In their latest terror campaign, ISIS militants in Syria have rounded up 220 Christian civilians in the past three days, according to reports Thursday from the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Pentagon leaked that one of its training camps to help combat the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) is on Jordanian territory — information that the government of Jordan did not want disclosed.
Having written recently about Westerners traveling to Iraq and Syria to volunteer for duty with Kurdish units against ISIS, I was sad to see the UK Telegraph’s report that the first such volunteer has been killed in battle. He was an Australian who fought under the Kurdish name “Bagok,” and he died while serving with the YPG militia in Syria, which has a battalion of foreign fighters known as the “Lions of Rojeva.”
In light of the targeting of Christians by the Islamic State–particularly in Libya and Syria–Christian Coptics in the United States assembled before the White House this week to demand the Obama administration address the plight of their brethren in the Middle East.
“A real genocide is occurring in Iraq that nobody wants to talk about and no international body is dealing with,” said former Iraqi Minister Pascale Warda Tuesday.
American mall-goers may think twice about heading out shopping since Somali terror group Al-Shabaab’s threat on U.S. shopping centers, specifically Minnesota’s Mall of America. San Diego has been connected to multiple terror suspects, a fact which raises questions about the
The FBI conducted a series of terror raids in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, arresting three men from Uzbekistan who were planning to fly to Syria, join up with ISIS, and perhaps return to New York for a spot of domestic terrorism.
Tunisia arrested an estimated 100 people in the last three days, suspected of having links to the jihadist group Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL), Reuters reports.
Today marks the third day in ISIS’ latest offensive against a string of Christian towns and villages in northeast Syria. According to Aziz Mirza, with the Syriac Cultural Association, speaking from Qamishli by phone today, ISIS is continuing to push forward in trying to take control of this predominantly Assyrian Christian region.
A Syrian man who fled his native Kobani for Turkey during the Islamic State’s siege of the border town claims the Turkish government has turned his land into the new location of the tomb of Suleyman Shah, and hopes he will be compensated for the “millions” he claims his land is worth.
Spain authorities arrested four jihadist recruiters throughout the nation in an early morning raid on Tuesday. The suspects are believed to have been working to indoctrinate Muslims and brainwash them into joining the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. They particularly preyed on young women, according to Spanish law enforcement.
Officials in Kobani, the predominantly Kurdish city in northern Syria, have been forced to construct hundreds of tents for residents whose homes have been completely destroyed in the ongoing civil war in Syria, Firat News reports. Much of the city, which sits on the Turkish border, was completely ravaged in defending against the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
Americans are becoming steadily more favorable to employing military force in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, according to a study just released by the Pew Research Center.
ISIS kidnaps around 90 Assyrian Christians in Syria; John Kerry says that Russia has repeatedly lied to his face
Hillary Clinton used a paid speaking engagement and subsequent question and answer session at a Silicon Valley conference for women Tuesday to begin testing out her policy positions prior to the expected launch of an official 2016 campaign for the White House.
NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel declared that ISIS is “effectively taking over a new country” Libya on Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. “I would not be overly optimistic that they [ISIS] are back on their heels, frankly. There’s
Tuesday while testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the 2016 budget request, Secretary of State John Kerry said despite the threats and advances of terrorism groups such as ISIS and al Qaeda, “We are actually living in
Around 4:00 in the morning on Monday, February 23rd, an estimated 1500 ISIS fighters attacked a series of Christian towns in northeast Syria, burning churches, taking as many as 90 hostages, and forcing hundreds to flee from their homes.
Tuesday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest was grilled over President Barack Obama’s meeting today with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, while the president has refused to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Popular Egyptian singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim accuses President Obama of supporting terrorist activities by the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) and Hamas in a new song.
The latest issue of ISIS’ magazine, Dabiq, devotes an article to defending the murder of a Jordanian pilot by burning him alive in a cage. Contrary to claims that such punishment is “un-Islamic,” ISIS lays out the case that it
According to The Daily Mail, over eight British schoolgirls have traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) on the “jihadi bride trail.”
Senate Democrats have been refusing to even consider a House-passed Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill. So they’re now charging Senate Republicans with holding up DHS funding, because the GOP has not offered a “clean bill.”
An Assyrian Christian militia fighting the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) near Mosul, Iraq may not be able to keep the jihadist group away for much longer because it is running out of ammunition, according to a British news outlet.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) burned down the Mosul public library, which was home to over 8,000 rare books and manuscripts.
