Category: ISIS

A Syrian family who escaped ISIS’ de facto capital of Raqqa has described seeing an 11-year-old boy’s arm chopped off as punishment by the terror group’s religious police. (FOX)- The family, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution against them or their family members, told Sky News the boy was a orphaned neighbor […]

At least 29 people, most of them rebel fighters, have been killed in a bombing near Syria’s border with Turkey, activists say. (BBC)- The attack reportedly occurred during a change of guard at the rebel-controlled Atmeh crossing, in Idlib province. It was not immediately clear whether the blast was caused by a suicide bomber or a […]

A Muslim cleric in Maryland, who has openly endorsed the Islamic State terror group and funded at least one Muslim convert who was arrested for buying illegal explosives, has not been charged or arrested because, according to authorities, he hasn’t broken any laws. (FOX)- Suleiman Anwar Bengharsa, an imam at mosques in Annapolis and outside […]

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is at death’s door after being poisoned by a mystery assassin in Iraq, it has been reported. (FOX)- Three other senior jihadis were also afflicted by the toxin in Al-Ba’aj, southwest of Mosul – Islamic State’s biggest city in Iraq. The four have reportedly been rushed for treatment at a secret location. […]

A roadside bomb killed a U.S. service member on foot patrol Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan as part of a mission to fight a growing Islamic State affiliate, the U.S.-led coalition announced. (FOX)- The blast unfolded in Nangarhar Province, where American and Afghan forces have been fighting ISIS-linked militants in recent months. The offshoot group, which has […]

Militants on Monday unleashed a series of attacks in Shiite-majority neighborhoods in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 15 civilians, officials said. (NewYorkTimes)- The deadliest attack took place in the southwestern neighborhood of al-Amil when a bomber set off his explosives-laden vest in a busy outdoor market, killing seven shoppers and wounding up to […]

The operation to liberate the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) is set to begin soon, France’s defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian declared on Friday, the same day that the French air force conducted strikes against the group after taking off from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. (Newsweek)- […]

An Iraqi woman has claimed that she had beheaded, cooked the heads and burned the bodies of Islamic State militant group (ISIS) fighters in revenge for its killing of her husband, her three brothers and her father. (Newsweek)- Wahida Mohamed, also known as Um Hanadi, leads a unit of tribal militiamen in the Shirqat area of […]

At least 18 Islamic State leaders have been killed in Iraq and Syria in the past month, a Baghdad-based U.S. military spokesman told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday.  (FOX)- Fox News had reported last week on Special Report that more than a dozen ISIS leaders had been killed in Mosul ahead of the expected ground […]

Spanish, German and Belgian authorities have arrested five people suspected of forming an “active and dangerous” Islamic State cell and promoting Islamist militancy in the three countries, Spain’s interior ministry said on Wednesday. (Reuters)- Four were Spanish and one was Moroccan, it said. Two were detained in Barcelona, one in Spain’s North African enclave of […]