NIGERIA – Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau Located, Chibok Girls Convert To Islam
Global Sentinel | David Otto | July 7, 2020 All the remaining Chibok Girls in the custody of Boko Haram JAS faction have converted to Islam and changed their names…
MIDDLE EAST – ISIS Terrorists Cannot Be Allowed to Reclaim Iraq
Gatestone Institute | Con Coughlin | June 18, 2020 With the primary focus of the Trump administration understandably concentrated on a variety of pressing domestic issues, from the forthcoming presidential…
SYRIA – ISIS Attacks Increase in NE Syria
International Christian Concern | June 8, 2020 According to research published by the Washington Institute, the Syrian province of Deir al-Zour has experienced 638 ISIS attacks since March 2019. This…
MIDDLE EAST – Report: Pandemic and Persecution in the Middle East
International Christian Concern | May 29,2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has initiated global lockdowns, slowing down societies but not religious persecution. In the Middle East, where persecution was once defined by…
AFRICA – Christian persecution worsening due to COVID-19
CHVN | Libby Giesbrecht | April 19, 2020 The persecution of Christians for their faith around the world is getting worse during the global COVID-19 pandemic. According to Open Doors USA,…
NIGERIA – Boko Haram and Its Current Situation in Nigeria
Modern Diplomacy | Farzad Ramezani Bonesh, Chidiebere Favour Nwobodo | April 7, 2020 Although boko haram and ISIS have been confusingly used interchangeably due to their seemingly common characteristic, which…
UK – Britain sanctions African ISIS affiliate groups
The National | Jack Dutton | February 24, 2020 The UK on Monday moved to add IS in the Greater Sahara and Boko Haram to its list of terrorist organisations.…
WORLDWIDE – Radical Islam Still Driving Global Christian Persecution, Report Finds
Breitbart | Thomas Williams | January 16, 2020 Islamic extremism is a primary driver of Christian persecution in eight out of the ten most dangerous places for Christians to live,…
AFRICA – Africa’s Young Christian Communities Are Now in Islamic-Extremist Crosshairs
NCR | Nina Shea | January 11, 2020 An ongoing Islamic extremist project to exterminate Christians in sub-Saharan Africa is even more brutal and more consequential for the Church than…
NIGERIA – ISIS monsters execute nearly a dozen Christians around Christmastime
ISIS monsters execute nearly a dozen Christians around Christmastime New York Post | Yaron Steinbuch | Dec. 27, 2019 Enlarge Image Islamic State of West Africa Province released a video…
SYRIA – The story of a priest held hostage by Isis
Vatican News | Dec. 5, 2019 Father Jacques Mourad is a Syrian-Catholic priest. In 2015, he spent five months as a hostage of jihadist terrorists in Syria. He describes it…
EUROPE – Islamic State Alive and Well in Europe
Gatestone Institute | Soeren Kern | Dec. 2, 2019 The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the November 29 jihadi attack at London Bridge, where a Pakistani Islamist stabbed two…
USA – US-born Alabama woman who joined ISIS is not an American citizen, judge rules
Fox News | Louis Casiano | Nov. 14, 2019 A federal judge ruled Thursday that an American-born woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group and now wants…
USA – After Baghdadi’s death, ISIS statements portray terrorist group as intent on exacting revenge
Washington Post | Souad Mekhennet |Nov. 1, 2019 When the Islamic State finally broke its silence about the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, it did so with a 1,200-word communique…
AFRICA – Terrorist Attacks Increase in Africa’s Sahel, U.S. Warns
The Wall Street Journal | Jessica Donati and Courtney McBride | Nov. 1, 2019 WASHINGTON—Africa’s Sahel region is emerging as a new frontier in the fight against terrorist groups, according…
SYRIA / NIGERIA – Hold Some of the Champagne on Al-Baghdadi
Center for Security Policy | Frank Gaffney | Oct. 28, 2019 This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. America achieved an important victory over the Islamic State yesterday…
SYRIA – ISIS target believed to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed in Syria: sources
Fox News |Dom Calicchio | Oct. 26, 2019 The Islamic State group leader who reportedly had a $25 million bounty on his head is believed to have been killed in Syria.…
MIDDLE EAST – Author Shows Pathway to ‘Love in the Face of ISIS’
CBN NEWS | Julie Stahl | Oct. 25, 2019 JERUSALEM, Israel – The Bible calls us to do some tough things in life such as love our enemies. But what…
USA – Author Shows Pathway to ‘Love in the Face of ISIS’
CBN News | Julie Stahl | Oct. 25, 2019 JERUSALEM, Israel – The Bible calls us to do some tough things in life such as love our enemies. But what…
TURKEY / SYRIA – Turkey-Backed Jihadists in Syria Kidnap, Murder, and Desecrate
Middle East Forum | Seth Frantzman | Oct. 24, 2019 Still frame from a video showing members of the Turkish-backed Faylaq al-Majd militia desecrating the corpse of a female Kurdish…
SYRIA – ‘There Won’t be Christians Left’: Syrian Christians Fear Grim Future in Shadow of Turkey’s Invasion
CBN NEWS | Chris Mitchell | Oct. 21, 2019 JERUSALEM, Israel - A spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) says they have completely evacuated fighters from a besieged…
TURKEY / SYRIA – Christians of NE Syria Plead: “Don’t Let Turkey Drive Christianity Out”
Stream | The Syriac National Council of Syria | Oct. 18, 2019 On Sunday, October 6, U.S. President Trump issued a statement. It gave Turkey the green light to carry…
AFGHANISTAN – Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Afghanistan and an Opportunity for the West
Aug. 21, 2019 | Gatestone Institute | Lawrence A. Franklin In its effort to sustain a pro-Western regime in Afghanistan, the United States might instead take advantage of an opportunity…
SRI LANKA – 176 children lost one or both parents in Sri Lanka Easter bombings
WorldWatch Monitor | Aug. 12, 2019 Woman kneels at altar, St Anthony’s shrine, Colombo where 54 died on Easter Sunday, 2019 (Credit: World Watch Monitor) At least 176 children lost…
SYRIA, TURKEY, ISIS – Database: over 40 former ISIS members now part of Turkish-backed forces
Aug. 8, 2019 | Rojava Information Center Over 40 former ISIS members now working in Afrin as part of Turkish-backed forces have been identified in a new database, published today…
IRAQ – intimidation of Nineveh Plain Christians
Aug. 8, 2019 | Middle East Concern Iraqi Christians asked us to pray for the town of Bartella, a predominantly Christian town in the Nineveh Plains, east of Mosul, where…
ADVISORY – Nigeria Crisis Delegation Truthsquads Nigerian Vice President’s ‘Come-to-Jesus’ Meeting with Mike Pence
***MEDIA ADVISORY*** | June 26, 2019 Courageous Victims of Jihadist Violence Challenge the False, but Official ‘Farmers-vs.-Herdsmen’ Narratives of the Nigerian Government and the U.S. State Department WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, June…
IRAQ – Iraq: Five years after IS occupied Mosul, returnees live in fear
The Islamic State’s three-year occupation of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and its surrounding villages ended nearly two years ago, yet the city and its diminished number of Christian residents remain…
IRAQ – Iraqi Christian survives being burned alive by ISIS 3 times: ‘[Jesus] spoke to me’
An Iraqi Christian who said Jesus appeared to him twice in his dreams recounts being imprisoned by ISIS, tortured and burned three times by the terrorist group. The man, a Yazidi, recounts his harrowing…
SRI LANKA – Before the Sri Lanka attacks, much of South Asia seemed resistant to ISIS. Now it’s reassessing the risks.
Washington Post | Joanna Slater | May 3, 2019 NEW DELHI — It was one of the last places anyone expected the Islamic State to strike. Just weeks after its…
SRI LANKA – Sri Lanka Bombings Live Updates: Police Warned That Churches Were Targets
New York Times | Apr. 21, 2019 As Christians in Sri Lanka gathered on Sunday morning to celebrate Easter Mass, powerful explosions ripped through three churches packed with worshipers, leaving…
GERMANY – German on trial over death of 5-year-old Yazidi slave girl
Washington Post | David Rising | AP | April 9 27-year-old German Jennifer W. covers her face as she arrives at a court in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, April 9, 2019.…
IRAQ – Disabled Iraqi Christian Woman Overcomes Persecution
International Christian Concern | March 20, 2019 Although the reconstruction of Mosul is slow, following its three-year occupation by the Islamic State (ISIS), the city’s bustling university provides hope for…
SYRIA – ISIS Beheads 50 Yazidi Sex Slaves as Parting Gift
Clarion Project | Feb. 25, 2019 In a final act of depravity, fleeing ISIS beheaded 50 Yazidi sex slaves, dumping their heads into trash bins for coalition soldiers to find.…
SYRIA – Mass grave discovered outside of Raqqa
Feb. 21, 2019 | Straits Times RAQQA, Syria (AFP) - Sixty centimetres deep, below a plot of farmland outside the Syrian city of Raqqa, lies a large and deadly legacy…
PHILIPPINES – ISIS Bombing of Cathedral in Philippines Shows Group’s Reach Into Asia
By Hannah Beech and Jason Gutierrez | Jan. 28, 2019 BANGKOK — A deadly bombing of a cathedral in the Philippines has brought fresh attention to the Islamic State’s ability…
IRAQ – Iraqi Curriculum Issues Veiled Threat Against Christian Women
International Christian Concern |Jan. 15, 2019 Questions persist throughout Iraq regarding whether ISIS is truly defeated or will rise again, perhaps under the banner of another terrorist organization. For Iraqi…
TURKEY – The Coming ‘Turkish Jihadist Invasion’ Against Christians: A Christmas Plea from Syrians to US Christians
CBN News | December 27, 2018 In an open letter to Christians in the United States, the head of the Syriac Union Party pleaded that his people not be abandoned…
IRAQ – The New Threat Iraq’s Christians
Real Clear Politics | Dec. 24, 2018 In March of 2017, with the battle for control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, raging just miles away, I was driven into…
IRAQ – Rural Iraq Devastated by ISIS
International Christian Concern | Dec. 16, 2018 Amnesty International has released a new report describing how the Islamic State (ISIS) used a scorched earth policy to devastate rural Iraq. This…