BAGHDAD—Iraqi agents are holding a top aide to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and used an app on his mobile phone to lure four commanders from the group into a trap, a security advisor to the Iraqi government said on Thursday. Ismail al-Eithawi, who also uses the alias Abu Zaid al-Iraqi, was captured in February […]

WASHINGTON—A 17-year-old boy in Plano, Texas, has been arrested and charged with plotting a mass shooting inspired by the ISIS at a shopping mall, law enforcement agencies said on Wednesday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and police said high-school student Matin Azizi-Yarand had planned the attack for mid-May and had sought to recruit others for […]

KABUL–Afghanistan forces killed an important ISIS commander in an air strike, one year after he defected from the Taliban and established a new ISIS foothold in the country, security officials said. Qari Hekmat was killed in a drone strike on Thursday afternoon in the Darz Aab district of Afghanistan’s northern Jawzjan province, said Hanif Rezaee, […]

A man who brutally mutilated and murdered his wife in front of their three children — all under six — has been sentenced to life in prison. The 36-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the children, was sentenced on Thursday, March 29, for violently attacking his 27-year-old wife. He mutilated her […]

PARIS–France will pay a national tribute to a security officer who died from gunshot wounds after voluntarily taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege by an Islamist terrorist, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday. Arnaud Beltrame, 44, a gendarme who once served in Iraq, had been raced to hospital fighting for […]

MANILA—At least 44 pro-ISIS terrorists were killed and 26 more were wounded when Philippine soldiers shelled positions held by the rebels in southern Maguindanao province, the army said on Sunday. The fighting, initially with about 50 members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), broke out in a remote village in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town […]

ADEN—At least 14 people were killed and 40 wounded when Islamist car suicide bombers and gunmen tried to storm the headquarters of a counter-terrorism unit in the southern port city of Aden on Saturday, security and medical sources said. The ISIS terrorist group, in a statement carried by its Amaq news agency, claimed responsibility for […]

Iraqi security services have included the daughter of the late Saddam Hussein on its most wanted list, along with 59 other individuals. Authorities say the 60 people are wanted on suspicion of belonging to ISIS, al-Qaeda, or the the former Iraqi regime’s Baath Party, reports AFP. Raghad Saddam Hussein, the fallen Iraqi dictator’s eldest daughter, responded […]

A New York man has pleaded guilty to trying to help ISIS by traveling to Turkey with the goal of entering Syria and fighting for the militant group, federal prosecutors announced on Tuesday. Arafat Nagi, 47, entered his plea on Monday before U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara in Buffalo, New York, the U.S. Department of […]

MARAWI CITY, Philippines–Islamist terrorists looted cash, gold and jewelry worth tens of millions of dollars when they occupied a southern Philippines town last year, treasure one of their leaders has used to recruit around 250 fighters for fresh attacks. The military said Humam Abdul Najib escaped from Marawi City, which the terrorists had hoped to establish […]

NEW YORK–The Bangladeshi man accused of attempting a suicide bombing in a busy New York City commuter hub in the name of ISIS in December was indicted on U.S. terrorism charges by a grand jury on Wednesday. Akayed Ullah, 27, faces charges that include supporting a foreign terrorist organization, using a weapon of mass destruction […]

KABUL–A suicide bomber in the Afghan capital caused dozens of casualties on Thursday after blowing himself up close to a group of security personnel who were carrying out an operation against illegal drugs and alcohol dealing, officials said. ISIS, which has claimed a series of attacks in Kabul over the past two years, issued a […]

TELESKOF, Iraq–Inside the newly renovated Church of Saint George in the Northern Iraqi town of Teleskof, Hayat Chamoun Daoud led children while dressed as Santa Claus and singing “Jingle Bells” in Aramaic. Like every other resident of Teleskof, this was Daoud’s first Christmas back home in three years, since ISIS terrorists overran her town and […]

Mexican Federal Police arrested four men driving a stolen vehicle on Oct. 20 in Guanajuato, in Central Mexico, and in the car’s trunk, in a container next to an AK-47 variant rifle, they found a weapon that could soon change the nature of policing criminal gangs. What they discovered was a remote-controlled flying drone that […]

The United States is moving to the next phase in its push to destroy the ISIS terrorist group, after coalition forces retook the Syrian city of Raqqa, pushing the terrorist group out of its last stronghold. The defeat of ISIS in Raqqa comes just a few months after its defeat in early July in Mosul, […]

The ISIS terrorist group is losing one of the last strongholds of its proclaimed “caliphate,” as coalition forces reach the final stages of pushing it out of the city of Raqqa in Syria. Raqqa was the group’s last major stronghold, following its recent loss of Mosul in Iraq. The terrorist group is now being pushed […]

DUBAI—The United States said it launched its first attack on Islamic State’s deadly Yemen branch on Monday with a series of nighttime airstrikes that residents said targeted two villages and killed several people. Unmanned U.S. drones launched around 12 missiles at militant positions in Yakla and al-Abl in southern al-Bayda province, according to local people […]

Iraqi forces won a “swift and decisive victory against ISIS in Hawijah” on Thursday, Oct. 5, according to Coalition sources. “The battle was hard fought and operations to liberate the city took 14 days, with many sources reporting more than 1,000 terrorists surrendered,” reads a statement from the U.S. Central Command. During the Iraq war, […]

The ISIS terrorist group published an infographic in one of its propaganda outlets that claims Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock was a recent convert to Islam and ISIS terrorist. ISIS put the infographic on the second page of the 100th issue of its al-Naba weekly online magazine, calling the shooter, “Abu Abdul Barr al-Amriki” […]

The ISIS terrorist group—without providing evidence—claimed responsibility for the Las Vegas shooting that left more than 50 dead. ISIS said that the shooter, Stephen Paddock, 64, converted to Islam “months ago,” The Associated Press reported. The Amaq propaganda agency claimed the attacker was a “soldier of [ISIS],” according to The Independent. “The Las Vegas attacker […]