Tag: ISIS

What You Need To Know: The FBI has initiated an investigation into a group of Uzbek nationals who entered the US via the southern border seeking asylum earlier this year. This development was triggered by intelligence reports revealing their association with a smuggler tied to ISIS. Although no specific ISIS...

The Islamic State (ISIS) has formally announced the death of its leader Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurshi, naming Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as the terror group's next Caliph. While brief, the announcement claimed that Abu al-Hussein was killed during "direct clashes" with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants in Syria's Idlib Province...

The Georgian State Security Service, amongst other collaborating agencies, arrested 6 citizens of the South Caucasus country for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks, as well as possession of weapons and explosives. Special tactical units were deployed to 4 locations where they had been planning attacks in a variety of unnamed...

Sayfullo Saipov, the convicted terrorist that killed eight people and wounded 11 others during a truck ramming attack in New York City in 2017, has been sentenced to 10 life terms and an additional 260 years in prison. Saipov immigrated to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010 under the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced during an interview with TRT Turk on Sunday that Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurshi was killed over the weekend in Aleppo, Syria, during an operation carried out by MIT (Turkish National Intelligence Organization). This would mark the third ISIS emir...

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed that senior Islamic State leader Abd-al-Hadi Mahmud al-Haji Ali was killed early Monday during a helicopter raid on the Syrian village of As Suwayda in the Jarabulus countryside. Two other “armed individuals” were confirmed to have been killed in the operation. “Extensive...