Islamic State

A spokesman for the government of Iraq confirmed on Monday that the U.S. military and its coalition partners are on schedule to withdraw from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the country by September 30, a deadline Baghdad imposed on both the U.S. to withdraw and on Iranian proxy terror organizations to disarm.

German legacy parties raced to blame “bad jokes” and call for more internet censorship in the wake of an allegedly Islamist Terror attack.

The suspected Islamist terrorist who allegedly drove a van into crowds of people at the Berlin Pride Parade on Saturday has been shot and killed by police.

The suspect in the terror attack which struck the Berlin Pride Parade on Saturday evening has been identified as 21-year-old Abdul Ballut, who was previously detained in Germany on terror offences, reportedly including the support of the so-called Islamic State.

Syrian officials said on Thursday that a preliminary investigation of the July 7 bombings in the capital city of Damascus — perpetrated during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron — suggests that a terrorist cell linked to the Islamic State was responsible.

The Syrian Interior Ministry says a bomb was detonated at a cafe in central Damascus, killing ten people and wounding 22 more.

A terrorist group called Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), al-Qaeda’s franchise in West Africa, claimed responsibility for an attack on the Niamey airport in Niger that killed 11 members of the government’s security force, plus two civilians.

Italian police officers on Monday arrested a 21 year-old Moroccan man on suspicion of “international terrorism” charges after content published by him on social media suggested he planned to carry out an attack similar to the one in Modena last

Rayann El Houli, part of the “ISIS Brides” group of Australian women, renounced the Islamic State and “violent jihad” her lawyer claimed during a Monday court appearance.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a statement on Friday that attributed 246 suspected infections and 65 deaths to a new Ebola outbreak in the remote Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 

Illegal migrant placed in pre-trial detention over alleged plans to launch a jihadist terror attack against the world-famous Louvre museum.

Australian Federal Police officers on Thursday arrested three women with deep ties to the Islamic State right after disembarking from a plane as they tried to return to the country — ending the police’s roughly decade-long wait for the opportunity

Extremists have “exploited Europe’s weak borders” to turn the continent into a terrorism “incubator”, counterterrorism strategy says.

Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced on Wednesday that a group of 13 women and children linked to Islamic State fighters have booked flights back to Australia after being released from a prison camp in Syria. Burke said the group would receive no help from the Australian government, and in fact some could expect to be arrested upon arrival.

Spain’s National Court denied granting Spanish citizenship to a Moroccan woman over her family’s pro-jihadist activities.

The Syrian Army on Thursday took control of the last U.S. military base on Syrian soil, with assurances that Syria’s new government can handle the job of controlling the Islamic State and other terrorist threats.

English street organiser Tommy Robinson has chosen to reveal the Islamic State publication calling for his assassination.

The Lebanese Army on Tuesday withdrew from four border villages, two of them Christian-majority towns whose residents have refused to follow instructions from Israel to evacuate the area while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) battle the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.

France has named highly decorated elite infantryman Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion as the soldier killed in a drone strike overnight.

Australia issued a “temporary exclusion order” against one of the 34 Australian citizens linked to ISIS and held in a Syrian prison camp.

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.

Veteran anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson said that he has had to flee Britain with his family following a threat from Islamic State terrorists.

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.

An unnamed U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday that “about 200 low-level Islamic State fighters” escaped from the al-Shaddadi prison camp on Monday after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from the facility.

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.

A torrent of violence, including reported beheadings and a prison break by Islamic State terrorists, erupted in Syria on Monday following the signing of an agreement between the jihadist federal government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa and the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

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.