October 27, 2017 Almost all American ISIS fighters unaccounted for, sparking fears they could slip through cracks and return When it came to recruiting foreigners to flee the comforts of home for the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, ISIS succeeded like no other – encouraging over 40,000 fighters from more than 110 countries to travel to the fighting fray both before and after the declaration of the “caliphate” in June 2014.
October 27, 2017 US citizen who joined ISIS could get 35-year sentence A former public transit driver in Virginia who later joined the Islamic State group in Syria faces up to 35 years in prison when he is sentenced Friday.
October 26, 2017 US drone strikes in Yemen kill at least 9 ISIS fighters, official says A new round of airstrikes in Yemen by American drones killed at least nine ISIS fighters, a military official said Thursday.
October 25, 2017 What comes after Raqqa for ISIS? The U.S. military estimates the Islamic State now controls just three percent of Iraq and only five percent of Syria after the fall of Raqqa, Syria to U.S.-backed fighters more than three years after the first American airstrikes against the terror group.
October 25, 2017 Russia 'exports' more ISIS fighters than any other country, report finds Russia has become the top exporter of foreign fighters who join the ranks of ISIS, according to a new report.
October 25, 2017 Iraqi Christians forced to flee homes again after skirmishes between Kurds and central government The first Iraqi Christians to return home after their village was freed from Islamic State control were forced to flee yet again Tuesday as Peshmerga forces stormed the area, a dark turn in what was broadly considered a “success story” of rebuilding in Northern Iraq.
October 24, 2017 Inside ISIS' coliseum of death: Syria sports stadium converted to killing field Pictures emerging of a Syrian soccer stadium turned into a coliseum of death by Islamic State terrorists are revealing the extent of the shocking horrors that once took place inside, as civilians reportedly were beheaded, tied down with iron cables and tortured by exercise machines.
October 23, 2017 ISIS hit list revealed as terror network kills more than 70 in Syrian town Islamic State militants came into the Syrian town of Qaryatayn with a hit list, and by the time they left three weeks later, more than 70 civilians had been killed -- shot or beheaded, their bodies dumped in farms and ditches.
October 22, 2017 Filipino terror suspect Isnilon Hapilon confirmed dead via DNA tests, officials say DNA tests have confirmed the death of one of the FBI's most-wanted terror suspects, who the Philippine military reported was killed in a final battle to quell an Islamic State group-linked siege in southern Marawi city, U.S. and Philippine officials said Saturday.
October 21, 2017 After the Niger ambush: Faces of the fallen US soldiers The four U.S. service members killed when they were ambushed by Islamic extremists in Niger in West Africa last week were all decorated soldiers.