Category: ISIS

Iraqi federal police forces – backed by U.S. air support – entered Mosul International Airport and took control of the runway from the Islamic State, an official said Thursday. (FOX)- Thursday’s advance is part of a major assault that started five days ago to drive ISIS militants from the western half of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest […]

An Army veteran has been charged with plotting what he believed would be a terrorist attack in Kansas City, federal authorities said Tuesday.  (FOX)- Robert Lorenzo Hester Jr., 25, was arrested Friday and is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The criminal complaint was released after Hester made his initial […]

Iraqi forces reach vicinity of key Mosul airport (FOX)- Iraqi forces—backed by the U.S.—were closing in on the Mosul airport Monday after pushing back ISIS fighters at a nearby hill, Reuters reported, citing the Iraqi military. The troops were working on regaining the west side of the city and overtaking the airport would be a […]

Teacher shot in head by radical Islamists as attacks on Christians in Egypt escalate (FOX)- A 50-year-old Coptic Christian teacher was shot in the head by two Islamic militants in Egypt while on his way home from school Thursday, as attacks on Christians continues to rise at an alarming rate in the Muslim-majority country. The […]

Iraqi Federal Police forces on Monday pushed into the southern outskirts of Mosul on the second day of a new push to drive Islamic State militants from the city’s western half as the U.S. defense secretary started a visit to Iraq to discuss the fight against IS. (FOX)- Backed by aerial support from the U.S.-led […]

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces launched a large-scale military operation on Sunday to retake the western half of Mosul and dislodge Islamic State militants. It is the latest phase in a 4-month-old offensive to retake Iraq’s second largest city. (FOX)- Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the operation on state TV, saying government forces were moving to […]

Pentagon cites evidence of Islamic State “exodus” from Raqqa (FOX)- The Pentagon says it sees signs that the Islamic State group is preparing for the loss of its de facto capital in Raqqa, Syria. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman says the extremist group’s administrative structure in Raqqa is beginning to crack. He says […]

A former soldier accused of killing a transit guard in Denver last month says he supports the Islamic State group. (FOX)- But investigators say they have no evidence the group had anything to do with the killing. Joshua Cummings in a telephone interview from jail told The Associated Press he pledged allegiance to the group […]

The Islamic State is using kidnapped Yazidi children to carry out suicide missions as the U.S.-led coalition forces continue their assault on the terror group’s remaining strongholds in Syria and Iraq. (FOX)- In a video posted Tuesday, two young Yazidi boys seemingly brainwashed by the Islamic terror group talk about their departure from their Yazidi […]

At least 45 people were killed and nearly 50 others wounded in a car bombing in Baghdad Thursday, government officials said, as the Islamic State terror network claimed responsibility for the attack. (FOX)- It was the third blast to hit the Iraqi capital in three days, the BBC reported. The bomb exploded in Baghdad’s southwestern al-Bayaa […]