"Although casualty figures could not be ascertained, the strike was verified to be successful in disrupting (ISIS) logistics movement and foot soldiers," the statement said.
Washington considers ISIS its greatest terrorist threat emanating from Afghanistan.
Clarke said he doesn't see the Taliban as a potential partner in the fight against the ISIS affiliate.
"I don’t see it," he told the forum.
An ISIS terrorist has been convicted in connection with a brutal hostage scheme. It resulted in the death of Americans. The jury found that he was one of the so-called “Beatles”.
An unclassified DOJ summary of the case says Haji Zada indoctrinated her children “with ISIS ideology” and hid the radicalization of her family and an intended move to ISIS territory from her husband.
The safe haven for Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist groups that Afghanistan could now represent is the result of U.S. strategic errors, spanning 20 years, he says.
"Our enemies are watching: China's watching; Russia's watching; Iran is watching.
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Founded in 2015, ISIS-K is a sworn enemy of the Taliban and the United States. Until the airport attack, ISIS-K had been quiet since Kabul was taken over by the Taliban on Aug. 15.
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ISIS-K, or Islamic State Khorasan, is an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan that consists of disaffected Taliban members who hold an even more extreme view of Islam.
One recommendation from the AFP was that the possession and sharing of propaganda, flags, and insignia—along with online content—from extremist groups such as ISIS or the Nazis be criminalised.
And then in finally completing the reverse chronological order is of course Al-Baghdadi, who was then the head of ISIS and who was in command and control of these and thousands of other ISIS terrorists around the world while they committed these atrocities
BERLIN—A former imam at a radical mosque in Germany was convicted Wednesday of being a member of the ISIS terrorist group and sentenced to 10-1/2 years in prison.
New Zealand has tightened its counter-terrorism laws after after an ISIS-inspired knife-wielding terrorist wounded seven people at a mall in Auckland last month.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—The leader of Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, according to a jihadi organization linked to the ISIS terrorist group.
She insisted that she did nothing in ISIS-controlled territory “but be a mother and a wife.”
She said she would “rather die than go back” to ISIS and added, “The only crime I committed was being dumb enough to join IS [ISIS].”
After traveling to Alabama to visit Muthana, prosecutors said, Bradley approached the undercover officer with the idea of traveling on a cargo ship to join ISIS.
"Clearly it's in the thousands," Kirby said in response to a question about the number of ISIS terrorists who escaped in recent days. The Taliban, he said, emptied the prison at Bagram airbase—located outside Kabul—which had ISIS members.
Van Taylor (R-Texas) has ended his reelection campaign after admitting to having an affair with Tania Joya, the widow of an American who joined ISIS.
Taylor, who was bidding for a third term in the U.S.
The threat of the ISIS terrorist group continues to grow in Africa, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warned, as he is expected to pledge £12.6 million ($17.5 million) on Monday to support efforts to counter ISIS in West Africa.
Former ISIS bride Shamima Begum has insisted she “did not hate Britain” when she travelled to Syria to join the terrorist group.
Begum, who is now 22, left the UK for Syria to join the ISIS terrorist group as a 15-year-old schoolgirl.
"It's very clear that the theme promoted by media operations [associated with al Qaeda and ISIS] is to conduct attacks in the West,” the official added.
Abdeslam also is believed to be connected to the same ISIS network that went on to strike Brussels, the capital of Belgium, in 2016—killing another 32 people.
The al-Hol camp houses some 62,000 people, including wives and children of ISIS members, and U.S. officials say it has become a breeding ground for the next generation of ISIS terrorists.
Thousands of terrorists with ISIS-K were allegedly released from prisons in Afghanistan as the Taliban took over the country, raising concerns of more attacks following a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 US troops and over 160 Afghanis
