ISIS kills 120, wounds 140 with holiday bomb. People used vegetable boxes to collect children’s body parts. Ramadan is an important Islamic holiday & lasts for 1 month. Muslims don’t eat or drink from sunrise to sunset that month. Ramadan marks the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad. A huge festival called Eid al-Fitr celebrates the end of Ramadan. …
3 terrorist attacks kill dozens on 3 continents. Source article on CNN.com (opens in new tab) Terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait, & Tunisia killed dozens. In Tunisia, gunmen invaded a seaside hotel and shot 27 people. It is the deadliest attack ever on tourists in the Arab world. In Kuwait, ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb. The bomb went …
President Obama sends 450 more troops to Iraq. Source article on CNN.com 3,050 US troops are in Iraq advising & training Iraqi troops. 450 more troops will go train Sunni tribe soldiers to fight ISIS. Sunni Muslims used to thrive under Saddam Hussein. They have been marginalized since his overthrow. Which is why some Sunnis view ISIS (also Sunni) as …
ISIS has won 2 major victories in the last week. Source article from CNN.com (opens in new tab) ISIS captured 2 cities this week: one in Iraq and one in Syria. In Iraq, ISIS took control of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province. Ramadi is just 75 miles east of Baghdad. In Syria, ISIS took the city of Palmyra on Thursday. …
Strategic city falls to ISIS after months of fighting. Ramadi is in central Iraq. It has a population of ~200,000. ISIS and Iraqi forces have been fighting over it for months. Thursday night, ISIS launched a massive offensive. It included suicide bombers in cars with explosives. The fighting continued through the night and into Friday. ISIS’s black flag has been …
2 gunmen attempt attack on anti-Muslim event in Texas. American Freedom Defense Initiative is an anti-Muslim group. Last week, they held a contest to draw the Prophet Muhammad. Creating an image of Muhammad is very offensive to Muslims. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi intended to attack the event. They drove from Arizona to Texas with body armor and rifles. The …
New video shows ISIS kill 2 groups of Christians. New video from ISIS shows execution of 2 groups of people. The first group of 16 people are beheaded on a beach in Libya. The second group of 12 people are shot in a desert in Libya. Both groups are believed to be Ethiopian Christians. A narrator in the video says the …
ISIS beheads 21 Christians in North Africa. In Dec. and Jan. ISIS kidnapped 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. A new ISIS video shows them beheaded on a Libyan beach. Egypt responded with airstrikes on ISIS targets in Derna, Libya. The targets were camps, weapon caches, and training areas. Retaliation was not part of the Anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq/Syria. The Libyan Air …
Jordan bombs ISIS, Boko Haram massacres more . Jordan vs. ISIS Jordan began airstrikes against ISIS on 2/5/2015. 30 Jordanian Air Force jets carried out the attacks. The bombings targeted ISIS’ capital city of Raqqa in Syria. Unconfirmed reports say 55 ISIS militants were killed. Boko Haram in Cameroon Islamic terrorists Boko Haram raided a village in Cameroon. They murdered …
ISIS killed a pilot. Jordan killed 2 terrorists. Jordan is a key part of the US-led coalition against ISIS. Moath al-Kasasbeh was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot. On Dec. 24, 2013, his F-16 crashed and he ejected. He was captured by ISIS who tried to trade him for prisoners. But video released this week shows he was burned alive. …