Category: ISIS

Three months into its operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul, US military officials say that upwards of 90 percent of the eastern part of the city has been cleared of ISIS militants. (FOX)- U.S. Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a Baghdad-based US military spokesman, told Pentagon reporters on Tuesday that eastern Mosul is […]

Islamic State group militants destroyed a landmark ancient Roman monument and parts of the theater in Syria’s historic town of Palmyra, the government and opposition monitoring groups said Friday. (FOX)- Maamoun Abdulkarim, the head of Syria’s antiquities department, said the militants destroyed the facade of the second-century theater along with the Tetrapylon, a cubic-shaped ancient […]

The brother of a New Yorker who joined the Islamic State group and died has testified at the terrorism trial of an Arizona man. (FOX)- Tarek el-Goarany (tuh-REEK’ ehl-goh-AHR’-nee) testified Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. He was called as a government witness at the trial of Ahmed Mohammed el-Gammal (ehl-gahm-AHL’). The suburban Phoenix resident has […]

The wife of the Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen pleaded not guilty Wednesday to helping her husband’s terror plans, and blew a kiss at her uncle as she walked out of the courtroom. (FOX)- Noor Salman, 30, entered her plea during a hearing in Oakland, Calif., which lasted less than 15 minutes. She’s due back […]

Two B-2 “stealth” bombers struck Islamic State targets in Libya on Wednesday evening, killing nearly 100 terrorists just two days before President Obama is set to leave office, two U.S. defense officials told Fox News. (FOX)- The B-2s dropped 108 precision-guided bombs on two ISIS training camps 30 miles southwest of the Libyan coastal city […]

Istanbul nightclub shooting suspect trained in Afghanistan, official says (FOX)- The terror suspect accused in the shooting rampage at a nightclub in Istanbul early on New Year’s Day trained in Afghanistan before traveling to Turkey and launching his attack, a Turkish official announced Tuesday, hours after police finally pulled the bloodied man from the home where […]

Iraqi special forces raised the Iraqi flag above the buildings at the Mosul University complex on Friday as they continued the battle for control of the city against Islamic State militants. (FOX)- Senior Iraqi officers and U.S.-led coalition said the troops entered the university grounds in the morning hours and by afternoon they had taken […]

The chief suspect in the deadly ISIS attacks which killed 130 people in Paris has described being hailed an “idol” and “star” in letters from fans. (FOX)- Belgian-born Salah Abdeslam is accused of helping the terrorists who slaughtered innocent civilians in the French capital on November 13, 2015. After four months on the run, Abdeslam, who is accused of […]

Iraqi forces fought their way into more districts of Mosul but advances in the city’s southeast were being slowed by Islamic State’s use of civilians for cover, military officials said on Tuesday. (Reuters)- The United Nations said civilian casualties had streamed into nearby hospitals in the last two weeks as fighting intensified in the jihadist […]

U.S. Special Operations troops carried out a ground operation in eastern Syria aimed at capturing an Islamic State militant, U.S. officials said Monday. (WashingtonPost)- The raid took place Sunday near a small town along the Euphrates River valley, in the vicinity of the city of Deir al-Zour and deep in the heart of Islamic State […]