IS Ain al-Hilweh ’emir’ gets 160 years for plotting attacks in Lebanon
A prominent IS leader arrested seven years ago in Lebanon has been sentenced to a number of life terms for plotting a series of attacks....
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Human rights to counter terrorism: Now is the time for a Global Humanitarian Coalition to Defeat ISIS
The militarily-centered Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, also known as the Islamic State or Daesh, successfully liberated the expansive territories once occupied by the terrorist...
Captured ISIS Insurgents (and Their Wives) Say Why They Fought for the Caliphate in ‘Rojek’
In May 2015, the Islamic State was at the height of its power, having captured roughly half of Syria and nearly a third of Iraq....
Fighting between rival US-backed groups in Syria could undermine war against ISIS
The weeklong clashes between rival US-backed groups in eastern Syria, where hundreds of American troops are deployed, point to dangerous seams in the coalition that...
Amnesty highlights missing persons crisis in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen
Amnesty International called Wednesday on Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen to reveal the fate of people missing in decades of war and unrest, to mark...
Iraq’s militia state replicates Daesh’s terrorism and criminality
One of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani's key governing pledges was to normalize the situation throughout central Iraq by transferring control from the military...
ISIS Wannabe Alleges Entrapment by Feds
An East Elmhurst man who pleaded guilty last year to plotting to carry out lone wolf terrorist attacks at multiple locations in Queens in 2019...