Category: ISIS

A sharpshooter killed a top ISIS executioner and three other jihadists with a single bullet from nearly a mile away — just seconds before the fiend was set to burn 12 hostages alive with a flamethrower, according to a new report. (FOX)- The British Special Air Service marksman turned one of the most hated terrorists […]

The US has bombarded an ISIS chemical weapons plant that was housed in a converted Iraqi pharmaceutical factory, a top Air Force commander said Tuesday. (CNN)- Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, the commander of the US Air Force’s Central Command, told reporters that 12 aircraft in all were used to hit the facility, which […]

Christians driven from their ancestral homelands and persecuted by Islamist terrorists are pressing for an autonomous region of their own if the dust of Middle East violence ever settles. (FOX)- Representatives of Iraq’s Christian and Yazidi communities, as well as members of other religious minorities, convened in Washington last weekend and put forward a plan […]

Three Syrians who entered Germany as migrants have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the Islamic State and may have had links to those who carried out the Paris terrorist attacks last year, the authorities said on Tuesday. (NewYorkTimes)- Thomas de Maizière, the German interior minister, said that the travel documents the men were […]

The Pentagon confirmed on Monday that ISIS spokesman and senior leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani was killed in an airstrike in Syria in late August. (FOX)- The airstrike on Aug. 30 near Al Bab, Syria, targeted the terror group’s chief propagandist, recruiter and architect of external terrorist operations. ISIS announced his death shortly after the airstrike […]

Authorities foiled an ISIS-linked attack in Paris on Saturday, arresting a 15-year-old boy suspected of preparing an imminent “violent action,” two judicial sources told Reuters. (FOX)- The boy, who was not identified, had been under house arrest since the coordinated Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people. After that deadly episode, France declared a […]

Weeks before Islamic State militant Abdelhamid Abaaoud led the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris, French authorities thought he was holed up in northern Syria. (FOX)- Western Intelligence agencies pursuing Abaaoud had tracked him there using cell-phone location data and other electronic footprints. The Paris attacks, which killed 130 people, showed how badly they were […]

An Australian man accused of attempted murder after stabbing another man outside Sydney was “inspired by ISIS”, authorities said Sunday.  (FOX)- Ihsas Khan, 22, was ordered held without bail after he allegedly attacked the 59-year-old victim while he was walking through a park in one of Sydney’s western suburbs Saturday. The unidentified victim was airlifted […]

Military and humanitarian preparations are now in full swing for late-year offensive. QAYYARA AIRBASE, Iraq, Sept 9 (Reuters/TIME) – The U.S.-led war on Islamic State has depleted the group’s funds, leadership and foreign fighters, but the biggest battle yet is expected later this year in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared […]

A French security official says a 19-year-old woman linked to gas canisters found in an abandoned car near Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. (FOX)- Security in train stations around Paris was visibly higher Friday as the investigation into the car widened. The woman, Ines Madani, was injured in […]