caliphate

"We are going to have 100% of the caliphate, as they call it, sometimes referred to as land ... But we are going to be coming out of there real soon. We are going to get back to our country, where we belong, where we want to be," Trump added. One US defense official directly familiar with the ISIS campaign ...

WASHINGTON -- Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan cautioned that as the physical caliphate has mostly gone down in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has fanned out to other countries. Speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace on Thursday, Sullivan noted that "great progress" has been made militarily "at rooting out ...

It is worth noting that while ISIS controlled large regions in western Iraq and northern Syria, it now controls only 2% of this land. The vision for the establishment of a pan-Islamic caliphate is over. However, we must be very cautious, because its extreme ideology remains a threat for regional and international ...

There are growing signs that Islamic State cells are preparing for violent insurgencies in southern Philippines to build a prized so-called caliphate on Australia's backdoor. The establishment of an entrenched caliphate in the Philippines, at worst, brings the risk of suicide bombers and chemical weapons ...

In-depth: Victory against the Islamic State group has seen hundreds of families in Mosul still paying the price of crimes committed by their relatives, reports Francesca Mannocchi. Tags: Iraq, ISIS, IS, Mosul, Islamic State, Syria. "During the last days of war we found dozens of children trying to get out of the ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES will release its first narrative nonfiction podcast, “CALIPHATE,” a look at ISIS and how it operates. The show will be hosted and reported by TIMES reporter and three-time PULITZER Prize finalist RUKMINI CALLIMACHI; a teaser has been posted in advance of the full series, to post ...

The New York Times is covering the Islamic State and the fall of Mosul, Iraq. "Caliphate" is its initial nonfiction podcast. Called “Caliphate,” the podcast will be hosted by Times journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Rukmini Callimachi. The series will release episodes later this spring. For the first time, The New York ...

The Al-Abd al-Faqir Media video shows, as described at the beginning, "an imaginary chat in the future between an old immigrant to the land of the caliphate where he talks to his friend 'John' who's a new convert to Islam after Allah has fulfilled his promise and the caliphate reached east and west ... in the ...

Some ISIS Members Drove BMWs To The Caliphate. On a hunch, a Belgian newspaper reporter cross-checked the names of known terrorists with a list from Turkish customs of people who brought vehicles into Turkey and did not drive them out. Posted on March 6, 2018, at 1:19 p.m.. Mitch Prothero.

With the guns finally silent and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) expelled from Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria — the twin capitals of the group's self-proclaimed caliphate — President Trump signaled victory in his State of the Union address. “Last year, I pledged that we would work with our allies to ...

An asylum seeker who drove a lorry through crowds of shoppers in Stockholm, killing five people, has said he wanted to build a caliphate. ... The 40-year-old Uzbek national has told a court that he wanted Sweden to "end its participation in the fight against the caliphate, to stop sending its soldiers to war ...

Sweden killer claims truck rampage for IS 'caliphate' Rakhmat Akilov, who pleaded guilty to terrorism charges for an April 2017 Stockholm truck attack, stands in a courtroom on February 14, 2018 at Stockholm dictrict court during his trial. The trial of a rejected Uzbek asylum seeker, who pleaded guilty to the ...

The police are probing whether Taufeeq was influenced by Jund-al-Khilafah-al-Hind, part of the Jund-al-Khilafah (Soldiers of the Caliphate), an Al Qaeda-linked group based along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. Police sources say Ansar-ul-Ghazwat and Jund-al-Khilafah have no weapons in Kashmir, ...

He added that the caliphate has moved to the Turkish parliament, stressing that if Erdogan wins the presidency, it means that he will appoint advisers from all Muslim regions of the Caliphate from various Islamic countries and will be opened in the palace. These will commission the Islamic Union to have ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman, who has signed with Egypt an agreement allotting 1,000 square kilometres of land in South Sinai for a megacity project, met with several Egyptian media figures in Cairo on Monday to talk about recent events. Ahram Online reported that, according to Bin Salman, ...

It sold girls and women into slavery, marrying some off to fighters, and trained many boys to join the ranks of what it called the Cubs of the Caliphate, posting videos of them committing atrocities in the name of its self-declared state. Most of the children returned, not home, but to displacement camps in ...

Kotey and Elsheikh may have been attempting to flee the caliphate but they could just as easily have intended to carry out or otherwise inspire terror in Europe or the Near East. No country wants responsibility for them. Britain is refusing to extradite the men and put them on trial. This is true of many foreign ...

After the demise of the Prophet (SAW) in 632 CE, the institution of Caliphate came into existence. As long as the Prophet (SAW) lived, he himself performed the functions of Prophet, Lawgiver, Religious Leader, Chief Judge, Commander of the Army, and Civil Head of the State—all in One. But after him, an ...