Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday commented on US troops who recently arrived in northern Syria, telling a Chinese TV station that all foreign troops on Syrian soil without invitation or consultation with the Syrian government are considered “invaders.”
Twin bombs killed at least 44 people in the Old City of Damascus on Saturday, a monitoring group said, in one of the bloodiest attacks in the heart of the Syrian capital.
U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and their allies expect to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Mosul, the jihadist group’s last major enclave in Iraq, within no more than a month.
Women who associate with Boko Haram, either willingly or by force, often face stigma when they return home, more than males who voluntarily join the terrorist group, a U.S. diplomat told Voice of America (VOA).
WASHINGTON – Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) introduced legislation on Friday that would prevent funding for U.S. boots on the ground in Syria as the fight against the Islamic State in the city of Raqqa is intensifying, including the recent deployment of U.S. Marines and Army Rangers.
Czech President Miloš Zeman has confirmed he will run for a second term.
WASHINGTON— Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) remains able to gain territory and position itself as a legitimate ruler in various areas of Yemen, carrying on with its efforts to build an Islamic state, according to congressional testimony.
The Afghan Taliban and the Islamic State branch in the region do not consider each other rivals, the national security adviser (NSA) to the president of Afghanistan told the Times of India (TOI), echoing other assessments of the relationship between the two Sunni jihadist groups.
In America, some attention-seeking activists purposely got arrested by blocking traffic outside the Trump International Hotel so they could later become the face of so-called gender oppression.
A report from the front line of the battle for Mosul shows Iraqi forces closing in on the mosque where Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a “caliphate” in June 2014.
A detachment of U.S Marines arrived in Syria outside the ISIS de-facto capital of Raqqa, a U.S. defense official confirmed.
The Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has boasted that key U.S. Middle East ally Saudi Arabia is the top provider of terrorists for the jihadist group in Iraq, reports Fox News, citing Iraqi military sources.
Watchdog groups and U.S. government officials say the Islamic State’s leadership in its caliphate “capital,” Raqqa, are relocating to Deir Ezzor as a coalition of Syrian rebels, Kurdish militias, Turkish soldiers, and U.S. troops prepare to battle for the liberation of the southern Syrian city.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin were focused on keeping Iran from filling the vacuum left by the Islamic State in Syria and combating Iranian-sponsored radical Islamic terrorism.
Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is reported to have abandoned Mosul, leaving local commanders behind to lead the battle against Iraqi forces advancing in the city.
The United States has sent a Marine Corps artillery battery into Syria to help defeat the Islamic State group in Raqa, the capital of their supposed caliphate, a US official said.
“Five-term incumbent Mayor Chris Louras of Rutland, Vermont was defeated this Town Meeting Day. He lost to Alderman Dave Allaire by a margin of 52 percent to 34 percent. Allaire swept all four wards,” WCAX reported Tuesday night.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its rival al-Qaeda have recently published propaganda videos explicitly calling on jihadists from China’s Uighur minority who have joined the terrorist groups to attack the communist country.
WASHINGTON D.C. – A U.S. defense official said Wednesday there are about 15,000 Islamic State (ISIS) fighters remaining in Iraq and Syria.
Twenty-two people have been killed and more than 100 injured in shootouts between rival people trafficking gangs in Libya over the last week, an intergovernmental agency has said.
WASHINGTON – A U.S. plan to help Syrian allies retake Raqqa, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s stronghold in Syria, could involve more U.S. troops getting significantly closer to the fight.
Thousands of women in Nigeria took the streets of the northern capital Maiduguri this weekend to protest the government’s inability to eradicate the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram, which has not ceased in committing mass abductions, rapes, and murders since the government claimed victory over them in 2015.
The Islamic State chapter in Afghanistan released a video described by Khaama Press as “distressing” and “horrific” on Sunday night. As with so many other propaganda films of the savage terror state, it depicts the execution of prisoners clad in orange jumpsuits.
A 26-year-old American citizen from Long Island, NY, who twice allegedly attempted to travel to Syria join the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) and its rival al-Qaeda’s jihad, threatened to behead his mother, prosecutors have revealed.
A five-member Afghan Taliban delegation reportedly visited China last month at the behest of Beijing, which has been participating in efforts to bring the terrorist group to the negotiating table with the Afghan government.
A militia the Associated Press identifies as a coalition of “Islamic militants and former rebels” has seized two major oil ports in Libya and threatened to take the nation’s second-largest city, Benghazi, out of the hands of the secular, internationally-recognized government’s allied military force.
The United States is aware of, but not openly reacting to, Chinese military ground operations inside war-ravaged Afghanistan.
BEIRUT — The Islamic State group has imposed an “Afghan-style” dress code on men in its Syrian stronghold Raqqa to help its fighters blend into the civilian population, a monitor and activists said Monday.
According to latest reports, the number of Christian families who have been driven from the city of al-Arish in North Sinai has swollen to 259, as Islamic State militants continue their violent conquest of the region.
In a strongly worded email sent to all U.S. citizens abroad Monday, the State Department has issued a “Worldwide Caution” regarding a “continuing threat of terrorist actions, political violence, and criminal activity against U.S. citizens and interests abroad.”
The North African nation of Morocco is distinguishing itself through a series of successes in breaking up Islamic terror cells and foiling attacks.
The medical treatment of women and children, including a two-month-old baby, for exposure to chemical agents near Iraq’s second-largest city Mosul has prompted suspicion that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) may have used chemical weapons.
Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn on Saturday, its information minister said, in a further break with the moratorium on executions it had observed between 2006 and 2014.
The threat to U.S. airports from terror groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State is expected to grow because of instability in parts of the Middle East and Asia, a former high-ranking intelligence official said.
A radicalised white convert, who worked in Asda, planned to leave the UK and join Islamic State because Brexit caused “division” in the Muslim community, a court has heard.
TEL AVIV – Archaeologists in Iraq made a surprising discovery when they unearthed a seventh century BCE palace in the ruins of the biblical prophet Jonah’s tomb, a site destroyed by the Islamic State in 2014.
(REUTERS) – A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in France with a machete was sentenced to seven years in jail on Thursday by a French juvenile court, judicial sources said.
Reuters provides a sobering account of the danger facing Egyptian Christians, beginning with the plight of civil servant Adel Munir, who found himself Number Two on a list of Christians marked for death by the Islamic State.
The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed a chemical weapons attack targeting women and children in Mosul, Iraq, this week — likely an Islamic State operation intended to slow the liberation of its regional capital.
Members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority that have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State are now vowing to return to their homeland and “shed blood like rivers.”
