Islamic State claims responsibility for Brussels stabbing
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a knife attack on soldiers in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Friday, the group’s Amaq news agency said on Read more
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Breaking: ISIS submits to ceasefires in Syria-Lebanon border fight
A ceasefire took effect on Sunday in an Islamic State pocket straddling the Syria-Lebanon border, where the militants have been fighting the Lebanese army on Read more
3 Lebanese Soldiers Killed During Offensive Against IS
Three Lebanese soldiers were killed during an offensive to take back areas along the Syrian border from Islamic State, the military said Sunday. A landmine Read more
Lebanese army, Hezbollah launched attacks on ISIS at Syrian border
The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria as Hezbollah simultaneously announced an assault Read more
ISIS Has Committed ‘Genocide’ Against Religious Believers – US
The United States accused Islamic State insurgents on Tuesday of carrying out a reign of violence targeting religious minorities and opposition ethnic groups, even as Read more
JERUSALEM ATTACK: No Evidence of Link to ISIS – Israeli Police
GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian militant factions denied on Saturday a claim by Islamic State that three Palestinian men who carried out a fatal shooting and Read more
IS claims attack on Egypt Christains
So-called Islamic State (IS) has claimed it was behind an attack on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt that killed at least 29 people Read more
ISIS surrounded, no escape – Mattis
Soldiers of the Coalition of Countries Working to Defeat ISIS have surrounded the terrorist group with no way for its fighters to escape, U.S. Secretary of Read more
ISIS executes 145 civilians, hangs bodies on poles
The ISIS (Islamic State Iraq and Syria) has executed more than 145 civilians for trying to flee the western part of the Iraqi city of Read more
ISIS beheads Russian officer in Syria-SITE
Islamic State has issued a video showing the beheading of what it described as a Russian intelligence officer captured in Syria, the U.S.-based SITE monitoring Read more
Islamic State Leader in Afghanistan killed – government
KABUL – The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, has been killed in an operation led by Afghan special forces in the eastern province Read more
Syria war: Many killed in IS attack on displaced people’s camp
More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria’s north-eastern border with Iraq. They targeted Read more
Jihad: Al-Qaida Leader Tells Fighters to Prepare for Syria holy War
Al-Qaida’s leader has urged his followers and all militants in Syria to unite ranks and prepare for protracted jihad, or holy war. Ayman al-Zawahri tells Read more
Egyptian police kill 7 suspected Islamic State militants in shootout
Egyptian security forces killed seven suspected Islamic State militants in a shootout on Monday as they were meeting to plan attacks on minority Christians, the Read more
Islamic State claims responsibility for two Egypt church attacks -Amaq
Islamic State was responsible for two church bombings in Egypt on Sunday that killed at least 36 and injured over 100, the group’s news agency Read more
Updated: 36 die in Egypt’s Coptic Church bombings
At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in Egypt. The attacks Read more
Germany deports German ISIS suspect to Nigeria
Germany has deported to Nigeria, an alleged Islamic extremist, an ISIS suspect, deemed dangerous by authorities. He is a German citizen, not Nigerian. The German Read more
Trump an idiot: ISIS to USA
Islamic State has described the United States a drowning state “being run by an idiot”. It was the first official remark by the group on Donald Read more
Islamic State kill 31 in Tikrit attacks
At least 31 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and more than 40 wounded in attacks overnight by Islamic State militants in the northern Read more
Breaking: Islamic State’s second-in-command killed in airstrike
Ayad al-Jumaili, the man believed to be the deputy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in an air strike, Iraqi State Read more
ISIS: Tillerson Meets Turkey Leaders, Discusses IS
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Thursday in Ankara with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, opening an overseas trip that comes as the U.S. Read more
US Leads Call for Complete Defeat of Islamic State
STATE DEPARTMENT — In a show of unity against Islamic State terrorism, the U.S. State Department hosted 68 foreign ministers and other leaders from all over Read more
Iraqi general says 30 percent of west Mosul recaptured from Islamic State
MOSUL, Iraq – Iraqi forces have retaken around 30 percent of west Mosul from Islamic State militants, a commander of the elite Counter Terrorism Service Read more
US Could Send 1,000 More Soldiers in Islamic State Counteroffensive
PENTAGON — The new plan by the U.S. to counter Islamic State in Syria and Iraq involves the deployment of 1,000 soldiers to Kuwait, a Read more
Expert says Islamic State has badly damaged major Palmyra monument
PALMYRA, Syria (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have severely damaged a major Roman monument in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an antiquities official said Read more
U.S.-allied militia says to hand over villages to Syrian government
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A U.S.-allied militia in northern Syria said on Thursday it had agreed to hand over villages on the front line with Turkey-backed Read more
Egypt’s Sisi orders cabinet to help resettle Sinai Christians fleeing Islamic State
CAIRO (Reuters) – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday ordered the government to take all necessary measures to help resettle Christians who have fled Egypt’s Read more
UN Security Council meets after US-coalition air strike accidentally kills dozens of Syrian soldiers
The United Nations Security Council has convened at the behest of the Russians after dozens of Syrian soldiers were accidentally killed in a US coalition Read more
Turkish forces deepen push into Syria, draw U.S. rebuke over their target
By Lisa Barrington and Umit Bektas BEIRUT/KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria on Monday and drew a rebuke from NATO Read more
ISIS captures up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqis – UNHCR
GENEVA (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on Thursday and subsequently executed 12 of them, the U.N. Read more