Posts Tagged: Islamic State militants
Christians in Shock After Deadly Attack on Coptic Church in Egypt; Doorman Recounts Harrowing Details
At an hour that Sama'an Farag usually spends leisurely sipping his morning tea, the doorman at the Mar Mina Coptic Church near Cairo found himself...
ISIS Militants Kill 18, Wound 7 in Attack on Police Convoy in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
Islamic State militants ambushed a police convoy in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Monday, killing 18 police officers and wounding seven others in one of the...
US-Backed Syrian Forces Announce New Offensive Against ISIS Stronghold in Country’s Oil-Rich East
US-backed forces in Syria announced a fresh offensive around the Islamic State’s most important remaining stronghold Saturday, accelerating a global scramble for control of the country’s...
US-Backed Syrian Forces Breach ISIS Stronghold of Raqqa
Syrian Democratic Forces breached the Old City of Raqqa after overcoming heavy push back from Islamic State militants Monday, U.S.-led coalition officials said. The U.S.-backed fighters...
Trump on Waterboarding: ‘We Have to Fight Fire With Fire’
President Donald Trump declared Wednesday he believes torture works as his administration readied a sweeping review of how America conducts the war on terror. It...
Egypt ‘90% Sure’ Russian Plane Crash Caused by Bomb
Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are "90 percent sure" the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an...
Suspected Islamic State Suicide Bombing in Turkish Town Kills 27
An explosion outside a cultural center in the Turkish town of Suruc near the border with Syria killed at least 27 people and wounded many more on...
ISIS Blamed for String of Gaza Bombings Targeting Hamas, Islamic Jihad Cars
Seven cars belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists in Gaza exploded on Sunday morning in apparent car bombings that are being blamed on Islamic State...
Report: US-Led Airstrikes Have Killed 2,079 People in Syria Since Start of Campaign Against Islamic State
Reuters - Air strikes by the US-led coalition in Syria have killed 2,079 people, including 66 civilians, since the start of the aerial campaign against...
Islamic State Video Shows Libyan Militants Killing 16 Ethiopian Coptic Christians
JNS.org - The Islamic State terror group on Sunday released a video showing its execution of about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya. The Christians were murdered...
Iraqi Forensic Teams Excavate Mass Graves Containing Bodies of Iraqi Soldiers Killed by Islamic State Militants
Independent - Forensic teams have begun excavating suspected mass graves in Tikrit believed to contain up to 1,700 bodies, just days after Iraqi forces re-took...
Military Commander Worries Islamic State Militants in Caribbean Could Reach US Border
The D Brief - The war in Syria has attracted roughly 100 foreign fighters from the Caribbean who could easily make their way to the...
Parents of Slain Israeli Arab: Islamic State Militants Forced Him to Say He Was Mossad Spy
Jerusalem Post - Israeli Arab teenager purportedly killed by Islamic State militants was not a spy for Israel's intelligence service, his parents said on Tuesday. A...
Masked Jihadist in Islamic State Beheading Videos Identified as London Native
Yahoo/Reuters - The masked "Jihadi John" killer who fronted Islamic State beheading videos has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British computer programming graduate from...
