Category: ISIS

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Wednesday that Washington would send more U.S. troops to help local forces in the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State expected later this year. (Reuters)- “American President Barack Obama was consulted on a request from the Iraqi government for a final increase in the number of trainers […]

Holed up in an Orlando nightclub and surrounded by police, Omar Mateen told a hostage negotiator that he was angry about the death of a top Islamic State operative, according to recently released transcripts of their phone conversations during Mateen’s massacre earlier this year. (FOX)- The new details of the conversations, released by Orlando Police […]

A Southern California man convicted of trying to become a fighter for the Islamic State terrorist group was sentenced Monday to 30 years prison. (FOX)- U.S. District Judge David O. Carter gave the sentence Monday to 25-year-old Nader Elhuzayel of Anaheim. Carter noted that Elhuzayel has shown no regret for his actions and that his […]

A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that Islamic State militants are “dead set” on using chemical weapons and will likely try to use them against Iraqi forces as they prepare its siege on Mosul. (FOX)- ISIS fighters are believed to have attacked U.S. and Iraqi forces with a “crude” chemical weapon, a U.S. official told Fox […]

Recently the US made a breakthrough in its efforts to fight pro-terrorist hackers. (TechNews)- Ardit Ferizi a citizen of Kosovo was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a judge for hacking a company and stealing the information of 1,300 government and military personnel and help ISIS create a hit list. According to Assistant Attorney General John […]

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Baghdad that killed at least six people, according to the ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency. (CNN) could not independently confirm the claim. Eighteen people were wounded in the attack Sunday. The suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in the Iskan city area in west Baghdad, Iraqi authorities […]

Abu Chiad boasted about beheading infidels, raping women and children and slaughtering in the name of Islam. (FOX)- Speaking from a prison in the city of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, he told Dr. Jan Kizilhan that these acts would get him to heaven. Kizilhan, 49, a German of Kurdish background, is a psychology professor and trauma […]

ISIS fighters are believed to have attacked U.S. and Iraqi forces with a “crude” chemical weapon Tuesday evening, a U.S. official told Fox News. (FOX)-The U.S base outside Qayyarah, 25 miles south of Mosul, was struck by a rocket and traces of a “mustard agent” were believed to be present, the official said. The attack was […]

Iraq’s military and allied militias launched an attack Tuesday on Shirqat, an Islamic State-held town considered one of the gateways to the terror group’s Iraqi stronghold Mosul, officials said. (WSJ)- Clearing the town of militants would help the troops march closer to Mosul, some 60 miles away and the last major city held by Islamic […]

ISIS claimed responsibility after a knife-wielding man injured eight people at a mall in central Minnesota Saturday evening, a bloody rampage during which he reportedly asked at least one victim whether they were Muslim and referenced Allah. (FOX)- St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson said the suspect, whom he did not identify, was shot […]