Tag: ISIS

DAVAO, Philippines — Tirmizy Abdullah, a teacher in Marawi, wants to know what has happened to his city and why the Philippine military keeps dropping bombs on it. “They should have been able to end this conflict days ago,” said Abdullah, 27, speaking by phone Friday from his home, within earshot of fighting between government […]

Melbourne, Australia- A 29-year-old gunman identified as Yacqub Khayre called a local news station to declare his allegiance to the Islamic State while holding a woman hostage in an apartment building at approximately 4 pm local time. After two hours, Victoria Police shot and killed Khayre when he approached them firing a shotgun, freeing the female hostage. […]

The first reports of “an incident” in London emerged Saturday evening. Within hours, cable news channels were saturated with the all-too-familiar loop of panicked faces, desperate crowds scurrying for safety and scowling, heavily armed police. On Sunday morning, the New York Times said the latest terrorist attack in London had targeted a nation “still reeling” […]

LONDON — The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the string of terrorist attacks at London Bridge and Borough Market Saturday evening. According to a statement posted to its “Amaq” propaganda outlet, ISIS said a “detachment” of its fighters had carried out the attacks which left seven dead and dozens injured. Authorities have not yet […]

The latest terrorist incident in London has galvanized the people of the UK as they preached solidarity and defiance after the attack on citizens Saturday. A rented van rammed pedestrians on a crowded London bridge and terrorists who were later claimed to be part of ISIS then went on a stabbing spree that killed seven […]

The recent events that have unfolded in London, Manchester and other places have people scrambling for answers as to what to do in a terrorist incident. We as a people must maintain our way of life and go about our daily business. Otherwise, the terrorists win. Because they ultimately want to disrupt your lives and […]

The bodies of dozens of civilians killed in the past two days while fleeing an Islamic State-held neighborhood in Mosul lay on Saturday in a street close to the frontline with Iraqi armed forces, a Reuters TV crew reported. The dead included men, women and children. Bags in which they had carried their belongings were […]

JUNE 2, 2017 AMMAN, JORDAN—One thing drove university graduate Emna from abandoning her middle-class life in Tunisia to carry the so-called Islamic State’s banner in neighboring war-torn Libya. She was not swayed by some suave jihadi, she says, not running away from a broken home, nor a repressed life or poverty – nor any of […]

According to a statement provided by Colonel Ryan Dillon, the new spokesman assigned to Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the Islamic State has been backed into their last remaining 10 square kilometers of Mosul, but the fighting that remains promises to be among the most brutal faced by coalition backed Iraqi Security Forces thus far in […]

A US Air Force veteran convicted of terrorism charges for trying to join the Islamic State group and die a martyr was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison by a judge who called it a “very sad thing” a onetime airman would want to join a group seeking to destroy America. Last year’s conviction […]

The warning order came in at 1500 requesting sniper/observer teams from the SEALs. They scrambled to prepare their men and were airlifted from Zamboanga to Lanao by C-130 that morning at 0500. The mission was dubbed Operation Haribon after the Haribon Infantry Brigade in the area. When NAVSOG Detachment 8 hit the ground, the SEALs […]

An errant airstrike by the Filipino Air Force that fell on their own troops and killed 11 men while injuring seven others on Thursday was confirmed in a statement by government officials. The incident occurred in a battle to retake the city of Marawi from insurgents from the Islamic State. Delfin Lorenzana, Defense Secretary for […]