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Activists say Islamic State releases 19 Syrian Christians By RYAN LUCAS Mar. 1, 2015 1:15 PM EST An Assyrian man with a red cross painted on his forehead holds a banner as he walks during a protest of several hundred people in solidarity with Christians abducted in Syria and Iraq, in...

More than 25,000 Egyptians flee Libya after beheadings AFP February 27, 2015, 7:59 pm Cairo (AFP) - More than 25,000 Egyptians have returned from neighbouring Libya since the Islamic State group posted a video earlier this month of the beheadings of Christian compatriots, the foreign...

‘Jihadi John’ from Islamic State beheading videos unmasked as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi was brought up in a well-to-do London family and known to counter-terrorism officials PUBLISHED : Thursday, 26 February, 2015, 7:24pm UPDATED : Thursday, 26 February, 2015, 10:40pm Reuters in London The...

CORRECTING DATE TO MONDAY FEB. 23 - This is a still taken from CCTV issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Monday Feb. 23, 2015, of 15-year-old Amira Abase, left, Kadiza Sultana,16, centre, and Shamima Begum, 15, going through Gatwick airport, south of London, before they caught...

UK police believe 3 missing schoolgirls have entered Syria By SYLVIA HUI Feb. 24, 2015 1:41 PM EST CORRECTING DATE TO MONDAY FEB. 23 - This is three image combo of stills taken from CCTV issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Monday Feb. 23, 2015, Kadiza Sultana, 16, left, Shamima...

Egypt's el-Sissi says need growing for joint Arab force By HAMZA HENDAWI Feb. 22, 2015 2:13 PM EST In this image taken from Egypt State TV, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks in a television address broadcast Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. Sissi said the need for a joint Arab military...

School document sheds light on background of secretive Islamic State leader PUBLISHED : Friday, 20 February, 2015, 10:16pm UPDATED : Saturday, 21 February, 2015, 2:56am The Washington Post One of the few pictures of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.Photo: AP The certificate from Samarra High School...

Egypt strikes back at Islamic State militants after beheading video, killing dozens Date February 16, 2015 - 10:50PM Omar Fahmy and Yara Bayoumy An image from Egypt's state-run television station Al-Masriya reportedly shows an F-16 fighter jet preparing to take off. Photo: Al-Masriya...

Egypt strikes IS group in Libya after video of mass killing By HAMZA HENDAWI and MAGGIE MICHAEL Feb. 16, 2015 10:02 AM EST A man is comforted by others as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group...

Egypt Bombs Islamic State Targets In Libya The dawn attack comes a day after video emerged purporting to show the beheading of 21 Egyptians by black-clad militants. 07:32, UK, Monday 16 February 2015 Egypt's military says it has bombed Islamic State (IS) targets in Libya, a day after the...

Isis fighters in suicide attack on Iraqi air base No Iraqi or US troops were killed or wounded on attack on al-Asad air base in Iraq’s Anbar province, but most of the Isis fighters died Isis fighters on the border between Iraq and Syria. Photograph: Medyan Dairieh/Zuma Press/Corbis...

Elderly woman challenges Islamic State militants, calling them 'devils' Video of elderly woman berating Islamic State militiamen goes viral in Middle East By Colin Freeman, Chief foreign correspondent, video source YouTube / Sonny Bend 5:25PM GMT 13 Feb 2015 An online video that appears to...

The granny who stood up to ISIS: Elderly woman filmed confronting militants and branding them 'devils' before quoting verses in the Koran that forbid slaughter Two ISIS fighters were sitting in a car when the elderly woman approached She told them the terror group is cursed and that they...

Islamic State says it's holding 'Israeli spy' in Syria Date February 13, 2015 - 3:28PM Dan Williams The mother and father of Muhammad Musallam, who is being held by Islamic State. Photo: Reuters Jerusalem: Islamic State said it was holding an Israeli Arab who had posed as a foreign fighter...

Australian anti-terror police thwart ‘imminent attack’ linked to Islamic State PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 11 February, 2015, 5:19pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 11 February, 2015, 7:51pm Reuters in Sydney Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan and New South Wales Deputy Police...

Isis militants publicly behead man for 'practicing sorcery' in Raqqa The man was allegedly killed in front of a crowd of people Heather Saul Monday 09 February 2015 Pictures have emerged purporting to show Isis militants publicly beheading a man after finding him guilty of practicing...

Official: UAE sends F-16s to Jordan to fight Islamic State By KARIN LAUB Feb. 7, 2015 12:14 PM EST AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The United Arab Emirates said Saturday it ordered a squadron of F-16 fighters to Jordan, which an official said would participate in airstrikes on the Islamic State group...

Re: Islamic state killed 3 prcs that joined them but later wants to 'quit' To brainwashed, disillusioned new recruits, please do so at your own risk. :D The cost of leaving Islamic State: Death or jail By LORI HINNANT and PAUL SCHEMM Feb. 3, 2015 9:27 AM EST In this Dec. 5, 2014 photo...