Latest Islamic State group News
Teen accused of providing gift cards that he wanted used to support terrorist group
BOSTON (AP) — An 18-year-old Massachusetts man sent gift cards worth a total of $1,670 to someone he thought was a supporter of the Islamic State group that he intended to be used to fund a war on nonbelievers, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Mateo Ventura, of Wakefield, is...
At least 18 people killed by extremist rebels in several villages in eastern Congo
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Extremist rebels in eastern Congo's Ituri province killed at least 18 people in several villages, according to a human rights group. Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces attacked people in the Irumu territory villages of Mutuyeyi, Bekembele and Bulesi...
UN investigators compiling evidence on chemical weapons use by Islamic State extremists in Iraq
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. investigators are compiling evidence on the development and use of chemical weapons by Islamic State extremists in Iraq after they seized about a third of the country in 2014, and are advancing work on the militant group’s gender-based violence and crimes against...
Car bombing in northeast Afghanistan kills local official and his driver, wounds 10 people
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A car bombing in Afghanistan’s northeast on Tuesday killed a provincial deputy governor and his driver, a local official said. Ten people were also wounded in the blast. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing in the city of Faizabad...
More than 2 million people displaced, Burkina Faso's government says, as aid falls short
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world's fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people, with the number mushrooming by more than 2,000% since 2019, according to government data. ...
At least 9 killed in eastern Congo's latest extremist rebel attack
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Extremist rebels in eastern Congo killed at least nine people with knives and guns, a civil society organization said Friday. The attack happened Thursday evening on the Kyondo-Kyavinyonge road in North Kivu province, said Meleki Mulala the coordinator for...
Germany arrests 7 alleged members of network that helped finance Islamic State
BERLIN (AP) — Seven people were arrested in raids across Germany on Wednesday against alleged members of a network that helped finance the Islamic State extremist group's activities in Syria, prosecutors said. The suspects — four women and three men, with German, Turkish,...
Teenagers from Islamic State families undergo rehabilitation in Syria, but future still uncertain
QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — For at least four years, thousands of children have been growing up in a camp in northeast Syria housing families of Islamic State group militants, raised in an atmosphere where the group’s radical ideology still circulates and where they have almost no chance for an...
Italy announces arrest of minor belonging to international network of young ISIS supporters
MILAN (AP) — Italian authorities have arrested a minor suspected of being a supporter of the ISIS terror network who was allegedly planning an explosive attack in the area where he lived, police said Tuesday. The minor, identified as an Italian citizen of foreign origin, was...
At least 17 civilians killed by extremist rebels in eastern Congo
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — At least 17 people were killed by extremist rebels in eastern Congo's North Kivu province, local authorities said. Civilians were killed by fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces — believed to be linked with the Islamic State group — in the...
