The few Christians who remain in Iraq after losing thousands to genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) are once again urging Baghdad to allow them to establish their own independent state in Iraq.
A controversial ceasefire deal between the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadist group and Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah has provided the Shiite militia organization with uncontested control over a large area in Lebanon along the border with Syria, reports Voice of America (VOA).
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State has already lost control of the strategic city of Tal Afar in Iraq and the Syrian army is expected to enter the second-most-important city held by the organization Dir az-Zor, even as Kurdish forces battle IS fighters in their de-facto capital of Raqqa.
An illegal Iraqi Kurd appeared in court charged with supplying over 400 mobile phone SIM cards to jihadists in Iraq and Syria to set up social media accounts.
Dozens of Islamic State group members and their families have crossed into areas controlled by the extremists despite US threats to bomb the convoy days after they left the Lebanon-Syria border, Syrian opposition activists said Saturday.
WASHINGTON — Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears to be still alive, a top U.S. military commander said Thursday, contradicting Russia’s claims that it probably killed the top counterterror target months ago.
TEL AVIV — The Hamas movement has continued its campaign of arrests in recent days against jihadists in the Gaza Strip that began after the death of a Hamas security officer in a suicide blast that occurred when he detained a Gazan jihadist who was trying to escape to Sinai to fight in the ranks of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.
The European Union’s counter-terror chief estimates that the bloc is now host to ‘more than 50,000’ radical Islamists.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday denounced the indictments in the United States of 19 people, among them 15 Turkish security officials, calling them “scandalous.”
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man faces trial in Norway after he was charged with fighting alongside the Islamic State group in Syria.
Two men from New York have been charged over their alleged plans to support and fight for the Islamic State, authorities say.
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte told reporters Wednesday that, following the liberation of the Grand Mosque of Marawi, the nation’s military could now bomb mosques, madrassas, and other hiding centers to finally eliminate the Islamic State presence in the city.
A Shia Imam in California, who stated during a sermon that “ISIS is the production of the Israeli intelligence” and that Israel “finances, arms and trains” the so-called “Islamic State,” has apologized for his statements.
Jordan and Iraq on Wednesday reopened their only border crossing, saying security had been restored three years after the Islamic State group seized control of frontier areas.
TEL AVIV — Social media users have been venting their anger online over the deal between Hezbollah and the Islamic State with support from the Syrian regime for IS to withdraw from the al-Qalamoun region on the border between Syria and Lebanon.
UK public broadcaster Channel 4 has featured a self-described Islamist who endorses violent militancy and brands white people and Israelis “parasites” as an example of “Muslim women fighting back by rejecting stereotypes”.
The Vatican’s Secretary of State said that recent Islamic State threats against Pope Francis are worrisome, especially because of the “senseless hatred” they embody.
Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, backed by dictator Bashar al-Assad’s Russian-allied army, has captured most of an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-controlled region on Syria’s side of its border with Lebanon, according to the Shiite group’s leader.
A second arrest has been made following the terror attack near Buckingham Palace Friday night when a Luton man brandishing a four-foot sword attacked three police officers whilst shouting: “Allahu akbar.”
Iraqi forces have driven the Islamic State from central Tal Afar and its historic citadel, they said Saturday, placing them on the verge of fully recapturing one of the last IS strongholds in the country.
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ top aide says a pro-Islamic State group video that targets the pope is worrying but notes Vatican security is already at a high level.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Islamic State news agency Aamaq has claimed the Brussels attacker who assaulted three soldiers with a knife as an Islamic State group soldier.
The Metropolitan Police Force has released more information on the attack outside Buckingham Palace on the night of August 25th, which is currently being investigated as a terrorist attack.
A raid conducted against Islamist militants by Indonesian police in West Java last week assumed chilling new significance on Friday, as sources in the Indonesian government revealed to Reuters that the terrorists were working on building a radioactive “dirty bomb.”
Islamic State terrorists released a video this week celebrating the van attack in Barcelona, Spain, and threatening to conquer all of “al-Andalus,” the Arabic name for what Islamic State terrorists see as Muslim Spain.
TEL AVIV – Israel can learn from the Europe how to fight terrorism and not only the other way around, EU envoy to the Jewish state said on Tuesday, sparking a backlash from pro-Israel activists.
The Australian government is dealing with a bit of embarrassment over a photo in which Nick Warner, director general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, did a “fist pump” alongside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s attorney general has announced the indictment of a Swiss woman suspected of trying to reach Syria to join the Islamic State group with her four-year-old child in tow.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Israel was willing to act to prevent a continued Iranian military presence in Syria, during a three-hour meeting between the two leaders in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Conservative Hungary has declared that EU politicians not up to the task of securing the continent’s safety “have no place among the leaders of Europe” following recent terror attacks.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. used an August 23 CNN op-ed to claim national reciprocity for law-abiding citizens “is a gift” to the Islamic State.
The Islamic State (ISIS) released a new propaganda video starring an 11-year-old “American” boy Wednesday, according to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
The Shia imam of a Muslim congregation in California has suggested that the so-called Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, of Daesh) “is the production of the Israeli intelligence.”
Ministers in Italy have accused the EU of turning its back on them as the migrant crisis threatens to unravel “the social and democratic fabric” of the country — and Libyan leaders are warning of terrorists amongst those making the journey.
TEL AVIV – Two Israeli Jews have converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State in Syria, the Shin Bet security agency reported.
The second part of a British drama set in the Islamic State shows the jihadist territory’s enemies slaughtering infants and features a piece-to-camera in which the ‘strong female lead’ urges viewers not to “find fault” with the caliphate but to help “improve” it.
Iran’s growing role in Syria poses a threat to Israel, the Middle East and the world, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
Thousands of Iranian-backed fighters in Syria’s central desert region are advancing east, bringing Tehran closer to its goal of securing a corridor from its border, through Iraq and all the way to the Mediterranean and providing it unhindered land access to its allies in Syria and Lebanon for the first time.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday he is confident that U.S.-backed Iraqi forces will finish off the Islamic State militants clinging to strongholds that are shrinking in size and number.
A source in the coalition fighting in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime said Hezbollah has confirmed using attack drones in the fight against the Islamic State terror group.
