Category: ISIS

Prosecutors Seek Life Term for Would-Be NYC Suicide Bomber

NEW YORK—A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should spend the rest of his life behind bars for a “premeditated and vicious” terror attack committed on behalf of ISIS terrorist group, prosecutors said Thursday. In papers filed in federal court in Manhattan,…


US-Backed Syrian Forces Raid Camp of ISIS Families, Arrest 9

BEIRUT—Thousands of Kurdish-led forces, with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, launched a military operation Sunday at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria, in a new effort to identify and arrest ISIS terrorists and tamp down escalating killings and violence in the camp. The security sweep at the al-Hol camp will continue over time and is being…


US Special Operations Deployed Against ISIS in Mozambique: Embassy

U.S. special operations forces were deployed to Mozambique on a mission to assist the country in its counter-terrorism operations against an offshoot of the ISIS terrorist group. “The United States is committed to supporting Mozambique with a multifaceted and holistic approach to counter and prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism,” the U.S. Embassy…


Graham Warns Biden’s Soft Border Policies Could be Exploited by Terrorists

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News on Tuesday that Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists may seek to exploit President Joe Biden’s lax immigration policies, which he blamed for already leading to a greater influx of illegal immigrants from south of the border. Graham told Sean Hannity in an interview that Biden’s policy shifts around…


German Court Convicts Radical Imam of Membership in ISIS

BERLIN—A former imam at a radical mosque in Germany was convicted Wednesday of being a member of the ISIS terrorist group and sentenced to 10-1/2 years in prison. The state court in Celle in northern Germany convicted Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah A., who goes by the alias Abu Walaa, of membership in a foreign terrorist organization…


Yazidis Issue Open Letter to Pope Francis, Ask for Advocacy and a Meeting

VATICAN CITY—Civil and religious leaders of the Yazidi people have issued an open letter to Pope Francis, on the eve of his historic trip to Iraq. Seven years have passed since harrowing reports began to trickle out of ISIS controlled Iraq, detailing genocide of an ethnic and religious minority people, who have claimed thousands of…


Alleged ISIS Extremist Among 3 New Zealanders Caught by Turkish Forces

WELLINGTON—Three New Zealanders, including a woman alleged to be a member of ISIS, have been caught trying to enter Turkey illegally from Syria, Turkish authorities said on Monday. The New Zealand nationals were caught by border guards in the Reyhanlı district in the southern province of Hatay, bordering war-torn Syria, Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence…


2 Notorious ISIS Terrorists, Including Senior Leader, Killed in Iraq: Prime Minister

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi announced Tuesday that security forces have killed two notorious ISIS-linked terrorists—the terror group’s commander in southern Iraq and an individual who facilitated suicide bomb attacks. “The terrorist Abu Hassan al-Gharibawi, the so-called leader of southern Iraq in Daesh, and the terrorist Ghanem Sabah Jawad, who is responsible for transporting suicide bombers,…


Florida Citizen Charged for Allegedly Trying to Join and Support ISIS: FBI

Authorities have charged a U.S. citizen for allegedly attempting to join and support the ISIS terrorist group after traveling to Turkey, according to court documents. Mohamed Fathy Suliman, a 33-year-old former University of Florida student, has been returned to the United States and charged with attempting to provide material support for a designated foreign terrorist…


ISIS ‘Deputy’ Killed in Iraq, Says Iraqi Prime Minister

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi announced Thursday that security forces have killed Abu Yaser al-Issawi, an ISIS commander who had claimed to be the leader of the terror group in Iraq and its “deputy caliph.” “Our heroic armed forces have eliminated Daesh [ISIS] commander Abu Yaser Al-Issawi as part of an intelligence-led operation,” Kadhimi wrote in…