ISIS News & Updates - Page 57

November 11, 2019

Turkey says US national sent home as Ankara begins repatriating captured IS fighters

Turkey says a U.S. national who is a member of the Islamic State group has been deported home as Ankara begins repatriating captured foreign IS fighters.

November 10, 2019

Roadside blast in Iraq injures 5 Italian soldiers

Five Italian soldiers were wounded in a roadside blast Sunday while returning from a mission to help Iraqi troops combat ISIS, military officials said.

November 8, 2019

Rockets fired on Iraq base with US troops, no one injured, Pentagon says

An air base in northern Iraq that houses U.S. troops was targeted Friday evening with a barrage of rockets, security officials said, as violence continues to mount in parts of the country amid fights with Islamic State militants and angry anti-government protesters. 

November 7, 2019

ISIS encouraging followers to set wildfires in forests, fields of US, Europe

The Islamic State terror group may have recently lost its leader, but a media outlet affiliated with the group is promoting followers to continue to literally set ablaze new paths of terror and destruction.

November 6, 2019

Erdogan: Turkey arrested slain ISIS leader Baghdadi’s wife, other relatives

Turkey's president on Wednesday announced the country's forces had captured multiple relatives of slain ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, including one of the terrorist's wives -- but he also used the occasion to needle the United States for making "a fuss" about the mission that resulted in the most-wanted militant's death.

November 5, 2019

Arizona border sheriff: Mexican drug cartels pose ISIS-like threat

Mexican drug cartels like the one that murdered nine Americans in an ambush on Monday display parallels to that of terror groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS), according to the sheriff of an Arizona border county.

November 4, 2019

Sister of slain ISIS leader Baghdadi arrested in intelligence 'gold mine,' Turkey says

The older sister of the slain leader of the Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been captured in northwestern Syria during a raid on Monday, according to a senior Turkish official, who called the arrest an intelligence "gold mine."

November 3, 2019

Sen. David Perdue: Even after ISIS raid Dems won't do this one thing to make US safe

Democrats are holding up passage of the National Defense Authorization Act and defense appropriations bills because they object to Trump’s border wall.

November 2, 2019

State Department says Iran still biggest state sponsor of terror, spends $1B per year on proxies

Iran is still the world's No. 1 sponsor of terrorism, and Al Qaeda wants to reestablish itself as the "vanguard of the global jihadist movement," despite the United States' efforts since 2001, the State Department said in its Country Reports on Terrorism 2018 released Friday.

November 2, 2019

Anti-ISIS coalition destroys terror group's tunnel systems

The Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) anti-ISIS coalition recently uncovered and destroyed several of the terror group's tunnel systems and suspected safe havens in northern Iraq, according to military officials.