Category: Islam

The Islamic State group (ISIS) has been shooting at civilians as they try to flee the fighting between Iraqi government forces and ISIS militants in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, an international aid organization says. (FOX)- A number of those fleeing civilians have been killed as they tried to cross the Euphrates River, […]

ISIS kills dozens of its own in hunt for spies (FOX)- The killing of Abu Hayjaa al-Tunsi, a Tunisian jihadi, sparked a panicked hunt within the group’s ranks for spies who could have tipped off the U.S-led coalition about his closely guarded movements. By the time it was over, the group would kill 38 of […]

In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion. (FOX)- The killing of Abu Hayjaa al-Tunsi, a Tunisian jihadi, sparked a panicked hunt within the group’s ranks for spies who could have […]

Syrian troops reached the edge of the northern province of Raqqa on Saturday, home to the de facto capital of the Islamic State group’s self-styled caliphate, in a push that leaves the extremists fighting fierce battles on four fronts in Syria and neighboring Iraq. (FOX)- IS, which controls large swaths of territory in both countries, […]

Taliban gunmen stormed a court building in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing seven people, including a newly appointed chief prosecutor, the latest in a series of insurgent attacks on judicial employees. (FOX)- The attack began as the prosecutor, Akram Nejat, was addressing a ceremony to introduce him in his new position, said Nesar Ahmad Abdul […]

An Iraqi Christian who escaped the ISIS stronghold of Mosul says she was “married and divorced” as many as nine times a night, all to give her tormentors a twisted justification for rape, according to an interview conducted by an advocacy group and reviewed by Fox News. (FOX)- “They had me whenever they would desire […]

The USS Harry Truman, a Navy aircraft carrier, is now in the eastern Mediterranean conducting air strikes against the Islamic State, a Navy official confirmed to Fox News. (FOX)- “This is showing the U.S. Navy can conduct flight operations (against ISIS) from other locations, not just the (Persian) Gulf,” the official said Friday. F/A-18 Hornets […]

An Afghan national with ties to the Taliban — and a plot to carry out a terror attack somewhere in North America — was caught last fall after being smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico, an incident sure to further inflame the debate over national security risks at the border. (FOX)- The Afghan national’s alleged terror ties were not […]

In the rugged terrain of the Taliban heartland in southern Afghanistan, the fight against the Kabul government has become a war for control of key stretches of main roads and highways as the insurgents use a new tactic to gain ground. (FOX)- First they storm a checkpoint, kill all the policemen, seize their weapons and […]

A large Sunni Arab fighting force backed by U.S. special operations troops and fighter jets have launched an operation to recapture a key ISIS-held town in northern Syria 20 miles from the border with Turkey, a senior defense official told Fox News on Wednesday. (FOX)- The official said the U.S. forces would “not be engaged […]