BANGKOK – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has arrested five suspects linked to the Islamic State who were in the midst of preparing a terrorist attack in the country’s southern district of Volgograd.
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations alleged this week that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is making between $100-$200 million a year by selling priceless antiques they seize.
The Nigerian military has issued an offer to Boko Haram jihadists seeking to surrender to hand over their arms and join the nation’s first jihadi rehabilitation camp, where the government hopes to train the former terrorists to work and prepare them to reintegrate into society.
Syrian state media SANA has reported the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has kidnapped 300 cement workers just 30 miles northeast of Damascus.
The Russian military has allegedly removed over 1,500 mines planted in Palmyra, Syria during the Islamic State’s (ISIS) reign over the ancient city, believed to be intended to detonate simultaneously and level much of the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s priceless ruins.
“If you cut from the back of the neck, they die faster,” said Rahila Amos, a Nigerian grandmother describing the meticulous instruction she received from Boko Haram to become a suicide bomber.
The Islamic State (ISIS)’s de facto capital in Syria, Raqqa, has become the new headquarters for global terrorism. It is where plots to sow murder and mayhem across the West are hatched and orchestrated.
The Iraqi military has announced that it is halting its operation to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS), as they wait for Baghdad to send police and military reinforcements to continue capturing the villages surrounding Iraq’s second-largest city.
Syria’s ongoing battle with the Islamic State continues to take a heavy toll on the civilian population with hundreds of noncombatants killed during March 2016 either as direct targets of Islamist militants or “collateral damage” from airstrikes. The UK-based Syrian
The latest move in President Obama’s bid to close the Guantánamo Bay prison facility involves the transfer of two Libyan detainees to Senegal.
JERUSALEM – The Israeli Defense Ministry on Tuesday announced that the March 19 terror attack in Istanbul was deliberately targeted at Israeli tourists. Three Israelis were killed in the attack. The decision reverses an earlier statement by the ministry that echoed the
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The U.S. military carried out an airstrike Sunday on “a senior Al Qaeda operational meeting in northwest Syria” that resulted in “several enemy killed,” including a prominent leader in the jihadist group’s Syrian offshoot, known as the Nusra Front, according to the Pentagon.
In the midst of heavy military losses, fighters from the Islamic State have crucified eight men on electrical poles in their Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, in punishment for crimes committed against the Caliphate. According to reports, three of the eight
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is attempting to expand its presence in Afghanistan, Khaama Press reports, citing a lawmaker from the eastern Afghan province Ghazni.
The southern border represents a potential vulnerability that terrorists could use to gain access to the U.S., according to Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI).
Islamic State (IS) terrorists have released a threatening new video, praising the attacks in Paris and Brussels and promising London, Berlin or Rome will be next. The video, titled, “Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands” after a
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Syrian and Russian forces discovered a mass grave of victims of the Islamic State, including women and children, following the liberation of the ancient city of Palmyra.
Radical Islam recently reared its ugly head once again in an urban attack on civilians in Brussels, Belgium. Jihadist perpetrators killed, maimed, and terrorized soft urban target innocents and instilled a climate of fear among the general Western world population.
The alleged ex-wife of the notorious Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has reportedly described him as a “normal family man” before the jihadist group declared him the “Caliph” and “leader for Muslims everywhere.”
Officials have discovered that Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis have been using a chemistry laboratory at Mosul University to make bombs used by ISIS jihadists throughout the region.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka appeared on Fox News Saturday to discuss the ongoing Islamic State terror threat in Belgium, and new ISIS online messages calling for German Muslims to carry out Brussels-style attacks in Germany.
President Barack Obama’s domestic anti-jihad plan has been blocked by “moderate” Muslims’ refusal to admit the all-too-obvious tie between Islam and Islamic jihad.
Chicago Tribune Editorial Board member Clarence Page stated that the problems with ISIS came about because President Obama “underestimated their ability to grow as they have, and their aggressiveness” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Page said, “[T]he problem with ISIS came about because
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) said that the terrorist threat “is no longer confined to the Middle East, South Asia, or even Europe” and “I cannot remember a time where the United States and our allies faced a greater array of
President Obama stated that “Because of the progress we made this week, and over recent years, more of the world’s nuclear material is secure. It’s harder for terrorists to get it” and that ISIS is “lashing out” as it’s “squeezed
Syrian troops found a mass grave containing around 40 bodies in Palmyra city, captured from Islamic State last Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said on Friday. SANA said the grave, which contained many women and children, was in the
The motive behind the Islamic State prohibition of Christians leaving its stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, has now come to light: the Christians will be used as hostages and human shields in the event of a Russian-Syrian invasion of the Islamic
General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a news briefing on Wednesday that the decision to put more boots on the ground in Iraq should come within the next few weeks.
Russian authorities have arrested at least 20 Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) recruiters in Moscow.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasted President Barack Obama’s foreign policy at a VIP dinner in Washington and charged him with supporting terrorism by backing the Kurds.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has accused Western powers of supporting “terrorism” by supporting his adversaries in the Syrian civil war and announced that Russia, China, and Iran will be calling the shots during Syrian reconstruction, but he also expects the United Nations to restore the ancient city of Palmyra, recently recaptured from the Islamic State.
The last remaining Christians in Syria’s Raqqa are being forbidden from leaving “under any condition” by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists who control the de-facto capital of the terrorist group, as forces loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad and their allies advance towards the city.
An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir flight was a “fanatical” supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization and bragged about participating in the killing of three Israeli soldiers, his Cypriot ex-wife said in an interview published Thursday in leading Cypriot daily Phileleftheros.
A mass abduction, even larger than the April 2014 raid on Chibok, Borno state, which brought Boko Haram to international visibility, occurred months later, Human Rights Watch alleges. However, out of fear of angering the Nigerian government, parents of the victims refused to report it.
On Tuesday, Indonesia announced that ten of its citizens, sailors working aboard a coal barge, had been kidnapped, with a ransom demand made by the Islamist militant group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. Wednesday brought reports that elite Indonesian counter-terrorist units are standing by to assist in a possible rescue operation.
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Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) attacked the Ayn al-Assad Iraqi air base housing American forces, according to the Pentagon.
The Syrian-based Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda offshoot, has launched a surprise attack against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Western Syria, prompting a war between the two terrorist groups, reports AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA).
