The United States on Monday sanctioned a network of five ISIS financial facilitators accused of assisting the terrorist group in the smuggling of children out of displaced person camps for recruitment as fighters. In a statement, the U.S. Treasury Department said the five individuals—Dwi Dahlia Susanti, Rudi Heryadi, Ari Kardian, Muhammad Dandi Adhiguna, and Dini…
US Sanctions ISIS Financial Facilitators Accused of Child Trafficking
May 10, 2022
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Man Charged in ISIS-Inspired Plot Found Mentally Competent
COLLEGE PARK, Md.—A Maryland man has become mentally competent to stand trial more than two years after he was charged with planning an ISIS-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Rondell Henry’s attorneys notified the court last Friday that he intends to pursue an insanity defense….
Roads Into Abuja Facing New Threat of Hidden Bombs: Nigerian Authorities
Roadside bombs, jihadists’ asymmetric game-changer in the northeast of the country, now threaten Nigerian roads and rails across the northern states, security officials acknowledged on April 26. “The Department of State Services (DSS) hereby draws public attention to plans by criminal elements to return the country to the pre-2015 era reminiscent of IED attacks on…
ISIS ‘Beatle’ Sentenced to Life for Murdering US Hostages
April 29, 2022
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WASHINGTON—A U.S. judge on Friday imposed a lifetime prison sentence on a member of an ISIS militant group nicknamed “The Beatles” that beheaded American hostages, at a hearing where one victim’s mother told the defendant, “I will not hate you.” U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis in Alexandria, Virginia, held an emotionally charged sentencing hearing for…
Explosions in Northern Afghanistan Kill at Least 9, Wound 13
KABUL, Afghanistan—Two explosions, within minutes of each other, killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, a spokesman for a Taliban-appointed police chief said. The blasts targeted two separate vehicles in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, according to Mohammad Asif Waziri, the spokesman. The source of the blasts was…
Blast in Northeastern Nigeria Injures 11 People, Say Police
ABUJA—A blast in the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Taraba state on Friday evening injured 11 people including children, police said, days after an explosion claimed by ISIS terrorist group killed 3 people at a marketplace in a rural town in Taraba. The blasts in Taraba mark the spread of ISIS insurgencies that have gripped Nigeria’s…
Blasts Near Kabul Schools Kill at Least 6 Civilians, Hurt 17
KABUL, Afghanistan—Explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, including students, and injured 17 Tuesday in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital city, police said. The blasts, which occurred in rapid succession, were being investigated and more casualties were feared, according to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran and the city’s Emergency Hospital. Several…
Joint West African Force Says More Than 100 Terrorists Killed in Recent Weeks
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—A joint military force from Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon said on Sunday it had killed more than 100 Islamist terrorists, including 10 commanders, in the past few weeks, as it intensifies a ground and air offensive in the Lake Chad region. Boko Haram fighters and its splinter ISIS West Africa Province (ISWAP) group have…
Jihadists and Bandits Working as One Force, Say Nigerian Officials
Officials in Nigeria acknowledged on April 13 that so-called bandits and the terrorists known as Boko Haram have formed a united front to attack trains and highways leading into the capital Abuja. Though the union of the two criminal groups has been suspected for a year the chief spokesman for the government, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,…
ISIS ‘Beatle’ Found Guilty in US Trial
An ISIS fighter who took American hostages the terrorist group later killed was convicted on eight charges by a U.S. jury on April 14. Jurors found El Shafee Elsheikh guilty of hostage-taking resulting in death, conspiracy to murder U.S. citizens outside of the United States, and conspiracy to commit hostage-taking and provide material support to…
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