ROME, Italy– During his morning Mass Monday, Pope Francis once again threw down the gauntlet to the jihadists of ISIS and Boko Haram, applying to them the words of Jesus that those who persecute Christians have never known God.
As Time notes, prison riots in Iraq are not uncommon occurrences, often beginning with attacks on the prison compounds by militant forces seeking to rescue their comrades.
Tajikistan’s curious anti-Islam campaign has already seen the government cracking down on beards and hijabs, the traditional female garment in Muslim culture. They have also asked imams to include praise for the secular government in their sermons and applied travel restrictions to Muslim citizens seeking to make the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The beard ban has reportedly been taken as far as the forcible shaving of illegally luxurious facial hair by security forces.
In its crusade against homosexuals, the Islamic State is now resorting to sting operations, using jihadists posing as gay men to coax out offenders and execute them.
Egyptian authorities arrested five Coptic Christian children after a Muslim mob accused them of blasphemy. The mob was upset they appeared in a video that allegedly “mocked” Islam, but really only made fun of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), which is determined to wipe Christianity, Judaism, and non-compliant Muslims off the Earth.
In an interview published by Rolling Stone on May 7th, the Who’s Pete Townshend said ‘it’s very important that we keep our ammunition ready.”
Zainab Bangura, the United Nations Special representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, recently interviewed numerous females the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) kidnapped and forced to be sex slaves. She found what others have previously discovered: rape, slavery, slave markets, and women undergoing surgery to restore their virginity.
A British electronica band has teamed up with the archbishop of Iraq to release a song sending a message of hope to persecuted Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities in the crosshairs of the Islamic State–and raising awareness about their suffering and need for support.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the U.S. has begun training about 90 Syrian rebels at an overseas location, adding that pro-Bashar al-Assad regime forces are losing momentum in their fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and other groups.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter told Pentagon reporters that threats of future terrorist attacks on U.S. soil issued after the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack in Garland, Texas, should be taken “seriously.”
In an effort to protect the strategic Beiji oil refinery from Islamic State forces, the U.S. has carried out 26 airstrikes since Tuesday, according to Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Some experts question the credibility of a threat alleging that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has 71 trained jihadists inside the United States ready to attack.
FBI and intelligence community officials are openly admitting how difficult it has become to track the thousands of potential American jihadists on social media.
American government officials announced rewards of up to $20 million dollars for any information regarding four leaders of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL): Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, and Tariq bin al-Tahar bin al-Falih al-Awni al-Harzi.
An April report in Kenya’s The Standard noted that the nation’s officials were preparing to crack down on terror warnings on social media meant to alarm–calling them “themselves terrorism in nature”–and warned that the jihadist group al-Shabaab had taken too strong a foothold on Twitter.
According to a U.N.-endorsed report from the Norwegian Refugee Council, 38 million people were displaced by conflicts around the world in 2014, including 2.2 million Iraqis forced from their homes by the rise of the Islamic State.
According to an FBI report, Elton Simpson revealed in private messages on Twitter exactly how and when he decided to turn against the United States and embrace radical Islam.
Religious leaders seem desperate to hide behind “bland statements of anaemic intent” about what they have in common rather than facing up to the “profound differences” between them, said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who called the practice “dishonest.”
The ‘Islamic State in America’ leadership posted a threat on an anonymous social media message board, claiming the terrorist group has jihadists stationed in 15 states.
Nadir Soofi – who along with roommate Elton Simpson attempted to carry out mass slaughter in the name of Islam on Sunday in Garland, Texas – had a long history of run-ins with the law.
As unidentified individuals online strengthen their claims that the Islamic State had a hand in organizing a failed attack on a Draw Muhammad art contest in Garland, Texas, experts have told various media outlets that, while the group may have inspired the attack, little evidence suggests that ISIS operatives actually funded or planned the attack and are now trying to take credit for work they did not do.
Less than a week after two jihadists attempted to assault a ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest in Garland, Texas and one day after the Islamic State officially took credit for the attack, a statement claiming to come from ISIS leadership in America has appeared online threatening the event’s organizer, Pamela Geller, and asserting that “15 states” have been infiltrated by the terrorist group.
Radical Islamists elsewhere are taking a page out of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) playbook. Jihadists demolished a mausoleum in Mali that was recently submitted to the United Nations World Heritage site.
The U.S. State Department’s recent rejection of an Iraqi nun’s request for a visa has ignited a firestorm, with conservatives calling for an official congressional probe into the decision.
Josef Yousif, the director of the Alqush Museum in Mosul, believes his museum is the next target.
