Tag Archives: ISIS

The Iraqi intelligence agency announced arresting prominent terrorists in the capital Baghdad. The agency said in a statement that it had arrested two terrorists in the al-Taji area, and another in Abu Gharib. The three terrorists are members of the ISIS terrorist organization and were handed over to the concerned …

Gunmen attack a Ramadan iftar gathering in Deir Az Zor, killing seven people. Suspected ISIL (ISIS) gunmen killed seven people and wounded four others at a Ramadan iftar gathering in Syria’s northeast Deir Az Zor province, according to activists and monitors. The former spokesperson of the United States-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian …

Local Iraqi media said that the Iraqi army killed more than 40 ISIS terrorists in operations recently launched in the south of Mosul. A statement from the Iraqi army’s public relations department said that the Iraqi armed forces recently conducted an operation against terrorist remnants in the south of Mosul …

A suicide bombing targeted the Iraqi army north of Baghdad on Tuesday, resulting in deaths and injuries. “A man wearing an explosive belt blew himself up near an Iraqi army force during operations within the Tarmiyah district, which killed a soldier and injured an officer.” A security source told Al-Ghadeer …

Media sources reported Tuesday morning the Libyan National Army repelled an ISIS attempt to attack the Libyan town of Ghadwa, south of the city of Sabha. Issuing a statement on Tuesday, the Libyan National Army said that its forces clashed with ISIS-affiliated elements in the Libyan town of Ghadwa, killing …

An Iraqi security source reported on Sunday that ISIS terrorists have attacked a security center in Anbar province. ISIS terrorists attacked the international highway linking Iraq’s western Anbar province to Jordan near the town of al-Rutbah, west of Anbar, the source added. The source also added that two Iraqi policemen …

The Joint Operations Command launched on Saturday, the second stage of Operation “Solid Will” against ISIS in western Iraq. The Security Media Cell said, “Under the supervision of the Joint Operations Command, the Solid Will Operation was launched this morning, with the participation of the commands of the Al-Anbar, Al-Jazeera, …

A blast in the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Taraba state on Friday evening injured 11 people including children, police said, days after an explosion claimed by Islamic State killed 3 people at a marketplace in a rural town in Taraba. The blasts in Taraba mark the spread of Islamist insurgencies …

On Friday, the Military Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense thwarted an attack on a security point west of Nineveh and arrested three “terrorists” in Al-Anbar. The Security Media Cell said that a joint force of military intelligence and ground forces arrested three terrorists in Al-Qaim and Al-Fallujah. Other …

Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) thwarted an ISIS attack west of Kirkuk. The PMF said in a statement that ISIS terrorists attacked the PMF’s patrol near the Rubaida area, al-Rashad district before the force responded and forced them to flee.

An explosion struck a mosque in northern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, police said, with eyewitnesses reporting dozens of casualties. The blast hit Mawlavi Sikandar mosque north of Kunduz city, provincial police spokesman Obaidullah Abedi told AFP. “At the moment we have no details about the type of the blast or …

Three ISIS attacks were thwarted in 72 hours, in al-Muqdadiyah and al-Udhaim districts, a security source in Diyala governorate reported. The Chief of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) in the northeastern basin of the governorate, Ahmed al-Tamimi, said that the PMF, the operations commands, and the police thwarted three terrorist attacks in …

The Iraqi security forces seized drones in Diyala Governorate, on Thursday. A security source said, “A force from the Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency intercepted two cars transporting armed drones in Baqubah in Diyala.” The source added that the drones would be used to target an Iraqi oil refinery. He …

Market bombing in Iware, Taraba state, marks the expansion of area where ISIL affiliate operates in Nigeria. The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) armed group has claimed responsibility for an explosion that it said killed or injured 30 people at a market where alcohol was sold in Nigeria’s …

SIS has claimed responsibility for an attack in Afghanistan’s Mazar-e-Sharif, via its Telegram channel. An explosion at a Shia mosque in the northern city Thursday killed or wounded at least 60 people, a local Taliban commander said. “A blast happened in 2nd district inside a Shi’ite mosque, more than 60 …

A force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) captured a commander of an ISIS sleeper cell, a PMF media officer said on Monday. In a statement to Alghadeer News, the public relations officer of the PMF’s ninth brigade, Abu Hussein al-Janabi, said that “a force from [the ninth] brigade’s intelligence …

More than 100 ISIS and Boko Haram terrorists were killed in a joint military operation by Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon, a Nigerian commander said on Sunday. Multinational Joint Task Force spokesman Colonel Muhammad Dole said that during the operation, troops had ventured deep into enclaves controlled by the terrorists in …

Iraq’s Federal Police said that a senior ISIS member has been captured in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, earlier Saturday. A statement by the Federal Police agency said that a force from the 1st mechanized brigade’s third regiment managed to apprehend a person wanted pursuant to Article 4/Terrorism following an intelligence …

The commander of the Kirkuk Joint Operations Command announced that the ISIS terrorists’ largest base in the Wadi al-Shay area of ​​Kirkuk province was destroyed on the third day of the Iron Hammer operation. Lieutenant-General Ali Al-Fariji said that a number of weapons, equipment, ammunition, and explosives belonging to ISIS …

Planted explosives and not artillery are behind the incident at Green Village, the US military said Last week’s explosions at a base in Syria, that reportedly injured four US soldiers, may have been the work of charges planted by one or more people in the facility’s showers and ammunition depot, …