Sentences with phrase «isis took»

They include Aziz, a former hard - partying college student who now heads the organization; Hamoud, a cofounder of RBSS, who strengthens his resolve by watching the video ISIS took of the execution of his father (a brother was subsequently murdered and another is missing); Hussam, a law student turned reporter who was nearly nabbed by ISIS with encrypted video on his phone; and Mohamad, a former math teacher who joined the revolt against Assad after a student was arrested and has since followed up with resistance to the caliphate.

City of Ghosts from documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) follows members of the RBSS (Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently), activists who banded together when ISIS took over their hometown in 2014.

In 2014, ISIS took control of large swaths of territory, including Fallujah, Hawija and Mosul.

ISIS took everything.

If anything, he fears ISIS takes the risks seriously and gains insight from the hacking strategies.

We need to go quickly and help them before ISIS take them and send them to fight you, and send them back to fight us here.

Why is ISIS taking hostages, beheading them, and broadcasting their deaths on the internet?

@OlivierPucher Unlikely, since we know for a fact that these rebels are very volatile and frequently change sides to join ISIS taking along with them the weapons and other supplies provided by USA.

Nonetheless, a handful of opponents showed up at the county supervisors» meeting, with one speaker reportedly comparing Apex building a wind farm to ISIS taking over the Middle East.

Not exact matches

ISIS began their assault on Tora Bora late Tuesday, Attahullah Khogyani, a spokesman in Nangarhar, told The Guardian, and had taken many areas around it.

«Unfortunately, there have been (these) incidents that have taken our focus away from fighting ISIS,» Dillon said, using an acronym for Islamic State.

The campaign, which runs until June, has been in the works for nearly eight months, and was «developed before the killings of Canadian soldiers last fall in Ottawa and St. Jean, Quebec and Canada's decision to take part in the coalition campaign against ISIS,» writes Marketing's Danny Kucharsky.

He concluded: «I will take care of ISIS and we should get onto much more important things and much bigger things.»

If Zuckerberg and Dorsey don't want to be «arbiters of truth,» the Kremlin, Alex Jones, and ISIS are happy to take over that responsibility.

«Terrorist content and propaganda has no place in our network and we've developed a number of tools so that 99 % of the ISIS and al Queda content that we take down is identified by these systems and taken down before anyone in our system even flags it for us,» Zuckerberg responded.

One approach Anonymous could take is to shut down online accounts and thus undermine ISIS» recruiting tools.

RAF Tornados are actually taking part to Operation Shader against ISIS flying from Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus.

«The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda [sic]... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an October interview with the Wichita Eagle newspaper.

The images were taken from a video published online by the Iraqi military in June 2016, showing a joint US - Iraqi mission that attacked an ISIS convoy outside Falluja.

The campaign has been in development since last June, before the killings of Canadian soldiers last fall in Ottawa and St. Jean, Quebec and Canada's decision to take part in the coalition campaign against ISIS.

The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an Oct. 17 interview with the Wichita Eagle.

U.S. - backed Syrian rebels are continuing to take territory from the ISIS terrorist group.

Consider the strangely passive approach the U.S. Air Force took when ISIS could be used to put pressure on the Syrian government, and the USAF's «accidental» bombing of Syrian troops as ISIS fighters waited unmolested nearby to fill the gap.

The assailant's motives are currently unknown, although he has demanded to speak with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and to have the flag of the Islamic State (ISIS) delivered to the café where the siege is taking place.

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.»

According to the civil defense authority in Iraq — where ISIS has taken over several cities — the group intentionally blew up the tomb of Jonah.

ISIS captured a town, killed the men and boys and took 100 women and girls.

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.

On March 23 in the French town of Trèbes, an ISIS attacker entered a supermarket, killed two people, and took a woman hostage.

In the city of Mosul, which has been taken over by ISIS, Christians were given a July 19 ultimatum: convert to Islam or be executed.

One of the copts, identified as Mina F, told the advocacy charity: «None of us can travel to Egypt by the road because ISIS have controlled Sirte and they can take us captive during our trip by microbus.

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.

ISIS wants to take over the Middle East and eventually the world and run the world according to its sick power hungry ways.

«It matters because it will bring pressure — mainly moral, but some legal — on a reluctant administration to take decisive action against ISIS.

Also in Hammam al - Alil, the United Nations warned that ISIS was taking young boys, as young as 9 years old, to have them fight on their behalf as Iraq continues to fight to retake the country from ISIS.

ISIS was able to take over large swaths of land due to the lack of centralized authority in both Iraq and war - torn Syria.

After all, the American bombing of ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq has not led to the destruction of ISIS, and the Russian bombing of the Assad regime's internal enemies has not led to Assad's taking over Aleppo, never mind the whole country.

However if I have a weapon and an ISIS fighter - butcher - terrorist has a gun or knife to an innocent it behooves me to take him out by whatever means.

About 230 people, «some of who were taken from a church,» were kidnapped or detained by ISIS when the terrorist group captured the Syrian town of Qaryatain on Friday.

Earlier this year, ISIS launched surprise attacks on 35 villages in northeast Syria and took more than 200 Christians captive.

Following the fighting between ISIS and the Syrian army, at least 1,400 families fled the town to safer areas or took shelter in the government - controlled city of Homs, reports the Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights.

After a four - month battle with ISIS, U.S. - backed armies were able to take over ISIS» capital city, Raqqa today, according to reports.

Take, for instance, the fact that the videos showing the beheadings and executions of Ethiopian and Egyptian Christians were entitled «A Message Signed in Blood to the Nation of the Cross», and that the cover of ISIS» official magazine, Dabiq, in October 2014 featured a picture of St Peter's Square with an ISIS flag superimposed atop the obelisk that adorns the centre of that iconic Christian building.

Within weeks of ISIS» lightning - fast advance in Iraq and Syria last summer, the world's top Islamic scholars issued an open letter to al - Baghdadi, taking him to task on the poor Islamic theology that was dictating the horror he was inflicting upon the world.

Take the second statement, and twist it for a religion that has several major and many many minor sects, and you have ISIS and al Qaeda.

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

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

I think if you were a journalist, and a US soldier used lethal force to take out an ISIS cell, you'd spend months harping on how evil this person was, how ISIS was just sitting around the campfire singing «We are the world» when they got blown up.

Unfortunately, people like ISIS have taken this God - driven exclusion to its logical conclusion, and it doesn't make the ordinary religious people look good in this day and age.

Unless our government takes a stronger stand against ISIS, UK Churches may have to step up their security measures, writes Johnnie Moore.