The Latest Breaking News from ISIS

A Danish woman evacuated from a Syrian detention camp last year was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison by a Danish court for aiding ISIS militants and illegally travelling to and residing in conflict zones, her lawyer said. The 35-year-old woman travelled to Syria with her husband in…

A former DePaul University student was sentenced Thursday to 7 ½ years in federal prison for using his developing computer skills to help the Islamic State terrorist group spread violent propaganda on social media.

(This Nov. 13 story has been corrected to show sea is overall 1.2C warmer than 30 years ago, not 0.4C, in 18th paragraph)

In 2014, Nadia Murad was captured, alongside many other Yazidi women, by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in the Iraqi town of Sinjar. She was held hostage, enslaved, tortured and raped, before escaping to Mosul and making her way to Germany. After sharing the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize with…

Sources close to the Iraqi government said that the decision of Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani to cancel security permits in areas liberated from the ISIS was aimed at facilitating the affairs of citizens. Al-Sudani canceled the security checks that were imposed on the residents of the western governorates that…

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution Thursday accusing the Taliban of violating the human rights of Afghan women and girls, failing to establish a representative government, and plunging the country into “dire economic, humanitarian and social conditions.” The resolution also pointed to persistent violence in the country since the…

America’s presence helps check regional powers.

The US embassy in South Africa has twice raised the alarm recently about terrorism in the country. On 26 October it issued a security alert for a possible terror attack in Sandton, the financial centre of Johannesburg.

With the war in Syria now in its twelfth year and with the US-Russian conflict still ongoing to control the oil sector and its potential, local belligerents and regional opponents have found in oil a rare point of consensus to cooperate and pick clean the country’s wealth and revenues. Oil…