‘Signal of command and control’: New ISIS audio shows consolidation, not comeback, analysts say
Leadership messaging points to internal discipline and network survival rather than renewed territorial expansion.
Leadership messaging points to internal discipline and network survival rather than renewed territorial expansion.
The cell had waged a series of bank robberies and car thefts to get financing, and manufactured homemade explosives from material bought from local markets.
The coalition has estimated that there are around 3,000 or fewer ISIS fighters left to hunt down.
ISIS's motives for the attack are both strategic and ideological.
In a bloody day for the province, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least eight people.
Four of the suspects arrived in Germany in December 2014 and two arrived the following year. All six had applied for asylum.
The capture of the town marks the end of Islamic State's era of territorial rule over a so-called caliphate that it proclaimed in 2014 across vast swathes of Iraq and Syria.