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Schoolchildren are being detained for alleged acts of treason and prisoners “are being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape” in the wake of the failed military coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to lawyers and a human rights organization.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has been able to attract foreign fighters from various corners across the world, including northwest China’s volatile and predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, home to the ethnic Uighur population.

The Russian military on June 16 bombed a “secret base” near the Jordanian border in Syria used by “elite American and British forces” as part of efforts to strong arm the Obama administration into agreeing to cooperate with Moscow, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Forces from Shiite Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intercepted “terrorists” who infiltrated Iran from Sunni Turkey in a bid to launch attacks in the Islamic Republic, according to state-controlled media. The incident reportedly occurred near the Iran-Turkey border,

A county judge in Idaho removed a disabled U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan from a courtroom for wearing his military uniform.

CIA Director John Brennan dithered when asked if the United States foresaw the failed military coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in America’s NATO ally Turkey.

The horrifying decapitation of a kidnapped boy on spy accusations was “an individual” mistake, declared the U.S.-backed, so-called “moderate” Syrian rebel group that carried out the appalling crime, claiming that it will open an investigation into the beheading.

A 25-year-old U.S. Air Force lieutenant died Monday in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from a “non-combat related injury” sustained while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led mission against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, according to the Pentagon.

A jihadist group in Brazil has declared its loyalty to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) weeks before hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to the South American country for the Summer Olympics, reports the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites.

Nearly all the pieces have fallen into place for the U.S.-backed Iraqi forces to make a push to recapture Mosul, the de facto Iraqi capital of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) that has been described as the jihadist group’s last remaining stronghold in the country, declared a top Obama administration official.

Former federal judge and U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, during the second day of the Republican National Convention, declared that presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has disregarded the Constitution and should not be elected president.

The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has either suspended or detained nearly 50,000 people as part of a purge of the army, police, and the courts that expanded to universities and schools in the wake of a failed military coup attempt, according to the country’s intelligence service and religious authorities.

The expanded military authorization granted by President Barack Obama last month, which allows American troops supporting their Afghan counterparts to offensively target the Taliban rather than waiting for the terrorist group to attack first, is leading to progress on the battlefield, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told USA Today.

The Obama administration and Russia have agreed to join forces in Syria against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the Nusra Front, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stressed that the recent wave of terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) suggest that the jihadist group is “on the run” in Iraq and Syria.

Regional rivals Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, in a rare show of consensus, welcomed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regained control after the failed military coup attempt against his government.

A pregnant 14-year-old died in Afghanistan after she was tortured and set on fire last week by her in-laws as revenge for her father eloping with their young niece.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is suspected of having set up sleeper cells inside India, the world’s second most populous nation, the Iraqi ambassador to India told The Hindu.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. State Department has named two Russian jihadists, including one who was held at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, “specially designated global terrorists” affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan targeting the region’s Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in their stronghold of eastern Nangarhar province killed top Pakistani Taliban-linked jihadist Umar Khalifa on July 9 along with four other terrorists, according to the Pentagon and officials from Pakistan.

The governor of the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand, the largest in the country, claims to have discovered at least 400 “ghost soldiers” on the province payroll, reports TOLO News.

The “rise of European fascism” is behind Thursday’s truck terrorist attack that killed and wounded hundreds of people, including children, in France’s southern seaside city of Nice, says CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen.

A Tunisian man living in France plowed a large truck through the ultimate “soft target” — thousands of Bastille Day revelers who had gathered to watch fireworks in an open venue at the French resort city of Nice — quickly killing at least 84 people and wounding another 202 during a national holiday akin to America’s Fourth of July.

The United States military in Africa has deployed 47 troops described by President Barack Obama as “equipped for combat” to protect American personnel and facilities in Juba, the capital of civil-war-ravaged South Sudan, the White House and U.S. Africa Command have announced.

Afghanistan will use biometrics to verify the existence of every member of the Afghan National Defense and Security Force (ANDSF), vowed the country’s president.

Abdul Latif Nasir, a Moroccan detainee who had been deemed a “forever prisoner,” became the latest accused jihadist held at the U.S. military detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to be cleared for release by President Barack Obama’s parole board.

An Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) convict in Turkey — who skipped out during his trial and has yet to be located by police — was rewarded with a jail sentence reduction of over one year due to “good conduct,” according to some news outlets.

It remains uncertain how long a shaky ceasefire will hold in South Sudan, a nation that the Obama administration helped birth.

The Iraqi parliament in Baghdad is expected to convene for the first time in three months amid deadly attacks that continue to plague the Iraqi capital.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration has transferred three prisoners out of the U.S. military detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the last few days — one was taken to Italy and two were sent to Serbia, bringing the prison population down to 76, according to the Pentagon.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Saudi Arabia is focusing its recruitment efforts on young Saudis, many of them brothers in their 20s, reports the Saudi Gazette.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has reportedly indicated that there are “not many reasons” for Turkey to fight against any of the countries in its region, suggesting that his country will stop combating the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda have praised the Dallas attack that killed five police officers and wounded another nine last week, urging black Americans, in race-baiting messages posted online, to carry out more violence.

The territory in Iraq and Syria controlled by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists shrunk by another 12 percent during the first half of 2016, according to an analysis by IHS, a defense research firm.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare tells Breitbart News that America’s longtime ally Egypt is turning to Russia for military assistance because the Obama administration has “abandoned” the North African country.

Central American authorities have reportedly dismantled a human trafficking network dedicated to smuggling illegal migrants into the United States from terror-linked countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.