A 37-year-old Brooklyn resident has been arrested for allegedly trying to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Yemen, according to court documents filed Saturday.
NEW YORK – Intelligence experts estimate that the Islamic State extremist group has between 60 and 80 operatives planted in Europe to carry out attacks, the Dutch counterterrorism coordinator said Friday.
German police on Tuesday carried out sweeping raids across 10 states in a probe against an Islamist group suspected of propagating hate and inciting 140 youths to fight alongside jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
The Islamic State group said Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade would be an “excellent target” for lone-wolf attackers and called on them to use vehicles to inflict maximum damage during the yearly parade that attracts huge crowds.
It has been cleared for publication that security forces arrested last month a couple, Wissam and Savrin Zabidat, from the Arab town of Sakhnin in the lower Galilee, as they arrived at Ben Gurion Airport with their three children from Iraq – where they had joined ISIS.
The Pentagon seems to be pleased with how the Iraqi government’s operation to free the city of Mosul from ISIS control is going, but even a successful blow to the global terrorist organization would have concerns of its own.
Islamist militants killed 12 members of Egypt’s military in North Sinai province and wounded six more in an attack on a checkpoint on Friday, the military said, adding that it killed 15 militants in return.
VILLAGE OF MONROE – An Oregon man who claimed early Wednesday morning that he was on his way to leave explosives at LaGuardia Airport has been charged with falsely reporting an incident and making terroristic threats.
Israelis traveling to Western Europe during the coming October holiday period should be aware of their surroundings due the ongoing threat of ISIS terrorist attacks, a source from the Counter- Terrorism Bureau, a part of the National Security Council, warned on Monday.
Western forces celebrated news of his death, while his able followers and recruits labeled him a martyr.