Iraqi army troops have found a mass grave in the province of Nineveh containing the bodies of more than 340 members of Izadi minority, who are believed to have been executed by ISIS terrorists. “The mass grave contains the bodies of 340 people and is located in al-Ba’aj town, which was under control of ISIS terrorists” said Brigadier General Mohamed al-Shemari. Back in August 2014, Daesh terrorists overran the town of Sinjar, killing, raping, and enslaving large numbers of Izadi Kurds.

Hackers have targeted Isis by slipping pornographic images into its official communication channels. Members of the Iraqi hacking group, Daeshgram, said they wanted to show distrust among Isis supporters about messages from the group’s leaders, according to Newsweek. In one image the hackers photoshopped an image of a naked woman into an announcement about a media centre which was being opened in a part of Isis-controlled Syria. The image made it look as though Isis leaders had been viewing pornographic images.

Iraqi Prime Minister Hadir Al-Abadi declared military victory over the Islamic State in Iraq on Tuesday, just hours after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that Iranian-backed forces had driven the terror group out of Syria. ISIS's last Iraqi town of Rawa fell on Friday, and Abadi only awaits the clearing of a patch of desert along Iraq's border with Syria to declare final victory.

Six young Iraqis are taking a strategy straight out of the Kremlin’s mischievous playbook, but with no thanks to Moscow. They’re using hacked accounts to attack the so-called Islamic State and fake news to disrupt its “virtual caliphate.” Given the dangers they face, the six people who make up the little group calling itself, with conscious irony, “Daeshgram”—its name melding the Arabic acronym for ISIS and Instagram—are forced to live something resembling double lives.

Nadia Murad grew up dreaming of owning a beauty salon. The youngest of 11 children in a Yazidi family in northwest Iraq, she took photographs of all the brides in her tiny village, studying their makeup and hair. Her favorite was of a brunette woman with curls piled high atop her head. But after ISIS overtook her village in August 2014, that dream died. Murad was captured, enslaved, sold, raped and tortured alongside thousands of her people in an effort to decimate their religion.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense has provoked a torrent of mockery from its own followers after it published “irrefutable evidence” that the U.S. is in league with the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) that turned out to be footage from a 2015 video game. Russia, which has backed Bashar al-Assad during the war in Syria, has often been critical of U.S. operations there, repeatedly claiming that U.S. forces are at best ineffectual at fighting ISIS or at worst in cahoots with jihadist groups.

France's National Assembly on Wednesday lifted the immunity from prosecution of far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting pictures of Islamic State group atrocities, parliamentary sources said. The decision was taken by a cross-party committee in charge of the internal functioning of the assembly, after a request from the authorities to lift Le Pen's parliamentary immunity over a crime that carries up to three years in prison.

U.S. forces conducted airstrikes Friday in Somalia against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, their first against the terrorist group in that country. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said Friday that U.S. forces conducted two separate strikes in Somalia, killing “several” ISIS members. The first strike happened at about midnight local time, while the second happened at about 11 a.m., according to AFRICOM.

Nearly 20 percent of high school and university students in Indonesia support the establishment of a caliphate in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country over the current secular government, a new survey showed this week.

The "radicalized" suspect who killed eight people by driving his rented truck into a bicycle path in Lower Manhattan had meticulously planned the attack for weeks and left a note in his vehicle proclaiming that the "Islamic State would endure forever," law enforcement authorities said Wednesday. The suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old truck driver from Uzbekistan, was shot and arrested by police Tuesday afternoon after emerging from the truck and waving what appeared to be a weapon.

An ISIS unit has been exposed in Kerala, the police said today after the arrest of five suspects in Kannur. UK Hamsa or Taliban Hamsa, believed to be the key terrorist handler, is among the five men arrested since yesterday.

An American citizen has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of joining and providing material support to ISIS terrorist group. The man had stated that he “wasn’t thinking straight,” and left the terrorist group shortly after joining. Mohamad Khweis, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday in the Eastern District of Virginia by U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady. Khweis was captured in Iraq in March 2016 by Kurdish Peshmerga forces, and was then handed over to the United States.

Abu Shahed first realized his 11-year-old son was being brainwashed by ISIS when he saw the fourth-grader's textbooks. They were filled with images of "bombs, guns, machine guns, tanks, warplanes and other war symbols,” the father of four recalled. The militant group's black flag also featured in materials given to children at the ISIS-run school that Abu Shahed's son was forced to attend after the militants captured the Syrian town of Al Bukamal in 2014.

The forces fighting the remnants of the Islamic State group in Syria have tacit instructions on dealing with the foreigners who joined the extremist group by the thousands: Kill them on the battlefield. As they made their last stand in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, an estimated 300 extremists holed up in and around a sports stadium and a hospital argued among themselves about whether to surrender, according to Kurdish commanders leading the forces that closed in.

Our enduring deference to religion, despite its toxicity and phony explanations for the cosmos, lets it survive. “Yes, it is freedom of speech, but,” said Inna Shevchenko, the 24-year-old leader of the topless, fiercely atheist activist group Femen in France. On Feb. 14 she was addressing the conference on art, blasphemy and freedom of expression held at the Krudttønden, a café and cultural center in Copenhagen. She continued. “Why do we still say 'but' when we..."

President Donald Trump took credit for the fact that ISIS is in retreat during an interview Tuesday, claiming that ISIS wasn't on the run before because "you didn't have Trump as your president." The comment comes as US-backed forces fighting ISIS in Raqqa said "major military operations" in the city have ended and that the jihadists have lost control of their self-declared capital. American officials have not yet formally announced that the fight is won, but the development marks a significant moment for the war on ISIS.

American-backed forces said on Tuesday that they had seized the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State, a major blow to the militant group, which had long used the city as the de facto capital of its self-declared caliphate. The apparent rout of the last Islamic State fighters touched off celebrations in Raqqa, where residents had lived under the repressive rule of militants who beheaded people for offenses as minor as smoking.

The two surviving leaders of a deadly siege in the southern Philippines city of Marawi have been killed in an offensive launched by thousands of troops to retake areas held by pro-Islamic State militants, state security officials have said. Four military and police officials told Associated Press that Isnilon Hapilon, who is listed among the FBI’s most-wanted terror suspects, and Omarkhayam Maute were killed in a gun battle and their bodies were found on Monday in Marawi.

British jihadist Sally Jones has been killed in a US drone strike in Syria, The Sun has reported. The former punk rocker from Kent fled to Syria with her son in 2013 and became a leading recruitment officer for Islamic State. According to The Sun, the Government was informed by CIA chiefs in June that US forces had killed Jones, 50, in a missile strike close to the Iraq/Syria border.

As time passes by, more brutal stories on ISIS’s violence in war-torn areas unravel and circulate basically through alternative media and some media outlets, at the time mainstream outlets remain silent. A new mass grave has been uncovered with 21 bodies and their heads buried two years ago. Libya’s Interior Ministry has announced that they have found the mass grave of Coptic Christians who were beheaded by ISIS, the so-called Islamic State. According to the report, the remains have been sent for forensic examination.