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January 26, 2017

Austrian police arrest 8 over alleged ISIS links

Austrian authorities say they have arrested eight people on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization through possible connections to the Islamic State group.

January 26, 2017

Christians Under Siege: There's no time to waste, we must act now

Is it possible that this decade will see the virtual end of Christianity in the very region it was born?

January 25, 2017

The fight for Mosul: An assessment of ISIS tactics, key vulnerabilities

In the initial phase of combat to reclaim Mosul, (October 17th through mid-December 2016), the occupying ISIS’ radical Islamic terrorists inflicted heavy casualties (the UN previously estimated approximately 2000 IMC troops killed).

January 25, 2017

ISIS fight stays the course for now under Trump, Army general says

President Trump became commander-in-chief, "our mission has not changed" in the battle against the Islamic State terror group, a senior U.S. Army general told reporters Wednesday from Baghdad.

January 24, 2017

Iraq declares eastern Mosul 'fully liberated' from ISIS

Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday declared eastern Mosul "fully liberated" from Islamic State group militants after a day of fierce fighting and more than three months after a massive U.S.-backed operation to retake the city began.

January 23, 2017

US aircraft carrier deployed to fill void in Middle East

As former President and World War II naval aviator George H.W. Bush recovers in a Houston hospital, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier bearing his name set sail for the Middle East Saturday—the first full day in office for President Donald Trump and his defense secretary, James Mattis.

January 23, 2017

Boy, 12, questioned in hunt for ISIS suspect in Austria

Austrian police urged Vienna residents Monday to be on heightened alert for suspicious objects and activities as they hunted for possible associates of a suspected Islamic radical who they say might have been planning a bomb attack.

January 20, 2017

Islamic State increases oil and gas sales to Assad, officials say

Islamic State has ramped up sales of oil and gas to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. and European officials said, providing vital fuel to the government in return for desperately needed cash.

January 18, 2017

Iraq military: Troops have 'full control' of eastern Mosul

U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops announced on Wednesday they were in "full control" of eastern Mosul, after routing Islamic State militants from that part of the northern city almost exactly three months since the major operation started.

January 17, 2017

Islamic State gains in Syria province

Islamic State forces cut in half the last Syrian government enclave in an oil-rich eastern province, pro-government media and opposition activists said Tuesday, putting new pressure on the regime after the terror group suffered setbacks elsewhere.