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WASHINGTON, DC — Islamabad has refused to take “decisive action” against Pakistan-based jihadist groups planning and carrying out attacks in neighboring Afghanistan despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to suspend security assistance to Pakistan.

Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” military incursion into Syria has been conducted in concert with the Free Syrian Army, which has helped Turkish forces take control of several villages in the Afrin region.

The United States has begun to diminish its military presence in Iraq in response to Baghdad’s declaration of victory over the Islamic State, a move that marks a shifting of priorities as America redeploys the forces and equipment to Afghanistan.

A jihadist who pleaded guilty to going on a stabbing spree at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota entered the U.S. as a legal immigrant with foreign relatives.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The only surviving member of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November 2015 refused to rise for a Belgian court on Monday, or answer questions about his actions, during his first appearance in public since his arrest nearly two years ago.

TEL AVIV – Israeli drones, jets, and helicopters have carried out a covert campaign with more than 100 airstrikes against Islamic State-affiliated terrorists in the Sinai over the past two years, when Egypt proved unable to deal with the jihadist threat inside its borders, the New York Times reported Saturday.

The government’s terror watchdog Max Hill QC has said it is “fundamentally wrong to attach the word ‘terrorism’ to any of the world religions”.

We have the duty to “expose attempts to justify every form of hatred in the name of religion,” Pope Francis told a group of political and religious leaders Friday, insisting that all religions want peace.

Afghanistan has provided what it claims to be proof to Islamabad that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Taliban attackers who killed about 200 people on Afghan soil over the last month trained and planned the assaults in Pakistan.

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s main intelligence agency says it has killed a suspected member of the Islamic State group who it says was plotting an attack on the country’s presidential election day next month.

Contents: Russia’s Syria peace talks in Sochi dissolve into farce as Lavrov gets heckled; Russia sidelines the failed United Nations Syria peace process; War continues in full force, with Syria and Turkey killing ‘terrorists’

During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Donald Trump asserted that “the coalition to defeat ISIS has liberated almost 100 percent of the territory once held by these killers in Iraq and Syria.”

An estimated 45,000 students have enrolled at the University of Mosul after it was reduced to ruins at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), prompting the school’s officials to voice optimism about the future of the facility, the second largest higher education institution in Iraq.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed this week that the Islamic State (ISIS) has killed three of its soldiers during clashes in Iran’s southwestern Fars Province.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army post near a military academy in the Afghan capital of Kabul that reportedly killed 11 soldiers and wounded 16 others.

Facebook suspended, but then reinstated an Islamic extremist’s account nine times, after he warned the company would have to answer to “Allah the All Merciful,” according to a report.

The remnants of the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq reportedly attacked members a Baghdad-sanctioned, Iranian-backed umbrella organization for mainly Shiite militias located in the central part of the nation in Salahaddin province.

It’s always nice to hire people with expertise for delicate work, but Ezra Levant at the Rebel Media thinks Canada’s Center for Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence went a bit overboard by hiring two accused terrorists as “anti-radicalism consultants.”

Turkey is a sovereign nation and the U.S. isn’t going to get into an argument with it. But apparently, Washington isn’t going to stop Ankara from falling off a cliff, either.

PARIS (AP) — The first trial related to the 2015 deadly Islamic State attacks on Paris opened on Wednesday after initial concerns that a national protest by prison guards would block a suspect’s transfer to the Paris court house.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) remains a top threat against the Middle East, the West, and beyond despite the ongoing demise of its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, where experts believe at least 3,000 active terrorists and about 7,000 loyalists are ready to engage in jihad on behalf of the group.

Militants allied with the Islamic State reportedly looted a fortune in cash, gold, and jewelry from the Philippine city of Marawi during their five-month occupation last year, and have used their booty to recruit hundreds of new terrorist operatives. Although its ambitions to use Marawi as the capital of a new caliphate were thwarted, ISIS has grown strong enough to battle Philippine troops again over the weekend.

Images publicized by the Islamic State this weekend showed a wheelchair-bound man saying goodbye to his children and then carrying out a suicide car-bomb attack in Syria, purportedly targeting a government military compound in eastern Syria.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Sunday afternoon the beginning of a major military offensive, bizarrely dubbed “Operation Olive Branch,” against America’s battlefield allies in Syria, the Kurdish YPG militia.

Contents: Multiple Afghanistan Taliban terror attacks leave ‘victory’ plans in tatters; Sunday’s attacks throw new doubts into claims of ‘victory’ in Afghanistan

Contents: Turkey begins its air and ground invasion of Syria’s Afrin; China lies about ‘indisputable sovereignty’ in new confrontation in South China Sea; Summary of major Generational Dynamics predictions

(AFP) — An Iraqi court said Sunday it had condemned to death by hanging a German woman of Moroccan origin after finding her guilty of belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group.

Contents: Turkey’s troops mass on border, preparing to invade northern Syria; Collapse of the Russian ‘peace process’; The growing conflagration in northwest Syria

Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli affirmed that the Turkish military would cross into Syrian territory and attack U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in that country on Friday, a move that may trigger direct clashes between Turkey and the Bashar al-Assad regime.

In a speech to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on Wednesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States would retain a military presence in Syria for the foreseeable future.

The Trump administration has “functionally destroyed” the “physical” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) caliphate in the Middle East, but “the war is not over,” warned Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to the U.S. president, in written testimony prepared for a House panel hearing on Wednesday.

Turkey vows to take action against a United States-supported plan to establish a Kurdish-majority force of 30,000 troops in Syria “regardless of who backs them,” cautioned Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

PARIS (AP) — Six families of French jihadis captured during Islamic State’s retreat filed a complaint Wednesday demanding that the government bring them home, a week after a video of two notorious European extremists renewed the debate over how hundreds of foreign Islamic State fighters should be handled.

Contents: US in Syria announces a Border Security Force to prevent repeat of Iraq withdrawal blunder; Turkey, Russia and Syria infuriated by the Border Security Force announcement

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Monday to annihilate a 30,000-strong Kurdish-majority force in Syria that has the backing of the United States.

The son of an Albanian-American has reportedly pulled himself into the upper echelons of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), allegedly becoming an executioner suspected of beheading Kurdish prisoners, reports Defense One, citing a two-year investigation.