A little more than a month ago, Libyan forces claimed they had all but driven the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) out of their stronghold in Sirte, birthplace of Muammar Gaddafi. “We think that Sirte will be liberated within days, not weeks,” a military spokesman said, saying the only real problem remaining was an infestation of ISIS snipers.
Islamic State and their supporters have been celebrating the Munich gun attack as though they orchestrated the event, although no links have been found between the killer and Islamist organisations. Following the news that an 18-year-old Iranian-German had opened fire
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has been able to attract foreign fighters from various corners across the world, including northwest China’s volatile and predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, home to the ethnic Uighur population.
The Russian military on June 16 bombed a “secret base” near the Jordanian border in Syria used by “elite American and British forces” as part of efforts to strong arm the Obama administration into agreeing to cooperate with Moscow, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The Islamic State’s propaganda apparatus has suffered a setback in recent weeks, loyalists in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem, admitting that the decline in the organization’s online presence came as it experienced a series of defeats on the battlefield.
Islamic State have released two videos calling for more acts of terrorism to be carried out in France in retaliation for the nation’s involvement in conducting airstrikes against the terrorist group, and called Nice attacker Bouhlel an “inspired Muslim”.
TEL AVIV – “Leave ISIS Be” is the provocative title of an article published in the last week by the Kuwaiti daily, Al-Jarida, which claims that the best way to combat the terror group is to impose recognition of it as a sovereign state, thereby forcing it to accept accountability for its actions on the international stage.
Using social media platforms, jihadis have exploited ambush attacks on the police in an attempt to recruit black Americans to their cause, urging them to convert to Islam and make war against the U.S. government.
The horrifying decapitation of a kidnapped boy on spy accusations was “an individual” mistake, declared the U.S.-backed, so-called “moderate” Syrian rebel group that carried out the appalling crime, claiming that it will open an investigation into the beheading.
After probes in nine states and twelve issued warrants, Brazilian police have arrested ten suspects, including one minor, for plotting jihadist attacks on the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
AFP – The Islamic State group has claimed several high-profile attacks in the West that it appears to have inspired rather than planned, sowing fear and boosting its profile at low cost. Such attacks require far less effort than planning
On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that the Pentagon would investigate claims by human-rights organizations – including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Amnesty International, and the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces – that American airstrikes have killed over 100 civilians since June. Some estimates say the death toll could be closer to double that number.
A jihadist group in Brazil has declared its loyalty to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) weeks before hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to the South American country for the Summer Olympics, reports the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites.
Islamic State mass murderer Omar Mateen, responsible for killing dozens at the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse in June, had repeatedly told coworkers he was related to an assortment of jihadis, from the Boston Marathon bombers to the Fort Hood killer Nidal Hassan, newly released documents show.
Nearly all the pieces have fallen into place for the U.S.-backed Iraqi forces to make a push to recapture Mosul, the de facto Iraqi capital of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) that has been described as the jihadist group’s last remaining stronghold in the country, declared a top Obama administration official.
Since the Friday morning terror attack that stole at least 84 lives in Nice, France, investigators have learned that the murderer had started attending a mosque in April, stopped drinking alcohol, grew a beard for religious purposes and sent over £84,000 to family in Tunisia.
The Israeli government has approved the construction of an additional section of fence along its border with Jordan, Haaretz reports.
Islamic State has released a video of the young man who attacked passengers on a Wuerzburg train as police reveal a possible motive behind the killings.
A U.S- led coalition in Syria has killed more than 100 civilians since June and wounded dozens more in airstrikes in and around the ISIS-controlled city of Manbij, according to several human rights groups.
The SITE Intelligence group has confirmed that a jihadist cell calling itself “Ansar al-Khilafah Brasil” — “Soldiers of the Caliphate Brazil” — has pledged allegiance to Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, stoking fears that ISIS jihadists are planning an attack on the upcoming Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The expanded military authorization granted by President Barack Obama last month, which allows American troops supporting their Afghan counterparts to offensively target the Taliban rather than waiting for the terrorist group to attack first, is leading to progress on the battlefield, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told USA Today.
Deradicalisation programmes for Islamic State fighters who have returned from Syria and Iraq are largely unsuccessful. Some are continuing to make propaganda videos for the terrorist group while back in Germany, and most rejoin the country’s flourishing Salafist community.
(AFP) – The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for its first attack in Germany, an axe and knife assault on a train carried out by a 17-year-old Afghan refugee. German authorities said they had found a hand-painted IS flag
New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will on Thursday make his first official visit to the United States, meeting international counterparts as part of the fight against Islamic State (IS).
A hand-painted flag of the Islamic State group has been found among the belongings of the 17-year-old Afghan refugee who attacked train passengers with an axe and a knife, authorities said on Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stressed that the recent wave of terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) suggest that the jihadist group is “on the run” in Iraq and Syria.
TEL AVIV – Don’t let people know where you’re from and don’t speak Hebrew, an Israeli reporter who was at the scene of Thursday night’s terrorist attack in Nice was warned by a French resident of the city.
On Sunday, the influential Shi’ite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told his followers to target U.S. troops that are being dispatched to Iraq to fight against the Islamic State.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), a hawkish congressman from the San Fernando Valley, is facing criticism for a tweet he published during the height of the coup attempt against Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday.
Following the Obama administration’s attempt to remove from a 9-1-1 call transcript Orlando terrorist shooter Omar Mateen’s pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State, U.S. law enforcement officials are now investigating the role that Mateen’s reported use of steroids may have played in the massacre.
TEL AVIV – London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a column last week calling for the Arab and Muslim world to follow post-WWII Germany’s lead and purge itself of extremist elements in much the same way Germany uprooted Nazism – “with an iron fist.”
BEIRUT (AP) — An Islamic State-run media outlet says the man who barreled his truck into a crowd in the French coastal city of Nice is a “soldier” of the group.
CAIRO/NICE, France, July 16 (Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility for the truck attack on the French city of Nice on Saturday as French police arrested three people there in connection with the carnage that claimed the lives of at
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is suspected of having set up sleeper cells inside India, the world’s second most populous nation, the Iraqi ambassador to India told The Hindu.
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan targeting the region’s Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in their stronghold of eastern Nangarhar province killed top Pakistani Taliban-linked jihadist Umar Khalifa on July 9 along with four other terrorists, according to the Pentagon and officials from Pakistan.
In a Damascus interview with NBC News, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad pronounced himself unsatisfied with both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as U.S. presidential candidates.
A Tunisian man living in France plowed a large truck through the ultimate “soft target” — thousands of Bastille Day revelers who had gathered to watch fireworks in an open venue at the French resort city of Nice — quickly killing at least 84 people and wounding another 202 during a national holiday akin to America’s Fourth of July.
Rumsfeld’s comments come in the wake of the latest attack, on Thursday night in Nice, France, after a several-year-long period of a growing number of attacks on the United States and Western European nations. Deadly attacks have occurred in recent weeks and months in Orlando, Florida, San Bernardino, California, Paris, and Brussels.
It is yet unclear whether the “Tunisian brother” who carried out the truck-ramming massacre in Nice on Thursday was commissioned by the Islamic State (IS) leadership or acted on his own, a top Salafi jihadist leader allied with IS ideology in the Gaza Strip told Breitbart Jerusalem.
British journalist John Cantlie, who has appeared in a number of Islamic State propaganda videos and magazine articles since he was kidnapped in Syria in 2012, reappears in a new video after a four-month absence that raised concerns about his continued survival.
