports Voice of America (VOA), citing Afghan officials and analysts.
Some women in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-controlled Mosul have said they are “much more afraid” of the jihadist group’s all-female “morality police,” or Khansaa Brigade, than the battle-hardened male terrorists, reports NBC News.
Contents: Sri Lanka Sinhalese Buddhist monks accused of racist hate speech against Hindu Tamils; Sri Lanka says that ’32 élite, well-educated Muslims’ have joined ISIS in Syria
Amnesty International has accused state sponsor of terrorism Shiite Iran of “broadcasting forced ‘confessions’ extracted through torture” to justify recent mass executions, particularly the hanging of up to 25 Sunni men accused of terrorism in early August.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), as it loses territory in the Middle East, is infiltrating Latin America, warns Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) in a letter sent to President Barack Obama this week.
