Disappointed fans charmed Vienna by trading friendship bracelets and singing the pop star’s songs in the streets.
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Suspects in foiled attack on Taylor Swift shows were inspired by Islamic State group, officials say
Three sold-out concerts were canceled Wednesday in Austria because of the plot, devastating Swifties from across the globe.
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Islamic State’s ‘ghost’ leader was plotting comeback when U.S. commandos cornered him
Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi was the second person to lead the Islamic State in its current incarnation, and his death was nearly identical to that of his predecessor.
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Two U.S. soldiers die battling Islamic State militants in Afghanistan
Two U.S. service members died during operations against the Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Thursday. A Pentagon spokesman, Capt. Jeff Davis, said the deaths occurred overnight in Afghanistan’s Nangahar province, where a small but virulent Islamic State cell poses a threat for Afghan and U.S. coalition forces. It was the third […]
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Afghanistan: 36 Islamic State fighters killed by large blast
A general view of Achin district, in Jalalabad, after U.S. forces dropped Thursday the bomb, Afghanistan, Friday, April 14, 2017. U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with “the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon every used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials […]
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Pentagon presenting plan to 'rapidly defeat' Islamic State
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford greets Defense Secretary Jimn Mattis Jan. 21, 2107, at the Pentagon. A new military strategy to meet President Donald Trump’s demand “to obliterate” the Islamic State group is likely to deepen U.S. military involvement in Syria, possibly with more ground troops, even as the current U.S. approach in Iraq […]
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ISIS continues genocide in Iraq
Last week, on August 3, Iraqi Yazidis marked a bitter anniversary. Two years ago, ISIS fighters drove off Kurdish Peshmerga militiamen defending the Yazidi town of Sinjar and took control. The ISIS force quickly killed 2,000 Yazidi men. All told ISIS fighters would massacre some 5,000 Yazidi men in the Sinjar region. A systematic campaign […]
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U.S. airstrikes target Islamic State in Libya
ISIS Global Strategy | FindTheData WASHINGTON — The United States launched multiple airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Libya on Monday, opening a new, more persistent front against the group at the request of the United Nations-backed government, Libyan and U.S. officials said. Fayez Serraj, the head of the U.N.-brokered presidency council, said in a […]
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Islamic State utilizing human shields
In mid-May, Iraqi officials and U.S. advisers expressed deep concern that Islamic State fighters defending the city of Fallujah would employ “human shields.” On May 31, Islamic State fighters began using human shields — hostages — to blunt an Iraqi Army attack in Fallujah’s southern neighborhoods. Fox News reported that the shields consisted of “several […]
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ISIS the height of hypocrisy
In the Nov. 16 Associated Press article on the bombing by French military planes of Raqqa, Syria, the Islamic State group’s de facto capital, the group was quoted as saying that it attacked Paris because it abhors the city as “the capital of prostitution and obscenity.” This from the ogres who make no secret of […]