The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) destroys Christian and Muslim shrines and tombs because of idolatry. However, the jihadists know the value of items and manage to sell them to Western antique collectors. Antique sales pushed the group’s accounts from under $1,000
The Downton Abbey writers love to shock; we know that from their cruel Christmas episode where they killed off heart throb Matthew Crawley as he drove back from hospital after his wife gave birth to their son and heir. And
A westernised 25-year-old mother is the latest Brit to head to Syria. Tareena Shakil, a fan of The Only Way is Essex, who grew up embracing western values, crossed into the country with her 14-month-old son on Monday, after being
Qatari officials told the BBC Monday that they reject any and all accusations relating to the Gulf state supporting the Islamic State terror group, insisting that the country has only supported ‘moderate’ groups during the most recent flare up of
Officials from the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) federal intelligence service told Germany’s members of Parliament in a secret briefing last week that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) may have the capabilities to strike down a passenger jet. According to Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper, the
ISIS has just be-headed a woman in Baquba because she dared to resist being raped. In the process of struggling to defend herself, she actually killed her would-be rapist, an ISIS warrior. The woman was at home recovering from a medical illness.
This article originally appeared at Foreign Policy: They stand in the front row at public beheadings and crucifixions held in Raqqa, the Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria. They’re used for blood transfusions when Islamic State fighters are injured. They are
A group of University of California, Berkeley students are rallying to have Bill Maher removed as a speaker for a commencement ceremony in December following controversial statements he made about Islam earlier this month. During a segment of his show
A prominent Chechen commander has been dispatched by the Islamic State to the fight in the strategic town of Kobani along the Syria-Turkey border where the jihadist group has suffered heavy fatalities, Kurdish media network Rudaw reported. An unnamed source
SIMI VALLEY, California — Texas Governor Rick Perry emulated the late Ronald Reagan as he addressed a sold-out crowd of 1,000 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, on the 50th anniversary of one of the most pivotal
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Scott Brown released his final campaign advertisement titled “Independence” on Tuesday morning. “Our nation is at a crossroads,” Brown says in the advertisement. “The economy is still not creating enough good-paying jobs. And we are dealing
The Islamic State has released its seventh John Cantlie propaganda video, this time shot in the open air in the besieged city of Kobane, where he says the battle is now all but over, and ISIS are “mopping up” resistance.
Over 847,000 Syrians have fled to Turkey since the Syrian civil war started three years ago. The number grew in the last few months when the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) invaded border towns. Instead of providing help, some Turkish men are
The American Freedom Alliance held a conference on Sunday titled “ISIS and its Threat to International Security,” which featured a plethora of Middle East experts, activists, and scholars, who weighed in on the threat posed by the Islamic State. Egyptian-American
“Meet America’s newest de facto allies in its coalition against ISIS,” CNN’s Ivan Watson reported Sunday evening on CNN International. Watson was referring to the group of uniformed soldiers behind him, a Kurdish militia known as the “YPG.” “Within the
The Republican National Committee is stressing that President Obama’s foreign policy is receiving a vote this November and released a new ad Monday pushing that point. The digital ad — which focuses on the threats posed by ISIS, Ebola, and
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly beheaded a famous female Kurdish freedom fighter known only as “Rehana.” The Women Protection Units (YPG) soldier fought against the terrorist group in Kobane, a strategically important border town in Syria near Turkey. A picture of Rehana
Monday morning on CNN’s “New Day,” CNN correspondent Ivan Watson reported that there is an American veteran fighting ISIS alongside the Kurds in Syria. “One of the gunmen in this truck is not like the others,” Watson said. That gunman
Rallies by German anti-Islamist protest group “Hooligans against Salafists” have grown from a few dozen, to a few hundred, to some 4,000 people marching in a matter of weeks, triggering a deployment of 1,000 riot police in Cologne on Sunday.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Sunni vs Shia sectarian clashes grow in northern Lebanon Lebanon won’t accept any more Syrian refugees One banker jumps to his death, another hangs himself this week Sunni vs Shia sectarian clashes grow in
Islamists have been on tours of the Houses of Parliament in London in order to scope out the building, a British intelligence source has revealed. The revelation has led to some MPs calling for the number of visitors to parliament
Last week, the U.S. State Department offered its “deepest condolences” to the family of 3-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun, who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem, and was also a U.S. citizen. This past weekend, the State Department offered
A British teacher pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of funding would-be fighters going to Syria and planning to go there himself, but said he did not support the Islamic State group. Lawyers for chemistry teacher Jamshed Javeed, 30, told
The appearance in court today of the younger brother of a dead British jihadi on terrorism offences after the arrest of five members of the same family may further entrench the growing reputation of Portsmouth as a hotspot for radicalisation.
A Belgian chocolate maker that changed its name to ISIS last year has realised it made a disastrous decision after customers stopped buying its products, An Nahar reports. Italo Suisse went for the new name since it had no link
