Category: ISIS

Islamic State terrorists desperate to get out with their lives have tried blending in with the growing crowds of innocent men, women and children escaping Mosul, an intelligence officer reportedly revealed Wednesday. (FOX)- “You can tell because they are afraid. Those who are not Daesh are also afraid but it’s different from the fear of […]

Iraqi troops encountered the “heaviest” clashes yet with Islamic State group fighters Sunday in western Mosul since the start of the new push more than two weeks ago, according to a senior commander. (FOX)- Maj. Gen. Haider al-Maturi of the Federal Police Commandos Division told The Associated Press that ISIS militants dispatched at least six […]

US-backed Iraqi forces are set to reach the main government complex in Mosul, their next target in the battle to retake the city from Islamic State. (FOX)- The site should be taken on Monday, Lieutenant Colonel Abdel Amir al-Mohammadawi told the Reuters news agency. Meanwhile, Colonel John L Dorrian, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the […]

A sinkhole – once a local curiosity in Iraq – has reportedly been turned into a mass grave for up to 4,000 victims of Islamic State killers. (FOX)- Local residents living near the Khasfah – the Arabic word for a sinkhole – have described how ISIS transformed the area into a “place of death” after […]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? A DAMN PUPPY? I hate ISIS. I REALLY do. It is no secret that I like animals more than most human beings, that being said, this is one reason why. An animal is true to it’s nature. An animal isn’t evil like this. ISIS will use any and all means to […]

A German sailor who had survived two months as a hostage of Somali pirates nearly a decade ago was beheaded in the Philippines by Islamic terrorists, a short video released Monday showed, after a deadline to pay the man’s ransom passed. (FOX)- Jurgen Gustav Kantner’s beheading was the first murder of a hostage by the […]

At least 10 police officers and the wife of a police commander were killed in an ambush by Islamic States group militants in northern Zawzjan province, a provincial official said. (FOX)- Mohammad Reza Ghafori, spokesman for the Zawzjan provincial governor, said Saturday that the police officers were ambushed Friday as they were coming out of […]

A senior commander said Iraqi militarized police captured a neighborhood in western Mosul on Sunday morning amid clashes with Islamic State militants. (FOX)- Maj. Gen. Haider al-Maturi of the Federal Police Commandos Division told The Associated Press that his troops entered the Tayaran neighborhood. Al-Maturi said it is now “under their full control.” Al-Maturi said […]

Iraqi forces pushed into the first neighborhood in western Mosul on Friday and took full control of the international airport on the city’s southwestern edge from the Islamic State group, according to Iraqi officials. (FOX)- The gains mark the first key moves in the battle, now in its sixth day, to rout IS militants from […]

U.S. troops have come “under fire” and have “returned fire” in and around Mosul as allied forces try to retake the city from ISIS, a U.S. military spokesperson said on Wednesday. (FOX)- “When someone is shooting at you, that is combat,” said Col. John Dorrian, the Baghdad-based spokesman, to Pentagon reporters. While Dorrian said U.S. […]