“I am worried from the standpoint of an intelligence professional who looks at the capabilities of Daesh … and their determination to kill as many as people as possible and to carry out attacks abroad,” Brennan said in an exclusive interview at CIA headquarters with Yahoo News.
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In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the mobile application, tagged: “Huroof,” is to be used by ISIS to teach children the Arabic alphabets with the aid of guns, military tanks and cannons
The attacker, a 25-year-old who went to jail in 2013 for helping Islamist militants go to Pakistan and had been monitored by security services, repeatedly knifed the 42-year-old commander in the stomach late on Monday
A member of the militant group narrated in English with a thick Arab accent that the ISIS terrorists carried out the suicide bombings and shootings in Paris to wipe out “kuffars” or non-Muslims
It stated that the records showed that the alleged recruiter was in 300 level and did not register for the current session, adding that his mates were presently being mobilised for the National Youth Service Corps
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The human rights group said the jihadist group has executed 420 of its own members, mainly foreign fighters, on charges of spying for foreign countries or because they were trying to escape and return home
Mohammed said: “Apart from these fake figures, we are aware of the planned release of old videos of Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria through the terrorists’ preferred channel to give the impression that they have continued to carry out spectacular attacks. Those videos are neither recent nor genuine
It stressed that existing resolutions “shall also apply to the payment of ransoms to individuals, groups, undertakings or entities on the ISIL [Da’esh] and Al-Qaida sanctions list, regardless of how or by whom the ransom is paid”
Saudi Arabia, according to reports, was building a coalition of 34 Muslim/Arab countries to fight ISIS, with Nigeria named among them
The travel alert, which is in effect until February 24, 2016, said current information suggested that militants with ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and other militant groups continued to plan attacks in several regions around the world
Her brother, Youssouf Aitboulahcen, said his estranged sister preferred the Internet to Islam — and first put on a veil just a month ago
The Nigerian-based terror group, also known as Islamic State’s West’s Africa province (ISWAP), was responsible for 6,644 deaths in 2014.
This was disclosed by a member of the investigation team
Hammond said: “ISIL-Sinai have claimed responsibility for bringing down the Russian aircraft, they did that straight away after the crash
The 10 minute long footage by the Nigerian militant group mimics the violent videos released by ISIS propaganda clips
Russian police Col.-Gen. Andrei Novikov told newsmen that authorities confirmed that a minimum of around 2,000 Russian passport holders had joined the extremists army in Iraq and Syria
Sources said the victims, members of local Sunni tribes, were shot dead in the IS-held western town of Qaem near the border with Syria for alleged collaboration with government troops trying to recapture Anbar
A son of a highly respected former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Muhammadu Lawal Uwais, who is known for his hard stance on the rule of law, it was reported last Tuesday that Ibrahim had left Nigeria for Syria few days back with his two wives and children to enlist and fight for ISIS
In a related development, US President Barack Obama said in an interview that Mueller had been among the IS hostages in Syria that the US tried to rescue last summer