Islamic State

The assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was a controversial decision by Donald Trump‘s administration. While many pointed to Soleimani’s alleged hand in American deaths overseas these past few years as justification for the killing, the Trump administration’s shifting narrative has raised eyebrows. Although they first claimed Soleimani was planning an imminent attack on […]

The office of Vice President Mike Pence has reportedly spearheaded U.S. efforts to provide USAID funds specifically to Christian minority groups in Iraq in a move some reportedly fear is in violation of the U.S. Constitution, according to a report Wednesday from ProPublica. Per ProPublica, the United States government has directed some $373 million in […]

The Pentagon on Wednesday released dramatic footage of the United States special operations raid that resulted in the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, NBC News reported. The video footage, viewable below on this page, appears to have been taken from an aerial drone flying over the terrorist chieftain’s compound in Idlib Province, […]

Former U.S. Ambassador Nancy Soderberg used her Monday MSNBC Live appearance to suggest that Donald Trump’s recent argument for keeping Middle Eastern oil in Syria and Iraq is feeding into the Islamic State narrative, Newsweek reports. “The last thing we want to do is talk about taking oil from other nations. That’s the talking point […]

As The Inquisitr reported, the Islamic State leader was killed in a United States military raid Sunday by special-ops forces. He was reportedly cornered in a tunnel with three of his children, who died with him after he detonated a suicide vest. While speaking to reporters Monday, Donald Trump said that video footage of Baghdadi’s […]

France is on a state of high alert after the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, with officials calling on police to remain vigilant against what could be revenge terrorist attacks. As Reuters reported, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner sent a letter to police prefects calling for increased vigilance in the wake of […]

Saturday’s raid that resulted in the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was widely reported to have taken place at 3:30 p.m. EDT. That timeline, if accurate, would place Donald Trump on the golf course at the time of the raid, a Newsweek report appears to indicate. Pool reports on presidential daily activities […]

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead following a U.S. military special operations mission aimed at bringing down the wanted, The Guardian reports. Following unconfirmed reports Sunday morning that he had died, the Trump administration confirmed his death in a press conference later Sunday morning. “He died like a dog. He died like a […]

President Donald Trump kept journalists around the world on the edge of their seats on an otherwise typical Saturday night after he posted a cryptic tweet announcing that “something very big has just happened!” at 9:23 Eastern time. Rampant speculation immediately ensued via social media, with guesses that the news was everything from alien landings […]

While it’s not common for Republican politicians in Washington, D.C., to speak out against President Donald Trump‘s policies, his handling of the Syria situation has seemingly generated more push back from his own party than any other controversy since winning the White House. According to The Hill, Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd took a shot […]

Hundreds of imprisoned Islamic State militants have reportedly escaped from prisons in Syria after American President Donald Trump ordered U.S. troops to move out of the area, allowing Turkey to launch an attack against Kurdish forces that experts say now threatens to allow the Islamic State to regroup in the area. Not long after Trump […]

The so-called Islamic State, a terrorist group which took over large tracts of Syria over the last decade using violence and online propaganda, is finally being cornered into defeat, according to reports emerging from the Middle East. ISIS now controls less than a quarter of a square mile, a commander with the US-backed Syrian Democratic […]

Has the United States and its allies defeated ISIS? The question is one well worth asking, especially since President Donald Trump has given conflicting answers on the topic. On December 19, shortly after announcing that he would be withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria, Trump announced ISIS was defeated, fulfilling a campaign promise he made in […]

Dutch police revealed they arrested seven men on Thursday over an alleged plan to execute what they called a “major terrorist attack.” As reported by the BBC, the plot involved guns and explosives, including AK47s, hand grenades, and bomb materials the attackers were trying to source in order to carry out the attack. The men […]

A Texas teenager could wind up in prison for the rest of his life if convicted of terrorism-related charges in a court of law. The suspect was allegedly inspired by ISIS to plan a mass shooting at a local shopping mall in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, multiple news outlets are reporting. The suspect is a […]

Three people are dead after a delivery truck driver purposefully drove into a crowd of people in the German city of Münster, with up to 50 others injured. The attack, which occurred at around 3:30 p.m. local time, ended with the driver taking his own life with a gun. According to CNN, authorities are most […]

At least two people have lost their lives in a hostage situation that took place in Trebes, a community located in southwestern France. The gunman stormed a popular supermarket earlier Friday, March 23, announcing his alleged ties to the Islamic State before opening fire on the people inside. The attack came after a police officer […]

The FBI has denied the claim from the Islamic State terrorist group on the horrific shooting attack in Las Vegas on Sunday night. The investigation has found that the perpetrator, Stephen Paddock, has no connection with the international Islamic terrorist network. However, there are some particular reasons behind the claim. One of the possible reasons […]

Lebanese troops on the offensive against ISIS, or the Islamic State, along the Syrian-Lebanese border raised the Spanish flag over reconquered territory to honor the victims of the Barcelona truck attack last week. Lebanese troops are pushing against Islamic State forces that had spilled into Lebanon, using the country as a base for operations inside […]

UPDATE [8/18/2017, 3:36 p.m. ET] According to BBC News’ official Twitter account, three people have been arrested after the attacks in Cambrils and Barcelona, with the third one added to the list on Friday. Catalan police confirm arrest of third person in relation to #Barcelona & #Cambrils attacks https://t.co/EdpwfouJ6o — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) August […]

Victory in Mosul is imminent according to a U.S. military official echoing the statements of ground forces fighting the city. However, the group is still inspiring global attacks amid their crumbling caliphate highlighting the need to combat the group’s ideology. It has been more than three years since a little-known cleric by the name of […]

This Wednesday the Kurdish militias of the YPG, who form the vanguard of the US-led assault on the Islamic State stronghold in the town of Raqqa, 200 kilometers north of Aleppo, have warned that they may soon be attacked directly by Turkish troops. This comes after weeks of increasing tensions between the YPG and the […]

Iraqi forces have successfully wrestled control of the Mosul from ISIS in a grueling battle that was not seen since the start of the 21st century. But while the terrorist group’s foothold in Northern Iraq is slowly crumbling, its global presence has been growing to encompass nearly every continent. According to the Independent, the battle […]

The Russian Defense Ministry earlier today said it is looking into reports about the possibility that the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) was killed in a Russia-led airstrike in Syria, Russia Today reports. Incidentally, this is the second time in a week that we have received information about the possible death of Baghdadi in […]

On June 12, 2016, a lone gunman, Omar Mateen, walked into Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and opened fire on patrons of the gay-friendly establishment. A total of 49 people were killed in the Pulse attack, thus making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. The brand new body camera (bodycam) footage was recently released […]

Hundreds of supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) took to Twitter and other social media websites to celebrate the deadly nail bomb explosion at a packed Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, U.K., on Monday night. At least 22 people were killed in the explosion and 59 injured, according to the latest media reports. Young children […]

Iraqi soldiers have discovered evidence of ISIS soldiers allegedly testing poisonous chemicals on live humans in Mosul. According to initial reports, these experiments on “human guinea pigs” were conducted in a bid to produce chemical weapons for use against both local targets and for future chemical attacks on the West. According to a report by […]

Israel was the U.S. ally that provided the intelligence President Donald Trump shared with the Russians during a meeting in the White House last week, former and current U.S. officials familiar with the matter have revealed, according to the New York Times. Trump reportedly shared classified intelligence about a plot by the Islamic State to […]

Abdul Hasib, the leader of ISIS-K in Afghanistan, has been killed according to a statement released by the government, as per a report by The Globe and Mail. Pentagon spokesperson Captain Jeff Davis announced two weeks ago that Hasib had likely been killed in a joint raid with Afghan commandos in Nangarhar province which also […]

Last month, a squad of 10 Taliban militants dressed in military uniforms and traveling in two army Ford Ranger trucks, drove past seven checkpoints in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan. They arrived inside Afghanistan’s largest military installation as unarmed soldiers were emerging from Friday prayers and preparing for lunch. Making sense of the […]

Wild boars attacked and killed three ISIS militants on a farm in Iraq. The story of the bizarre deaths of the Islamic State fighters quickly went viral, prompting some to initially believe the article about the boar attack was nothing more than a social media prank or fake news. But it really happened. The three […]

Under constant military pressure from various forces in Iraq and Syria, the territory controlled by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is growing smaller by the day. But as the threat of the Islamic religious extremists as a true territorial state diminishes, authorities and officials around the world are faced with the grim realization […]

Mosul is the northern Iraqi city at the center of an offensive to drive out the Islamic State, and last Friday the American-led military coalition in Iraq said it was investigating claims that many civilians, maybe up to 300, had been killed in recent American airstrikes in Mosul. Mosul’s civilian deaths: How the US destroyed […]

ISIS stands for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: some people know the group as IS, or Islamic State, while others refer to it as ISIL – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The Washington Post reported that ISIS has dumped thousands of bodies in a huge desert sinkhole near Mosul, and it could […]

Munther Omar Saleh, a 21-year-old Muslim man who was arrested in 2015 for suspected ties to the Islamic State (ISIS), admitted that he was in contact with a recruiter from the ISIS. Omar admitted that the ISIS recruiter helped him with a plan to execute a terror attack on U.S. soil. According to CBS News, […]

Syria is in turmoil, and the people of Syria could be forgiven for believing that the rest of the world has either turned its collective back on them, or completely forgotten all about their terrible plight. In December, 2016, the BBC issued a report titled “What’s Happening in Syria?” which provided a brief overview of […]

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) extremists have begun using suicide bombers in wheelchairs in their efforts to incite fear and wreak havoc in Mosul, not to mention defend its conquered territory against Iraqi, coalition, and various militia troops attempting to break ISIS’ hold on the region. The organization has also posted a video […]

When Agatha Christie was busy working on some of her most popular novels, she was also doing a very important job preserving archaeological remnants in Nimrud, the same ancient Assyrian city in Iraq that saw many of these relics destroyed last year by ISIS. Agatha Christie not only wrote the world’s best-selling mystery novel and […]

Responsibility for the recent terrorist attack in Berlin where a truck slammed into a crowded popular Christmas market has been claimed by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), according to a news agency run by the extremists. The attack, which killed 12 people, comes in the wake of news that ISIS has called upon […]

The attempts of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) to contain the population of besieged Mosul, Iraq, have been well documented over the past year, but the extremist organization may have reached an ethical low point with the latest tactic of fear — having snipers shoot escaping children in order to convince those trying […]

A suicide bomb left in the control of a newly recruited teen ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) member is the apparent cause of the death of his entire family in a house just outside of Mosul, according to Iraqi sources. Iraqi News reported this week that a new ISIS recruit was apparently responsible […]

The Islamic State took hold of the northwestern territory of Iraq in 2014 after killing an estimated 5,000 Yazidi men, according to the United Nations. Thousands of Yazidi women and children were then taken captive. The women were raped and many were sold as sex slaves or servants while the young boys were forced to […]

More than 300 ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) child soldiers were killed in the first two weeks of the battle for Mosul, according to an English human right watchdog group. As ISIS loses more and more ground to the coalition of troops intent on forcing the extremists from the city, its desperate attempt […]

On the borders of a small Iraqi town, which had been occupied by Islamic State fighters until two days ago, a massive grave has been found. The bodies were dumped on piles of trash in dirt fields on the boundary of the town, and there were indications that the captives of the ISIS fighters were […]

ISIS’ (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) propaganda videos of its many heinous executions have littered the internet for the past few years, but one particular method of killing — crucifixion — has been a recurring theme throughout. Given that the extremists view Christianity, the religion where the sign of the crucifix (or cross) is […]

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) released another atrocity-laden video to the internet this week, this time depicting a helpless prisoner being executed with a gun normally used to fire at military vehicles, aircraft, and buildings. The prisoner, supposedly a member of the New Syrian Army, is literally torn to pieces under the hail […]

In a major boost to the coalition fighters who are trying to free the Iraqi city of Mosul from the ISIS, thousands of new Shiite militia members joined forces with Kurdish and Iraqi forces on Sunday against the ISIS, USA Today reports. The addition of these trained men, many of whom who had previously served […]

In a desperate effort to convince its fighters to remain at their posts and continue fighting the allied forces arrayed against them outside besieged Mosul, ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) incinerated nine of its own members this week by throwing them into a trench filled with burning oil. Iraqi News reported this week […]

A report out of besieged Mosul, the last ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) stronghold in Iraq, brings news of a quelled rebellion within ISIS’ own ranks. According to a number of sources, ISIS put 58 former colleagues and citizens to death by drowning for actively engaging in and fomenting rebellion against the so-called […]

In a significant setback to the Islamic State (ISIS), Syrian rebels on Sunday confirmed that they had recaptured the important village of Dabiq from the control of the Islamic State. While the village of Dabiq might not be known internationally, the location holds a significant position in the ISIS narrative, owing to the fact that […]