"Before we arrived, an older guard would call Kayla 'Maryam,' the Arabic version of Mary," said former ISIS hostage Frida Saide, a Swede who spent six weeks locked up with Kayla near Raqqa, Syria, in early 2014. Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus, is the only woman referred to by nam...
ISISis an Islamic extremist terrorist group that, at its peak, ruled over a large swathe of land in Iraq and Syria. Besides committing acts of terror such as bombings, ISIS terrorists have perpetrated genocide against religious minorities in regions they ruled. ISIS's chief goal was to establis...
“As I sit down to write these words, Western Europe is being overwhelmed with a cultural and social challenge unprecedented in her history. A brutal four-year long war in Syria has spread around the world. An organization calling itself ISIS or the Islamic State erupted violently onto the wo...
Isis In The Middle East The movement of ISIS in the middle east over the last two years has drastically increased. Some of the most recent occurrences of Isis activity are Recently in Bombing in Yemen Mosque, A suicide bomber and a car bombing claimed by the State of Iraq and Syria, or...
//bigstory.ap.org/article/only-days-after-mosul-fell-iraqis-start-returning[26]Iraq and Syria:...
Mattis used equally tough language. He said the "bottom line is we are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot." "We have already shifted from attrition tactics where we shove them from one position to another in Iraq and Syria, to annihilation...
LONDON --The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Sunday issued a claim of responsibilityfor an attack that killed seven peoplein a busy area of Central London. In a statement more than 24 hours after the attack, the group's Aamaq news agency quoted a "security source," saying, ...
again, speed up the overall timeline for when we might be able to retake — when these forces can retake Raqqa. Turkey has also exchanged artillery fire with ISIS along its southern border. Meanwhile, the cease-fire in Syria's other war, between government forces and rebel groups, is unra...
ISIS aims to create an Islamic state called a caliphate across Iraq, Syria and beyond. The group implements Sharia Law, rooted in eighth-century Islam, to establish a society that mirrors the region’s ancient past. ISIS uses modern tools like social media to promote reactionary politics and...
Timeline of the Paris terror suspect capture 02:10 Inside a terror breeding ground 03:40 ParisCNN— Three women arrested in raids this week in France were part of a terror cell directed by ISIS from Syria, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday. ...