WASHINGTON (AA) – ISIS and other violent groups will not find a “safe harbor” in the US, President Joe Biden said following deadly New Year’s Day attacks. “We’re going to continue to relentlessly pursue ISIS and other terrorist organizations where they are, and they’ll find no safe harbor here,” Biden ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has condemned the Pentagon for misleading the public about the number of US troops deployed in Syria. “The Pentagon’s admission that 2,000 U.S. troops have been secretly operating in Syria is stunning. T...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The State Department has said that it is uncertain how accountability for the war crimes committed by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime will be determined, noting it would be up to the country’s future representatives to decide on the path forward. “In practicality, I’m just unsure how that would ultimately work, given tha...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Pentagon has said that there are 2,000 US troops in Syria, more than double the number it had previously acknowledged. Spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said that in addition to the 900 troops that were deployed to Syria on a longer-term basis to aid in counter-ISIS operations, 1,100 others were sent […]
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution renewing the sanctions against the al-Shabaab in Somalia until February 28, 2025. The resolution, submitted by the UK, was unanimously adopted by the 15-member Security Council. It allows authorization for maritime interdiction to enforce the embargo on illicit arms...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday warned that the ISIS could exploit Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks in Lebanon. “This is a moment of enormous volatility in the Middle East,” Blinken said in his opening remarks at the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS ministerial meeting. “It’s more importa...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi military, with the support of US-led coalition forces, has killed 16 ISIS fighters, including high-ranking figures, during the military operation that began last week in the western Anbar desert, officials say. According to a statement issued by the Joint Operations Command on X, Iraqi National Intelligence Organizatio...
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a brutal knife attack at a festival in Solingen, Germany, in which three people were killed and eight injured. The group described the assailant as a “soldier of ISIS” and said the attack was in retaliation for injustices against Muslims in Palestine. German authorities have a suspect in custody in […...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – More than 32 people were killed and over 63 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy beach in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said. Abdifatah Adan Hassan, Somali police spokesman, told a news conference on Saturday that the attack included a suicide explosion followed by gunfire. [&hel...
Kano, Nigeria — AFP A bombing at a teahouse in a village in northeast Nigeria killed 19 people and wounded two dozen more, in the second major attack in a few weeks, security sources said. The blast in Kawuri village in Borno State was one of the deadliest in recent years in northeast Nigeria, where […]
