Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is seeking aid from the Vatican and, reportedly, the normalization of ties to Iran three months after President Donald Trump announced Washington would not “take sides” between its longtime allies, the Kurds, and the Iran-backed regime in Baghdad.
A faith school teacher worked to radicalise his students and obsessed over plans to attack major landmarks in the British capital, a London court heard Tuesday. A self-confessed “Loyal follower” of the Islamic State, 25-year-old Islamic radical Umar Ahmed Haque
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Monday to annihilate a 30,000-strong Kurdish-majority force in Syria that has the backing of the United States.
The son of an Albanian-American has reportedly pulled himself into the upper echelons of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), allegedly becoming an executioner suspected of beheading Kurdish prisoners, reports Defense One, citing a two-year investigation.
The Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram reportedly released a video Monday showing some of the women and girls of the hundreds abducted from Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014, all asserting they would never return to their normal lives.
Destroying ISIS’s caliphate may produce a “Remember the Alamo” rallying cry for Jihadis, said retired Navy SEAL Erik Prince.
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials say gunmen have shot dead a Christian man in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula, the latest attack to target members of the country’s Christian minority.
TEL AVIV — Egyptian authorities are concerned that Turkey will try to sabotage the presidential elections scheduled for March to harm the position of incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, an Arab diplomatic source has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Sixteen jihadists from the Gaza Strip have been killed in recent days in Syria where they fought among the ranks of the Islamic State, senior jihadist Abu Abdel Rahman al-Maqdesi told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Israel has reportedly lodged a formal complaint with Egypt for regularly excluding it from diplomatic events and briefings.
TEL AVIV – Israel thwarted mass 9/11-style attacks involving hijacked planes on European cities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
A self-described “simple man” who had an apparent hatred for people of intelligence planned a suicide bombing in London to take out “smart people”, a British court has heard. Whitechapel resident Mohammed Kamal Hussain, 28, was arrested with Mohammed Ashfaqur Hemel,
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia is considering purchasing Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system in an effort to counter the threat from Iran, prominent Swiss paper Basler Zeitung reported this week.
A senior figure in Palestinian Islamist group Hamas was hospitalised in critical condition Tuesday after suffering a gunshot wound to the head in what officials said was an accident.
TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces recently set out on a large-scale operation of arrests against Islamic State-aligned operatives, especially those belonging to the Salafist sect, in wake of a video clip released by Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.
An Eritrean asylum seeker and his British Muslim partner have been found guilty of plotting an Islamic State-inspired terror attack over the Christmas period.
The number of suicide bombings carried out by women and girls across the world on behalf of terrorist groups reached an unprecedented level last year, reveals a new study by Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
TEL AVIV – Jordan on Monday said it foiled a series of massive attacks planned by the Islamic State on shopping malls, religious and security buildings aimed at wreaking havoc in the country, its state media reported.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) wing in South Asia is intensifying its presence in Pakistan, particularly in areas along the country’s border with war-ravaged Afghanistan, the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) think tank cautions in a new report.
Berlin Police president Klaus Kandt has warned that the threat of Islamic State terrorism remains high in major German cities despite the group’s losses in the Middle East, saying that the government needs structural reform to meet new challenges.
An online investigative publication has accused Paris police of failing to act on prior warnings about one of the Islamic State militants who killed Father Jacques Hamel in 2016, and of post-dating intelligence memos once the attack occurred.
An MP of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party slammed protests in his city directed against returning Islamic State fighters, calling the protestors “racists” and “white supremacists.” Liberal Party MP for St. Catherines Chris Bittle took to Facebook earlier
Coptic Orthodox Christians packed Egypt’s newly built Nativity of Christ Cathedral on Saturday for a Christmas Eve mass after a bloody year for a minority repeatedly targeted by jihadists.
TEL AVIV — Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State organization, has released a video in which it accuses Hamas of betraying Islam and fighting against jihadists in the Gaza Strip, escalating the ongoing propaganda war between the two terrorist groups.
The Director-General of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has confessed that terrorism is now the “new normal” in his country.
The government potentially does not know where hundreds of Britons suspected of going to fight with Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria now are.
The Islamic State branch in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday called on its supporters to attack Hamas in a gruesome execution video as long-simmering tensions between the rival Islamic terror groups erupted into the open.
The United States military wants to ramp up its campaign against the Taliban, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), and other jihadist groups in Afghanistan beyond the fighting season and into the winter months, declared the top American commander in the Middle East and South Asia.
The Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) “repressive ideology” and the Yemen-based al-Qaeda wing continue to pose a significant threat to the United States despite the territory they have lost to the American military and its allies, according to the U.S. military.
Over 700 people abducted by the African Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram have successfully escaped captivity in Northeastern Nigeria, the country’s military has announced.
New Year’s Eve was met with celebrations in the streets of Mosul and a fireworks display, the first such revelry since the Islamic State captured the city four years ago.
A gunman killed two Copts celebrating the New Year in an Egyptian alcohol shop early on Monday, judicial and security sources said, the latest deadly violence against the Christian minority.
The New York Police Department is expected to take “unprecedented” security measures to keep visitors safe during the historically crowded New Year’s celebration in Times Square, including enhancing surveillance of large trucks, often used as killing machines by jihadists.
Turkey detained nearly 200 people over suspected links to Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists over a two-day period as part of enhanced counterterrorism efforts ahead of New Year celebrations.
A squad of terrorist gunmen attacked the Mar Mina church in southern Cairo on Friday, killing between eight and ten people and wounding at least five more, according to various reports.
At least 40 people were killed and dozens more wounded in multiple blasts at a Shiite cultural center in Kabul on Thursday, officials said, in the latest deadly violence to hit the Afghan capital.
The damage inflicted on Iraq by the rise and fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) is horrendous, with cities like the former ISIS stronghold of Mosul virtually leveled. Baghdad puts the damage at roughly $100 billion, which is an impressive level of vandalism from a group President Barack Obama famously dismissed as the “junior varsity team” of terrorism. Unfortunately for Iraq, donor nations are not lining up to finance the reconstruction.
An alleged ISIS fighter with an American accent and one leg, identified as Abu Salih al-Amriki, used a web video to call on Muslims to “take advantage of the gun laws” in America to carry out terror attacks.
An Iraqi Catholic archbishop says that Christians in Iraq “are afraid of another wave of persecution that will be the end of Christians,” despite news of the “defeat” of the Islamic State.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton looked ahead to America’s diplomacy and national security challenges in 2018 on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam.
