'ISIS IS BACK': GOP Rep. Pens Op-Ed Warning of Resurgence of Deadly Terrorist Group By Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) History tends to repeat itself, especially as it relates to President Joe... 4.01.24 Military CAPTURED: Top ISIS Leader Captured in U.S. Military Ground Raid in Syria ...
Al-Baghdadi was born in Iraq in the early 1970s. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein, he joined the insurgency and was captured and imprisoned by U.S. forces. After he was released, he rose to become the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, but later split wi...
The statement said the commandos rescued a young Yazidi woman "who appears to have been held as a slave" by the slain militant and his wife. ISIS militants captured hundreds of members of the Yazidi religious minority in northern Iraq during their rampage across the country last summer. The ...
➤➤In June 2014, IS controlled a broad region,from western Syria to central Iraq, an area larger than the territories of Israel and Lebanon combined. Baghdadi declared himself caliph, a religious and political leader of the Muslim com...
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Earlier this week, Turkey announced that it has captured al-Baghdadi's sister, known as Rasmiya Awad, along with her husband, daughter-in-law, and five children. A senior Turkish official told reporters her arrest was an intelligence "gold mine," according to the Associated Press, but the...
ISIS has captured the imagination of a new generation of jihadists – from Arab and European states alike – with its ruthless pursuit of a Caliphate, dramatic territorial gains and relentless propaganda machine. Its chilling brutality toward non-Muslims and Muslims who don’t share its rigid inter...
Zeinat was captured by ISIS, used as a slave by the terror group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdad and held alongside U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller.
The U.S. has roughly 900 troops in Syria as part of its effort to defeat ISIS in the region. In recent years American forces have killed or captured several ISIS leaders in the country. In early February, President Joe Biden approved a daring ground raid in northeast Syria that killed the...
One year later, authorities released her and a group of Islamists in exchange for Lebanese troops captured by al Nusra Front, a Lebanese security official said on condition of anonymity. Al Nusra – which the Institute for the Study of War and American Enterprise Institute claimed earlier ...