Posts Tagged: ISIS Iraq
Kerry Warns of ISIS Expanding Stronghold Into Libya
Advances in the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq are forcing the extremists to abandon territory there, generating concerns that they are...
ISIS Has Fake Passport ‘Industry,’ French Official Says
The terror group ISIS has created a whole “industry” out of the production of fake passports, a high-level French official said today. French Interior Minister Bernard...
Bedouin Teacher Jailed for Urging Israeli Students to Support Islamic State
JNS.org - An Israeli Bedouin elementary school teacher was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday after the Beersheba District Court convicted him of supporting the...
ISIS Mounts ‘Serious’ Offensive in Northern Iraq, US Officials Say
Islamic State fighters conducted their most significant military operation in northern Iraq in more than five months when they mounted a three-pronged attack on Wednesday night north and east...
Report: Iraqi Air Force Strike Hits Convoy of ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi
The convoy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has been struck by Iraq's air force in western Anbar, the military says. His condition following...
Yazidi Singer Forms All-Female Batallion to Fight ISIS
BreakingIsraelNews.com/JNS.org - A renowned singer has recruited 123 Yazidi women to form an all-female fighting unit in order to fight back against the Islamic State terror group,...
US Says ‘Credible’ Reports of ISIS Chemical Weapons Use Are Under Investigation
The U.S. is investigating what it believes are "credible" reports that ISIS fighters used mustard agent in an attack against Kurdish Peshmerga this week, causing...
US Defense Secretary Carter Makes Unannounced Visit to Iraq
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Thursday morning as American and Iraqi military officials finished plans for...
An Eyewitness Account of the Kurds’ Battle Against ISIS
This firsthand report was originally published by MIDA. The desert grasslands around Mosul are parched and hot. Northern Iraq is not a place one would want...
Iran-Backed Militias, US Forces Share Iraq Military Base in Fight Against ISIS
The U.S. military and Iranian-backed Shiite militias are getting closer and closer in Iraq, even sharing a base, while Iran uses those militias to expand...
Islamic State Threatening Tomb of Jewish Prophet Nahum in Iraq
JNS.org - The Islamic State terror group’s offensive in Iraq is now threatening to take the northern Iraqi village of Alqosh, which is home to...
Iraq’s Mosul Braces for New Islamic State Laws Against Beard Shaving
Every time he looks in a mirror, Laith Ahmed is worried. As of Monday, the young Iraqi's hopelessly hairless chin could land him in an...
Islamic State’s Destruction of Antiquities Takes Middle East Back to Stone Age
JNS.org - It seems that nobody gets upset anymore about severed heads in Iraq and in Syria, the work of Islamic State jihadist terrorists....
ISIS Militants Seize Control of Key Iraqi City, Kill Dozens of Government Forces
Yahoo/Reuters - Islamic State militants claimed full control of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday in the biggest defeat for the Baghdad government...
