Western women had all sorts of reasons for joining ISIS, from seeking romance, falling in love, wanting an adventure, following a man, or escaping a bad family situation, to rejecting Western society where they felt rejected themselves. Keep Reading
The reluctance by EU member states to take responsibility for those who left from their territories to join ISIS is due to concerns about ISIS returnees constituting a danger to European society and inability to prosecute and imprison them. Keep Reading
The decision came in the midst of failed negotiations with many foreign governments to facilitate repatriation. Keep Reading
DIA assesses leader's death has little effect on ISIS’s ability to “maintain continuity of operations, global cohesion, and at least its current trajectory." Keep Reading
The news came as U.S. Central Command warned that ISIS “remains cohesive,” with a war chest of hundreds of millions of dollars available to it, following the October killing of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Keep Reading
The proposed bill and the sanctions should signal a positive shift across the international community’s efforts to rally public condemnation in lending credibility to victims' claims in the face of the Assad regime’s atrocities. Keep Reading
There’s no room for nerves in the cockpit of F/A-18 fighter jets, according to former Naval flight officer Caroline Johnson, who participated in combat missions flying over Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Keep Reading
The foreign fighters are considered the most dangerous group of all Isis fighters held in jails – totaling around 20,000, when Iraqis and Syrians are included. Keep Reading
It was the summer of 2014 when most Americans took notice of the Islamic State, but the group had been around in different forms for about a decade. Keep Reading
Europe is currently bracing for new waves of repatriation of ISIS members previously held in Turkey following their capture. Suleyman Solu, Turkey’s interior minister, has stated that Turkey would not act as “a hotel for foreign Daesh/ISIS terrorists." Keep Reading