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A day after a UN report said the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, ordered female genital mutilation (FGM), the terrorist group told women to wear a full-face veil.  “The conditions imposed on her clothes and grooming was only to

The Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), has had months to establish its jihadist rule of terror in Raqqa, Syria, its “capital.” As The New York Times reports, ISIS is stealing from banks and redistributing

The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, continues its destruction of Iraq’s historic city Mosul. The radical jihadists blew up a shrine to Jonah, the biblical prophet, and Yunus in the Koran. “Islamic State completely destroyed the shrine of Nabi

On July 25 the Islamic State warned that women in Mosul must wear full veils “to end the pretext of debauchery.” The women were also told they “risk severe punishment” for not complying.  This comes amid news that the Islamic

A group of Indonesian Muslim’s has filed a formal complaint against the Jakarta Post, an English-language newspaper based in Indonesia, for publishing a cartoon criticizing the Islamic State, the group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham

The continued spread of the jihadist terror group Islamic State has caused the United States to increase its supporting role with the Iraqi government in monitoring and combatting the group. According to the State Department, the U.S. is manning over

During the Tahrir Square uprising in Cairo, part of the the Arab Spring in 2011, archaeologists and scholars fretted about the fate of Egypt’s ancient monuments and the artifacts housed in the Cairo Museum, worrying the treasures from Egypt’s pagan

The Islamic State released another recruitment video, this time aimed at Indonesian Muslim men. Abu Muhammad al-Indonesi issued an emotional plea, describing the men in the video as “brothers from Indonesia who have come to the Islamic State.” “We ask

This post originally appeared in The Daily Beast. For the full story, click here. The Islamic State is no longer a juggernaut, it’s a motley alliance of factions just waiting to betray each other. BAGHDAD, Iraq — At the mention

The purge of Christians from northern Iraq continues under the hands of the Sunni jihadist group, the Islamic State–formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). ISIS militants seized the famous Mar Behnam or St. Behnam monastery this week,

(AFP) — Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 undergo female genital mutilation, a UN official said Thursday. “It is a fatwa (or religious edict) of ISIS, we learnt this this morning,” said

As the radical jihadist group Islamic State continues to terrorize millions of Iraqis, concerned Muslims are using social media to call for a larger Muslim backlash against the terrorist militia. The radical group ISIS is taking over Iraq and removing

The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch Bechara al Rahi has called for moderate Muslims to speak out and condemn the jihadist terror group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and support the continued existence of Christianity in Iraq. In a homily this

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) told shopkeepers in Mosul the mannequins must wear veils. The veil is in accordance with Sharia law since “the human form is not depicted in statues or artwork.” Both gender of mannequins

This opinion piece ran originally in the magazine The Week: Just 11 years ago, there were 1.5 million Christians living in Iraq. Since the U.S. war there, that number has plummeted to approximately 400,000 — and it is still falling

The Islamic State– formerly Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)– has previously used water as a destructive tool to destroy crops and dams in Shi’ite territory. Now, ISIS is attempting to deprive major Christian strongholds of water through their

Ban Ki-Moon, secretary-general of the virulently anti-Israel United Nations, came to Israel to push for a ceasefire with Hamas. Ban Ki-Moon told Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, “I appreciate Israel’s security concerns. You need to protect your people from rockets and

Islamic State is taking oil and gas products from land it conquered in Syria and selling it to Iraqi businessmen. According to Alarabiya.net, “ISIS has captured large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, including all of oil-rich Deir Ezzor province’s

Two videos related to ISIS were released on Monday. A Twitter account for the Islamic State posted pictures and a video of a training camp in Ninevah and Al-Arabiya released a video with the real wife of ISIS’s leader. The training camp

Hundreds rallied in Baghdad this week in solidarity with the thousands of Christians forced to flee from Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, after the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) demanded that all Christians in the city convert and pay an