De-radicalization can work for former ISIS fighters
Canada’s spy agency, CSIS, recently revealed that 60 foreign fighters who joined ISIS and other terror groups in Syria and Iraq are now back and living in Canada. Their fate has sparked fierce debate in Canada’s Parliament between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer. Scheer has expressed concerns about the national security threat posed by these […]
Iraqi general: War with ISIL is over
An Iraqi senior military commander said his country’s war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group is over. In an announcement on Saturday, Lt General Abdul-Amir Rasheed Yar Allah said that armed operations against the fighters have ended after Iraqi forces regained control of the country’s border with Syria. “All Iraqi lands […]
Half of Yazidis kidnapped by IS still missing
Around half of the Yazidis kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Sunday. In 2014, IS jihadists killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the religious minority to abuse them as sex slaves. Kurdish fighters backed by the US-led […]
Pentagon Says It Killed 801 Civilians in ISIS War
It’s been 16 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks, but America’s fight against terrorism doesn’t appear to be dissipating whatsoever––and innocent civilians are paying the ultimate price as a result. In a report released Thursday, the Pentagon claimed U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have “unintentionally” killed 801 civilians since the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) […]
Huge Decline in ISIS Propaganda Mirrors Losses on Battlefield
As Islamic State stands on the brink of defeat in its previous heartlands in Syria and Iraq, analysts say the group’s effort to win the information war is also failing. As its propagandists can no longer maintain a pretense of military victory, they are switching attention to trying to inspire attacks overseas. A recent video […]
ISIS Reveals Top 5 Terror Attacks of 2017
The Islamic State militant group revealed Thursday a list of what it considered to be its most prominent attacks around the world this year and called for more deadly violence. ISIS, by most accounts, was effectively defeated as a warfighting force in 2017, but its ability to strike without warning in major cities across the […]
IS Bomb Kills More Than 20 Displaced People in Syria
At least 20 internally displaced persons were killed by a car bomb Friday in Syria — an attack blamed on Islamic State. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor put the death toll at 26, adding that 12 of the victims were children. Syrian state broadcaster SANA said that 30 others were injured at a […]
Boston Jihadi Plot Gets Top ISIS Leader in Syria Killed
It was dark and dank early on the morning of June 2, 2015, as a pelting rain slicked the roads and pinged off the windows of a townhouse in the bucolic blue-collar Boston neighborhood of Roslindale. The noise woke Usaamah Abdullah Rahim with a start just before 5 a.m., but he was happy to be […]
Scrambling to Track Islamic State Terrorists, Coalition Turns to Biometrics
As U.S.-backed forces made their final push into the city of Raqqa to liberate what had once been the Syrian capital of the Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate, they faced a problem. Not only were the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) holding IS fighters — some captured and some who had surrendered — they were also encountering […]
Bin Laden’s Son Orders Muslims to Attack Agents Of U.S.
The new face of Al-Qaeda and the son of the mastermind of the deadliest attack in U.S. history, Hamza bin Laden, released a new audio message on Tuesday, calling on Muslims around the world to avenge his father Osama’s death in 2011. In a 25-minute video titled “Osama The Fighter Against Invaders & Inciter of […]