By Timour Azhari and Khalid Al-Mousily MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul’s Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State militants had become since it was liberated in 2017. “I thought for […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently arrested an Uzbek man in Baltimore with alleged ISIS ties after he had been living inside the United States for over two years, according to two U.S. officials. The man, 33-year-old Jovokhir Attoev, crossed the border into Arizona and was apprehended by Border Patrol in February 2022, the officials said. […]
An 18-year-old student from Idaho was arrested for planning to attack churchgoers in his hometown on behalf of ISIS, according to federal authorities. Alexander Scott Mercurio, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is accused of “attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS” and pledging his allegiance to the terrorist organization, a Justice Department news release […]
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Mushtaq Ali and YP Rajesh KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Sanaullah Ghafari, the 29-year-old leader of the Afghan branch of Islamic State, has overseen its transformation into one of the most fearsome branches of the global Islamist network, capable of operations far from its bases in the borderlands of Afghanistan. Islamic State […]
A Russian missile entered Polish airspace on Sunday as the Russian military launched a wave of airstrikes against Ukrainian targets in the wake of a deadly terrorist attack against civilians at a Moscow concert hall. Russian forces launched 57 missiles against Ukraine, at least one of which flew through Polish airspace before reaching its target. […]
More than five years after his capture by Syrian forces, a St. Louis Park man who left his family to fight for the Islamic State terror group has a sentencing date in Minnesota. Abdelhamid Al-Madioum will be sentenced May 1 in Minneapolis on charges of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He […]
Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has arrested a citizen of the Russian Federation suspected of aiding Islamist terrorist organisations. Source: European Pravda, citing RMF FM Details: The National Prosecutor’s Office has reported that the detained individual is a citizen of the Russian Federation from the Caucasus. Investigation materials indicate that he participated in combat in […]
A woman who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15 has lost her Court of Appeal challenge over the decision to remove her British citizenship. Shamima Begum flew to Syria in 2015 with two school friends to join the terror group. While there, she married an ISIS fighter and spent […]
A man in Florida has been sentenced to six years in federal prison after he was accused of pledging his allegiance and support of ISIS four years ago, court documents show. Moad Mohamed Benkabbou, a 23-year-old from Kissimmee, was sentenced on Jan. 17 following a plea agreement announced in May 2023, according to the U.S. […]
Russian forces continue to use an ISIS terrorist tactic of sending explosives-laden armored vehicles toward Ukrainian positions, as seen in a video posted by Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov on Telegram on Jan. 4. “Loaded with UR-77 and FAB charges, a Russian MT-LB kamikaze is trying to make a passage in the minefield near Novomykhailivka in the direction of Maryinka,” he wrote. […]
A Denver-area teenager was charged Monday with trying to help terrorists after he allegedly planned to travel to the Middle East in order to become a soldier for the Islamic State terrorist group. The defendant, Humzah Mashkoor, 18, of Westminster, Colorado, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado with […]
MARCIA BIGGS: The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, recently listed 81 locations where bombs were dropped, but had not yet exploded. Facilities used to make weapons were often on the list of high-value targets for the coalition. So now those places are twice as likely to contain dangerous items. […]