Category: ISIS

ISIS leader al-Baghdadi believed to be holed up in Mosul as Iraqi, US forces close in (FOX)- The secretive leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is believed to be holed up in the terror group’s hub of Mosul, as Iraqi and U.S. forces close in this week ahead of what could be a […]

Iraq’s Kurdish forces say they are pausing in their advance on Mosul after capturing a handful of villages to the east from the Islamic State group as the Iraqi army presses ahead with the next stage of the operation to retake the IS-held city. (FOX)- Col. Khathar Sheikhan of the Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, […]

A Swedish prosecutor may have set a dangerous precedent last week in regards to the Islamic State flag. (FOX)- Prosecutor Gisela Sjovall announced last week that a 23-year-old man wouldn’t be charged after posting the flag to his Facebook page in June, according to The Local. Authorities in Laholm had investigated the man, who came […]

Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated military operations early on Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway. (FOX)- But the battle for Mosul is likely to be long and at was unclear at this early […]

Two Milwaukee men have been charged in federal court with trying to join the Islamic State group. (FOX)- A complaint filed Friday charges 35-year-old Jason Michael Ludke with attempting to support a foreign terrorist organization and 30-year-old Yosvany Padilla-Conde with aiding and abetting Ludke. Both men face up to 20 years in prison if they’re […]

The US-led coalition is increasing airstrikes in and around the militant-held city of Mosul as Iraqi ground forces build up ahead of a planned operation to retake the city, it said in a statement Friday. (FOX)- The coalition said its planes had conducted more than 50 airstrikes against the Islamic State group in the Mosul […]

Insurgent groups like Hezbollah and the Islamic State group have learned how to weaponize surveillance drones and use them against each other, adding a new twist to Syria’s civil war, a U.S. military official and others say. (FOX)- A video belonging to an AL Qaeda offshoot, Jund al-Aqsa, purportedly shows a drone landing on Syrian […]

A Canadian general who directs training of Iraqi security forces is predicting the Islamic State group will become a “more dangerous” threat after the fight to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul. (FOX)- U.S. and Iraqi officials have portrayed the fight for Mosul as a potential turning point in the war. But Canadian Brig. Gen. […]

U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and ground fighting have depleted the Islamic State’s territory in Iraq and Syria in a big way, reportedly by 16 percent over just 9 months, a new study has found. (FOX)- ISIS now controls only 25,000 square miles of land in the region, an area roughly the size of West Virginia, IHS […]

A 22-year-old Syrian man who was the subject of a nationwide hunt and is believed to have been preparing a bomb attack was detained Monday, German police said. (FOX)- Jaber Albakr was detained overnight in Leipzig, police in the eastern state of Saxony tweeted. Albakr, from the Damascus area of Syria, escaped the authorities Saturday […]