Category: ISIS

A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on Monday killed at least 45 pro-government recruits, officials said. (FOX)- The men were at a staging area near two schools and a mosque when a pickup truck suddenly accelerated through the building’s gate as a food delivery arrived, […]

A stomach-turning new video released Friday by ISIS shows the depraved terrorist army’s so-called “cubs” executing five Kurdish fighters, as well as a twisted montage of mass murder in the name of Allah. (FOX)- The 9-minute video was posted online by ISIS leaders in its stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, under the title, “The Nations [are] […]

Iraqi troops launched the operation to retake Qayara earlier this week BAGHDAD—(WSJ)- Iraqi forces have retaken the key town of Qayara, near a major air base south of Mosul, from Islamic State, according to a statement from the Iraqi prime minister’s office. Haider al-Abadi said the victory marks was an “important step” on the road […]

Prosecutors will not seek criminal charges against a Boston officer and an FBI agent who fatally shot a man last year who they believed was plotting an attack against police, authorities announced on Wednesday. (FOX)- “The use of deadly force was a lawful exercise of self-defense,” Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said at a press […]

Turkey’s U.S.-backed push into northern Syria Wednesday was aimed at ISIS, but also sent Ankara’s nemesis – and American ally the Kurds – retreating east of the Euphrates, making good on a vow from strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (FOX)- Amid a fence-mending visit from Vice President Biden, Erdogan’s tough rhetoric against the Kurds, a reliable […]

Syrian government troops and ISIS terrorists carried out chemical attacks in the war-torn nation during 2014 and 2015, according to an investigation by the United Nations and a global chemical weapons watchdog.  (FOX)- The so-called Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) found that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were responsible for two chlorine attacks in Idlib […]

A week-long spate of violent attacks this summer — including two involving migrants — has triggered debate about potentially deploying troops on Germany’s streets for the first time since World War II. (NBC)- A July 18 ax and knife attack by an ISIS-inspired 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker aboard a train near Wuerzburg left five people seriously injured. […]

After a pre-dawn barrage of heavy artillery and airstrikes, Turkey sent tanks and special forces into Syria on Wednesday to help clear a border town of Islamic State militants in Ankara’s most significant military involvement so far in the Syria conflict. (FOX)- Syrian opposition fighters were also part of the cross-border incursion, which was reported […]

Federal authorities reportedly are investigating a weekend stabbing in Virginia to see whether the attacker may have been trying to behead a victim and whether the attack was inspired by the Islamic State terror group. (FOX)- Wasil Farooqui, 20, was charged with two counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the stabbing attack Saturday that left […]

Libyan forces renewed their push to oust Islamic State from its former North African stronghold of Sirte on Sunday, saying they had seized the city’s main mosque and a jail run by the militants’ morality police. (Reuters)- The forces, mainly brigades from the city of Misrata, say they are close to capturing Sirte after taking […]