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The Pentagon is reportedly unable to confirm whether an Islamic State British jihadist spent time at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba before blowing himself up in a vehicle full of explosives at an Iraqi army base near Mosul, Iraq.

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Russian citizen accused of financially supporting the Islamic State group and of dealing drugs.

ISIS claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the launching of two rockets which were fired into Israel from the Sinai Peninsula and landed in open space in the Eshkol Regional Council on Monday morning.

The Islamic State branch that operates in and around Egypt has designated the northern African country’s Christian minority their “favorite prey” in a propaganda video released this week.

Five youths aged fifteen to nineteen have been arrested in the British capital following a series of city-wide anti-terror raids. Officers from the Metropolitan Police arrested two males aged 16 and 17 in south London and another two males aged

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday said the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula do not pose a “serious threat” to Israel.

Today, in modern Iraq and Syria, thousands of women and girls are bought and sold for a few dollars, then drugged, tortured, and raped – all because of their religious identity.

Islamic State-linked Syrian militant groups on Monday launched a surprise attack on moderate rebels in southwestern Syria near the Golan Heights near where the Jordanian and Israeli borders converge, seizing several villages and a large town, rebels and witnesses said.

A jihadist from the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group captured by Kurdish forces has shown little remorse after admitting to raping more than 200 women, reveals Reuters.

COLOGNE (GERMANY) (AFP) – A 16-year-old Syrian refugee went on trial in Germany Monday accused of planning a bomb attack on behalf of the Islamic State jihadist group.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım told reporters in Munich Sunday that he is optimistic about cooperating with the United States to eradicate the Islamic State from Syria and that Turkey is expecting to work with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to liberate Raqqa, the Islamic State “capital.” This announcement followed a conversation with Vice President Mike Pence.

BAGHDAD (AFP) – The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Mosul it said was carried out by a British suicide bomber, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.

TEL AVIV — Amid the news-making claims about Donald Trump and Russia emanating in recent months from intelligence agencies led by Obama administration appointees, it is instructive to recall the results of a damning investigation by House Republicans which recently found that Obama’s Defense Department routinely politicized intelligence to fit certain worldviews.

Two rockets fired from the direction of Egypt’s Sinai region exploded in southern Israel on Monday morning. The rockets hit an open area in the Eshkol Reginal Council. No injuries or damage were reported.

Iran on Monday criticised what it said was coordination between Israel and regional rival Saudi Arabia, describing attempts to create an “international atmosphere” against Tehran.

The Islamic State’s official media outlet claimed Sunday five of its members were killed in an Israeli military airstrike in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula the day before.

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with his U.S. counterpart James Mattis for the first time on Friday at the Munich Security Conference in Germany to discuss issues related to Middle East security.

Iraqi forces launched an offensive on jihadists defending Mosul’s west bank Sunday, in what could be the most brutal fighting yet in a four-month-old operation on the city.

The Islamic State’s Zakat charity center in Raqqa, Syria, has handed out more than $500,000 in the last month, the pro-IS Aamaq news agency claimed.

TEL AVIV — There is fear that further advances by the Syrian army, assisted by the Iran-backed Hezbollah and elite Iranian troops, may turn the Israel-Jordan-Syria border area into an Iranian proxy base, an Arab intelligence officer said.

Up to 125 jihadists and their relatives have traveled from the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago to join the Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East, making the country “the largest per-capita source” of recruits for the jihadist group in the Western Hemisphere, reports the Associated Press (AP).

The Turkish government has begun applying closer scrutiny to immigrants from Muslim regions of Russia, raiding their homes and detaining them to ensure Islamic State sympathizers and other jihadis are not attempting to operate openly in the terror-besieged country.

A massive suicide bombing by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) on a prominent Sufi Muslim shrine in Pakistan killed up to 88 people, including women and children, and wounded more than 300 others — a rude reminder of the terrorist group’s expanding presence in the region.

Retaking the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) will only push the jihadist group to other parts of the war-ravaged country, a Kurdish intelligence official predicted during an interview with Reuters.

The Department of Defense (DOD) is “considering” sending American ground combat troops to Syria as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to “hasten the defeat” of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), a Pentagon spokesman has confirmed.

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad refused to criticize President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting refugee flows from Syria during an interview this week, stating that it was “not against the Syrian people,” but only “terrorists.”

The head of counterterrorism for the Netherlands has said that children of radicalized Dutch jihadis pose a serious threat for national security.

An estimated 49 percent of individuals indicted for carrying out or conspiring to perpetrate a terrorist attack linked to the Islamic State are “from established Muslim countries,” according to the Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST), a global security affairs research institute based at the University of Chicago.

Islamic State terrorists consider the mainstream media to be “more important than military jihad” with a “far-reaching” power that exceeds even the “most powerful bombs,” reports the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence (ICSR).

Violent protests, featuring a rocket launch targeting Baghdad’s government Green Zone, killed five protesters and a policeman in the Iraqi capital this weekend. The incident triggered yet another protest Tuesday as throngs of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr carried their colleagues’ coffins through the city streets.

The president of the American Pastors Network said that many U.S. citizens are in denial over the true nature of Islam by refusing to acknowledge its inherent ties to violent jihad.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ main intelligence service says it is treating a small group of Dutch children in conflict zones in Iraq and Syria as “Jihadist travelers” since they may have received military training.

PARIS (AFP) – Two men and a 16-year-old girl were charged in southern France on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a terror attack that the authorities believe was imminent, judicial sources said.

LONDON (AP) — A report based on a translated Islamic State group document says the extremists consider mainstream media to be an effective weapon for spreading its radical message.

MILAN (AP) — An Italian court has convicted a Moroccan-born man and his wife on charges of international terrorism in connection with an Islamic State plot to carry out attacks in Rome during the Holy Year in 2016.

Spain’s Interior Ministry said two separate arrests have been made in connection with Islamic extremism, bringing to 188 the number of people accused of jihadi links in Spain since 2015.