A Turkish woman was sentenced to death and 11 other foreign widows to life in jail by an Iraqi court, for their involvement with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). The 12 women - 11 Turks and an Azeri, some of whom appeared at the court in Baghdad nursing infants - were convicted on Sunday, despite pleas they had been duped or forced by their husbands to join them in Iraq.

A sleeping father was unaware he had been stabbed in the neck until he woke in pain following an alleged 'ISIS-inspired attack' in Melbourne. Roger Singaravelu, a dedicated nurse, was allegedly stabbed by an international student wearing a burqa at his home in Mill Park, north-east of Melbourne’s CBD, about 4.25pm yesterday.

A former bouncy castle salesman from England is now the chief executioner for ISIS, according to reports out of the U.K. Londoner Siddhartha Dhar has taken over the killer gig from another Brit, Mohammed Emwazi, who was known as Jihadi John. Emwazi was killed by a drone strike in late 2015. Dhar, who also goes by Abu Rumaysah, has been put on the U.S.’s global terrorism list, according to the Daily Mail.

Officials said threat levels are being “kept under constant and active review”. Up to 20 ISIS fighters may be looking to return to Ireland since the terror’s group’s collapse in Syria and Iraq, the Department of Justice has said. Officials estimate about 25 people travelled from Ireland to fight with the group since 2011 but five were killed in action.

A senior Syrian medical official says members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have executed 10,000 people and buried their bodies in mass graves across the country’s northern city of Raqqah. Syrian Forensic Medicine General Director Zaher Hajo told Arabic-language and pro-government al-Watan daily that his colleagues had confirmed the presence of 4,000 bodies in one single grave.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Hamilton town hall Wednesday that despite concerns over returning ISIS fighters, Canadians were safe in their country and could rely on the security and intelligence services to keep them that way. As the war against ISIS winds down, the government has said it's aware of about 180 individuals "with a nexus to Canada" who had travelled overseas to join ISIS and other groups — and another 60 who had returned to Canada.

A mass grave with relics of tortured women was found in west of Mosul city, Nineveh, a police source was quoted saying on Monday. “Relics of 20 women were found inside a mass grave while removing debris in western Mosul,” Col. Omar al-Hajjar told DPA. The victims, according to Hajjar, “were executed by the so-called Islamic State as they were trying to escape toward the eastern side of the city during the liberation offensives last year.”

At its peak, ISIL controlled vast expanses of territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border. But over the past year, the group has been driven out of all major cities including its self-declared capital Raqqa and Deir Az Zor.

Iraqi security forces have reportedly captured a member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) who had appeared in several photographs and footages where he takes part in stoning people under the rule of IS in Mosul. The suspect is identified as “Abu Omer” who’s known for his long white beard, locals said, confirming his arrest on Friday.

Two mass graves containing dozens of bodies of civilians and Syrian troops killed by ISIS terrorists have been found in the west of Raqa province, state news agency SANA reported Friday. The bodies were discovered based on information provided by residents near Wawi in the west of the province, which borders Turkey. It said they had been executed.

Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters Friday that ISIS in 2018 will be seen as a "brand" for terrorists but insisted the group has lost its luster and still needs to be hunted down. Globally, Mattis also said the DoD planned to use conventional forces more for some missions previously done by special operations teams. Special forces have increasingly been used by Washington for counter-terrorism operations in Africa and elsewhere, and the number of casualties has been growing too.

Fewer than 1,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, the United States-led international coalition fighting the hardline Sunni militant group said on Wednesday, a third of the estimated figure only three weeks ago.

ISIS has lost 98 percent of the territory it once held -- with half of that land recaptured since President Trump took office less than a year ago, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. The massive gains come as critics say the Obama administration “micromanaged” the war for years, noting a more intensive air campaign could have ended the conflict much sooner.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a compound of Afghanistan's national intelligence agency in Kabul on Monday, that killed at least five people and wounded two.

Iraq has announced that its war against so-called Islamic State (IS) is over. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told a conference in Baghdad that Iraqi troops were now in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border. The border zone contained the last few areas IS held, following its loss of the town of Rawa in November.

The historian carried secrets too heavy for one man to bear. He packed his bag with his most treasured possessions before going to bed: the 1 terabyte hard drive with his evidence against the Islamic State group, an orange notebook half-filled with notes on Ottoman history, and, a keepsake, the first book from Amazon delivered to Mosul. He passed the night in despair, imagining all the ways he could die, and the moment he would leave his mother and his city.

A high-level defector from Kurdish-led forces that captured the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State has recanted his account of the city's fall, saying thousands of IS fighters - many more than first reported - left under a secret, U.S.-approved deal.

Russia’s military said on Thursday it had accomplished its mission of defeating Islamic State in Syria, and there were no remaining settlements there under the group’s control. Russian bombers had used unprecedented force in the final stages to finish off the militant group, a senior Russian officer said. “The mission to defeat bandit units of the Islamic State terrorist organization on the territory of Syria, carried out by the armed forces of the Russian Federation, has been accomplished,” Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi, head of the general staff’s operations, said on Rossiya 24 TV channel.

Washington will stop providing weapons to the Syrian Kurdish militias, US Defense Secretary James Mattis has said. This follows a vow US President Donald Trump made to his Turkish counterpart to scale down support to the groups Ankara sees as terrorists.

Nicholas Young is sure a jury will agree he’s no radical Islamic terrorist. First he might have to convince jurors he’s not a neo-Nazi. “I can’t wait to go to trial,” Young said in a phone interview from a Virginia jail. “Frankly, my case isn’t like any other terrorism-related case that anyone’s ever brought forward.” He’s right. Young is the only U.S. police officer to ever face terrorism charges...