Category: ISIS

A top Iraqi commander says troops fighting the Islamic State group in the eastern outskirts of Mosul are regrouping and conducting house-to-house searches looking for vehicles primed for use in suicide bombings. (FOX)- Maj. Gen. Sami al-Aridi of the special forces tells The Associated Press that his men foiled two attempted suicide car bombings early […]

Iraqi troops advanced against Islamic State fighters toward the center of Mosul on Sunday, but were slowed down by sniper fire and suicide bombings as well as concern over the safety of civilians in a city that is home to more than 1 million people. (FOX)- A few hundred civilians emerged from rubble-strewn front-line neighborhoods […]

Increasingly paranoid ISIS leader reportedly refuses to sleep without suicide vest (FOX)- As U.S.-backed Iraqi forces close in on the Islamic State’s hub of Mosul, the leader of the terror network has become so insecure about his own safety that he refuses to emerge from his underground hideouts and never sleeps without his suicide vest […]

Spain arrests 2 Moroccan men for allegedly recruiting for ISIS (FOX)- Spanish police have arrested two Moroccan men for allegedly serving as recruiters for the Islamic State group. Spain’s Interior Ministry said police arrested one man in Madrid and the other in the town of Roda de Ter near Barcelona on Saturday. Spanish authorities say […]

Intelligence experts estimate that the Islamic State extremist group has between 60 and 80 operatives planted in Europe to carry out attacks, the Dutch counter-terrorism coordinator said Friday. (FOX)- Dick Schoof said in an interview with The Associated Press that would-be fighters are also heeding messages from the militant group “asking them not to come […]

Layers of hastily erected barricades built from rubble and twisted metal trace Mosul’s eastern frontline where Iraqi forces and Islamic State group fighters are facing off in the dense neighborhoods and narrow alleyways of the country’s second largest city. (FOX)- As the operation to retake Mosul enters its second month on Thursday, Iraqi forces are […]

A Minnesota man described as a leader of a group of nine who plotted to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State group was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge who said he didn’t believe the man’s tearful apologies and words of contrition. (FOX)- Two other members of […]

Kosovo police said Thursday they prevented simultaneous attacks by the Islamic State group, including on the Israeli national soccer team that played a World Cup qualifier in neighboring Albania. (FOX) – police statement said plans were in place to attack Saturday’s match in Albania, and at the same time attack another target in Kosovo. Nineteen […]

The area was supposed to have been cleared of ISIS days ago. The Gogjali district just on the Mosul city line is the main gateway into the fight against the terror group and was the first to be cleared. (FOX)- We saw first-hand more anti-ISIS efforts by Iraqi forces. Open-back trucks came to the staging […]

It’s been one year since ISIS was driven from the Iraqi city of Sinjar, but the Yazidis who called it their capital do not plan to rebuild, at least not in the same location. (FOX)- The black-clad jihadist army left mass graves and rubble in its wake, and now, from an abandoned home in Sinjar, […]