Officials: Saudi Arabia Arrests ISIS Militants Plotting Attack Against US Embassy
Saudi officials have announced the arrest of 93 jihadists on suspicion of having ties to the Islamic State terror group.
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Report: ISIS Has Executed 2154 People Since the Declaration of the ‘Caliphate’
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), in what it claims is a conservative estimate, has reported that in the ten months since the establishment of its so-called “Caliphate,” the Islamic State has executed 2154 people.
Syria and Russia Sign Accord on Combatting Islamic Terrorism
Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev received his Syrian counterpart Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar in Moscow on Monday, where the two ministers signed a cooperation agreement to combat Islamic terrorism.
Malaysia Arrests 12 Men for Ties to ISIS, Bringing Total to 104
Malaysian police arrested twelve men with links to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) who plotted to attack government buildings and people in Kuala Lumpur. The twelve men bring the total number of people arrested in Malaysia connected to ISIS to 104.
Report: Egypt Preparing Large Assault Against ISIS in Libya Despite Opposition From Obama
Egypt is getting ready to launch a large air and ground attack against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in eastern Libya, reported DebkaFile quoting military and intelligence sources.
Boko Haram Fuses with ISIS in Dangerous New Alliance
After swearing allegiance to ISIS in March, the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has now gone a step further, adopting the new name of the “Islamic State’s West Africa Province,” or ISWAP. The title change is more than semantic, and galvanizes the radical Islamist forces in Africa and the Middle East.
ISIS Releases Propaganda Video Showing Fighters Training In Yemen
A new Islamic State propaganda video claims the establishment of a “caliphate” in Yemen, displaying a unit of Islamic State troops conducting rifle drills in the desert near Yemen’s capital city. The Islamic State has previously claimed responsibility for the monstrous suicide bombings at a pair of mosques in Sanaa.
Rumors Of Death, Paralysis Surround The Fate of ISIS Leader Baghdadi
Several conflicting reports have surfaced about the fate of the Islamic State’s self- declared “Caliph” Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, who is believed to have been severely injured in a recent U.S. airstrike. Over the weekend and into Monday, reports have stated that Baghdadi’s health status varies from deceased, to complete paralysis, to only having sustained minor injuries.
‘Islamic State in West Africa’: Boko Haram Rebrands
Months after accepting a pledge of allegiance from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, the Islamic State has released propaganda through its social media outlets in which the Nigerian group refers to itself as “Islamic State West Africa Province” (ISWAP), suggesting their merger is finally complete.
American Volunteer Talks About Fighting ISIS Alongside the Kurds
Kurdish news agency Rudaw published an interview with American volunteer Jordan Matson over the weekend. Matson, a 28-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Wisconsin, said he had no combat or even overseas deployments with the Army, but he decided to travel to Syria and fight alongside the Kurdish YPG militia “because they stood by the United States for 10 years while my country was in Iraq,” and he wanted to “repay that debt.”
Report: Around 680 Germans Travel Abroad to Join Islamic Terrorist Groups
Germany revealed that nearly 700 of its citizens had traveled abroad as of March to join Islamic extremist forces, Deutsche Welle (DW) reports.
Australian Islamic School Bans Girls from Running for Fear of ‘Losing Their Virginity’
Omar Hallak, the principal at the Al-Taqwa College in Australia, banned girls from running in school, alleging that the activity could cause them to lose their virginity. The regulators have launched an investigation into the accusations.
Sunni Tribes In Iraq Have Second Thoughts About Supporting ISIS
The sectarian and factional chaos unleashed in Iraq by the ISIS invasion has neighboring tribes literally at each other’s throats, according to a report by the Associated Press. Some Sunni tribes initially welcomed the Sunni extremists of ISIS when they rolled across the border, thinking they might help change the balance of power in Shiite-dominated Baghdad. After watching ISIS turn northern Iraq into a torture chamber, some members of the al-Lehib tribe changed their minds, and ended up fighting alongside Iraqi military forces and the Kurds.
Ethiopians Riot over Video of ISIS Slaughtering Christians in Libya
“Ethiopian demonstrators hurled stones and scuffled with police during a rally by thousands in the capital on Wednesday after a video showed dozens of compatriots being shot and beheaded by Islamic State militants in Libya,” according to eyewitnesses quoted by Reuters.
Report: ISIS Installs Stand-In Leader as US Denies Al-Baghdadi Is Wounded
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was allegedly seriously wounded in a U.S. coalition airstrike in March, has been temporarily replaced by a former Iraqi physics teacher, reports Newsweek.
London Girls Reportedly Join Female ISIS Militia That Tortures Women
The three schoolgirls who ran away from their east London home to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria have reportedly joined a “fearsome group” made up of British female jihadis, according to the Daily Mail.
Mother of Fallen SEAL: Dempsey Must Apologize to Other Families for Ramadi Comments
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote an apology letter on Monday to Debbie Lee, the mother of the first Navy SEAL killed in Ramadi, Iraq, for downplaying the city’s importance.
Report: ISIS, Taliban Declare Jihad on Each Other
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the Taliban are denying involvement in a terrorist attack that left many poor civilians dead in Eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, according to media reports.
ISIS ‘State’ Struggles with Bureaucracy, Medicine
Aymenn Al-Tamimi, a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel, reports that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has established a bureaucracy to grant birth certificates and medical care to its residents.
Islamic State Is ‘Cancer’ of the Middle East, Says Iraqi Archbishop
Bashar Matti Warda, the Chaldean archbishop of Erbil, has had more firsthand experience than most with the atrocities of the Islamic State, a group that he describes as “a cancer” in the Middle East.
Russian Forces Claim to Have Killed Dagestan Jihadist Leader
The Kremlin and militant websites claim Russian forces killed Aliaskhab Kebekov, leader of the Caucasus Emirate insurgent group, in Dagestan. He died along with four other militants.
U.S.-Funded Iraq Government Withholds Kurdish Troops Pay for over Three Months
A dispute between the central Kurdistan government and its Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad has left some Kurdish security troops without pay for months.
Report: ISIS Leader Baghdadi ‘Seriously Wounded’ in Air Strike
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) caliphatist group that has usurped territory in much of the Middle East, was seriously wounded in an air strike in western Iraq, the Guardian reports.
Greece ‘Overwhelmed’ by Influx of Syrian Refugees Across the Aegean
While the ongoing migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea has captured the world’s attention after more than 800 people drowned in a capsized ship headed to Italy last week, a parallel situation has begun to unravel in the Aegean, with more than 100 mostly Syrian refugees drowning in the last 48 hours as they attempted to reach Greece.
Two Accused ISIS Recruits See San Diego Judge
Two of six Minnesotans allegedly bent on recruiting for, and joining, ISIS in the Middle East appeared at an initial hearing Monday in San Diego.
