Islamic State

Mia Khalifa Made $12,000 For Dozen Shoots. Porn Industry Kept Moolah

World News | Alex Horton, The Washington Post | Monday August 19, 2019

In a Miami home rental in late 2014, a camera crewman peered through a viewfinder and brought Mia Khalifa into focus. The pornography film crew gathered at the Airbnb to shoot the scene featuring Khalifa in a hijab. It was a moment that would dominate adult-film sites for years and prompt beheading threats from Islamic State supporters.

UK Strips Citizenship From "Jihadi Jack" Dual National: Report

World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday August 18, 2019

Britain has revoked the citizenship of a dual national Muslim convert to the Islamic State group dubbed "Jihadi Jack" being held in northern Syria, according to reports on Sunday.

ISIS Claims Deadly Suicide Attack On Kabul Wedding

World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday August 18, 2019

The Islamic State group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a wedding in Kabul which Afghan authorities said killed at least 63 people.

Sri Lanka Easter Blasts Probe Reveals No ISIS Link In Terror Attack

World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday July 25, 2019

Sri Lanka's Easter attacks that killed 258 people were carried out by local Islamists who drew inspiration from but were not linked to the Islamic State group, a top investigator said Wednesday.

14 Tamil Nadu Men Raised Funds To Set Up ISIS Cell In India: Sources

India News | Written by J Sam Daniel Stalin, Edited by Debanish Achom | Wednesday July 17, 2019

Fourteen men from Tamil Nadu who were arrested by the National Investigation Agency raised funds in Dubai to set up a cell of the terror group in ISIS in India, sources in the probe agency have said.

US Navy SEAL Spared Jail But Demoted After War Crimes Trial

World News | Reuters | Thursday July 4, 2019

A US Navy SEAL platoon commander acquitted of murdering a captured Islamic State fighter but convicted of unlawfully posing for photos with his dead body was sentenced on Wednesday to a demotion in rank and pay.

"Leave My Country Alone": Lankan President's Message To ISIS After Blasts

World News | Reuters | Wednesday May 1, 2019

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said a foreign mastermind may have planned the Easter Sunday bombings, claimed by Islamic State, telling the terrorist group to "leave my country alone".

ISIS Chief Refers To Sri Lanka In First Video In Five Years

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday April 30, 2019

The Islamic State group's elusive chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has purportedly appeared for the first time in five years in a propaganda video released Monday by the jihadist organisation.

No Law In Sri Lanka To Prevent People From Joining Foreign Terror Outfits

World News | Emily Tamkin, The Washington Post | Friday April 26, 2019

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Sky News on Thursday that the Sri Lankan government had known that Sri Lankan nationals who had joined the Islamic State had returned to the country - but that they couldn't be arrested, since joining a foreign terrorist organization is not against the law.

Wisconsin Woman Hacked Facebook Accounts To Recruit For ISIS: Prosecutors

World News | Reuters | Tuesday April 23, 2019

A Wisconsin woman hacked Facebook accounts to provide lessons in making bombs and poison on behalf of the Islamic State terrorist group, prosecutors said on Monday.

ISIS Plotting Deadly Attacks Across Europe: Report

World News | Press Trust of India | Sunday April 14, 2019

The Islamic State terror group is plotting deadly attacks across Europe along the lines of the one carried out on a concert hall in Paris in which 130 people were killed four years ago, a leading British newspaper has reported.

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Pakistan Market Suicide Bombing

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday April 13, 2019

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide blast in Pakistan's Quetta city on Friday that killed 20 people and left 48 more injured.

Double Blast Kills Three People, Injures 19 In East Afghanistan

World News | Reuters | Saturday April 6, 2019

Twin explosions on Saturday in the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad killed three people and injured 19 others, a government spokesman said.

Two Pak Policemen Arrested For Alleged ISIS Links

World News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday April 2, 2019

A Pakistani police head constable and his brother-in-law, who also works in the police department, have been arrested in Punjab province for their alleged links with the Islamic State, police said on Monday.

Woman, Son Walked 53 Hours, Passed By Corpses As They Fled From ISIS

World News | Louisa Loveluck, The Washington Post | Sunday February 24, 2019

The walk to freedom lasted 53 hours, and the little boy cried all the way. It wasn't their first escape attempt - she'd tried five times before to flee the Islamic State - but they would be shot on the spot if the militants caught them now.