Troops loyal to the U.S.-backed government of South Sudan have reportedly embarked on a rampage of rape and murder, targeting civilians — a testament to the mayhem that has spread across the world’s youngest country, the birth of which the Obama administration helped midwife.
Thousands of Hindu and Christian girls, many under the age of 18, are being abducted and forcibly converted to Islam before they are coerced into marrying their captors, according to Pakistani activists.
A 26-year-old man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization in connection with an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) inspired plot to carry out an attack on New Year’s Eve 2015 against civilians in Rochester, NY, using knives and machetes.
The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan urged neighboring India to provide more military aid to Afghanistan, a request that marks a change in America’s stance towards Indian involvement in the security sector of the war-torn nation.
President Barack Obama’s multi-agency Periodic Review Board (PRB) has approved an al Qaeda-linked Algerian prisoner for release from the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, conceding that the jihadist “presents some level of threat.”
Thai authorities have ruled out international terrorists as the perpetrators of 11 coordinated bombings that rocked some of the most popular resort cities and beach towns in Thailand’s Islamic south, killing at least four locals and wounding another 36, including up to 11 foreigners.
Shiite Iran continues to criminalize women’s right’s activism, designating “peaceful” female advocates as “enemies of the state” and using its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to crack down on them, reports human rights watchdog Amnesty International.
Russia is secretly using mercenaries to combat rebels and U.S. forces on the ground in Syria on behalf of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Sky News reveals, citing young Russians who claim they were hired to fight in the Middle Eastern country by a private military company ran by a Nazi aficionado.
A 19-year-old claims he was fired by a Jack in the Box franchise in Bakersfield, CA for “mishandling funds” after he gave away nearly $2 worth of food — a coffee and two tacos — instead of throwing it away.
At least one person was killed and 12 others injured, including foreigners, when two bombs went off at a tourist hotspot in Thailand.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A congressional task force created by three Republican-led House panels has confirmed allegations that senior U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) leaders manipulated intelligence assessments in 2014 and 2015 to make it appear that President Barack Obama is winning the war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
U.S. troops fighting the Islamic State alongside their Afghan counterparts in eastern Afghanistan were forced to leave behind military equipment and weapons, along with the identification cards of a fellow soldier, when they came under fire last month, according to Gen. Charles Cleveland, an American military spokesman.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is indoctrinating thousands of young boys it abducted in Iraq and Syria into becoming the next generation of jihadi killers, reports German news magazine Der Spiegel.
Anti-narcotics and intelligence officials from India have accused “overlapping groups” of drug smugglers, criminals, and jihadists from neighboring Pakistan of trafficking “anti-India Muslim extremists, counterfeit currency and weapons” into their country, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
An Afghan Taliban spokesman reportedly told an Iranian state-controlled media outlet that his fellow jihadists are “committed” to the annihilation of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region known as the Khorasan Province (IS-KP/ISIL-K).
The leader of the Islamic State’s branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, Hafiz Saeed, has been killed, according to regional Afghan military commander Gen. Mohammad Zaman Waziri.
Gunmen disguised as priests executed three Nigerian soldiers in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Reuters learned from a military source and residents.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists in the Philippines are planning to target the 2017 Miss Universe pageant that is scheduled to be held in their country, The Foreign Desk reports, citing a secret jihadi social media channel.
Up to five gunmen, reportedly dressed as members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), kidnapped two professors Sunday night in the Afghan capital of Kabul — one from the United States and the other from Australia.
The White House, in response to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit, on Friday night unveiled a redacted version of a previously secret 18-page document that outlines how Barack Obama chooses and approves potential drone targets.
Jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan have released several photos that purport to show the identification card of a U.S. soldier, along with weapons and other military equipment confiscated from American troops in eastern Afghanistan.
There is a shared policy of state-sanctioned killings behind the stark religious divisions between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, the region’s greatest rivals.
The U.S.-backed Afghan government has lost control of more than one-third of Afghanistan, reveals an American watchdog agency appointed by Congress, citing U.S. Forces in Afghanistan (USFOR-A).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The deputy secretary of State appeared to lambaste Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s proposals to erect a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and ban refugees from terrorism-linked countries at an unlikely forum for partisan election politics. The event was titled, “Conference on Threats to Religious and Ethnic Minorities under ISIL” (Islamic State).
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has reportedly issued a decree offering amnesty to armed rebels combating his military in Syria if they “turn themselves in to the competent authorities and lay down their weapons” within three months.
The cost of the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) has reached $8 billion, which translates to an average of $11.8 million a day or about $354 million monthly, Pentagon figures show.
The U.S. Naval War College has defended the ardent denunciation of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump by its national security professor Dr. Tom Nichols, a self-identified “Never Trump Republican,” arguing that he has the right to do so.
PHILADELPHIA — Retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star Gen. John Allen delivered a speech praising presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the Democratic National Convention in the voice of a military drill instructor, saying she will defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and take care of veterans.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The top U.S. commander is employing a special authority recently granted by President Barack Obama to bring in additional troops into Afghanistan for an offensive against the Islamic State in their stronghold located in the eastern part of the country along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Defeating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) could lead to an increase in terrorist attacks in Western countries rather than a reduction, declared FBI Director James Comey.
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako, head of Iraq’s largest Christian community, decried the commander of the Christian Assyrian Army, known as Dwekh Nawsha, for shedding tears for U.S. troops killed in Iraq, suggesting the Americans do not deserve to be commended for their sacrifice.
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan reached 5,166 during the first half of this year, an all-time high, with children paying a heavy toll, reports the United Nations.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration agency tasked with disbursing U.S. humanitarian aid in Syria has reportedly suspended contracts valued at $239 million due to significant fraud concerns.
Protesters at the Democratic National Convention heckled Leon Panetta, the former defense secretary and CIA director who served alongside the party’s presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in President Barack Obama’s cabinet.
Hundreds of people took to the streets in a suburb of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka to protest the brutal killing of a 10-year-old boy.
Shiite Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah (“The Party of God”) has registered as an official political party in Peru’s Abancay province, home to the largest Muslim community in the country, reveals an exclusive report by the Peruvian Latina news agency.
The sister and cousin of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch have reportedly been arrested by Pakistani police for their “possible involvement” in the “honor killing” of the star known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian.”
The Obama administration is seeking to enhance counterterrorism cooperation with China, according to a senior U.S. administration official.
The Nigerian army reportedly claims to have completely eliminated the Boko Haram branch of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in its stronghold of northeastern Nigeria.
The recent attack by the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan, which has been deemed the deadliest assault in the country’s capital of Kabul since the war started nearly 15 years ago, does not prove that the jihadist group is gaining strength, claims a NATO spokesman.
