UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Islamic State extremist group is still capable of sending funds to supporters and motivating attacks in Europe and elsewhere despite military pressure and falling revenue — and al-Qaida remains resilient especially in West Africa, East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, U.N. experts said in a report circulated Thursday.
CAIRO — Egypt’s interior ministry said Thursday its forces had killed three jihadists suspected of involvement in deadly attacks against the country’s Coptic Christian minority.
Pushing the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) out of its de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria may take months, predicted a commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces fighting against the jihadists, according to Reuters.
TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces arrested dozens of jihadists affiliated with Islamic State ideology in wake of rocket fire from Gaza into Israel on Tuesday evening, a senior jihadist has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the Taliban, an al-Qaeda ally, stand accused again of joining forces to carry out a deadly terrorist attack in Afghanistan that left up to 50 mostly Shiite civilians dead and hundreds of others in captivity
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its alleged rival al-Qaeda are expanding their Sunni jihadi operations into the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir, claimed by Pakistan, India, and China, according to a report published Wednesday.
BEIRUT — For three years, the Syrian city of Raqqa was the Islamic State’s greatest stronghold, featuring heavily in propaganda and providing a launchpad for attacks carried out around the world.
Channel 4 and National Geographic have made a drama intended to humanise British jihadists joining Islamic State, with the director claiming terrorists are not driven by Islam and that showing them as “mad, unsympathetic people” is an “easy out”.
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they’ve arrested a 29-year-old Syrian man on allegations he committed war crimes as a member of the Islamic State group in his home country.
The United States is considering a campaign of airstrikes, or to be more precise drone strikes, against Islamic State militants in the Philippines. Terrorist vassals of ISIS have been fighting an insurgency on the southern island of Mindanao since May, despite assurances from the Philippine government that they would be swiftly defeated.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to flee Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) holdouts in Iraq as U.S.-backed local forces intensify the pressure against the jihadist group, according to the United Nations.
The U.S. is reportedly deploying dozens of additional Marines to join an estimated 300 others in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an opium-rich Taliban hotspot located along the Pakistan border.
Indian politicians believe the nation’s long history of religious integration has inoculated it from the Islamic State’s attempts to recruit more jihadi militants from the subcontinent.
A secret Islamic State camp in Syria is training Western jihadists to smuggle themselves into Europe and launch attacks on British soil, a captured fighter has claimed, predicting “more suicide attacks in Europe”.
The Lebanese army captured a number of strategic hilltops bordering Syria from Islamic State militants on Sunday, amid mounting expectations for a campaign to decisively defeat them there, the army and state media said.
About 30 percent of the territory the American-led coalition has retaken from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria since 2014 has been liberated under U.S. President Donald Trump’s watch, a senior State Department official tells reporters.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met face-to-face with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila this weekend, with both expressing solidarity on pressing North Korea for its nuclear ambitions and defeating the Islamic State adherents that are terrorizing the southern part of the Philippines.
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are trying to determine whether four German women, including a teenager, detained in Iraq on allegations of sympathizing with the Islamic State group can return home. They include 16-year-old Linda Wenzel, who ran away after
Syrian government troops advanced overnight against the Islamic State group in the country’s north and center, drawing closer to the key battleground of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said.
PARIS (AP) — A young French man who recently was discharged from a psychiatric hospital is under investigation for an attempted terrorist attack after he brandished a knife and tried to breach security at the Eiffel Tower, authorities said Sunday.
TEL AVIV – If the Islamic State are destroyed, the situation in the Middle East could end up being even more dire with the emergence of a contingent “Iranian radical empire” in its wake, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned in an article published by CapX this week.
Turkey, in support of Sunni Turkmen, is expected to oppose Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s decision to allow Iran-allied Shiite militias to participate in the offensive to retake Tal Afar, considered the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) largest remaining stronghold in northwestern Iraq.
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria has killed a plotter of the thwarted terror attack at last year’s Israel-Albania soccer match in Albania, a US official said Thursday.
A Boko Haram splinter group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) recently marked its resurgence by kidnapping a Nigerian oil prospecting team, killing at least 37 people.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte made his second visit to the Islamic State-controlled city of Marawi on Friday, greeting soldiers and vowing to establish a trust fund for the education of children whose parents serve in the military.
U.S. Army Col. Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the international coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) said Thursday that as the terrorist group loses territory, it will shift to asymmetric warfare tactics in Iraq and Syria.
Hamza Bin Laden, the son of the late Osama Bin Laden who has vowed to take revenge against the United States for executing his father, is expected to take over al-Qaeda.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is capitalizing on the chaotic situation in jihadi breeding ground Libya, establishing a new stronghold in the North African nation as U.S.-backed local troops in Iraq and Syria push the terrorist group out of their territory.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 19-year-old Danish woman has been indicted on suspicion of violating terrorism laws for allegedly joining the Islamic State group in war-torn Syria.
Terrorist attacks in Afghanistan over the last two days have left over 30 people dead, including two American service members killed in Taliban birthplace Kandahar and 29 others murdered at a mosque by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The Islamist whose trial was put on hold so he could fast during Ramadan has been found guilty of terrorism offences for sharing Islamist propaganda online.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States hopes to prevent a civil war from erupting in Syria after the defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters Tuesday.
Vian Dakhil, the only Yazidi woman serving in the Iraqi parliament, said on Tuesday that the designation of genocide for the crimes committed against the Yazidi people by the so-called Islamic State is “significant” but not enough.
Shiite Iran’s terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, and a Sunni jihadist organization linked to al-Qaeda recently reached a ceasefire after clashes in Lebanon near the country’s border with Syria left more than 150 people dead.
Reports suggest the Hamburg knife killer has boasted that he wanted to be a “terrorist” — but German police are reluctant to accept his confession and seeking to establish that he was mentally ill instead.
TEL AVIV — The defection of members of Hamas’ military wing to Wilyat Sinai, the Islamic State branch in Egypt, is continuing with six new individuals having crossed into Sinai, according to a senior jihadist in Gaza tied to IS ideology.
Authorities in Sydney, Australia on Monday named four men arrested on suspicion of planning to down an international flight with a home made bomb.
Four German women who fled to Iraq to join the Islamic State and were recently captured in Mosul are said to have worked for the terror group as “morality police” enforcing strict Shariah law.
(AFP) — ALGIERS, Algeria — Algerian security forces have foiled a terror plot masterminded by a terrorist with links to France-based jihadist Amedy Coulibaly and the Islamic State group, the Al-Khabar daily reported Thursday.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is “trying to regroup” in Libya following its defeat at the end of last year in its former stronghold of Sirte, a coastal city located a few hundred miles from the shores of Europe, revealed a Libyan militia, echoing the U.S. military.
