Tag Archives: ISIL

Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith is found guilty of being a member of an armed group in Syria from 2015 to 2019. Three judges at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin have found former soldier Lisa Smith guilty of joining the ISIL (ISIS) armed group in Syria. Smith, 40, wept …

The US Department of the Treasury accused those designated of playing a role in facilitating the travel of ISIL members to Syria. The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on what it said was a network of five ISIL (ISIS) financial facilitators working across Indonesia, Syria and Turkey in support …

The attack, in which five other soldiers were wounded, was the Egyptian army’s heaviest loss in years. The ISIL (ISIS) group has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 11 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday. At least five other soldiers were wounded in Saturday’s attack, according to …

Prison officials say programme consists of classes on religion, law, and economics and inmates also receive training on how to start a business. As a fighter for ISIL (ISIS) who left his native Morocco to join what he felt was a holy fight in Syria, Mohsin says he saw all …

US judge grants defence’s request to recommend that Alexanda Kotey not be imprisoned in near-total isolation. A US judge has sentenced a British-born former member of the ISIL (ISIS) cell known as “the Beatles” to life in prison, months after the defendant pleaded guilty to several counts of lethal hostage-taking …

Gunmen attack a Ramadan iftar gathering in Deir Az Zor, killing seven people. Suspected ISIL (ISIS) gunmen killed seven people and wounded four others at a Ramadan iftar gathering in Syria’s northeast Deir Az Zor province, according to activists and monitors. The former spokesperson of the United States-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian …

From: Inside Story Series of bombings in Afghanistan highlight security challenges since Taliban seized power in August. The Afghan Taliban says it has arrested the so-called “mastermind” of a bomb attack on a mosque. Police say he is a major ISIL (ISIS) operative, suspected of helping to kill at least …

Former British citizen El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, was found guilty on all counts following a trial in the US. A member of a group of ISIL (ISIS) fighters who beheaded American hostages in Iraq and Syria, and were nicknamed “The Beatles” owing to their British accents, has been found guilty …

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) has changed form several times over the years. With its origins in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, ISIL was forged from an alliance between an al-Qaeda offshoot and elements of the defeated Iraqi Baath party. …

ISIL cell attack SDF-run Al-Hol camp, leading to the death of three civilians and one ISIL fighter. Three people, including a child, have been killed in northeastern Syria’s Al-Hol camp, caught in the fighting between Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in charge of the site and ISIL (ISIS) cells, a …