More than 100 Turkish soldiers have been deployed to an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, currently under control of the Islamic State (IS) group, to replace a unit providing training to Iraqi troops, Turkish media reported on Friday. Around 150 soldiers, backed by 20 to 25 tanks,[…]
The United States sanctioned a Syrian businessman on Wednesday who it said was a middleman for oil sales between Islamic State and the Syrian government, the latest salvo in an effort to cut off the flow of funds to the militant group. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement[…]
A resident of the city reflects on daily life under ISIL. Ghareb al-Omawi is a name I made up and use on my social media accounts, such as Facebook, after the eastern region of Syria, from Raqqa to Deir az Zor, fell under ISIL’s control. Ever since, our life has[…]
The hacker collective Anonymous said on Saturday it has discovered future Islamic State (IS) group attacks in the US, Indonesia, Italy and Lebanon. These attacks are allegedly to take place on Sunday. Among the possible attacks is an assault at the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) scheduled to take place in[…]
Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on the army in the eastern region of Hadramawt on Friday that a security source said killed at least 19 Yemeni soldiers and 35 militants. Earlier on Friday a different security source said Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was responsible for[…]
Islamic State’s official magazine carried a photo on Wednesday of a Schweppes soft drink can it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board. The photo showed a can of Schweppes Gold[…]
France’s President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia on Monday to join a global coalition to destroy Islamic State following the attacks in Paris, and hours later French fighter jets launched fresh strikes on targets in Syria. “France is at war,” Hollande told a joint session of[…]
Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington. The video, which appeared on a site used by Islamic State to post its messages, begins with news footage[…]
Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for attacks that killed 127 people in Paris, saying it sent militants strapped with suicide bombing belts and carrying machine guns to various locations in the heart of the capital. The attacks, described by France’s president as an act of war, were designed to[…]
British and US officials say they have information suggesting the Russian jetliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula may have been brought down by a bomb. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Wednesday that there was a “significant possibility” the crash was caused by a bomb, and Britain was[…]
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