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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.”

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The autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq is officially calling for the establishment of its own state in the region.

Following an airstrike targeting him, reports indicate Islamic State commander and de facto “minister of war” Omar al-Shishani sustained injuries that have left him “clinically dead.”

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.

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Prosecutors in Phoenix asked jurors during closing arguments on Friday to convict the defendant who is accused of planning terrorist attacks at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Texas, last May.

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.

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg continues his project to define President Obama’s foreign policy legacy, the latest dispatch featuring a curious use of the movie the Dark Knight to describe the chaos in the Middle East.

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.

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The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is reportedly seeking to recruit individuals with sophisticated skills as it expands its foothold in Pakistan.

A federal court in Minnesota has launched an unprecedented program to weigh the menace posed by terrorism defendants and develop plans to deradicalize them so they do not commit similar crimes in the future.

A Foreign Affairs subcommittee of the British Parliament has determined that the Islamic State is making millions of dollars on the international currency markets, using cash looted from banks in the captive Iraqi city of Mosul.

U.S. Army Gen. John W. “Mick” Nicholson has assumed command of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan in the midst of a vicious Taliban resurgence and a growing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) presence.

Kurdish fighters from the U.S.-backed People’s Protection Units (YPG) have reportedly repelled an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) offensive on the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, which sits close to the Turkish border in Raqqa province.

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.

The federal case against an Air Force veteran accused of trying to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is a “fantasy,” the defendant’s attorney argues during trial.

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.

A resurgent al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is capitalizing on the deadly civil war in Yemen, emerging as the strongest jihadist group in the country while a Saudi-led coalition concentrates on routing the Shiite Houthis and the West focuses on the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

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.

TEL AVIV – With little fanfare, the Treasury Department earlier this month imposed financial sanctions on three Islamic State leaders, including a jihadist from the Gaza Strip it said was central to recruiting and deploying foreign fighters and establishing an IS base inside Gaza.

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has called parliamentary elections in April, a decision both expected and believed to have little effect on Assad himself. Nonetheless, Russian and Iranian media are applauding Assad following an agreement between Russia and the United States to a ceasefire end to hostilities in Syria on February 27.