
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan decapitated four members of a militia group controlled by a prominent Afghan lawmaker. They had been taken hostage during a gunfight Saturday. In retaliation, the Afghan militia beheaded four ISIS jihadists.
by Edwin Mora28 Dec 2015, 1:07 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has beheaded women for the first time, accusing the two of “sorcery,” according to a human rights monitor.
by Michael Lucchese30 Jun 2015, 9:48 AM PST0

Saudi Arabia executed two more people on Monday, bringing the number of executions the kingdom has carried out to 100 so far this year alone. They are just 92 executions short of breaking their 1995 record.
by Adelle Nazarian16 Jun 2015, 7:15 AM PST0

The Islamic State beheaded at least 10 Taliban militants in Afghanistan this week in a remote area in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar region, where the jihadist groups are locked in an intense battle for control over many of the surrounding provinces.
by Adelle Nazarian7 Jun 2015, 4:59 PM PST0

ISIS has reportedly commenced beheading prisoners immediately in the captured Syrian city of Palmyra.
by John Hayward22 May 2015, 7:36 PM PST0

The government of Saudi Arabia executed three people on Tuesday via beheadings. The total number of beheadings in the strict Muslim country totals 48 in 2015 already, more than half the total beheadings in 2014.
by Mary Chastain18 Mar 2015, 7:01 AM PST0

For centuries, Westerners have been lured by the “mysterious” East. Fortune hunters, explorers, adventurers, businessmen, diplomats, journalists, artists, missionaries, and humanitarian aid workers have all fled the confines of the West for lives of drama and danger.
by Dr. Phyllis Chesler13 Feb 2015, 1:51 PM PST0

New footage of a gruesome public beheading in a town square of al-Shadadi, a northern Syrian town controlled by the Islamic State, has hit the Internet. A man, whose crime is unknown, is seen pleading for his life to a crowd of dozens of onlookers before an Islamic State executioner severs his head to shouts of “Allahu Akbar!”
by Frances Martel29 Jan 2015, 8:33 AM PST0