Islamic State

The Australian government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.

U.S. Central Command announced it has “completed the orderly departure of U.S. forces from al-Tanf Garrison in Syria.”

Three separate attacks this week have left untold dead – at least 162 and counting – in Kwara state, western Nigeria, many of the victims reportedly Muslims slaughtered by an Islamic State offshoot for failing to accept its jihadist ideology.

A video began circulating on social media on Wednesday, published by the Kurdish news organization Rudaw, of a man identified as a “Damascus-affiliated armed group” member holding hair allegedly cut off the dead body of a Kurdish soldier.

President Donald Trump discussed the conflict in northeastern Syria with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump spoke by telephone with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Monday to discuss the conflict between Sharaa’s forces and the Kurds of northeastern Syria, who have complained of abuses by government troops and blamed them for releasing around 120 Islamic State terrorists from a Kurdish-run prison in Hasakah province.

A bomb detonated in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 7 people and severely injuring 20 others. The Chinese embassy in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that one of the dead was a Chinese national, as were five of the injured.

The government of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), signed an agreement on Sunday with American-allied Kurdish forces in the country that dramatically strips away the latter’s autonomy in exchange for Damascus recognizing “Kurdish cultural and linguistic rights.”

Christians in Syria are choosing to “hide Christian symbols and avoid public displays of faith” following the collapse of the Assad regime and ascent of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to power, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian human rights organization Open Doors, told Breitbart News in remarks this weekend.

The semi-autonomous Kurdish government in northeastern Syria on Sunday accused the Syrian Army and its affiliated militias of committing “war crimes” against Kurdish communities in the city of Aleppo.

Australia’s left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday finally caved to public pressure and announced a wide-ranging national inquiry into antisemitism. His capitulation comes 25 days after two terrorist gunmen opened fire on a Jewish holiday event at Bondi Beach in an Islamic State-inspired atrocity that claimed the lives of 15 people.

A joint, targeted attack by warplanes from the UK and France on Saturday hit an underground arms cache in Syria used by the Islamic State terrorist group (IS).

In his New Year’s Day address to the nation, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu celebrated “decisive” U.S. airstrikes against terrorist targets in northwestern Nigeria, and promised that collaboration with international partners against “criminal and terrorist elements determined to disrupt our way of life” would continue.

European Court of Human Rights has re-opened the case of Shamima Begum, the “ISIS bride” who was stripped of British citizenship.

The government of Turkey confirmed that it had arrested 357 people on Tuesday in nationwide operations against Islamic State terrorists suspected of plotting attacks on New Year’s Eve – following a multi-hour operation on Monday that killed three police officers.

The head of the largest organization representing the Tiv people of central Nigeria told local media he sent a letter to President Donald Trump this weekend thanking him for approving airstrikes against jihadists exterminating Christian communities nationwide.

Turkey detained over a hundred suspected members of an ISIS group allegedly planning attacks against Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.

Three men were convicted this week for over a planned Islamist mass shooting terror attack against Manchester’s Jewish community in an act of supposed revenge over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Palestine.

President Donald Trump has vowed that, if necessary, he will launch more military onslaughts on terrorists following the U.S.’s “massive” air strike against 70 Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday.

The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

The Islamic State terrorist organization published a statement on Thursday celebrating the killing of three Americans, two servicemen and a civilian, in Syria last week, but stopped short of taking responsibility for the attack.

Israel reportedly warned Australia about threats to Jewish communities from “Iran-directed terror activity” months before the Bondi Beach attack.

Polish authorities have announced that they have foiled a planned ISIS-inspired terror attack on a Christmas market and have arrested a young man alleged to have become radicalised by Islamism.

Australia’s left-wing government has finally admitted that the terror attack on Bondi Beach was likely motivated by radical Islam.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. “will retaliate” for the murder of three Americans in Syria, which he described as an “ISIS attack.”

The two soldiers killed by a solo gunman during a counterterrorism operation in Syria over the weekend have been identified as members of the Iowa National Guard, officials confirmed.

A spokesman for the Syrian Interior Ministry appeared to confirm this weekend that the man who killed two American soldiers and an interpreter in Palmyra was employed with the jihadist government’s security forces, but claimed that he was “under review” for “extremist” opinions.

The suspected father and son terrorist duo who allegedly killed at least 15 during a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration on Sunday were previously investigated by Australian intelligence for ties to the so-called Islamic State, and ISIS flags were reportedly found in their car after the apparent antisemitic attack.

In the same week Syrians were celebrating a new chapter in their country, an ambush has killed two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in Syria, the Pentagon announced.

The wife and children of a Somalian ISIS leader are reportedly living in taxpayer funded accommodation in Britain.

Terrorist leaders in the Middle East have a tradition of using an alias, pseudonym, or “nom de guerre,” even when their true identities and given names are common knowledge.

U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced its 100th airstrike of the year in Somalia on Saturday, a notable milestone for a high-tempo operation that has received little media coverage or political commentary.

Coordinated terrorist attacks turned Paris into a theater of blood and calamity 10 years ago on Thursday.

Syrian Information Minister Hamza al-Mustafa announced on Monday that his country signed a “political cooperation declaration” with the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, becoming a “partner in combating terrorism and supporting regional stability.”