Daesh

"Battle Against Evil Of Daesh Not Over": UK PM Boris Johnson On Baghdadi's Death

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday October 28, 2019

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday hailed the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as "an important moment" but said the fight against his group "is not yet over".

'Daesh Landlord' In The Dock In First Paris Attacks Trial

World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday January 24, 2018

The first trial stemming from the November 2015 Paris terror attacks opens Wednesday when Jawad Bendaoud appears in court, charged with harbouring two of the jihadists in the aftermath of the carnage.

What Happens When You Join ISIS - Then Change Your Mind

World News | Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post | Thursday June 1, 2017

As soon as his cab arrived in an Islamic State safe house in December 2015, his lawyers say, Mohamad Khweis realized he had made a huge mistake.

Without School, Children Of Mosul Feared Lost To Poverty And Conflict

World News | Reuters | Tuesday May 2, 2017

Ahmed Abdelsattar was 14 when ISIS swept into Mosul and declared a "caliphate" in 2014. Fearing he would be indoctrinated and sent to fight by the terrorists, his parents took him out of school. Three years later, he sells ice cream at a refugee camp for internally displaced Iraqis.

ISIS Second In-Command Ayad Al-Jumaili Killed In Airstrike: Iraqi Media

World News | Reuters | Saturday April 1, 2017

Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be the deputy of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in an air strike, Iraqi State TV said on Saturday, citing Iraqi military intelligence. The US-led anti-ISIS coalition said it was unable at the moment to confirm the report.

In Iraq's Mosul, School Used By ISIS Becomes A Field Hospital

World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday March 26, 2017

Fifteen-year-old Mohammed enthusiastically helps the staff of a makeshift hospital set up in the bullet-scarred school in west Mosul where he himself studied before terrorists seized Iraq's second city.

ISIS Turned Church In Iraq's Mosul Into Religious Police Base

World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday March 10, 2017

The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with ISIS propaganda after the terrorists' infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship.

Deaf Syrians Learn The Language Of War

World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday March 9, 2017

Twice raising the little finger represents "I" and placing a thumb on the index finger and the middle finger makes an "S" to signify ISIS, the terror group.

ISIS Releases New Video, Threatens Attack On China

World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday March 1, 2017

ISIS terrorists from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers", according to a terror-tracking firm, in what experts said marked the first ISIS threat against Chinese targets.

To Secure Mosul, Iraq Army Makes Desert Push With US Help

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday February 28, 2017

Much of the fighting for west Mosul will be at close quarters, but Iraq's battle against ISIS is also being waged in the open desert.

Australian Arrested On Charges Of Helping ISIS Develop Missile Technology

World News | Reuters | Tuesday February 28, 2017

Australian counterterrorism police arrested an unidentified man after a raid on a countryside property on Tuesday and accused him of seeking to help the ISIS by developing missile technology, the first arrest of its kind in Australia.

In Push To Reclaim Raqqa, Trump's Choices Range From Bad to Worse

World News | Reuters | Saturday February 25, 2017

US President Donald Trump's push against ISIS could present him with an unenviable choice: Alienate NATO ally Turkey by relying on Kurdish fighters or adopt a plan that may slow the assault and require many more US combat forces.

Iraq Air Force Strikes ISIS Targets In Syria

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday February 25, 2017

The Iraqi air force struck members of the ISIS group inside neighbouring Syria on Friday, officials said, adding that the targeted militants were responsible for recent bombings in Baghdad.

Iraqi Forces Converge On ISIS Occupied Mosul Airport

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday February 20, 2017

Iraqi forces,backed by jets and helicopters, battled their way to Mosul airport on Monday as they prepared to take on the ISIS' stronghold in the city's west bank.

ISIS Rapes And Tortures Sunni Arab Women Too: Human Rights Watch

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday February 20, 2017

Fighters from the terror group ISIS, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and torturing Sunni Arab women too, Human Rights Watch said Monday.