Morocco busts ISIS-linked cell plotting tourist attacks
Authorities in Morocco on Thursday dismantled a suspected "terrorist cell" linked to the Islamic State group and accused of plotting major attacks on tourist sites,...
Month: June 2017
Ankara sends reinforcements into northern parts of Syria
Fears of a Turkish-backed Syrian rebel attack against Syrian Kurdish forces that could undermine the US-led campaign against the Islamic State are growing amid reports
Islamic State claims a historic mosque in Mosul was destroyed by a U.S. airstrike
The iconic leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri has stood over Mosul for 800 years. But on Wednesday, one of the most iconic...
Denis Cuspert
Cuspert ended his rap career in 2010, converted to Islam and took the kunya Abou Maleeq. He left Germany in 2012 for Egypt and eventually...
ISIS terrorists destroy the historic al Nuri Mosque in Mosul
The iconic al-Nuri mosque in Iraqi city of Mosul was blown up by ISIS terrorists, news outlets said citing the Iraqi military. The historical mosque...
ISIS bans fighters from using social media amid paranoia over spying and dissent
ISIS has issued a decree banning its fighters from using social media amid rising paranoia over infiltration and tracking by foreign intelligence agencies. A docume
Umar Mahmud Rahim Al-Qubaysi
As of mid-2016, al-Kubaysi owned Al-Kawthar Money Exchange, which was located in ISIS-controlled territory. Between late 2015 and early 2016, Al-Kawthar Money Exchange reconciled financial...
Al-Kawthar Money Exchange
In 2013, Al-Kawthar was involved in facilitating money transfers for ISIS’s predecessor, Al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI). As of mid-2016, Al-Kawthar Money Exchange, located in ISIS-controlled...
Iran missile strike escalates war between radical Shi’ites and Sunnis
Iran's recent missile attack on ISIS targets in eastern Syria represents another escalation in the ongoing war between radical Shi'ites and jihadist Sunnis across the
Unknown attackers break Islamic State’s “crocodile jaws” in Kirkuk
Unknown assailants have badly wounded an Islamic State female vigilante in southwestern Kirkuk in an apparent revenge for abuses against civilians by the group’s reli
Baby pulled out of wreckage of a school alive after spending days alone in ISIS bomb hit building
A tiny baby has been pulled alive from the wreckage of a bombed school after surviving for "several days" alone. Troops in Iraq rescued the...
Sudan brings home 8 children of ISIS fighters in Libya
The Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on Tuesday brought home eight children whose parents have joined the Jihadist Islamic State (ISIS) in L