Kurdish militias drive ISIS out of the Syrian town of Kobani; Turkey opens its biggest refugee camp to house 35,000; Australian backlash grows over knighthood for Queen Elizabeth’s husband
Southwest Airlines has reported bomb threats to authorities from eight separate Twitter accounts from 7-10 P.M. EST Monday night, including one from Twitter handle @ISISGangCP.
Montana GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke, a former Navy Seal who was commander of special forces in the Fallujah area of Iraq in 2004 and personally knew Chris Kyle, the protagonist of American Sniper, launched a bitter attack on the Obama Administration’s Middle East policy in an interview with The Missoulian.
Islamic State jihadists are accusing Kurdish Peshmerga forces of using “poisonous gas” to execute civilians in Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul.
Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes drove Islamic State jihadists out of the strategic Syrian town of Kobani along the Turkish border, after months of fighting.
Five planes throughout the United States were diverted or immediately grounded due to various security threats over the weekend.
Rather than spend Sunday evening attending the red carpet ceremonies at 2015’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Unbroken director Angelina Jolie instead opted to visit northern Iraq, where she urged world leaders to take action against ISIS.
The Spanish government raided the homes of two sets of brothers identified as Islamic State recruits, described by authorities as “highly radicalized” and plotting an attack that may have involved “self-immolation” in the West.
A South Korean teen and known ISIS sympathizer is believed to have defected from his country to join the Islamic militant group after being declared missing in Turkey and following several postings on social media expressing his interest in joining the terrorist organization. If “Kim” has, in fact, joined ISIS, he will be the first person from South Korea to have done so.
Top Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) preacher Abu Assad Ansari demanded more volunteers join the fight with the terrorist group as Kurdish forces pushed to regain villages around Mosul, Iraq.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who is considered one of the most outspoken members of Congress, was booed and called a “war mongrel” during a GOP meeting in Arizona on Saturday. The term “war mongrel” is a hybrid and more negative form of the phrase “war monger.”
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Hundreds of Muslims gathered in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney, to protest the ‘negative coverage’ of Islam in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks and shootings in a Kosher supermarket in Paris. According to the Sydney Morning Herald the
The Japanese government is trying to verify claims that one of the two hostages held by Islamic State has been killed.
Twitter users in Japan have taken to social media in a show of defiance to mock a recent hostage video released by ISIS using photoshopped images, which poke fun at the Islamic terrorists and their ransom request.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged $100 million of his country’s money to help reconstruct the Gaza Strip. Abe’s pledge follows this past summer’s 50-day war, initiated by the Hamas terror group, which left much the territory in ruins. As a result of Hamas’s aggression, dozens of Israelis and thousands of Palestinians died in the conflict.
The U.S.-led airstrikes have killed “more than 6,000” Islamic State fighters, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq reportedly said.
Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Secretary of State John Kerry warned in the fight against terror, “We have to keep our heads,” adding, “Obviously, The biggest error we could make would be to blame Muslims collectively.” Kerry
French government officials have confirmed to the media that up to ten of its former soldiers “have defected to the Islamic State. Among those defectors is at least one member of an elite fighting unit with advanced training.
The jihadist group Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, or IS) is gaining ground in Yemen, where al-Qaeda and Houthi rebels are already causing havoc.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that United States and Iraqi military forces have begun preparations to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The radical terrorist group captured the historic city in June.
A committee investigation the involvement of Kurdish officials in illegally smuggling cars, food, and fuel across territories held by ISIS, largely seen as engaging in a business relationship with the Islamic terrorists organization, has implicated them in the trade and will decide
In their latest Internet hostage video, the Islamic State demanded $200 million from Japan in exchange for the lives of security contractor Haruna Yukawa and freelance journalist Kenji Goto Jogo, promising they would be killed within 72 hours if the ransom was not paid. After vowing that his nation would not submit to terrorist demands, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked several prominent Middle Eastern leaders for help, including Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Islamic State jihadists are using Sharia courts to dole out barbaric punishments against educated women, children, and other civilians, the United Nations (UN) human rights office has found.
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Ronan Farrow Daily,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) disputed President Barack Obama’s SOTU claim that the United States has stopped the advance of ISIS in Syria. Schiff said, “I think it’s fair to say in Iraq we’ve stopped
