Category: ISIS

A government statement says Iraqi fighter jets have carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State group outside Mosul, killing more than 100 militants. (FOX)- Saturday’s statement says the strikes hit three ISIS targets in Baaj, a remote northwestern town near the Syrian border, and killed between 150-200 militants. It said the militants had crossed over […]

U.S. intelligence sources suggest ISIS and other terrorist groups can build laptop bombs capable of slipping past airport security scanners, Fox News has learned. (FOX)- The sources fear that terrorists have gotten their hands on sophisticated airport security equipment that allows them to properly conceal explosives in laptops and other large electronic devices, Fox News […]

The top U.S. general for the Middle East says the military has launched a formal investigation to determine what role the U.S. played in the deaths of dozens of civilians in Mosul, Iraq. (FOX)- Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, says combat in the densely populated areas of Mosul is making it harder […]

Islamic State fighters in western Mosul likely herded innocent men, women and children into a building as human shields before the airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition that killed more than 100 people, a top U.S. general revealed Tuesday. (FOX)- “It’s not a war crime to accidentally kill civilians,” Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the top U.S. […]

The U.S-led coalition in Iraq said Saturday that one of its airstrikes struck fighters and equipment of the ISIS terror group in West Mosul on March 17 at the location where there were reports of more than 100 civilian casualties. (FOX)- The airstrike was carried out at the request of Iraqi forces, the coalition said […]

The latest sweep brought to nine the total of arrests made in the wake of the attack. One woman was released on bail, Reuters reported. (FOX)- Authorities are working to determine if the attacker, Khalid Masood, who died at the scene, was directed or acted alone. Masood killed four in the attack outside British parliament. Police […]

For the first time since the start of the war against the Islamic State terror group, the U.S. military deployed American-trained Syrian forces via helicopter outside Raqqa — a tactic known as an “air assault,” a military spokesman said. (FOX)- The U.S.-backed Syrian Arab forces landed on American military helicopters with Apache gunships flying overhead. […]

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the terror attack that left four people dead, including the assailant and a police officer, outside of London’s Parliament building on Wednesday, according to the Amaq media agency. Fox News Reports: The claim of responsibility comes fewer than 24 hours after a man driving an SUV plowed into […]

A terror recruit took his entire immediate family — including three young children — to join the Islamic State in Syria and may have used government welfare money to bankroll the trip, The Sunday Times reported. (FOX)- The family’s former landlady in East London made the discovery, saying she learned the man’s wife received monthly housing […]

Iraqi government forces have pushed into the area around a highly symbolic mosque in western Mosul where the Islamic State group’s leader made his first and only public appearance. (FOX)- Black smoke billowed from the area around al-Nuri mosque, also known as the Great Mosque, Sunday as helicopters hovered overhead and fired into the militants’ […]