Harry M, 49, a retired US Marine and Army National Guardsman from New Jersey, has joined his two sons, Josh, 29, and James, 23, on a trip to Kurdistan to help defeat ISIS militants. On Tuesday, the trio traveled to northern Iraq, hoping to join Peshmerga forces (pictured top left). …read
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After blowing up the 2,000-year-old Temple of Baal Shamin (pictured) and destroying the Lion of al-Lat, experts fear ISIS will reduce to rubble to Palmyra’s remaining precious monuments.
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Khaled al-Asaad was as unlike an Islamic State fighter as could be imagined. Eighty-three years old, he was clean-shaven, silver-haired and bespectacled. He looked, in short, like the eminent scholar that he was
This learned and decidedly unmilitant man, taken prisoner by Islamic State fighters, demonstrated a bravery that put their own pretensions to courage to shame. He was beheaded at Palmyra in Syria.
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Targeted:It is thought Junaid Hussain, originally from Birmingham, died as he travelled in a vehicle in the Syrian city of Raqqa
A top British ISIS computer hacker has reportedly been killed in a US drone strike in Syria, according to US military sources. Junaid Hussain, originally from Birmingham, died yesterday in Raqqa.
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Queen Rania of Jordan was joined by her eldest daughter Princess Iman on Wednesday as she attended a major business event in France
Queen Rania, 44, spoke at the Medef Summer 2015 Conference, where she was joined by her 18-year-old daughter, to deliver a speech near Paris about uniting against the so-called Islamic State.
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Officials at United States Central Command, Centcom, are believed to have altered intelligence reports to provide a rosier picture of progress in the fight against ISIS
Officials at United States Central Command, Centcom, are believed to have altered intelligence reports to provide a rosier picture of progress in the fight against ISIS.
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The teenage girl, who cannot be named (pictured outside court today) has pleaded guilty to two terror offences after being caught her school computers to look up ISIS killer Jihadi John and sketching bomb-making recipes
The teenage girl, from Manchester, who cannot be named, was arrested in April after using her school computers to look up Islamic State killer Jihadi John and sketching out bomb-making recipes.
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Blast: Smoke rises from the Baalshamin temple after ISIS militants filled it with explosives and detonated them in the ancient wonder
ISIS thugs used dynamite to destroy the 2,000-year-old temple of Baalshamin and filmed themselves laying out explosives, detonating them and reducing the archaeological wonder to a pile of rubble.
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The image featuring jihadis on horseback surfaced alongside warnings the group is set to reveal a ‘new killing style’
A poster for the new ISIS video shows prisoners wearing orange jumpsuits surrounded by a framework of poles and militants gathered nearby on horseback.
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Pool of blood: The body of a man stoned to death, apparently for committing adultery, lies on the street in Nineveh, Iraq. The incident was the latest example of ISIS’ barbarity
Pictures have been posted online of hooded fighters stoning the victim in Nineveh, Iraq, as the UN Security Council held its first ever meeting looking at life for LGBT people under ISIS.
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Poised to strike: Around 800 jihadists have returned to Europe to launch attacks after being trained by the Islamic State (above) or Al Qaeda-linked groups in Iraq and Syria, intelligence services have warned
Counter-terrorism officers said the fanatics had been recruited by the Islamic State or Al Qaeda-linked groups and were waiting for the order to strike on the Continent.
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Sacred: The beautifully preserved temple had stood at the archeological site of Palmyra for nearly 2,000 years
ISIS militants have reportedly used dynamite to destroy the Baalshamin temple (pictured), which had stood at the site for nearly 2,000 years on the archaeological site of Palmyra, Syria.
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Innocence lost: ISIS is believed to have released a disturbing new propaganda video which appears to show a young child beheading a teddy bear
In the disturbing new propaganda video which is believed to have been released by ISIS, the child raises the dagger to the sky just as Islamic State executioner Jihadi John once did.
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Suspect: Ayoub El-Khazzani (above), 26, is being questioned by French counter-terrorism police after he allegedly opened fire on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to France with a Kalashnikov on Friday evening. Alarmingly, the suspect had already been on government officials’ radar in three European countries before he carried out the terror attack, which left a U.S. soldier and a citizen wounded
Ayoub El-Khazzani, 26, is being questioned by French counter-terrorism police after he allegedly opened fire on the high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris with a Kalashnikov on Friday.
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ISIS’s magazine praised the death of twin brothers Abu Musab al-Amani and his brother, who died fighting. One of the brothers fought for the German army in Afghanistan
As many as 100 German nationals have reportedly died fighting for the brutal jihadi group ISIS in Syria and Iraq,according to Germany’s interior minister.
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Sunday’s attack took place in the rural district of Jaramshah north of Anbar’s provincial capital, Ramadi
ISIS have used suicide bombers and artillery to target Iraqi army and paramilitary forces in remote Anbar province, leaving as many as 23 soldiers dead.
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Shukee Begum is said to have left the UK last year and was smuggled into Syria through Turkey to reach her ISIS-fighter husband (stock image)
Shukee Begum is said to have left Manchester last year and was smuggled into Syria through Turkey, although she claims it was only to persuade her husband, Muftah el-Deen, to come home.
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Colonel Tim Collins (pictured) has decided to speak out as Mail on Sunday reveals the RAF has killed as many as 40 jihadis on air strikes against ISIS in a single mission
The RAF is conducting a systematic campaign of bombing against Islamic State targets – but bombing will only take us so far, writes COLONEL TIM COLLINS.
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Alive: The video, exclusively obtained by The Mail on Sunday, clearly shows a man claiming to be Jihadi John making direct threats to the UK and its citizens. It is the first footage of him since January
EXCLUSIVE: The Mail on Sunday has obtained terrifying new footage of the killer, who has not been seen since he was named as 27-year-old Londoner Mohammed Emwazi last February.
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More than 500 women from the west have left their lives behind and gone to join ISIS in Syria and Iraq
The images are striking: women in the Islamic State regions of Iraq and Syria, dressed from head to toe in black burkas but armed to the teeth. They are firing semi-automatic pistols or wielding AK-47 assault rifles.
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Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali was killed in a strike near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, according to National Security Council spokesman Ned Price.
Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz, was killed in a strike near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, according to National Security Council spokesman Ned Price.
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At risk: A girl (left) radicalised in a family home filled with ISIS propaganda must be removed from her parents (mother pictured right), a judge ruled on Friday
Judge Anthony Hayden, pictured, compared the East London girl’s plight to a victim of child sex abuse, claiming the psychological trauma of being radicalised is similar to that faced by abuse victims.
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David Cameron – meeting apprentices employed by KLM Engineering at Norwich Airport today – launched a blistering attack on Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn
In his first intervention in the Labour leadership contest, the Prime Minister warned Mr Corbyn’s stance on foreign affairs would make the UK ‘less secure’ and alienate allies such as the United States.
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Inhumane: Images shared by Islamic State’s Dishmaq media office in Syria showed the bulldozer ploughing into the ancient structure
Shocking new images show ISIS barbarians desecrate the 1,500-year-old Mar Elian Monastery in Al-Qaryatayn, Syria, where they have also abducted over 100 people.
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Corbyn, pictured at a rally in Nottingham today, likened US troops to IS in a previous interview on Russia today
The Labour leadership frontrunner called for ‘acceptance and understanding’ of IS supporters while speaking on Russia Today, Kremlin-backed broadcaster, in June last year.
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Disease: At least 16 ISIS fighters (file photo) have been diagnosed with Aids after having sex with two Moroccan women
A doctor forced to treat the infected jihadists – most of whom were foreign – at a hospital in Syria, said they had caught it from sex with two Moroccan women who were later diagnosed with the HIV virus (file photo).
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Women jihadis trying to flee Britain to join ISIS are a growing security threat, government officials have revealed
While the number of Islamist extremists travelling to Iraq and Syria has plummeted since its 2013 peak, the proportion who are women is understood to have rocketed.
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Footage of the five young Australian men, suspected of trying to leave the country to join terrorists in the Middle East, has been released to the public
The dramatic images show the five men being stopped at Sydney International Airport (pictured). They were reportedly bound for Syria and Iraq.
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A bomb blast near a Cairo state security building left 29 injured, including six police officers. A huge crater could be seen outside after the explosion
Investigators who examined the site of the explosion in Shubra al-Khaima, a suburb of Egypt’s capital, Cairo, said there was a burned-out vehicle and crater.
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ISIS militants are preying on women looking for Shirley Valentine-style (Pauline Collins as Shirley in the 1989 film, with her Greek lover, played by Tom Conti) holiday flings in bids to bring terror to Britain
Extremists are targeting women visiting tourist destinations such as Turkey for Shirley Valentine-style (pictured) flings and trying to dupe them into marriage so they can reach the UK.
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ISIS militant bound with rope before crucifixion
Two gruesome photos released on social media show the extremist (pictured) bound by a rope which tightens across his chest and open mouth as a group of men surround him.
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Each man was carrying a lump sum of $9,990 in cash, an amount just under the threshold that requires currency to be declared
Seven young Australians were stopped from leaving the country to join terrorists in the Middle East during an incident at the Sydney International Airport last week.
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Horror: Sickening images proudly shared by depraved ISIS supporters online showed the mutilated remains of Mr Assad chained to a railing, with his severed head – still wearing glasses – placed on the floor between his feet (left). The antiquities scholar is believed to have been murdered in Palmyra yesterday
The family of Khaled Asaad are said to have been told that the retired scholar, who worked for more than 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra, was executed by ISIS yesterday.
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Ambitions: Bushra, pictured here with her sister, has been inspired by the workshop and now wants to be a photojournalist
Yazidi women , who fled the grasp of ISIS, were given an opportunity to begin rebuilding their lives with a confidence-boosting photography course by UNICEF. They took photos of their camp in Iraq.
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Death sentence: An ISIS fighter told the murder suspect to kneel on the floor and shot him in the head as a crowd looked on in the terror group’s de facto capital Raqqa
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT A shocking set of photos show the blindfolded suspect kneeling before an ISIS militant who shot him in the back of the head in front of a crowd.
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Revenge: The ‘Sun Girls’ (pictured), an all-female batallion of Yazidi women, are fighting back against the ISIS fighters who have enslaved and raped thousands of their women
If the female members of the ‘Sun Girls’ batallion (pictured) are ever captured by ISIS in battle, they will either be killed or, more likely, be held by the vile extremists as their personal sex slaves.
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Bizarre: Calling himself Abu Basir al-Britani, the militant is seen in the Syrian town of Baraghedeh carrying a toothbrush tucked into an ammunition belt packed with loaded assault rifle magazines
Calling himself Abu Basir al-Britani, the militant is seen in the Syrian town of Baraghedeh carrying a toothbrush tucked into an ammunition belt packed with loaded assault rifle magazines.
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Married: The three schoolgirls Amira Abase, 15, Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, from east London, have all married ISIS fighters after being given a catalogue of extremists to choose from
A family lawyer has revealed the last of friends Amira Abase, Shamima Begum and Kadiza Sultana (pictured) has now wed an extremist fighter, after they were given their pick of the westerners.
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Terror experts claim an alarming number of stolen Toyota Hilux utilities are being shipped away to war zones
Global terror expert Professor Greg Barton believes the stolen Toyota Hilux utes from Sydney are being exported to Turkey via shipping containers and then driven across the border to Syria.
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Questionable: The 32-page document allegedly contains a history of the modern-day jihad and a strategy plan
Found in one of the tribal areas of Pakistan, a new jihadi document has been billed as the ISIS equivalent of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. It is titled ‘A Brief History of the Islamic State Caliphate’
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