Taliban overtakes Islamic State as world’s deadliest terrorist group
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday published the 2019 edition of its Global Terrorism Index. The survey of terrorist...
Year: 2019
How the Islamic State terrorist group used culture to fund its terrorism activities
An important source of Daesh’s funding came from the looting and illicit sale of cultural artefacts in Syria and Iraq. It is estimated that the...
Islamic State terrorists are moving from Nangarhar to adjacent Kunar and Nooristan
Fighters loyal to the Daesh terrorist group are moving from Nangarhar province (their main haven) to its neighboring provinces of Kunar and Nooristan in the...
Twenty-year-old Chicago man charged with writing code to spread Islamic State propaganda
U.S. authorities have arrested a 20-year-old Chicago man for allegedly writing computer code to help the Islamic State terrorist group spread propaganda. Thomas Osadzinski, a...
The Taliban were deadlier than the Islamic State in 2018
Attacks by the Taliban were deadlier than those committed by any other group in 2018, according to a report released by an international think tank...
Turkish authorities send two Islamic State women and two children back to the Netherlands
Turkey has sent two Dutch women who joined IS forces in Syria five and six years ago back to the Netherlands, Dutch media said on...
Woman and man charged with terror offenses in Kosovo
Kosovo prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against two people suspected of supporting or fighting with ISIS in Syria. A prosecutors’ statement Tuesday said they had...
Islamic State used Turkish offensive in Syria to regroup
ISIS took advantage of both the drawdown of US troops from northeastern Syria and the Turkish incursion to regroup and could prepare new attacks on...
Police to control movement and social media of Islamic State suspect Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif
A woman once suspected of being a member of the Islamic State terrorist group was communicating with the sons of infamous Adelaide fugitive Rodney Clavell...
The death of al-Baghdadi will have impact on the Islamic State terrorist group’s ability to rebuild
The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will have little impact on the ISIS terrorist group's ability to rebuild, a Pentagon watchdog agency revealed on Tuesday....
Two civilians are killed and another one injured in Islamic State landmine blast in Homs
Two civilians were killed and a third was injured when a landmine left behind by Daesh (ISIS) terrorists went off in a village in Homs...
Islamic State’s backbone is broken in Afghanistan as hundreds terrorists surrender
Hundreds of Islamic State fighters have surrendered after separate operations by government forces and the Taliban hemmed them into the mountainside in the country’s south,...