Two days after video of the brutal execution of a Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State circled the globe, President Obama reminded his mostly Christian audience at the National Prayer Breakfast about the Crusades and the Inquisition. The President framed
ISIS has released a Manifesto on women and girls. Titled “Women in the Islamic State,” it is far more extreme than even Hitler’s vision of women as belonging in the nursery (Kinder) the kitchen, (Küche) and the Church (Kirche).
Abu Obeida al-Masri, who served as treasurer of the Islamic State’s Syria branch, has allegedly stolen one million dollars from the group and has now made his way to Turkey.
One never knows how seriously to take the output of the Islamic State’s media apparatus, but they announced on Friday morning that their female American hostage, Kayla Jean Mueller, was killed in a Jordanian air strike.
The FBI is investigating four Minnesota residents for allegedly attempting to fight alongside the Islamic State terror group and contribute to its jihad in Syria, according to court documents.
Americans, including a former U.S. soldier, and other Westerners have joined Kurdish forces battling Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) jihadists on the ground in Iraq.
(Reuters) – The Islamic State has killed three Chinese militants who joined its ranks in Syria and Iraq and later attempted to flee, a Chinese state-run newspaper said, the latest account of fighters from China embroiled in the Middle East conflict.
The Jordanian armed forces have carried out dozens of bombing runs over both Syria and Iraq over the past two days, which come in the wake of the Islamic State’s brutal murder of captive Jordanian pilot 1st Lt. Moath Kasasbeh.
(Reuters) – Flags and emblems of Islamic State, pictured on Wednesday on houses in a Bosnian village, disappeared on Thursday under threat of action by police wary of the dangers posed by radical Islamists returning from Syria and Iraq.
An effective retaliation against the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) would require 100,000 boots on the ground, according to the former CIA deputy director.
The most respected Sunni Islam center of learning expressed anger towards the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) after the group burned a Jordanian pilot alive, saying the jihadists should be killed and crucified in return.
The Turkish government arrested the first Turkish citizen involved with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) on February 4. However, rumors ran wild in 2014 of Turkey’s deep ties to the militant group.
What sheer, blind foolishness. What dangerous idiocy. It’s terrifying to think our national defense is headed up by someone so willfully blind and shallow, someone whose opinion of his own nation and its history is so bleak and slanted. He really can’t see anything beyond the unyielding borders of his ideology.
President Barack Obama sparked outrage among American Christians on Thursday when he decided to use the National Prayer Breakfast as a forum to lecture Christians not to get on their “high horse” in the wake of the burning of a caged live Jordanian pilot by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) executed six people after they condemned the terrorist group for burning Jordanian pilot Mu’ath Kasasbeh alive. Muslims from around the world condemned the burning because “such a form of killing was considered despicable by Islam, no matter the context.”
The King of Jordan has declared vengeance against ISIS and a number of Muslim clerics—and even Al-Qaeda—have condemned the fiery public murder of the Jordanian pilot.
Jordan’s King Abdullah is reportedly personally involved in executing air strikes against Islamic State positions in the aftermath of the terrorist group’s brutal execution of Jordanian pilot 1st Lt. Moaz Kasasbeh.
Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists are selling children as sex slaves, murdering children by crucifixion, and burying children alive, reported the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child watchdog committee on Wednesday.
The atrocities of ISIS have gone almost beyond the power to shock, but it’s still jarring to see so much depravity collected into a single report. The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child speaks of the Islamic State selling young children into slavery, pressing mentally handicapped kids into service as suicide bombers, using them as human shields against American air strikes, and conducting mass executions of children by beheading them, crucifying them, and burying them alive.
The Turkish prosecutor in Diyarbakir, the symbolic capital of the Kurds, charged Dutch journalist Fréderike Geerdink with “terrorist propaganda.” She faces one to five years in prison if found guilty.
The King of Jordan reportedly referenced a Clint Eastwood movie in describing how his government would respond to the recent atrocity committed by the Islamic State against fighter pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, in which the Jordanian 1st Lieutenant was placed in a cage and then abruptly set on fire.
Libya’s parliament has suspended a law banning officials who served under Muammar Gaddafi from holding a position in the country’s current administration.
An Iraqi father single-handedly attacked a group of Islamic State jihadists with an AK-47, killing seven, before losing his life in his attempt to avenge his son, killed on video by the terrorist group.
A Jordanian government spokesman says Jordan has executed two prisoners, including a would-be female suicide bomber from al-Qaida.
President Barack Obama told the Today Show the United States is working to release a 26-year-old American woman from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The terrorists captured the woman on August 30.
