‘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.
"These attacks led to a number of innocent victims. We demand it stop immediately and not recur," Saudi official says.
Pentagon IG: US withdrawal has enabled ISIS to strengthen its ability to plan attacks abroad.
As successor, ISIS appointed someone the group's news agency Amaq only identified as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi.
Islamic State organization isn’t defeated after all
ISIS announced the formation of bases in nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, two arch-rivals that fought three wars since their independence from Britain in 1947.
Iraq recently launched another major operation in Hamreen mountains. But ISIS has struck where it can. It murdered a Kurdish member of the local security forces earlier this week.
A witness said missiles struck two wells on the outskirts of Timirshe village, some 60km southeast of Puntland's commercial capital Bosaso.
Case will likely enable Yazidi victim to testify, conjuring up memories of Holocaust survivors confronting Nazi war criminals at trial.
The exodus during intense fighting of more than 60,000 people from Islamic State's final redoubt of Baghouz is overwhelming medical staff in Syria who struggle to cope at the camp and hospital.
Kirk Woodman's body was found on Jan.16 in the northeast of the landlocked West African country.