January 30, 2017 Hit squad reportedly kills ISIS madman who beheaded hundreds A notorious ISIS executioner who beheaded hundreds of innocent citizens has been stabbed to death by a hit squad in northwest Iraq.
January 30, 2017 Iraqis continue celebrating key victory as they prepare to liberate western Mosul After Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi announced that eastern Mosul was cleared of ISIS fighters, the Iraqi Special Operations Forces staged a victory parade in front of Mosul University.
January 30, 2017 Brussels 'man in the hat' to be questioned over airport attack A suspect in the Brussels airport attack dubbed the "man in the hat" has been handed over to France to be questioned about the Paris atrocities.
January 29, 2017 Islamic State-linked terror leader seriously injured in Philippine airstrikes A suspected Indonesian militant was killed and one of Southeast Asia’s top terror suspects was seriously wounded as the Philippines launched airstrikes using South Korean-made jet fighters for the first time in combat, officials said Sunday.
January 26, 2017 Austrian police arrest 8 over alleged ISIS links Austrian authorities say they have arrested eight people on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization through possible connections to the Islamic State group.
January 26, 2017 Christians Under Siege: There's no time to waste, we must act now Is it possible that this decade will see the virtual end of Christianity in the very region it was born?
January 25, 2017 The fight for Mosul: An assessment of ISIS tactics, key vulnerabilities In the initial phase of combat to reclaim Mosul, (October 17th through mid-December 2016), the occupying ISIS’ radical Islamic terrorists inflicted heavy casualties (the UN previously estimated approximately 2000 IMC troops killed).
January 25, 2017 ISIS fight stays the course for now under Trump, Army general says President Trump became commander-in-chief, "our mission has not changed" in the battle against the Islamic State terror group, a senior U.S. Army general told reporters Wednesday from Baghdad.
January 24, 2017 Iraq declares eastern Mosul 'fully liberated' from ISIS Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday declared eastern Mosul "fully liberated" from Islamic State group militants after a day of fierce fighting and more than three months after a massive U.S.-backed operation to retake the city began.
January 23, 2017 US aircraft carrier deployed to fill void in Middle East As former President and World War II naval aviator George H.W. Bush recovers in a Houston hospital, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier bearing his name set sail for the Middle East Saturday—the first full day in office for President Donald Trump and his defense secretary, James Mattis.