US Air Force aircraft have allegedly been spotted evacuating non-Syrian Daesh commanders with their family members from al-Hasakah province and transferring them to an unknown destination, according to the SANA news agency. The news emerged a day after US President Trump threatened Syria with a possible strike. US military helicopters reportedly evacuated several Daesh (ISIS/ISIL)* commanders from... 

Despite the successful counter-terrorism mission in Syria and Iraq, the Daesh* terrorist group is still capable of conducting raids in different regions throughout the world, and in order to confront it, we need to think about new forms of international cooperation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “Despite its military defeat, the terrorist group Daesh retains a significant destructive... 

Marine Le Pen, the former French presidential candidate and leader of the far-right Front National, finds herself entangled in a legal maelstrom, facing charges that could potentially lead to up to three years behind bars and a substantial fine of €75,000. The accusations stem from her posting a series of violent ISIS images on Twitter in 2015, raising questions about the limits of political expression... 

The explosive device detonated at a branch of the Perekrestok supermarket chain in Russia’s second largest city on December 27, leaving at least 13 people wounded. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had detained the organizer of the blast. The suspect has been handed over to the Investigative Committee for the interrogation. This development comes in the wake of... 

Europe has been hit by yet another terror attack as two Islamists stormed a church in Normandy, France and slit the throat of a Catholic priest before being shot dead by police. The attackers entered the church in the town of Saint Etienne du Rouvray at around 9am this morning local time during mass before taking six hostages, including the pastor, two nuns and several worshippers. One of the nuns... 

The Daesh terrorist group (ISIS) has reportedly carried out a chemical attack on a Syrian military airport in eastern Syria. “The terrorists fired rockets carrying mustard gas” and targeting the airbase in the south of Dayr al-Zawr city, Syria’s Ikhbariyah television station said in a statement late Monday. The report did not disclose whether there were any casualties. Russia’s RIA Novosti,... 

Hundreds of Germans have held a demonstration to express their outrage at the warmongering policies of NATO and the West in the Middle East, where they have been engaged in a so-called anti-Daesh bombing campaign. According to reports, some 2,000 anti-war protesters took to the streets of Munich, where the 52nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) was underway, saying the meeting had nothing to do with... 

As long as the Turkish President pursues a policy that contributes to the prosperity of terrorists in the Middle East, a resolution on addressing the situation in the region would be extremely difficult, German politician Sahra Wagenknecht said. Western countries should exert pressure on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and put an end to the secret relations of Ankara and Daesh (also known as... 

Scientists and military experts from Daesh terrorist organization, aka the Islamic State, have learned to build makeshift thermal batteries that can be used for launching surface-to-air missiles. Daesh militants will thus be able to use old decommissioned Western missiles to pose a real threat to all passenger airliners and military aircraft that fly over terrorist-controlled territories. The guidance... 

The US Army has continued to shrink in size in recent years, leaving it poorly equipped to respond to international threats that have only grown, the president of the Association of the US Army said. In an editorial published Monday by Breaking Defense, retired General Gordon Sullivan said the Army is “confronted by turmoil abroad and hindered at home by politicians unable or unwilling to agree... 

In a dramatic move, Germany is set to become the first western nation and NATO member to break ranks and begin cooperating with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and set up an intelligence agency branch in Damascus. Although there has been no official announcement, anonymous sources quoted in the German Bild newspaper, confirmed that the federal government is keen to establish a branch of its Federal... 

French police are investigating the nationalist leader Marine Le Pen for posting violent Islamic State images on her Twitter account. The images included the body of the American journalist James Foley who was allegedly decapitated in August 2014. Other tweeted propaganda images include a man ran over by a tank and another set on fire in a cage. Le Pen added the caption “Daesh is this,” using... 

Eren Erdem, from Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was accused of treason after he revealed that Turkey knew about Islamic State-bound shipments of deadly sarin gas passing through its territory. Ankara’s top prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation against a Turkish lawmaker after he revealed that Turkey knew about Islamic State-bound shipments of deadly sarin... 

A teacher has been attacked at a nursery school in Paris by a hooded knife-wielding man claiming links to Islamic State. The 45-year-old male victim was alone in his classroom at the kindergarten in the northern suburb of Aubervilliers, when the armed assailant burst in at around 7.30am local time. According to the prosecutor, prior to launching the attack, the man using another name for Islamic State... 

Czech President Milos Zeman has allegedly slammed the idea of Turkey joining the EU, stressing that Ankara appears to act as if it was an ally of Daesh (the Islamic state) militant group rather than that of western powers. The remarks by the Czech leader were made at the end of his visit to the country’s north Bohemia region, where Zeman reportedly condemned EU authorities’ decision to provide...