WASHINGTON—An 18-year-old Houston man was charged on Monday, Dec. 11, with trying to support the radical group ISIS and distributing information about how to make bombs, the U.S. Justice Department said.
ISIS has seen its territory dissolve, with the vast swathes it once controlled in Iraq and Syria now reduced to pockets.
ISIS has just two strongholds left in Iraq, the Middle Euphrates River Valley and western Anbar Province.
BEIRUT—ISIS terrorists attacked Syrian government forces and their allies in countryside east of Homs and Hama on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Coalition forces have begun attacks in Iraq to free western Anbar and Huwayjah from the control of ISIS terrorists. These are the last two areas in the country where ISIS still holds power.
BENGHAZI, Libya—East Libyan forces said they launched air strikes against suspected ISIS terrorists on Wednesday, Nov. 15, south of the jihadist group's former stronghold of Sirte.
Six long-range Russian bombers conducted airstrikes on ISIS terrorist positions near Abu Kamal in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday, Nov. 13.
An ISIS affiliate that threatened "more bitter and greater" attacks in New York published a poster warning the West that more attacks, aimed at children, are on the way.
If true, this would corroborate earlier reports out of Russia that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in airstrikes in Raqqa during a meeting of ISIS leaders in May.
The letter bearing the ISIS flag, addressed to Sweden Democrat (SD) leader Jimmie Akesson, made its way across the internet, and it was unclear where it originated.
MOMBASA—Suspected ISIS terrorists beheaded nine men in an overnight attack on a village in the Kenyan coastal district of Lamu, police said, days after Somali militants killed three policemen in an attack on a nearby village.
Analysists say that Russia is now being targetted for supporting the Assad regime's military in Syria, which has also taken on ISIS.
This is not the first time ISIS has threatened to attack London.
The State Department sanctioned Elsheikh in March 2017, saying he was "said to have earned a reputation for waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions while serving as an ISIS jailer".
Sayfullo Saipov, the 29-year-old suspect in the Manhattan terrorist attack that left eight dead and several injured on Tuesday, reportedly pledged to ISIS.
An American who allegedly sent a résumé to the terrorist group ISIS in the hopes of landing a teaching job has likely joined the group, news reports said.
The Pentagon said in a statement that U.S. forces had killed dozens of ISIS terrorists in a strike on two camps where fighters trained in using machine guns and grenade launchers.
They blamed the bombings on the ISIS-inspired group Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD).
JAD is an umbrella organisation on a U.S. State Department “terrorist” list that is estimated to have drawn hundreds of ISIS sympathizers in Indonesia.
The judge ruled that the man used the false pretense that he would carry out attacks in Germany for ISIS using explosives. The money was never transferred to the man.
Central Command said that ISIS lost more than 98 percent of the land that it once controlled.
Marines fire a M777A2 Howitzer on an ISIS infiltration route in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq on March 18, 2016. (U.S.