Islamic State

Three men were convicted this week for over a planned Islamist mass shooting terror attack against Manchester’s Jewish community in an act of supposed revenge over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Palestine.

The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

The Islamic State terrorist organization published a statement on Thursday celebrating the killing of three Americans, two servicemen and a civilian, in Syria last week, but stopped short of taking responsibility for the attack.

Polish authorities have announced that they have foiled a planned ISIS-inspired terror attack on a Christmas market and have arrested a young man alleged to have become radicalised by Islamism.

Australia’s left-wing government has finally admitted that the terror attack on Bondi Beach was likely motivated by radical Islam.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. “will retaliate” for the murder of three Americans in Syria, which he described as an “ISIS attack.”

A spokesman for the Syrian Interior Ministry appeared to confirm this weekend that the man who killed two American soldiers and an interpreter in Palmyra was employed with the jihadist government’s security forces, but claimed that he was “under review” for “extremist” opinions.

The suspected father and son terrorist duo who allegedly killed at least 15 during a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration on Sunday were previously investigated by Australian intelligence for ties to the so-called Islamic State, and ISIS flags were reportedly found in their car after the apparent antisemitic attack.

In the same week Syrians were celebrating a new chapter in their country, an ambush has killed two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in Syria, the Pentagon announced.

The wife and children of a Somalian ISIS leader are reportedly living in taxpayer funded accommodation in Britain.

Terrorist leaders in the Middle East have a tradition of using an alias, pseudonym, or “nom de guerre,” even when their true identities and given names are common knowledge.

U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced its 100th airstrike of the year in Somalia on Saturday, a notable milestone for a high-tempo operation that has received little media coverage or political commentary.

Coordinated terrorist attacks turned Paris into a theater of blood and calamity 10 years ago on Thursday.

Syrian Information Minister Hamza al-Mustafa announced on Monday that his country signed a “political cooperation declaration” with the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, becoming a “partner in combating terrorism and supporting regional stability.”

A senior Syrian official, backed up by a senior official from another part of the Middle East, said on Monday that Islamic State terrorists have made at least two serious attempts to kill Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former leader of al-Qaeda who was present for the foundation of ISIS.

An American missionary, tentatively identified by Christian groups as 50-year-old Kevin Rideout, was kidnapped from Niger’s capital city of Niamey by three unidentified gunmen on Tuesday.

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that over a dozen civilians were killed during overnight clashes along the border with Pakistan.

Jihad al-Shamie pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a phone call to police during the course of last week’s Synagogue attack.

Police were reportedly warned years before the Manchester synagogue terror attack by neighbours of Jihad al-Shamie about the future Islamist extremist becoming “radicalised”.

ISIS reportedly called upon Muslims to use any means necessary to kill “Christians and Jews” in the United States and Europe, with a specific focus on France, in an edition of its Arabic-language magazine.

France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian prisons for alleged jihadists, anti-terror prosecutors said.

Over a hundred Christians were slaughtered by jihadi groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this week.

A group of as-yet unidentified gunmen ambushed a convoy in Nigeria’s southern state of Edo on Friday, killing eight security officers and kidnapping five Chinese nationals who worked for a local cement company. Meanwhile, the notorious Islamist terrorist gang called Boko Haram went on a rampage in northeastern Nigeria, slaughtering dozens of civilians in a methodical door-to-door village massacre.

German prosecutors announced terrorism charges Wednesday against a man who they say may have planned to attack the Israeli Embassy.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is warning of a “silent genocide” in Mozambique, where Islamic State jihadis are destroying churches, burning down villages, and beheading Christians–and then posting triumphant photos and videos of their atrocities online.

Trial under tight security for 19 defendants accused of involvement in last year´s shooting rampage in a Moscow concert hall that killed 149.

A pilot was taken captive after his F-16 fighter jet crashed near Raqqa in northern Syria. He was forced into a cage that was set on fire.

Togo’s Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said last week that at least 54 civilians have been killed this year by Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), a terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.

Ethiopian state media on Wednesday reported the arrest of 82 alleged Islamic State militants at a dozen locations across the country. The suspects had received paramilitary training and were ready to conduct terrorist operations.

The Trump administration on Tuesday officially revoked the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian rebel group and former al-Qaeda faction that toppled dictator Bashar Assad in December and took control of Damascus.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order terminating all U.S. sanctions on Syria, to “support the country’s path to stability and peace.”

Czech authorities have detained five teenagers and charged two over an attempt to set fire to a synagogue, officials said Wednesday.

Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab announced on Monday that “a number of criminals involved in the attack” on a church in Damascus have been arrested.