Category: ISIS

An Islamic State executioner judge known for Nineveh locals as the “blood judge” was killed Thursday in an armed assault at the central area of the province, a local source told Alsumaria News. (IraqiNews)- “The ISIS summary court judge, a French national, was killed by armed attackers boarding a car at the eastern coast of […]

The Israeli military says it has carried out an air strike in Syria on a building used by Islamic State militants to attack Israeli forces. (FOX)- The overnight air strike Monday targeted an abandoned United Nations building that Israel says was used as a base by the militants. There were no immediate reports of injuries. […]

Israeli aircraft struck a machine gun-mounted vehicle inside Syria Sunday, killing four Islamic State-affiliated militants inside after they had opened fire on a military patrol on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said. (FOX)- Israel has been largely unaffected by the Syrian civil war raging next door, suffering only sporadic incidents […]

Spanish police say they have arrested a man at Madrid’s Barajas airport who was attempting to join the Islamic State extremist group in war-torn Syria. (FOX)- Spain’s Interior Ministry says in a statement that the suspect is a Spanish citizen of Palestinian origin who lives on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands archipelago. The suspect […]

A Brooklyn man has been arrested for plotting a terror attack on Times Square and trying to join ISIS at least five times, according to a complaint unsealed Monday. (FOX)- Mohamed Rafik Naji, 37, is charged with traveling to Turkey and Yemen between March and September of last year in an effort to join the […]

Federal authorities say an Ohio man who plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol during President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address kept trying from behind bars to incite others to violence in support of the Islamic State. (FOX)- Prosecutors describe 22-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell’s “post-arrest conduct and misconduct” as unusual in a sentencing […]

Iraqi hospital and police officials say the death toll from a car bombing south of Baghdad claimed by the Islamic State group has risen to 73, including about 40 Iranian pilgrims. (FOX)- The officials said Friday that 65 people were wounded in the attack. Earlier, they had put the death toll from the Thursday night […]

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says that five men arrested recently in two French cities were planning a terror attack in France as early as next week. (FOX)-He also says that they were receiving their orders from an Islamic State group member based in Iraq or Syria. Molins spoke to reporters Friday, the day after anti-terrorism […]

A U.S. service member embedded with the Kurdish-leg Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Syria died Thursday from injuries from a blast by an improvised explosive device, military officials said. (FOX)- In a statement released Thursday, military officials said the blast happened in the vicinity of Ayn Issa in northern Syria, located about an hour north of […]

Fighter jets catapult from the flight deck of the USS Eisenhower, afterburners glowing amber above the Persian Gulf, on their way northwest to join the fight in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State group. (FOX)- The fighter jets refuel on the way before receiving from coalition partners targets like convoys, hideouts and mortar positions […]