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Released: 10/1/2014 Increasing conflict involving ISIS Militants in the Middle East has some travelers concerned over potential impacts to International and Domestic travel.

Increasing conflict involving ISIS Militants in the Middle East has some travelers concerned over potential impacts to International and Domestic travel.

Its predecessor, a millennia - old stone statue from 700 B.C., was filmed being deliberately drilled into and damaged by ISIS militants in 2015.

The player takes on the role of a gunner in a static turret emplacement as waves of ISIS Militants in vehicles and on - foot rush at you in hopes of ending your life.

This week ISIS militants destroyed ancient artifacts at a museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul; aggressively raided Syria and are taking Christian hostages; and are invading Libya.

Most recently, ISIS militants in Libya committed mass beheadings that triggered retaliatory bombings by neighboring Egypt.

Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako told Aid to the Church in Need: «Death and sickness are grabbing the children and elderly people among the thousands of refugee families spread over the Kurdistan Region who lost everything in the recent tragic developments while the ISIS militants are still advancing and the humanitarian aid is insufficient.

ISIS militants launched surprise attacks on 35 Christian villages along a river in northeast Syria yesterday, taking an estimated 100 to 200 hostages.

«In light of the ISIS militants» «barbaric record with the captured,» Assyrian Church of the East leader Emmnauel Youkhana told one outlet, «the destiny of these families is a major concern to us.»

We were astonished by what he said, there in a crowded detainee compound in the middle of the desert outside Fallujah, where hundreds of suspected ISIS militants are held.

Under that call to arms, ISIS militants have rampaged through Iraq, forcing Muslims, Christians and Yazidis to convert to their brand of Islam, pay a protection tax or be killed.

One of those who has given evidence told me the story of a Christian family: a mother and 12 year - old daughter which were raped by ISIS militants, leading the father, who was forced to watch, to commit suicide.

The British - based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is reporting that ISIS militants have abducted at least 90 people after raiding an Assyrian Christian village.

ISIS militants massacred more than 200 civilians, according to a disturbing report, when they raided the small, mostly Kurdish town of Kobani on the Syrian border late last week.

A dozen ISIS militants reportedly gathered a crowd of hundreds to witness the stoning.

The New York Times is reporting a disturbing story in which ISIS militants stoned two twentysomethings in the streets of Mosul after they were accused of committing adultery.

ISIS militants were extorting local business owners along their journey to set up strongholds.

Recent reports indicate that bitcoin might have played a role, due to a certain bitcoin address worth $ 3 million, linked to ISIS militants.

US bases around the Middle East have been supporting the campaign against Taliban and ISIS militants in Afghanistan, and the number of US Air Force personnel on the ground there is relatively small compared to the scope of the US commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

Last March, a Marine outpost established to support the operation to retake Mosul, Iraq came under rocket attack by ISIS militants, killing Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin.

Close - quarters fighting against determined ISIS militants in reinforced positions often necessitates close air support from Iraqi and coalition aircraft.

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is no longer reserved for bombarding the bejesus out of ISIS militants in Syria from the cover of the war - torn country's rolling deserts: Marine Corps officials are experimenting with firing the guided artillery system from the deck of an amphibious ship in the middle of the ocean.

So far, the operation has claimed to have killed almost 1,000 ISIS militants and to have broken the group's spirit in the city.

ISIS militants in Afghanistan have apparently been undeterred by the «Mother of All Bombs» that the US dropped on them in April.

«Any attempt by you, Obama, to deny Muslims liberty and safety under the Islamic caliphate will result in the bloodshed of your people,» the ISIS militant said in the video.

It shows an ISIS militant in uniform, holding in his right hand the head of a woman from the top of her hair while raising his left index finger.

Not exact matches

Despite US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken's announcement that 10,000 Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) militants have been killed since the beginning of nine - month long campaign, Petraeus called the situation «worrisome.»

A massive terror attack in Paris carried out by militants associated with the Islamic State earlier this month prompted France to ramp up its campaign against the group in Syria and enlist the US's help in identifying ISIS targets on the ground in Syria.

ISIS is currently locked in battle against an array of forces for control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq and the largest city under the militant group's control.

Two British ISIS fighters who are part of a group of British militants sometimes referred to as «the Beatles» have been captured by Syrian Kurdish fighters, according to a report from The New York Times.

None of them can believe he would be part of a militant organisation like ISIS.

Activist hacking group Anonymous have declared this Friday December 11 a «trolling day» against the so - called terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) as part of its cyber campaign against the militant Islamist group.

Militant group I.S. (formerly ISIS) has been advancing across large parts of Iraq forcing religious minorities to leave their homes.

Militants from the radical Islamic group ISIS (who have taken to calling themselves «The Islamic State») reportedly made good on threats to destroy sites and shrines they claim are «un-Islamic.»

Several news outlets are reporting that ISIS — the Islamic militant force taking over vast swathes of Iraq — is now forcing Christian residents to pay a special «jizya» tax or face severe consequences.

ISIS (or ISIL or the Islamic State) actually began as a faction of Sunni militants in Iraq who'd been disenfranchised by the Shia government.

The Kosovo threat was not the first time militants pledging allegiance to ISIS have threatened Francis.

On Saturday a deadline that was issued by the militants resposible for taking over large swathes of Iraq expired, with ISIS militias reportedly seizing churches and Christian homes in the city.

The radical Islamic militant group ISIS — which is known for kidnapping and some cases, executing Christians in territories they've overtake — has freed 22 Assyrian Christians.

(CNN)- The destructive force of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the militant Sunni movement, is epitomized in a video released Thursday of ISIS members smashing a tomb in Mosul, Iraq.

On Tuesday, ISIS released a video showing a Muslim militant clad in black beheading Foley, who was wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling in the sand.

After three years of Islamic State occupation and devastation in the wake of the ISIS war, our local partners are sharing stories of continued hope for the Nineveh Plains and the believers who were forced to flee when militants issued their ultimatum: «Convert, leave or die.»

As the BBC notes, the rise of ISIS — as well as the airstrikes and fighting to combat the Islamic militant group — is responsible for much of the uptick in violence.

On Monday, President Barack Obama said the American operation has helped drive ISIS from strategic cities and infrastructure in northern Iraq, which apparently angered the Muslim militants.

Assyrian Christians are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, but in recent years, the rise of ISIS and other militant groups have led to a steady population decrease.

The organization Christian Aid Mission has released a disturbing report, recounting how 11 Christian workers and one of their children were captured by militants from the radical Islamic group ISIS and publicly executed after they refused to denounce their faith.

The organization Christian Aid Mission has released a disturbing report, recounting how 11 Christian workers and one of their children were captured by militants from the radical Islamic group ISIS...

Horrific reports are coming out of Mosul, where ISIS still has a stronghold: According to a Kurdish Democratic Party spokesperson, at least 250 girls were executed by the radical Islamic militants after they resisted sex slavery and refused to be a part of forced marriages with ISIS terrorists.

Last year, Claudia Roth, deputy speaker of the German parliament, expressed shock that NATO is allowing Turkey to harbour an ISIS camp in Istanbul, facilitate weapons transfers to Islamist militants through its borders, and tacitly support IS oil sales.

2) IS may only have ~ 30k fighters, but, to quote the NY Times article referenced below, «though ISIS has grown to be the most powerful militant group in Iraq, its foothold in the country relies on negotiating a shifting tangle of smaller groups and alliances.»