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.

More than 1,800 Muslim clerics in Pakistan have jointly issued a fatwa against suicide bombings in the country and labelled such attacks "un-Islamic". All the clerics or ulemas belong to various Islamic schools of thought.

Venezuelan authorities on Monday arrested five members of a "terrorist cell" linked to self-proclaimed rogue Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Perez, and killed several other militants during a shootout in a poor area outside Caracas.

A former US Marine suspected of plotting a Christmas holiday terror attack on a popular San Francisco tourist destination was indicted Thursday by a grand jury. Everitt Aaron Jameson said he wanted to use pipe bombs to "funnel people into an area in order to shoot them," at Pier 39, according to the federal indictment.

Last month, agents raiding the St. Charles home of an accused Amtrak hijacker found something alarming: fifteen firearms, including automatic weapons. They also found more than 800 rounds of ammunition — and evidence of ties to white supremacy.

The explosion at a supermarket in Russia's second-largest city was a terrorist attack, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, adding that another attack had been thwarted.  At least 13 people were injured Wednesday evening when an improvised explosive device went off at a storage area for customers' bags at the supermarket in St. Petersburg. Investigators said the device contained 200 grams (7 ounces) of explosives and was rigged with shrapnel to cause more damage.  No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. 

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.

When a Special Forces mission prompts a U.S. senator to exclaim that he has no fewer than “100 questions” the Pentagon could not answer, you know you have someone’s attention. By Sean Zeigler, Meagan Smith.

Two senior executives at French-Swiss cement maker LafargeHolcim, including its former CEO, were charged on Friday over claims that top management turned a blind eye to payments to jihadists in Syria, a judicial source said. Lafarge is accused of paying the Islamic State group and other militants through a middleman between 2013 and 2014 so that the company's factory in Jalabiya, northern Syria, could continue to operate despite the war.

Nine terror plots have been foiled in the UK over the past year, cabinet ministers have been told. MI5's Director General Andrew Parker briefed Theresa May and her senior team on the planned attacks on Tuesday. Ministers were told that the IS forces had been beaten in Iraq in Syria but were now pushing for attacks to be carried out on UK soil.

In a stern warning to Pakistan, the CIA chief has said if Islamabad does not eliminate terrorist "safe havens" in its territory, the US will do "everything" it can to destroy them. The statement by CIA Director Mike Pompeo came ahead of US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis's visit to Islamabad where he will persuade Pakistan to support the new US strategy on Afghanistan. The Trump administration is sending mixed signals to its estranged ally, Dawn reported.

Pakistani authorities released the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks from house arrest, but he still has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. Hafiz Saeed, whose arrest in January was seen as a signal of a broader shift in Pakistan’s treatment of extremists, was freed before dawn Friday local time in the city of Lahore, according to Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a spokesman for the Islamist cleric's charity. "I’m happy that no allegation against me was proved, which could have done damage to me, or my country’s interests," Saeed later told supporters. "Thank God, we were vindicated."

Americans rolled over for decades while we gave the executive branch unreviewable authority to kill – now that power is in the hands of an idiot. By Matt Taibbi.

A teenager has been found guilty of planning an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack on a pop concert a month after the Manchester Arena bombing. The 17-year-old, who is of white British heritage, researched security surrounding a Justin Bieber concert in Cardiff and wrote a “martyrdom letter”.

Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has vowed terrorists will be pursued until they are “wiped off the face of the earth” in the first meeting of a new Arab alliance designed to defeat extremism. “We will not allow them (terrorists) to distort our peaceful religion. Today we are sending a strong message that we are working together to fight terrorism,” Prince bin Salman told assembled defence ministers in a keynote address in Riyadh on Sunday. 

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.

Dozens of men wearing military combat uniforms and armed with automatic machine guns carried out the deadly assault on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai, Egyptian authorities said. Twenty-five to 30 attackers arrived in five SUVs at the al Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed on Friday. Some wore masks and at least one was carrying an ISIS flag, the state prosecutor told state-run Nile TV in a statement.

The death toll in a bomb and gun attack on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai has risen to 305, with 27 children among the dead, Egypt's state prosecutor said Saturday. Another 128 people were injured, according to a statement from the public prosecutor read out on Egyptian state-run news channel Nile TV. Between 25 to 30 armed men carried out the assault on the al Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed, the statement said.

While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing in Mubi town of Nigeria’s northeastern Adamawa State, suspicion immediately fell on Boko Haram. A teenage suicide bomber detonated himself, as worshippers gathered for morning prayers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 50 people, police said on November 21, in one of the region’s deadliest attacks in years.