Tag: Islamic State
Islamic State accepts Boko Haram’s pledge of allegiance
The Islamic State in Iran and Syria has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigerian terrorists Boko Haram who killed…
Islamic State to release video accepting Boko Haram
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is expected to release a video accepting Boko Haram into its fold after…
Jonathan now shares Nigeria with Islamic State
The islamic State of Iraq and Syria has now expanded its empire to a part of Nigeria, with the pledge…
Female Islamic State recruiter arrested in Barcelona
A Moroccan woman was arrested at a Spanish airport Saturday on suspicion of recruiting European and North African women to…
Missing Korean teen at IS training camp
A South Korean teenager who went missing last month has joined the Islamic State (IS) group and is receiving training,…
IS jihadists kidnap 90 Christians in Syria
Jihadists from the Islamic State group have kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria, a monitor said on…
Christian militia storm Iraq to fight IS
Decked out in his US army-issued fatigues and a lip stud shining from his mouth, the young American fighter cuts…
Bahrain deploys warplanes to Jordan for war against IS
Bahrain has deployed fighter jets to Jordan to support the US-led air campaign against the Islamic State (IS) group, Jordan’s…
IS says it has beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians
The Islamic State group in Libya released a video on Sunday purportedly showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians,…
UN Security Council seeks to choke off Islamic State funds
The UN Security Council is set on Thursday to adopt a resolution aimed at choking off millions of dollars in…
US female hostage killed, says IS
The Islamic State group claimed on Friday that a female American hostage had been killed in an air strike in…
UAE pulls out of IS fight after pilot capture
The United Arab Emirates pulled out of the air campaign fighting Islamic State militants after the capture of a Jordanian…
Retaliation: Jordan executes 2 jihadists after IS murder pilot
Jordan executed two death-row jihadists including an Iraqi woman militant on Wednesday after vowing to avenge the burning alive of…
IS claims beheading of second Japanese captive
The Islamic State group claimed in a video that it has beheaded a second Japanese hostage, drawing international condemnation and…
Jordan vows to do ‘everything’ to save life of IS-held pilot
Jordan vowed Sunday to do all it could to save an airman held by the Islamic State group after the…
IS urges new attacks after Charlie Hebdo killings
The Islamic State jihadist group Monday urged Muslims to carry out new attacks after the targeting of France’s Charlie Hebdo…
IS confirms execution of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa
The Islamic State group confirmed Sunday its militants have executed Haruna Yukawa, one of two Japanese it has been holding…
Five Canadians fighting for IS killed in Syria
Five Canadians have died fighting alongside Islamic State militants in Syria, including a man who called for lone wolf attacks…
US teen who tried to join IS hit with terror charge
A US teen arrested at a Chicago airport while trying to join up with Islamic State fighters in Iraq and…
Morocco dismantles Islamic State recruiting cell
Moroccan authorities on Tuesday announced that they have dismantled a terror cell involved in recruiting women to join the Islamic…
IS claims beheading of US aid worker Kassig
The Islamic State group on Sunday released a video claiming the beheading of US aid worker Peter Kassig in a…
Who’s who in the Islamic State jihadist group
Top figures with the Islamic State group, including possibly its chief, have been targeted in air strikes by the US-led…
Moroccan held, with daughters, for trying to join IS
A Moroccan man, with his two young French daughters in tow, were arrested in Casablanca Wednesday as he sought to…
IS jihadists execute nine people in northern Iraq
Islamic State group fighters executed nine people on Friday in two northern Iraqi towns on suspicion of ties to anti-jihadist…
Bangladesh arrests Briton over ‘IS jihad recruitment’
Bangladesh police said Monday they have arrested a British citizen suspected of entering the country to recruit militants for jihadist…
Australia commits 600 troops to anti-IS campaign
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Sunday Australia would deploy 600 troops to the United Arab Emirates to join the US-led…
Christians fear persecution from Boko Haram rampage
Christians in northeast Nigeria are paying a heavy price at the hands of Boko Haram, even if they are not…
Iraq strikes kill IS chief’s aide
Air strikes in northern Iraq on Thursday killed the top aide of jihadist Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,…
American among 18 jihadists killed in Syria raid
The death toll from a Syrian government raid on an Islamic State stronghold in eastern Syria has risen to 18,…
Americans among 12,000 foreign fighters in Syria
Some 12,000 foreign jihadists from 50 countries, including Americans, have gone to fight in Syria since the conflict began, the…