Category: ISIS
US-led coalition trains Mosul police, plans for IS-free Iraq
The U.S.-led coalition is planning for the day when Iraq will be free of the Islamic State group, ramping up training of a future Mosul police force — even as the battle for the rest of the city is briefly on hold. (FOX)- Sometime during the lull, significant numbers of the security forces are expected […]
Read MoreTurkish police detain over 440 people in anti-ISIS operation
Turkey’s anti-terrorism police have detained more than 440 people for alleged links to ISIS, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported Sunday. (FOX)- Anadolu said 60 ISIS suspects, the vast majority of them foreigners, were taken into custody early Sunday in the capital, Ankara. It said a total of 445 people were detained in simultaneous pre-dawn police […]
Read MorePennsylvania man admits he conspired to help ISIS
A little more than a year after he exhorted online followers to ‘kill’ military personnel and sought to buy a sex slave, a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Monday to trying to help ISIS. (FOX)- Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz now faces the potential of up to 25 years in prison and a $500,000 fine after […]
Read MoreHit squad reportedly kills ISIS madman who beheaded hundreds
A notorious ISIS executioner who beheaded hundreds of innocent citizens has been stabbed to death by a hit squad in northwest Iraq. (FOX)- Abu Sayyaf was one of the terror group’s main executioners and appeared in many of the group’s propaganda videos showing brutal decapitations. He is the second ISIS executioner to be killed in region in the last few […]
Read MoreIslamic State-linked terror leader seriously injured in Philippine airstrikes
A suspected Indonesian militant was killed and one of Southeast Asia’s top terror suspects was seriously wounded as the Philippines launched airstrikes using South Korean-made jet fighters for the first time in combat, officials said Sunday. (FOX)- Philippine military Chief of Staff Gen. Eduardo Ano said the body of the suspected Indonesian militant—known by his […]
Read MoreNew military plans against ISIS to be presented to Trump, US officials
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have been asked to produce options to ramp up the ISIS fight, which falls on the services to come up with a list of potential assets, U.S. officials tell Fox News. (FOX)- The Navy’s top admiral is looking at ways to stage special operations forces, rocket propelled artillery known as […]
Read MoreISIS magazine reportedly calls for attack on Dallas church
A digital ISIS propaganda magazine published an article earlier this month urging supporters to burn down Dallas’ First Baptist church, The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday. (FOX)- Rumiyah, the magazine, reportedly called the church “a popular Crusader gathering place waiting to be burned down.” There is no sign of an immediate threat but the report […]
Read More3 Iraqis accused of ISIS bomb-making, detained in Turkey
Turkish authorities have detained three Iraqi brothers who are suspected of making suicide bombs for the Islamic State group. (FOX)- Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported Friday that the suspects were caught during police raids in the Black Sea coastal city of Samsun. They are accused of setting up a factory in Mosul, the ISIS stronghold […]
Read MoreAustrian police arrest 8 over alleged ISIS links
Austrian authorities say they have arrested eight people on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization through possible connections to the Islamic State group. (FOX)- A statement from the public prosecutor in the city of Graz said the suspects were arrested Thursday after raids on several residences in Graz and Vienna. The statement said the […]
Read MoreSentencing set for man convicted of plotting Texas attack
An American-born Muslim convert convicted of supporting the Islamic State group and helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas was scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday. (FOX)- Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an Arizona moving company owner, provided the guns that two friends used to open fire outside the anti-Islam […]
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