Category: Islam

Ukraine’s security service says it has uncovered a plot to smuggle Islamic State sympathizers to Western Europe. (FOX)- The SBU said in a statement Wednesday that it has sent an undercover agent posing as an ISIS sympathizer wanting to get to Western Europe to an apartment in the eastern city of Kharkiv. The agency said […]

German authorities on Thursday arrested three Syrian men suspected of planning an attack in Duesseldorf for the Islamic State group, prosecutors said. (FOX)- They said the plot was thwarted by a fourth suspect, who went to French authorities with details earlier this year. The three men were arrested in three different German states, federal prosecutors […]

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned of a potenial humanitarian disaster in Fallujah, Iraq Wednesday, estimating that 20,000 children were trapped with their families inside the ISIS-held city.  (FOX)- In a statement, UNICEF called on Iraqi troops and ISIS militants to “protect children inside Fallujah” and “provide safe passage to those wishing to leave […]

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to seize payments on life insurance policies taken out by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook in the years before the December attacks. (FOX)- The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles filed the civil asset forfeiture lawsuit for the two policies worth a total of $275,000. Farook took […]

The Taliban attacked several buses on a road in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday morning, forcing passengers to disembark and killing nine people and abducting at least 35, officials said. (FOX)- According to Mahmood Danish, the governor’s spokesman, the assault in the volatile, northern Kunduz province took place in Aliabad district as the buses were travelling […]

Iraqi forces battling their way into Fallujah repelled a four-hour attack by the Islamic State group in the city’s south on Tuesday, a day after first moving into the southern edges of the militant-held city with the help of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. (FOX)- Also Tuesday, a leading aid group raised alarm over the unfolding “human […]

Militants unleashed a wave of bombings targeting commercial areas in and around Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 20 people, officials said as Iraqi troops poised to recapture the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah, west of Iraq’s capital. (FOX)- Shortly after the bombings hit, the extremist Islamic State (ISIS), which has been behind recent deadly […]

Activists say Syrian rebels have retaken two villages from Islamic State militants as they fight to undo gains made by the extremist group in a surprise offensive in Syria’s north Friday that displaced over 100,000 people. (FOX)- The Local Coordination Committees, an activist network inside Syria, says rebels retook the villages of Kafr Shoush and […]

Iraq’s special forces have completed a troop buildup around Fallujah ahead of an operation to retake the Islamic State-held city west of Baghdad. (FOX)- Maj. Dhia Thamir, of the Special Forces Service, says the last battalion arrived at dawn Sunday at the sprawling Tariq Camp outside Fallujah. Thamir declined to comment on troop numbers or […]

A U.S. airstrike killed the Islamic State’s commander in Fallujah, where the Iraqi army recently launched a major push to clear out the terror group, a Pentagon spokesman announced Friday. (FOX)- The strike killed Maher al-Bilawi on Wednesday, Col. Steve Warren said from Iraq. “This was a result of intelligence that we gathered on the […]