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PAKISTAN SAYS IT HAS KILLED 100 'TERRORISTS' AFTER SUICIDE SHRINE ATTACK
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday condemned the shrine attack on Twitter, calling Islamic State a common enemy of Afghanistan Pakistan ... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 45 PEOPLE ARE KILLED IN BOMBING AT POPULAR CAR MARKET IN BAGHDAD
The government has found no solution to the regular bombings by the Islamic State militant group... READ MORE›
AS ISLAMIC STATE LOSES TERRITORY, IT SEEKS TO SURVIVE ONLINE
The Islamic State thinks they'll make perfect terrorists... READ MORE›
NO TRUMPS IMMIGRATION ORDER IS NOT RECRUITING TERRORISTS
Meanwhile, the Islamic State broke away from al Qaeda during Obama's presidency and managed to gain territory in Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›
THEY'RE YOUNG AND LONELY. THE ISLAMIC STATE THINKS THEY'LL MAKE PERFECT TERRORISTS.
Using social media, Yusuf also connected with other Muslim boys his age who admired the Islamic State... READ MORE›
A FILE ON ISLAMIC STATE'S 'PROBLEM' FOREIGN FIGHTERS SHOWS SOME ARE REFUSING TO FIGHT
Iraqi Special Operations Forces scatter after a car bomb exploded during an operation to clear the al-Andalus district of Islamic State militants in Mosul... READ MORE›
HOW A U.S. TEAM USES FACEBOOK, GUERRILLA MARKETING TO PEEL OFF POTENTIAL ISIS RECRUITS
Lumpkin's team adopted a similar approach that targets Facebook users, specifically young Muslims in countries heavily recruited by the Islamic State... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE RECRUITING CHILD REFUGEES AS THEY HEAD TO EUROPEA
The report found Islamic State was offering free passage for those crossing the Libyan deserts, if they pledged allegiance... READ MORE›
IRAQI REGION IS EVICTING FAMILIES OF ISIS MEMBERS
Several of those evicted said security forces had confiscated their cellphones and interrogated them about family members' ties to the Islamic State... READ MORE›
SUSPECT IN ISTANBUL RAMPAGE ON NEW YEARA??S IS CAPTURED, TURKEY SAYS
Suspect in Istanbul Rampage on New Yeara??s Is Captured, Turkey Says... READ MORE›
AFTER A SLOW AND BLOODY FIGHT AGAINST ISIS, IRAQI FORCES TRY TO PICK UP THE PACE IN MOSUL
Yahya Rasoul, spokesman for Iraq's Joint Operations Command, said the losses among Iraqi forces are insignificant compared with Islamic State deaths in the battle... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTS LOSING BATTLE IN EASTERN MOSUL
In some cases for privacy, but also so that Islamic State snipers could see Iraqi forces without being spotted... READ MORE›
U.S. TROOPS CARRY OUT GROUND RAID AGAINST ISIS IN SYRIA
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 25 Islamic State members were killed in the operation... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE SUICIDE CAR BOMB KILLS 13 IN EASTERN BAGHDAD
Islamic State is likely to resort to bomb attacks and similar tactics elsewhere in Iraq as it is driven out of its Mosul stronghold... READ MORE›
IS SUICIDE CAR BOMB KILLS 13 IN BAGHDAD
A suicide car bomb blast claimed by Islamic State killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 50 others at a vegetable market in eastern Baghdad... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES CLOSE IN ON TIGRIS IN ISLAMIC STATE STRONGHOLD MOSUL
This is a very important factor, thanks to which Daesh Islamic State has not been able to move its fighters... READ MORE›
BLAST KILLS DOZENS IN REBEL-HELD SYRIAN TOWN
Turkey's privately owned Dogan news agency said a car bomb planted by Islamic State was responsible... READ MORE›
TOP PHILIPPINE MILITANT WHO PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISLAMIC STATE KILLED IN FIREFIGHT
Maguid was the leader of Ansar Khalifa Philippines, one of four groups that pledged allegiance to Islamic State in a YouTube video in 2015... READ MORE›
ISTANBUL NIGHTCLUB GUNMAN IDENTIFIED, SAYS TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER
Turkish police release images of istanbul nightclub attack suspect - video report... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 36 IN BAGHDAD MARKET
He pledged support for helping displaced Iraqis return to the city of Mosul, where Iraqi forces are waging a massive offensive against the Islamic State... READ MORE›
SCORES KILLED IN BAGHDAD AS MILITANTS STRIKE WITH MULTIPLE CAR BOMBS
Meanwhile, Islamic State militants launched an attack on the main road from Baghdad to Mosul, a key military supply route... READ MORE›
MILITARY WEIGHS EXPANDED USE OF CYBER, SPACE WEAPONS AGAINST ISIL
Last May, Defense Secretary Ash Carter urged the military space community to join the fight against the Islamic State, though he declined to describe how... READ MORE›
U.S. GENERAL SEES ISLAMIC STATE'S CAPABILITY WANING IN EAST MOSUL
The coalition has bombed all five bridges connecting east and west Mosul, forcing Islamic State to transport casualties across the Tigris River by boat... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE KILLS 24 IN BAGHDAD BLAST, CUTS ROAD TO MOSUL
Shirqat mayor Ali Dodah said Islamic State seized three checkpoints on the main road linking Baiji to Shirqat following the attacks... READ MORE›
LSLAMIC STATE GROUP CLAIMS ISTANBUL NEW YEAR'S NIGHT CLUB ATTACK
Most of the victims were visitors from the Middle East, celebrating the New Year in the ritzy night club... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE ATTACK ON IRAQ POLICE CHECKPOINT KILLS SEVEN, SHOWS GUERRILLA-STYLE CAPABILITY
Islamic State attacked an Iraqi police checkpoint near the southern city of Najaf on Sunday, killing seven policemen as government forces in the north made... READ MORE›
INSIDE THE ECONOMIC WAR AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE
The new tactics make it all but impossible for the Islamic State to repair the wells or extract oil through makeshift techniques, the officials said... READ MORE›
ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE FIGHT FOR THE ISLAMIC STATE'S CAPITAL OF RAQQA
On the front lines of the fight for the Islamic State's capital of Raqqa, Syria... READ MORE›
U.S.-BACKED FIGHTERS APPROACH DAM HELD BY ISLAMIC STATE IN SYRIA
The SDF is the most effective ground force battling the Islamic State in Syria... READ MORE›
IRAQI PM SAYS THREE MONTHS NEEDED TO ROUT ISLAMIC STATE
Abadi had previously pledged the northern city would be retaken by the end of this year... READ MORE›
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WHY EXTREMISTS DESTROY ANCIENT TREASURES
Syrian troops captured Palmyra from Islamic State fighters on Sunday after three weeks of intense fighting... READ MORE›
RECORD AIRSTRIKE HITS OVER 100 ISIL OIL TRUCKS GATHERED IN SYRIA
Revenue from oil and other sources has dropped as a result of the airstrikes and the Islamic State's loss of territoryA in Iraq and Syria... READ MORE›
ISIS'S SECOND-IN-COMMAND HID IN SYRIA FOR MONTHS. THE DAY HE STEPPED OUT, THE U.S. WAS WAITING.
The Islamic State is facing a serious crisis... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE RETAKES PARTS OF SYRIAA??S HISTORIC PALMYRA
The Islamic State gets 25 percent of its revenue from oil, the Center for the Analysis of Terrorism, a private research group, estimates... READ MORE›
'IRAQI ARMY SAVED US,' RESIDENTS OUTSIDE MOSUL SAY
Iraqi troops retook Bazwaya, a town 10 miles east of Mosul, from Islamic State control... READ MORE›
ISIL BRAINWASHED KIDS TO BECOME NEXT GENERATION OF EXTREMISTS
Iraqi paramilitary forces said they had captured several villages southwest of Mosul from the Islamic State... READ MORE›
GERMAN MEDIA SAY BOY, 12, PLANNED TWIN BOMB ATTACKS
European security agencies believe the Islamic State is currently developingA new tactics to strike at the West including kidnapping and car bombs... READ MORE›
KURDISH WOMEN FIGHTERS BATTLE ISLAMIC STATE WITH MACHINEGUNS AND SONGS
On Thursday afternoon, women fighters were lined up on a dirt berm, their weapons pointed at the frontline with Islamic State about 700 meters away... READ MORE›
SCOTT DAYTON IDENTIFIED AS FIRST AMERICAN TO DIE IN SYRIA COMBAT
He was killed by an improvised bomb on Thursday in northern Syria, where the Americans have been helping to organize an offensive against the Islamic State... READ MORE›
IF THERE WERE NO CIVILIANS WED JUST BURN IT ALL NONCOMBATANTS HAMPER IRAQI FORCES
Iraqi soldiers talk during a lull in the fighting against Islamic State militants on Nov. 11, 2016, as security forces were pushing through parts of Mosul... READ MORE›
ISIS USED CHEMICAL ARMS AT LEAST 52 TIMES IN SYRIA AND IRAQ REPORT SAYS
Mosul was at the center of the Islamic State's chemical weapons production, Mr. Strack said... READ MORE›
TURKISH JETS STRIKE KURDS IN SYRIA
The villages taken by the SDF from Islamic State also represented an advance towards al-Bab... READ MORE›
ISIS CALLS FOR HOLY WAR FIND AN ECHO IN PRO-TRUMP SOCIAL MEDIA
And, for a time, it seemed that the Islamic State was even trying to goad the West into a confrontation near Dabiq... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES ATTACK MOSUL A BELEAGUERED STRONGHOLD FOR ISIS
Nearly all of the Mosul residents contacted spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of Islamic State retaliation... READ MORE›
IN CHARRED CHURCH NEAR MOSUL, IRAQI CHRISTIANS PRAY ONCE MORE
Today Qaraqosh is free of Daesh Islamic State, Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul Butrus Moshe told worshippers... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REBELS SEIZE VILLAGE WHERE ISLAMIC STATE PROMISED FINAL BATTLE
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, had said Islamic State brought 1,200 fighters to defend Dabiq... READ MORE›
IRAQIS CELEBRATE FIRST CHRISTMAS NEAR MOSUL AFTER ISLAMIC STATE PUSHBACK
A few hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to Bartella, a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State, to celebrate Christmas for the first time since 2013... READ MORE›
IRAQI ARMY TRIES TO TAKE MAIN CHRISTIAN TOWN NEAR MOSUL
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters took control of Kirkuk in 2014, after the Iraqi army withdrew from the region, fleeing an Islamic State advance through northern and western Iraq... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE RETALIATES AS IRAQI FORCES PUSH ON MOSUL
Kirkuk is located east of Hawija, a pocket still under control Islamic State that lies between Baghdad and Mosul... READ MORE›
DEJA VU FOR U.S. TROOPS CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS IN IRAQ AGAIN
I've seen the Iraqi army pick themselves up a lot... READ MORE›
MOSCOW STUDENT SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR ATTEMPTING TO JOIN ISIS
Specifically, she intended to join an Islamic State IS, formerly ISIS ISIL branch called 'Badr' and carry out a suicide attack in Russia, the judges ruled... READ MORE›
ISIS FLEES VILLAGE WHERE IT PROPHESIED DOOMSDAY BATTLE
It also offered further evidence of the Islamic State's rapidly diminishing capabilities ahead of the imminent offensive targeting the city of Mosul in neighboring Iraq... READ MORE›
DOCUMENTS SHOW ISLAMIC STATE OBSESSIONS: BEARDS AND CONCUBINES
Slick, colorful posters, pamphlets and documents highlight Islamic State's intense focus on dictating what it called proper Islamic behavior for the citizens of its caliphate... READ MORE›
KURDISH-LED FORCE ANNOUNCES START OF OPERATION TO RECLAIM RAQQA FROM ISIS
Over the summer, Turkish forces intervened in northern Syria, targeting Islamic State militants but also acting as a curb to Kurdish territorial ambitions in the country... READ MORE›
'NOW WE HAVE OUR FREEDOM': IN EASTERN MOSUL, FINALLY, A DAY WITHOUT ISLAMIC STATE
Iraqi soldiers were seeing firsthand what life in Mosul had been like under Islamic State rule imposed in 2014... READ MORE›
IRAQI SHI'ITE COMMANDER SAYS MOSUL BATTLE 'NO PICNIC' AS TROOPS ADVANCE
Their target is to seize the town of Tal Afar, 55 km 35 miles west of Mosul, from Islamic State... READ MORE›
TRUCK ATTACK MAY BE PART OF ISIS STRATEGY TO SHARPEN DIVIDE BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND OTHERS
The resulting crackdown would benefit the Islamic State, the group argues, by dividing Europeans and driving wavering Muslims into the jihadists' corner... READ MORE›
DISCREET ENCRYPTED AND HIGHLY PERMISSIVE TELEGRAM IS JIHADISTS APP OF CHOICE FOR PROMOTING TERROR
Yet, even bumblers are capable of striking a blow for the Islamic State... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES PUSH DEEPER INTO EASTERN MOSUL
Human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said on Friday Islamic State fighters had killed hundreds of people, including 50 deserters and 180 former Iraqi government employees, around Mosul... READ MORE›
DEADLY BERLIN CHRISTMAS MARKET EPISODE IS LATEST IN EUROPE
Many recent attacks have been linked to jihadists, and some to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS... READ MORE›