Category: ISIS

In the last Syrian province largely under Islamic State control, U.S.-backed forces are on a collision course with the Syrian and Russian militaries as both sides scramble to strengthen their hands ahead of postwar negotiations. Cetus News Reports The contest for territory is playing out in Deir Ezzour, an oil-rich province where Islamic State has […]

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:45 P.M.) – Amid earlier reports that elite Syrian forces crossed to the eastern bank of the Euphrates River also now comes reports that the Syrian Arab Army has carried out an amphibious assault on a strategic ISIS-held island to the east of Deir Ezzor city. Hours ago, word came in from military sources that […]

ERBIL, Iraq, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Aid officials in Iraq said they were “gravely concerned” about the fate of about 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State militants relocated by Iraqi authorities, who did not warn aid organizations. Global News writes The families had been held by Iraqi authorities since Aug. 30 in the Hammam al-Alil transit […]

El Arish – The Latest on an attack on a police convoy in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula (all times local): AP reports 14:30 The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the ambush of a police convoy in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that Egyptian officials said killed 18 police and wounded seven. The claim of responsibility for […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A U.S. military drone strike has killed three members of the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia, the U.S. Africa Command said Wednesday. Military daily writes The airstrike was carried out Tuesday morning local time in the Bay region, about 75 kilometers (45 miles) west of the capital, Mogadishu, the U.S. statement said. “We assess […]

The U.S. military in Afghanistan apologized Wednesday for distributing leaflets featuring an image “highly offensive” to Muslims. LA times writes The leaflets dropped Tuesday night over parts of Parwan province showed the Shahada, the Muslim profession of faith, printed on the image of a dog, an animal viewed by many Muslims as unclean. “Get your […]

She was just ‘lonely and depressed,’ Daily Mail reports A mother-of-two who planned to leave her children behind in Philadelphia to join her ISIS internet husband only did so because she was ‘lonely’ her lawyers said. Keonna Thomas, 32, will be sentenced on Wednesday after admitting in October that she had intended to provide material support to a […]

Kyiv: The international coalition against and business led by the US continues to block the bus convoy in which the fighters of ISIS along with their families are sent to the border with Iraq along the corridor provided by the Syrian authorities and Hezbollah. The headquarters of the coalition reports that for the seventh day the […]

Raqqa, the last Islamic State stronghold in Syria, will fall by the end of October, allowing credible democratic elections to be held within a year, according to the UN special envoy for the country. the guardian writes Setting out a highly optimistic scenario for the end of the civil war, Staffan de Mistura said the country would […]

Deir Ezzor, SANA – Ten persons were killed and 28 were injured while trying to escape from ISIS spread areas in the countryside of Deir Ezzor to the direction of Hasaka province. SANA reporter in Hasaka said that the bodies of 10 martyrs arrived in al-Hikma Hospital in Hasaka city along with 28 wounded, all […]