Winchester, VA - Yahoo News is reporting that three men were charged on Friday with conspiring to carry out coordinated terror attacks on New York concert venues, subway stations, and Times Square during Ramadan 2016. The three ISIS sympathizers were 19 year old Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, who came to the United States from Canada, 19 year old Talha Haroon, an American citizen residing in Pakistan, and 37 year old Russel Salic, […]
Winchester, VA - Recently we reported on the liberation of the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor from the hands of ISIS. Although ISIS still holds a very small portion of the city, the majority of the city is beginning to pick up the pieces and is more and more able every day to pursue what they remember to be a normal existence, you know, like having food to eat, for example. […]
Winchester, VA - ABC News is reporting that Human Rights Watch released a report yesterday which reveals that at least 84 civilians, 30 of them children, were killed in US-led airstrikes in March. Representatives of the organization visited the school in Mansourah and the market in Tabqa where the strikes occurred and spoke with the survivors, local residents, and relatives of those who perished in them. The end-goal of these strikes […]
Winchester, VA - In this Celestial Musings, The Sun reports that London Mayor Sadiq Khan yesterday compared President Trump's rhetoric in calling for a “total shutdown” of United States borders to ISIS' rhetoric. The President reportedly said he would make an exception for Khan, but Khan retorted that there is nothing exceptional about him and added “Think about what you are saying. Because what you are saying is not dissimilar to […]
Winchester, VA - The Washington Times reports that ISIS has changed its battlefield tactics to guerrilla warfare as a result of having lost their territory in Iraq and Syria to the efforts of the United States and Russian backed forces. In their recent official Al Naba publication was an article entitled, “How Do We Fight Under the Watchful Eye of the Crusader Planes?” In the article it advises ISIS fighters not […]
Winchester, VA - The fight to recapture Marawi City from Islamic rebels has been raging on for three and a half months. ISIS has been hoping to establish a foothold in the Philippines. Marawi is virtually a ghost town now, only empty shells of buildings left. Since the fighting began in May, almost 800 people have died, most of them Islamic rebels. The urban warfare has been difficult for the Philippine […]
Winchester, VA - The Daily Mail reports that ISIS, following its substantial losses in Syria and Iraq, is now pouring money into its European operations, and is planning waves of attacks against Western targets. Intelligence officials believe that their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive (I think he's like Elvis), hiding around the border of Iraq and Syria, and planning sophisticated attacks on nations such as Britain. The head of […]
Winchester, VA - Press TV is reporting that ISIS is preparing to make its last stand in Syria's Dayr al-Zawr province, one of the last remaining holdouts of the terrorists, who are headed to the region from Mosul and Raqqa. Russian General Staff spokesman General Sergey Rudskoy said that although most of the terrorists have now left Raqqa, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have not been able to recapture the city. […]
Winchester, VA - The Daily Mail is reporting that ISIS was responsible for a vehicular terrorist attack yesterday in Barcelona, Spain, in which the suspects, in a rented van, drove into crowds of people on a pedestrianized street in Las Ramblas. The location of the attack is a popular one with tourists. Thirteen people were killed by the van, and another 100 were injured, 10 of those critically. Two accomplices, a […]
