
Russia has proposed deploying four warplanes to protect the aircraft carrying Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian dictator’s upcoming trip to Iran and has warned the U.S.-led coalition against “getting close,” Al Jazeera reports, citing regional media outlets.
by Edwin Mora21 Dec 2015, 9:11 PM PST0

Mehmet Görmez, the head of Turkish Religious Affairs (Diyanet), stated that the damage caused by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is on par with the damage caused by those who draw Muhammed.
by Mary Chastain21 Dec 2015, 8:48 PM PST0

Nearly 150 Iraqi Christian refugees, including 62 children, are no longer facing devastating persecution in their homeland at the hands of the murderous Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), thanks to an American husband and wife who helped them flee to Europe, ABC News reports.
by Edwin Mora21 Dec 2015, 6:40 PM PST0

At least one Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) recruiter has taken to publishing photos of his cat with explosives to attract young people to the cause of jihad.
by Mary Chastain21 Dec 2015, 10:48 AM PST0

Contents: Defense Sec’y Carter visits Afghanistan, warns of ISIS and resurgent Taliban; Taliban victories in Helmand put Obama’s Afghan withdrawal policy in doubt; Obama’s 30,000 troop Afghan ‘surge’ strategy now in seventh year
by John J. Xenakis21 Dec 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

German public television aired a segment this month about the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) selling Yazidi women in Turkey.
by Mary Chastain20 Dec 2015, 5:55 PM PST0

Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad Basee Taha described to the United Nations Security Council the horrific ordeal she endured while the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) used her as a sex slave.
by Mary Chastain20 Dec 2015, 6:10 AM PST0

The growing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has launched Voice of the Caliphate, a radio station aimed at recruiting militants and airing anti-government Islamic rulings, in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
by Edwin Mora19 Dec 2015, 12:55 PM PST0

Contents: Taiwan may reverse South China Sea policy and oppose China; Burundi calls planned African Union peacekeeping force ‘an attack’
by John J. Xenakis19 Dec 2015, 8:19 AM PST0

Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala told reporters this week that the government has prevented more than 36,000 people from crossing into Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Mary Chastain19 Dec 2015, 6:52 AM PST0

A Muslim pizzeria owner in upstate New York admitted to law enforcement he attempted to recruit fighters for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Edwin Mora18 Dec 2015, 7:56 PM PST0

Yazidi activists released a video that shows the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) tearing apart families and abducting the girls and women to be their sex slaves.
by Mary Chastain18 Dec 2015, 10:27 AM PST0

In a press conference Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump as a “bright personality” and “talented” person.
by Mary Chastain17 Dec 2015, 7:55 AM PST0

The number of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) supporters in Afghanistan who have expressed a desire to attack the United States is growing, warned Gen. John Campbell, the top commander of American and NATO forces in the country.
by Edwin Mora16 Dec 2015, 8:59 PM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republicans and Democrats, in a rare show of bipartisanship, came together to pass legislation that requires the Obama administration to produce a strategy to combat terrorists’ use of social media.
by Edwin Mora16 Dec 2015, 1:10 PM PST0

A group of 50 Syriac Christian females have decided to pick up arms and fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Mary Chastain16 Dec 2015, 12:33 PM PST0

Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that al-Qaeda’s al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) should not participate in any Syrian peace talks.
by Mary Chastain16 Dec 2015, 7:41 AM PST0

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to increase scrutiny of social-media posts by visa applicants before certain individuals are permitted to enter the United States, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has learned from a person familiar with the plan.
by Edwin Mora15 Dec 2015, 6:06 PM PST0

The Iran-backed Shia terrorist group Hezbollah has lost an estimated 1,300 to 1,500 soldiers, more than one-third of its force, while fighting against rebels and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria on behalf of dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to Israeli experts.
by Edwin Mora15 Dec 2015, 12:45 PM PST0

The Leominster police department sent out a warning to residents about a phone scam in which the caller claims to be a member of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Mary Chastain15 Dec 2015, 11:56 AM PST0

Officials investigating areas previously controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have found underground dungeons the terrorist group uses to keep its sex slaves, most of the Yazidi minority religious sect. The whereabouts of the women forced into these dungeons are unknown.
by Mary Chastain15 Dec 2015, 6:27 AM PST0

A mother in Sydney, Australia, discovered $9,000 for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in her son’s clothes as she prepped the laundry.
by Mary Chastain14 Dec 2015, 10:31 AM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group has released a new video that portrays their version of the end of the world, including a dramatization of the jihadists conquering Rome.
by Mary Chastain13 Dec 2015, 7:42 PM PST0

Three House panels will join forces to investigate allegations that senior U.S. Central Command officers altered intelligence assessments to make it appear that President Obama is winning the war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to their chairmen.
by Edwin Mora13 Dec 2015, 6:26 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for a triple truck-bomb attack on a town in northeastern Syria that left 50 people dead and injured 80 others, according to the Kurdish YPG militia that controls the area.
by Edwin Mora12 Dec 2015, 10:37 AM PST0