Last month, the Islamic State’s magazine Dabiq included an “interview” with a prisoner named Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam, who was supposedly a spy recruited by Israeli intelligence. Now it has been followed by a videotaped execution perpetrated by a pistol-packing child.
Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, has urged Muslims across the world to use the internet and social media to wage a war on terrorism, reported state-run news agency SPA.
The Islamic State and its online supporters, furious with social media providers’ efforts to ban their accounts, issued a new round of death threats against Twitter staff — and created their own social media platform.
An estimated 95 prisoners, including 30 Kurdish fighters, managed to escape from a prison in Syria run by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), revealed a monitoring group.
The families of the three British schoolgirls who joined the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria last month have demanded an apology from the Police because the force had failed to tell them their children were extremists. The call came from
According to reports from northern Iraq corroborated by photos shared on social media Tuesday, Islamic State militants have publicly beheaded three men, at least two of them for allegedly engaging in homosexual acts.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is fraying as the jihadist group fails to fulfill its promise of unifying Muslims of all origins under the caliphate and infighting between rival groups grows, The Washington Post reports.
A 20-year-old man who planned to murder the president and attack the U.S. Capitol with pipe bombs confessed he made the plans in sympathy with ISIS. In an interview from jail, he warned that the group has followers in every state and claimed additional attacks are on the way.
The Islamic State’s recruiting efforts have long been a source of grave concern to Western governments, but the situation in Europe is growing steadily worse according to French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who warned on Sunday that up to ten thousand Europeans could be fighting the jihad in Iraq and Syria by the end of the year.
Two teenage boys were stopped by Aussie authorities while they were attempting to fly out of Sydney Airport and join the Islamic State’s (ISIS) jihad in Syria and Iraq.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his country is not prepared to give up any more land for peace, as previous efforts have resulted in complete failure. Netanyahu also predicted that a Palestinian state, governed by an unsteady Palestinian leadership, would in all likelihood be controlled by state-sponsors of terror such as Iran, or terrorist groups like the Islamic State (ISIS).
As the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) expands, members are reporting rifts in various factions of the group. Those who have fled the group and residents in areas the jihadist group controls claim that the more fighters the group recruits, the more problems ISIS leaders have begun to face.
Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, the Islamic State terrorist responsible for butchering multiple Western hostages, has reportedly apologized to his family for the troubles his unmasking has caused them. However, Jihadi John did not apologize for his barbaric murders of innocents.
The global allure of a self-designated Caliphate, especially one that insists that its every barbaric action is Qur’an-based and Sharia-true, should not be underestimated.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly destroyed Khorsabad, nine miles from Mosul, the third city over the weekend. Residents alerted Iraqi officials on Sunday about possible looting.
The Spanish government has arrested a woman, identified as Samira Yerou, after Turkish authorities sent her back to Spain, suspecting she was attempting to enter Syria and join the Islamic State (ISIS). Spanish authorities have noted that evidence exists indicating Yerou was also working to recruit new members for the terrorist group.
A new study from the Brookings Institution, presented as the largest study of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) notoriously effective social media outreach via Twitter, found that as of fall 2014, supporters of the terror state had over 46,000 accounts, with about twenty percent of the tweets in English.
Iraq’s government is investigating reports that the ancient archaeological site of Khorsabad in northern Iraq is the latest to be attacked by the Islamic State militant group.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) destroyed the archaeological site of Hatra in northern Iraq. As the terrorist group extends its caliphate, its jihadist soldiers exterminate anything that, in their eyes, promotes idolatry.
Republicans have renewed their enthusiasm for Middle East war. Okay, fine. Let’s just be sure that this time, we win. And that means doing things differently: Different from Barack Obama, of course, but different, also, from George W. Bush.
Extremists are conning elderly citizens in the United Kingdom out of their life savings to fund the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL), reports the Daily Mail.
Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman reports that the government has officially confirmed that an Islamic State commander is receiving treatment for his battle wounds at the Pamukkale University Hospital.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent a joint warning to law enforcement across the United States about teens within the U.S. wanting to join the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL), CNN reports.
A 30-year-old high school biology teacher from Manchester named Jamshed Javeed was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday for his plan to join up with ISIS.
As the elite Kurdish female forces fighting the Islamic State become increasingly well-known, nations close to the struggle have expressed increasing interest in these women. Israeli television aired a popular special this week profiling the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection United (YPG), who are fighting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
