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Tanker ‘nursed’ F-16 past ISIS
An F-16 pilot was nearly forced to eject from his aircraft over ISIS territory due to a fuel emergency last year, an incident that could have led to the airman's capture or death, the U.S. Air Force said. But the pilot was saved from having to abandon his aircraft due to the quick thinking of a nearby U.S. Air Force...
ISIS leader’s widow charged over murder of American hostage Kayla Mueller
Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, aka Umm Sayyaf, 25, is currently in Iraqi custody for her terrorism-related activities The widow of a senior ISIS leader has been charged over the death of American aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was tortured, raped and murdered while held hostage in Syria. Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, aka Umm...
Secret anti-ISIS airstrip! The farm airstrip that’s the center of the U.S. fight against ISIS
The rutted road stretches into the distance across the plains of Hasakah. Herdsmen watch over their few dozen sheep. A scattering of oil pumps nod lazily as they extract a few dollars of crude from deep below. Above, the contrails left by coalition warplanes drift across the blue sky in hazy circles. We bump through the...
Neil Prakash dead? ISIS fighter allegedly killed in Syria
NEIL Prakash was a rapper who wrote songs about sex, Islam and drugs before he turned into a terrorist mastermind. He was formerly known as Kree Dafa and when his musical career failed, he went on to lead Australians to Islamic State. The 24-year-old Islamic State jihadist, who has a Fijian and Cambodian background, is now...
Exclusive: EgyptAir mechanic suspected in Russian plane crash
An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's skies in late October, according to sources familiar with the matter. So far Egypt has publicly said it has found no evidence that the MetroJet flight, which crashed in...
Syrian rebel splits deepen after failed ‘merger’ with al Qaeda arm
The leader of al Qaeda's Syrian wing tried unsuccessfully at a recent meeting to convince rival Islamist factions to merge into one unit, several insurgency sources have told Reuters. Abu Mohamad al-Golani, head of the Nusra Front, even suggested he was willing to change the name of his group if the others, including the...
Islamic State claims Aden suicide car bombing that kills seven
Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing on Thursday that killed seven people outside Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Rabbu Hadi's residence in the southern city of Aden. Local officials and eyewitnesses reported the death toll and said 10 other people were injured. Officials said Hadi was...
Blaming The Islamic State, The US Is Considering Fresh Military Actions In Libya
Pentagon looking at ‘military options’ to stop Islamic State from gaining more ground, four years after US air campaign helped topple Libyan dictator Gaddafi The Pentagon is considering fresh military action in Libya more than four years after conducting an air campaign that helped topple dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a...
Europol: Islamic State Plans Attacks From Camps in Europe
Islamic State has set up a special operations command to mastermind more terrorist attacks on “soft targets” in Europe, drawing on training camps on European soil and with France as the most at-risk country, the European Union’s crime-fighting agency said. The model is the simultaneous shootings at several...
U.S. says prepared for military solution against Islamic State in Syria
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the United States and Turkey were prepared for a military solution against Islamic State in Syria should the Syrian government and rebels fail to reach a political settlement. The latest round of Syria peace talks are planned to begin on Monday in Geneva but were at risk of...
Islamist gunmen kill 17 in Somalia beach restaurant attack
At least 17 people were killed when Islamist gunmen struck a popular beachside restaurant in the Somali capital of Mogadishu late on Thursday, Somali police said. Al Shabaab, a militant group aligned with al Qaeda, said its members set off two car bombs at the Beach View Cafe on Mogadishu's popular Lido beach, engaging in a...
France to keep state of emergency ‘until IS defeated’ — PM Valls
France will seek to keep its state of emergency until a "total and global war" against so-called Islamic State (IS) is over, Prime Minister Manuel Valls has told the BBC. The measures were introduced after the IS-led Paris attacks on 13 November and then extended for three months. Such a move gives police more power...
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