Category: ISIS

Former commander of Tajikistan police special units Col. Gulmurod Khalimov- known as the Tajik- has been appointed as the new ISIS ‘Minister of War’. (IraqiNews)- An Iraqi security source said, “The Tajik has been appointed as the successor to the dead terrorist Tarhan Batirashvili who also known as Abu Omar al-Chechani”. “The Tajik Golmurud Khalimov was elected […]

The Islamic State group has reportedly banned women from wearing a burka, a veil that covers the entire face, as a security precaution in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. (IBT)- The alleged new rule is striking in part because the militant group also known as ISIS has beaten and killed women in the past for refusing to wear the […]

Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for inviting support for the so-called Islamic State group. (BBC)- The 49-year-old was convicted at the Old Bailey after backing the group in an oath of allegiance published online. Police say Choudary’s followers carried out attacks in the UK and abroad. The judge, who described Choudary […]

A teenager who plotted to run over and behead a police officer as part of an Islamic State movement-inspired attack on an Australian Veterans’ Day ceremony was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in prison. (NYTimes)- Sevdet Besim, 19, had faced a maximum sentence of life in prison after pleaded guilty in Victoria state’s Supreme […]

Syrian pro-government forces backed by airstrikes launched a wide offensive in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, capturing areas they lost last month and almost besieging rebel-held neighborhoods, state media and opposition activists said. (FOX)- The push came a month after insurgents captured several military academies south of Aleppo and opened a corridor into […]

Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels expelled the Islamic State group from the last strip of territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border on Sunday, effectively sealing the extremists’ self-styled caliphate off from the outside world, Turkey’s prime minister and a Syrian opposition group reported. (FOX)- Also on Sunday, Syrian pro-government forces backed by airstrikes launched a […]

Teenagers To Battle Islamic State In Mosul (IBT)- Flouting international law, Iraqi security forces have reportedly recruited children as part of preparations for a planned assault on Islamic State group forces in Mosul, according to Human Rights Watch. In a report published Tuesday, the global rights group cited witnesses and relatives who said two tribal […]

ISIS barbarians have chainsawed nine youths in half in public – after they were accused of belonging to a ‘resistance faction’. (DailyMail)- The young men were tied to iron poles at Tal Afar Square, in the terror group’s Iraqi stonghold of Mosul, before being sliced in two with an electric cutter. All nine had been […]

A Russian airstrike in Syria killed ISIS spokesman Mohammad al-Adnani, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said on its official Facebook page Wednesday. (CNN)- Adnani was one of up to 40 ISIS militants killed by a Russian bomber in Aleppo province, the ministry said. On Tuesday, ISIS announced Adnani’s death in a rare public statement. His death […]

Thousands buried in at least 72 ISIS mass graves, AP finds (FOX)- Surrounded by smoke and flames, the sound of gunshots echoing around him, the young man crouched in the creek for hours, listening to the men in his family die. On the other side of the mountain, another survivor peered through binoculars as the […]