
Chinese state media are promoting a more prominent role for the communist country in resolving the civil war in Syria, with a column in the People’s Daily suggesting China could “build on the basic consensus reached by the international community that the Syrian crisis should be solved politically.”
by Frances Martel29 Dec 2015, 10:11 AM PST0

JAFFA, Israel – Twenty-three Saudi women have been indicted for membership of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, Al Arabiya website reported on Tuesday.
by Ali Waked29 Dec 2015, 8:55 AM PST0

The latest depredations of the Islamic State include the bombing of Assyrian Christian homes, and a monastery occupied by Assyrian nuns, plus the vandalism of a Christian cemetery in Kirkuk.
by John Hayward29 Dec 2015, 8:23 AM PST0

For the first time in over forty years, it was announced that Iraq has crowned its first beauty queen.
by Nadia Al Sultani29 Dec 2015, 6:08 AM PST0

A newly released religious ruling, or fatwa, handed down by the ISIL Committee of Research and Fatwas stipulates in great detail the sexual conduct of Islamic State slave owners toward their infidel female captives.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.29 Dec 2015, 5:53 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – The UN Security Council passed a resolution seemingly legitimizing the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and invited Iran to join the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), MEMRI reported. On December 18, 2015, the UNSC unanimously passed Resolution 2254,
by Deborah Danan29 Dec 2015, 5:30 AM PST0

While the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group has developed a reputation for successfully recruiting using social media, this week, a call from “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—demanding more Muslims join the jihadist group—was met with a chorus of mockery and jeers.
by Mary Chastain28 Dec 2015, 9:16 PM PST0

Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki failed to acknowledge the U.S.-led coalition air support in a statement about the liberation of Ramadi, although it was an integral part of the offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi city from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Edwin Mora28 Dec 2015, 8:53 PM PST0

Members of the female Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) brigade mutilated and butchered a mom who breastfed her child in Raqqa, Syria, according to reports.
by Mary Chastain28 Dec 2015, 7:50 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan decapitated four members of a militia group controlled by a prominent Afghan lawmaker. They had been taken hostage during a gunfight Saturday. In retaliation, the Afghan militia beheaded four ISIS jihadists.
by Edwin Mora28 Dec 2015, 1:07 PM PST0

In her provocative article in Monday’s Washington Post, Elmir claims that she is often asked to condemn Islamic terrorism, to which she replies: “I emphatically refuse.”
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.28 Dec 2015, 12:37 PM PST0

Saturday, December 26, 2015, an audio statement (transcribed fully here) allegedly issued by Islamic State “Caliph”, al-Baghdadi, contained the following threat to the Jewish State of Israel, and Jews in general.
by Andrew G. Bostom28 Dec 2015, 12:04 PM PST0

The Iraqi city of Ramadi has been mostly freed from Islamic State (IS) control thanks to a joint US-Iraq military campaign, months after Iraqi forces fled the city in May.
by Jordan Schachtel28 Dec 2015, 9:50 AM PST0

Russian media outlets are reporting that a high-ranking Islamic State commander has been captured after a U.S. special forces raid in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
by Jordan Schachtel28 Dec 2015, 9:30 AM PST0

The declared leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is spinning critical ISIS military losses as a “blessing from Allah,” while continuing to summon Muslims around the world to enlist in the jihadist group.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.28 Dec 2015, 8:37 AM PST0

A group claiming to be pro-Islamic State allegedly hacked into a Texas facial rejuvenation boutique’s website last week. The hack temporarily shut down the business’ online presence and posted the image of the Islamic State flag along with a message.
by Merrill Hope28 Dec 2015, 7:30 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – A German journalist who spent days with the Islamic State said that the only country in the Middle East that the jihadists fear is Israel because they know that the Jewish state’s “army is too strong for them.” In
by Deborah Danan28 Dec 2015, 6:58 AM PST0

A newly released video captured Kurdish freedom fighters blowing up an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) suicide bomber, who was attempting to drive a Ford pickup truck carrying a ton of TNT across the Kurdish frontline near Mosul in northern Iraq.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.28 Dec 2015, 6:10 AM PST0

Well before the latest threat from Islamic State, Israel’s military had stepped up intelligence and preparedness efforts with the militant group in mind. In particular, Israeli forces are keeping an eye on Islamic State’s branch in Egypt’s lawless Sinai peninsula,
by Breitbart Jerusalem28 Dec 2015, 12:47 AM PST0

On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, host and Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow will discuss the most important news of the week. He will be talking about the Republican presidential primary endorsements, the threat of Islamic State, and the Syrian migrant invasion of Europ
by Breitbart News27 Dec 2015, 12:48 PM PST0

According to a religious ruling, or fatwa, issued by Islamic State scholars, the harvesting of organs from live victims in order to save the lives of Muslims is licit, opening the question of whether ISIS is engaging in the trafficking of human body parts.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.27 Dec 2015, 9:13 AM PST0

Tunisia admitted that around 3,000 of its nationals have left for Syria and Iraq to fight in the ranks of the Islamic State, more than three times the number previously estimated. Walid Elwekeine, a spokesperson for the Tunisian Ministry of
by Ali Waked27 Dec 2015, 7:48 AM PST0

The head of the British government’s charities regulator says Muslim charities face a “deadly” threat from terrorist infiltration, with some being used to promote, and recruit for, violent jihad. Latest figures from the Charity Commission show the number of serious incidents
by Sarkis Zeronian26 Dec 2015, 6:37 PM PST0

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has doubled down on his decision to use British military assets to intervene, alongside France, in Libya in 2011. The intervention toppled the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, leading to the death of the one-time fair-weather
by Breitbart London26 Dec 2015, 2:59 PM PST0

Christians in Iraqi Kurdistan were determined to keep their Christmas Christian traditions, even though attacks from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda have decimated the population.
by Mary Chastain26 Dec 2015, 1:06 PM PST0