Monthly Archives: June 2015

‘Tis the Season: ISIS Calls for Ramadan Martyrdom

By | 2015-06-24T13:39:24-04:00 June 24th, 2015|News|

Islamic State (ISIS) group spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani called on Tuesday for Muslims to engage in jihad and become martyrs during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.   Adnani also announced an amnesty for people who fought against ISIS in Iraq's Anbar province, and called on residents who had fled violence there to return home.

Kurds Advance on ISIS’s ‘Capital’

By | 2015-06-24T13:16:03-04:00 June 24th, 2015|News|

Syrian Kurds and allied rebels advanced against the Islamic State (ISIS) group on Tuesday, capturing a strategic town a day after seizing a base from the jihadists near their Raqa bastion.   A spokesman for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and a Britain-based monitor said the anti-ISIS forces had taken Ain Issa on Tuesday,

New ISIS Low: Caged Drowning, Decapitation Necklaces

By | 2015-06-24T02:36:16-04:00 June 24th, 2015|News|

The brutal Islamic State (ISIS) group has spread horror by callously beheading victims and burning them to death - on Tuesday the terror group reached a new low by unveiling gruesome new ways to murder.   In a seven-minute video from ISIS's Nineveh branch based in its stronghold of Mosul, the terrorists reinvented their horrific

Egypt Kills 22 Suspected Terrorists in the Sinai

By | 2015-06-23T22:42:37-04:00 June 23rd, 2015|News|

Egyptian security forces on Monday killed 22 suspected terrorists who were planning to target security forces in the restive North Sinai province, security sources said, according to Reuters.   The sources said security forces struck a group of people meeting outside a mosque south of the town of Sheikh Zuwayed who were planning an attack

American Airstrike Kills ‘Person of Interest’ in Benghazi Attack

By | 2015-06-23T22:27:03-04:00 June 23rd, 2015|News|

An American airstrike in northern Iraq has killed an Islamic State (ISIS) operative who was a person of interest in the 2012 Benghazi attack, the Pentagon said Monday, according to AFP.   Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren identified the operative as Tariq bin al-Tahar bin al-Falih al-'Awni al-Harzi of Tunisia, who was killed in Mosul

ISIS in Syria Hangs Two Boys for Eating During Ramadan

By | 2015-06-23T22:07:35-04:00 June 23rd, 2015|News|

The Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday hanged two youths after accusing them of eating during daylight hours in the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said.   "Residents of the village of Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor province reported that IS hanged from a crossbar two boys aged under 18 near

Abbas: ‘No Place’ for Hamas in New Government

By | 2015-06-23T19:12:32-04:00 June 23rd, 2015|News|

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday told visiting French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that any new Palestinian unity government should not include Hamas, AFP reports.   The remarks came on the eve of a key meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to discuss forming a new cabinet. The

France Urges Jordan to Extradite Paris Terrorist

By | 2015-06-23T18:15:28-04:00 June 23rd, 2015|News|

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius asked Jordan on Sunday to comply with international procedures as it seeks the extradition of the suspected mastermind of a deadly attack on a Paris Jewish restaurant in 1982, AFP reported.   "I have asked our Jordanian friends... to respect international procedure," Fabius said in Amman during a joint news

Concern Mounts as ISIS Places Mines in Palmyra

By | 2015-06-23T17:47:40-04:00 June 23rd, 2015|News|

Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists have mined the spectacular ancient ruins in Syria's Palmyra, an antiquities official and monitor said Sunday, prompting fears for the UNESCO World Heritage site.   The reports came one month after the extremist group overran the central Syrian city, reported the AFP news agency.   Syria's antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim