Tag: ISIS

A British man, who says he is a doctor and pharmacist from Birmingham, has reportedly been detained in Syria on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic State.

A spokesman for the Iranian army on Saturday blamed Israel and the US for an attack that has killed at least 29 people and wounded over 60 at a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.

Radical Islamic terrorist Salah Abdeslam, who took part in the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris, is said to regularly insult prison guards and refers to them as “infidels”.

New York City’s 40th police commissioner, Bernard Kerik, slammed former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, saying Kaepernick is a “thug” and “disgusting” for promoting organizations that support cop killers such as Assata Shakur.

35-year-old Bryant Neal Vinas of New York has been described as the first American to join al-Qaeda after the 9/11 terrorist attack. In an interview published on Monday, Vinas said he joined because he was enraged at U.S. policy in Afghanistan and the Middle East, but was disappointed to find the experience “extremely boring” after his combat missions into Afghanistan were aborted and he was told he lacked the religious qualifications to become a suicide bomber.

The notorious hate preacher and Islamic State recruiter Anjem Choudary, linked to numerous deadly UK attacks, will walk free next month after being jailed just over two years ago.

Residents in Kirkuk, Iraq, are protesting that they have run “out of water,” joining a chorus of protests in cities like Basra over Baghdad’s inability to provide basic government services, the Kurdish outlet Rudaw reported on Wednesday.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday slammed Bob Woodward’s book about the Trump administration, which claimed  he had said the president had the understanding of a “fifth or sixth grader.”

British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has revealed direct links between terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan and cells in both Britain and “the whole of continental Europe”.

At a rare press conference earlier this week, Mattis discussed some of the historic changes he has overseen since taking office about 19 months ago. 

Trump administration officials and European diplomats told NBC News on Thursday that hundreds of captured Islamic State fighters may be sent to Iraq for incarceration, with a few of the highest-value prisoners detained in the American facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday that China is constructing a military base in a remote region of Afghanistan close to Xinjiang, the troubled province where much of China’s Muslim population lives. Both Chinese and Afghan officials quickly denied the report and said China is merely helping to train Afghan counter-terrorist forces.

Sergeant First Class Ikaika Kang on Wednesday pleaded guilty to helping the radical Islamic terror organization.

The leader of an Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate in Afghanistan was killed by a U.S. drone strike Saturday with ten other militant fighters, U.S. officials announced Sunday.

In a heartbreaking coda to the inhuman horror of the Islamic State, women from the Yazidi religious minority of Iraq say their communities have told them to leave behind children fathered by the ISIS militants who enslaved and raped them, or else they will not be allowed to return home.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt made a speech to the United Nations Thursday, discussing counter-terrorism, the Islamic State, and the high number of British Jihadists who have been killed serving ISIS. 

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have indicted two suspected members of the Islamic State group, accused of participating in the execution of a high-ranking Iraqi official in 2014.

A Hawaii-based American soldier will plead guilty to charges of trying to join the Islamic State (ISIS), his lawyer told the Associated Press on Wednesday

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Saturday they are taking seriously a Yazidi refugee’s claim that she ran into her former Islamic State captor twice in Germany, but say they need more information to identify him.

A young Yazidi girl has fled Germany where she was living as a recognised refugee after encountering the man who enslaved her posing as a refugee, claiming police refused to arrest him.

The Pentagon warned on Thursday the Islamic State is “well-positioned to rebuild and work on enabling its physical caliphate to re-emerge.”

The Iraqi government has removed 47 Kurdish officials from their posts in Kirkuk, beginning with the regional governor, since reasserting control over the disputed region in October 2017. The use of “Kurdish phrases” was banned on Tuesday by the state-run North Gas Company, which operates in Kirkuk.

The relationship between al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the jihadi allies behind the 9/11 attacks on the American homeland, “remains firm” nearly 17 years after the United States declared war on the two terrorist groups in Afghanistan, the United Nations recently reported.

Contents: Afghan army, backed by US, struggles to regain Ghazni after four days; Taliban attack on Ghazni brings America’s Afghanistan strategy into question.

Scottish anti-terror chief Gerry McLean has suggested Scotland is less vulnerable to radical Islamic terror attacks than England because it does a better job of integrating Muslims. 

There has been a massive increase in the number of jihadists being stripped of their British citizenship, rising from a handful a to around two every week, as authorities try to tackle a wave of returning fighters.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has become a significant menace against the West despite the fall of the group’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria, a top American commander warned this week.

Human trafficking, a form of modern slavery, has existed for thousands of years and is still a serious problem in many countries throughout the world, particularly with the resurgence of extremist groups like the Islamic State. This year’s Trafficking in Person’s (TIP) report, released by the State Department, is arguably stronger than it has been in previous years and is providing renewed hope for non-profits that are seeking to end these heinous crimes against humanity.

A Muslim convert has pleaded guilty to plotting to massacre around 100 people in a terror attack outside the Disney Store in London’s most famous shopping district, Oxford Street.

U.S. President Donald Trump presided over a decline of nearly 25 percent in the number of terrorist attacks and their lethality across the globe last year compared to 2016, a feat likely made possible by the ongoing demise of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), a U.S. government-linked study shows.

The Taliban claimed on Wednesday to have decisively defeated the Islamic State in northwestern Afghanistan, driving over 150 ISIS militants out of Jawzjan province and into the custody of Afghan government security forces.

Britain’s Royal Navy rescued from Libya the Islamic State suicide bomber who killed 22 at a concert in Manchester last year, bringing him from the war zone back to the UK, after he had been flagged as a potential threat.

The Islamic State has begun exacerbating concerns about the availability of electricity in Iraq by targeting power plants and other key infrastructure for destruction. Baghdad announced on Sunday that unspecified “terrorist groups,” which observing media identify as the Islamic State, blew up a power plant in Kirkuk.

Protecting religious freedom is as important as protecting other human rights, but is seen as less important, experts said.

The British government has halted co-operation with the U.S. over the ‘ISIS Beatles’, who may face the death penalty for their alleged role as jihadist executioners.