ISIS News & Updates - Page 55

December 12, 2019

Niger terror attack: ISIS-linked militants claim responsibility for massacre

Islamic State (ISIS)-linked militants claimed responsibility for an attack on a military installation in western Niger near the border of Mali on Wednesday, which killed 71 people and left 12 injured.

December 11, 2019

Dallas man gets 30 years in prison after calling on slaughter of ‘infidels’ for ISIS

A Texas man who railed against “infidels” in his support of ISIS, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for promoting the group online and lying to investigators, prosecutors said.

December 8, 2019

New York City ISIS supporter seen as 'ticking time bomb' gets decades in prison

A U.S. citizen who kept an ISIS flag and a cache of weapons in his New York City apartment was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to providing material support to the terrorist group, the Justice Department announced.

December 7, 2019

Rep. Waltz on NAS Pensacola shooting: 'We need to get to the bottom of why'

On Saturday former Green Beret commander Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., called for answers after Saudi national Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani infiltrated a U.S. Navy training program for foreign military personnel. 

November 29, 2019

London Bridge attack suspect shot and killed by British police after stabbing: report

British police shot and killed a suspected terror attacker Friday on the London Bridge -- a harrowing incident that left at least two people dead and several others injured around the key thoroughfare that had been the site of a deadly Islamist attack just over two years ago.

November 29, 2019

Johnny Jones: Why the number of US troops in Afghanistan doesn't matter

The number of U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan doesn't matter as much as how they are employed to keep the peace, retired U.S. Marine Bomb Technician and Fox News contributor Johnny Jones said Friday.

November 27, 2019

Fired Navy secretary criticizes Trump for 'shocking' intervention in SEAL case

Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer spoke out Wednesday for the first time since his weekend ousting by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, calling President Trump's intervention ahead of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher's review board "shocking and unprecedented"  n a Washington Post op-ed.

November 27, 2019

New York City man arrested for attempting to help ISIS, encouraging ‘lone wolf’ attacks in US: officials

A New York man who pledged his support to the Islamic State has been arrested for trying to help the “terrorist organization bent on killing Americans” and for encouraging attacks on U.S. soil, officials said.

November 26, 2019

US civilian killed in Afghanistan attack, Pompeo says

A U.S. civilian was killed in an attack on a United Nations vehicle in Afghanistan over the weekend.    

November 26, 2019

Florida man accused of trying to recruit ISIS to bomb deans from Miami-area colleges

A Florida man faces federal charges after allegedly trying to contact the Islamic State to recruit someone to carry out a terrorist attack on the deans of two Miami-area colleges after he was expelled by one and suspended by another, officials said in a press release Monday.