Category: ISIS

Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained some 40 suspected Islamic State group militants in raids in southern Turkey. (FOX)- Anadolu Agency says special forces police, backed by armored vehicles and a helicopter, conducted the raids in the city of Adana early on Friday. Those detained are suspected of membership in the extremist group […]

A senior U.S. military commander in Iraq on Sunday gave a vote of confidence to Iraqi forces fighting to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, saying they were currently “at their peak” and adjusting well to changing realities on the battlefield. (FOX)- Speaking to The Associated Press in an interview, Brig. […]

A pair of bomb blasts targeting a market in central Baghdad Saturday killed at least 28 people and wounded at least 54, according to police and medical officials. (FOX)- The attacks took place early Saturday morning in al-Sinak, a busy market selling car accessories, food and clothes as well as agricultural seeds and machinery. Details […]

A top Islamic State military commander described as a “gang leader” for the terror group was killed by a coalition airstrike in Syria, the U.S. military confirmed on Thursday. (FOX)- The strike on Monday killed Abu Jandal al-Kuwaiti near Tabqa Dam, outside Raqqa in northern Syria, U.S. officials said. They added that he was a former […]

Iraqi troops have pushed deeper into Mosul after a two-week lull in the operation to retake the Islamic State-held city. (FOX)- Backed by airstrikes, Iraqi special forces, army troops and federal police launched a push on five neighborhoods early Thursday. Smoke rose across the city as explosions and machine gun fire echoed through the streets. […]

In a historic setback for the Islamic State as the terror group loses its grip on its Iraqi hub of Mosul, a coalition airstrike reportedly cut off the city’s last functioning bridge — a span that ISIS showed off in a propaganda video this month. (FOX)- Video posted Wednesday by the terror group’s media arm showed […]

Tunisian authorities say Berlin truck attacker wanted nephew to kill uncle in ISIS pledge (FOX)- Authorities in Tunisia said the man who killed 12 people in a truck attack in Berlin last week urged his nephew to kill his uncle to prove his worthiness to Islamic State. A Tunisian police official told The Telegraph on […]

Iraqi forces will resume their push against ISIS inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to the front line in the city. (DailyStar)- The battle for Mosul, involving 100,000 Iraqi troops, members of the Kurdish security […]

Italian police killed the Islamist terrorist suspected in the deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market, after confronting him in Milan, some 675 miles from the scene of Monday’s carnage, police said. (FOX)- Anis Amri, the 24-year-old Tunisian whose monstrous attack sparked a 72-hour manhunt and raised questions about Germany’s inability to come to grips […]

The investigation began six months ago after a Virginia man allegedly pledged allegiance to Islamic terrorists on Facebook. It ended Wednesday with his arrest on charges he gave $250 to FBI informants pretending to buy weapons for the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Iraq, federal prosecutors said Thursday. (FOX)- Lionel Nelson Williams, 26, of Suffolk, […]