Foreign mercenaries, primarily from South Africa, are reportedly assisting the Nigerian military in their fight against terrorist group Boko Haram, which is now officially allied to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The latest communique from the Islamic State, alleged to contain the voice of spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, specifically mentioned attacks on Paris would come before the conquest of Rome.
WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK), a retired Army lieutenant colonel and Iraq war veteran, told Breitbart News that he is “very concerned” about the growing Iranian influence in Iraq where Iranian-backed Shiite militias are fighting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
A community in northeast Syria inhabited primarily by Assyrian Christians has been under steady assault by ISIS for the past 18 days, and they are barely holding on, according to Rima Tuezuen of the Syriac European Union. When the attack first began on February 23rd, ISIS abducted hundreds of Christian prisoners, only 23 of whom have been released so far.
The European Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday calling for the protection of Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities in the Middle East from the depredations of the Islamic State. A call for the establishment of safe havens for ethnic and religious minorities in the Nineveh Plains is part of the resolution.
WASHINGTON — Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command, warned lawmakers that Sunni extremists are radicalizing converts and other Muslims in Latin America, adding that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) may exploit trafficking organizations in the region to infiltrate the United States.
The father of an Arab-Israeli teenager executed by the Islamic State (ISIS) for allegedly spying for Israel has pledged to fight on behalf of the Jewish state against the jihadi terror group.
The Associated Press reports that the boy executioner and his adult mentor from the latest ISIS snuff film, in which the boy executes a 19-year-old Palestinian accused of being a “Mossad spy,” have been identified as French citizens. The older jihadi may be linked to a horrific attack on a Jewish school in France in 2012.
The Los Angeles Times, ignoring facts that would conflict with its anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian messaging, identified Muhammad Musallam, the 19-year-old boy shot and killed by a child from the group Islamic State, as a “Palestinian,” instead of what he actually was–an Israeli Arab who lived in East Jerusalem.
In an interview with Voice of America published on Wednesday, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan claimed that Boko Haram fighters are traveling to “ISIS camps” to receive terror training before relocating to West Africa and attacking northeastern Nigerian villages.
A group of 38 imams, led by Calgary Imam Syed Soharwardy, have signed a six-page fatwa banning the Islamic State, condemning their work as “not Muslim,” and attacking conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for using the term “jihad” in connection with the Islamic State terrorist group.
The 52 Assyrian Christian families who were among hundreds of hostages captured by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have not been released as reported, according to the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA).
The Twitter account of a Melbourne, Australia, teen nicknamed the “White Jihadi” has been suspended after he tweeted about coming attacks that would “make 9/11 look like child’s play.”
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is in complete control of the Libyan port city of Sirte, confirms The New York Times (NYT).
WASHINGTON—The highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. armed forces, while testifying before lawmakers on Wednesday, linked a Taliban faction in Afghanistan to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
WASHINGTON — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) accused the Obama administration of restricting its role in the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria to secure a nuclear deal with Iran.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi joined others in calling for the destruction of Egypt’s Great Sphinx and Pyramids. In a statement out this week, said it is a Muslim’s “religious duty” to destroy the monuments. The monuments are the only one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World still in existence.
The Kurdish town of Kobane opened up the first school since the town was liberated from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in January.
Harvard faculty and the local police were alerted to the activities of an unidentified man allegedly soliciting donations last week for a charity connected to ISIS at the Kennedy School of Government, a graduate division of Harvard University.
Kurdish news agency Rudaw tells the poignant story of Teleskof, a Christian town of some 4,000 souls in the Nineveh Plains evacuated last August before the advance of ISIS, save for two elderly women named Sarya Matto and Madi Salim, who adamantly refused to leave their home.
Former Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) hostage Nicolas Henin, 39, spoke out recently about his ten months with the jihadist group. He told the BBC the militants enjoyed Teletubbies and Game of Thrones. He also claimed there were some who could not come to terms with the blood the group spills on an almost daily basis.
NBC News reports the latest ISIS recruitment video features “two deaf and mute fighters communicating in sign language in what analysts said was an attempt to demonstrate ‘normal’ life for everyone under the brutal terrorist group’s domination.”
A French Policewoman and four others have been arrested on suspicions that they were linked to Amedy Coulibaly, the jihadi gunman who carried out an attack on a Kosher supermarket in Paris in January.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi sat down with Fox News’s Bret Baier on Monday and discussed a variety of issues concerning the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC), the chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, released a manual to help Americans prepare for terrorist attacks and cyber crimes.
