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Egypt’s Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis swears allegiance to ISIS: statement
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt’s most active militant group, has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, a statement from Ansar said Monday night. Ansar had previously told Reuters that it sought inspiration and advice from Islamic State, the radical al-Qaeda offshoot that has taken over swathes of Iraq and Syria, drawing U.S.-led airstrikes as it tries to remake the map of the Middle East.
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This Is How ISIS Smuggles Oil
An exclusive ground-level look at the illicit oil trade that has made ISIS the world’s richest extremist group.
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The American prison that became the birthplace of Isis
In March 2009, in a wind-swept sliver of Iraq, a sense of uncertainty befell the southern town of Garma, home to one of the Iraq War’s most notorious prisons. The sprawling detention center called Camp Bucca, which had detained some of the Iraq War’s most radical jihadists along the Kuwait border, had just freed hundreds of inhabitants.
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Bush says rise of ISIS the only ‘regret’ for 2003 Iraq invasion
Former U.S. President George W. Bush has claimed that the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group is his only regret about invading Iraq in 2003.
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Shopkeepers Selling Cigarettes in Mosul Under ISIS Face 80 Lashes
Shopkeepers caught selling cigarettes in the ISIS-conquered city of Mosul now face 80 lashes, more than two weeks in jail and a hefty fine. The 700,000 Iraqi dinar penalty is the equivalent of $580 — or enough to buy an iPhone 5S or Windows 7 laptop computer in the country. Anyone caught trying to import cigarettes into the northern Iraqi city also faces 80 lashes, as well as four months in jail and a fine of up to 4 million Iraqi dinar — the equivalent of about $3,300.
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ISIS Introduces New Currency
The Islamic State (ISIS) announced plans to begin minting its own currency on Thursday. The terrorist organization gave specifics to SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that monitors the jihadist threat. ISIS told SITE the new currency, minted in gold, silver and copper, will remove Muslims from the "satanic usury-based global economic system."
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US hostage Kassig 'killed by IS'
A video posted online claims to show that Islamic State militants have killed the captured US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig. In the video, a masked militant stands over a severed head which he says is that of Mr Kassig. The US says it is working to determine the authenticity of the video, which also shows a mass beheading of Syrian troops.
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ISIS claims constructing dirty bomb after stealing 40kg of uranium
On Monday, several media sources quoted from ISIS-allied websites claiming that the so-called Islamic State has constructed a dirty bomb after stealing 40kg of uranium from al-Mosul University. Only four months after the 40kg of uranium and other chemical materials were reported missing from the University of al-Mosul, ISIS militants appeared to make threats and hold online discussions on social media regarding the destruction that such a bomb would wreak in London.
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Lebanon 'has IS leader's daughter'
DNA tests confirm Lebanon is holding the young daughter of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the country's interior minister says. Nohad Machnouk told Lebanon's MTV television that the child's mother, who is also in custody, was now believed to be one of Baghdadi's ex-wives. On Tuesday, Lebanese security officials said they had detained his wife and son at a border crossing with Syria.
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The Reality TV Show That Interrogates ISIS Prisoners on Camera
Baghdad, Iraq: Every week, Ahmed Hassan, the presenter of In the Grip of the Law, a reality show broadcast on Iraqiya, the Iraqi state satellite channel, finds himself in the unique position of playing judge and jury to some of the most feared terrorists in the world, on national TV. In an episode recorded a few weeks ago, Hassan stands over three ISIS fighters, captured by Iraqi security forces and dressed in yellow prison suits, suspected of exploding a bomb in south-east Baghdad.
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ISIS leader: "If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no ISIS"
In an incredible scoop, the Guardian's Martin Chulov interviewed a senior leader of ISIS— one who came up through the ranks with the group's top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The single most interesting quote from the ISIS leader, whom Chulov refers to as Abu Ahmed, is quite disturbing: he credits the group's rise, in large part, to American prison camps during the Iraq war, which he says gave him and other jihadist leaders an invaluable forum to meet one another and to plan their later rise.
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ISIS Mass Beheading Video Took 6 Hours to Film and Multiple Takes
Jihadi group has access to expensive equipment and professional film makers. The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria’s (ISIS) video of the beheading of 22 Syrian soldiers took between four and six hours to film and used equipment that cost around $200,000, a new analysis has shown.
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IS executed 100 foreign fighters who tried to quit
The Islamic State group has executed 100 of its own foreign fighters who tried to flee their headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. An activist opposed to both IS and the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the daily that he had "verified 100 executions" of foreign IS fighters trying to leave the group's de-facto capital.
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The first Western journalist ever given access to the 'Islamic State' has described what he found
The first Western journalist in the world to be allowed extensive access to Isis territories in Syria and Iraq has returned from the region with a warning: the group is “much stronger and much more dangerous” than anyone in the West realises.
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Calgary brothers killed while fighting for ISIS
Clashes in the Syrian town of Dabiq have claimed the lives of two former Calgarians who relocated to the Middle East to join ISIS. Brothers Collin and Gregory Gordon are the latest Calgarians to have been killed in battle. Of the five Calgarians reported to have joined ISIS, four are dead including Damian Clairmont and Salman Ashrafi.
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How a Syrian Boy, 14 and Sheathed in Explosives, Escaped ISIS’ Hold
Before war convulsed his hometown in Syria, Usaid Barho played soccer, loved Jackie Chan movies and adored the beautiful Lebanese pop singer Nancy Ajram. He dreamed of attending college and becoming a doctor. His life, to say the least, took a detour. On a recent evening in Baghdad, Usaid, who is 14, approached the gate of a Shiite mosque, unzipped his jacket to show a vest of explosives, and surrendered himself to the guards.
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The Brothers Who Ambushed ISIS
It was a sunny day in late November when Ahmed Ismael, 22, went with a group of seven other fighters to ambush militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS, on the eastern flank of this besieged town. Then the plan went terribly wrong. The would-be ambushers were themselves ambushed. Two car bombs exploded and a group of jihadists blocked their way from behind, cutting off their exit route. During the intense firefight that followed, four Kurdish fighters died...
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Where Islamic State gets its money
It will not be easy to defeat the brutal jihadists of Islamic State (IS), as the American-led coalition against the group aims to do. IS is one of the best-financed terrorist organisations in the world, except for state-backed ones. There is no credible estimate of the secretive group’s net worth, but in October 2014 an American official described it as amassing wealth at “a pretty massive clip”. It pays fighters around $400 a month...
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Thief has his hand cut off in front of a baying crowd: How ISIS administers twisted justice in Syria and Iraq
This is the moment an alleged thief had his hand cut off in Qa'im, Iraq, by Islamic State fighters as they administered their strict form of Shariah law which is usually carried out in front of a crowd.
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Isis execution video: Young boy ordered to 'kill two Russian spies' with pistol
Isis propaganda machine Al Hayat Media releases video featuring child purportedly killing two men.
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