Timeline: state islamic

	2015-08-26 00:45:34	sentences	site	Islamic State fight: Pentagon investigates claims of skewed intelligence
	2015-08-25 22:10:45	sentences	site	In the West African nation of Mali, Islamic radicals in 2012 overran Timbuktu, the historic city of Islamic culture.
	2015-08-25 20:55:16	sentences	site	In Islamic State war, like others, heritage always a target For decades in the 20th century, Islamic militant groups in the Middle East, including al-Qaida, put little emphasis on destroying shrines or historical sites.
	2015-08-25 12:58:29	sentences	site	The temple was built nearly 2,000 years ago and Unesco has described it as a symbol of Syria's historical cultural diversity, which it says Islamic State is seeking to obliterate. Islamic State, which holds tracts of Syria and Iraq, seized the desert city of Palmyra in May from government forces but initially left its ancient sites undamaged.
	2015-08-25 12:56:31	sentences	site	The Islamic State group released propaganda images Tuesday that purport to show militants laying explosives in and then blowing up the 2,000-year-old temple of Baalshamin in Syria's ancient caravan city of Palmyra.
	2015-08-25 11:59:43	sentences	site	Islamic State have released pictures purporting to show the destruction of the 2000-year-old temple of Baalshamin in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra.
	2015-08-25 11:54:27	sentences	site	Islamic State images purport to show destroyed Syrian temple
	2015-08-25 08:22:00	sentences	site	Spain, Morocco arrest suspected 'Islamic State' recruiters
	2015-08-25 06:20:50	sentences	site	Sirte residents, asking not to be named, said Islamic State had executed a total of four people, which all had been wearing orange jumpsuits. Islamic State has executed four people in the central Libyan city of Sirte, including at least one member of a rival group whose body was put on display, according to residents and a video published on social media on Monday.
	2015-08-25 01:28:22	sentences	site	Istanbul: Islamic State may have used chemical agents in an attack against civilians and rival insurgents in northern Syria late last week, according to local rebels and an international aid group.
	2015-08-24 21:25:30	sentences	site	Last year, when the Islamic State took the city, the violence worsened, he said. He was able to escape to Lebanon, then to Turkey, where he was threatened by a former school friend from Idlib who had joined the Islamic State group, and finally to the United States.
	2015-08-24 18:18:16	sentences	site	Gay rights groups tell UN Islamic State killed 30 people for sodomy "In my society, being gay means death and when (Islamic State) kills gays most people are happy because they think we are evil, and (Islamic State) gets a good credit for that," he said, according to his prepared remarks. "If (Islamic State) didn't get me, members of my family would have done it." "Death threats followed me to Turkey. A former school friend from Idlib named Khalil had joined (Islamic State). He relayed through a mutual friend that he wanted to kill me, aiming to go to paradise," he said.
	2015-08-24 16:34:01	sentences	site	Islamic State claims 30 killed for sodomy, UN meeting told
	2015-08-24 14:25:09	sentences	site	BEIRUT (AP) - A resident in the Syrian city of Palmyra says Islamic State militants have demolished the ancient temple of Baalshamin after laying explosives around it for over a month, confirming earlier reports.
	2015-08-24 10:23:25	sentences	site	The head of Unesco, Irina Bokova, said Islamic State extremists in Syria and Iraq are engaged in the "most brutal, systematic" destruction of ancient sites since the Second World War.
	2015-08-23 22:33:47	sentences	site	Islamic State blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin in the Unesco-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities chief has said.
	2015-08-23 22:24:46	sentences	site	They said the Islamic State fighters used suicide bombings and mortar shells and that chief of army operations in Anbar, Maj-Gen. Qassim al-Dulaimi, was lightly wounded in the attack. News of Sunday's attack came two days after up to 50 soldiers were killed by the Islamic State group in two ambushes elsewhere in Anbar province, much of which is under militant control, including Ramadi and the key city of Fallujah.
	2015-08-23 21:43:47	sentences	site	Government forces and allied Sunni and Shiite militiamen have been battling the Islamic State militants in Anbar for months, but, hampered by suicide bombings and booby-trapped buildings, they have only made modest gains.
	2015-08-23 21:43:47	sentences	site	Islamic State group supporters on social media also did not immediately mention the temple's destruction.
	2015-08-23 21:38:39	sentences	site	On Wednesday, relatives and witnesses said Khaled al-Asaad, an 81-year-old antiquities scholar who devoted his life to understanding Palmyra, was beheaded by Islamic State militants, his bloodied body hung on a pole.
	2015-08-23 17:43:00	sentences	site	Activists: Islamic State destroys temple at Syria's Palmyra
	2015-08-23 14:40:15	sentences	site	Iraqi security officials say Islamic State attack in Anbar kills 17 soldiers, 6 Sunni fighters
	2015-08-23 02:25:14	sentences	site	Train Gunman 'Linked' To Radical Islamic Group
	2015-08-22 19:48:00	sentences	site	The Islamic State group controls much of the vast Anbar province, including Ramadi and the city of Fallujah.
	2015-08-22 19:20:17	sentences	site	Official: Islamic State ambushes, kills up to 50 Iraq troops BAGHDAD (AP) " Islamic State militants killed up to 50 soldiers in two separate ambushes in Iraq's turbulent Anbar province west of the capital, Baghdad, a top provincial official said Saturday.
	2015-08-22 13:05:33	sentences	site	Boko Haram strengthens ties with Islamic State group More than 1,000 people have been killed in the insurgency since President Muhammad Buhari was elected in March and pledged to halt the 6-year-old Islamic uprising blamed for the deaths of some 20,000.
	2015-08-21 19:45:07	sentences	site	2 leader of the Islamic State militant group was killed in a US drone strike near Mosul, Iraq, this week, CNN reported earlier on Friday.
	2015-08-21 19:45:07	sentences	site	Washington: The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a US air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House said on Friday, dealing a blow to the group that has sought to form a caliphate in the Middle East.
	2015-08-21 19:20:34	sentences	site	As the senior deputy to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al-Hayali was the primary coordinator for moving large amounts of weapons, explosives, vehicles and people between Iraq and Syria. Price characterized Al-Hayali's death as a blow to Islamic State operations because his influence spanned finance, media, operations and logistics for the group. Also killed in the air strike was an Islamic State media operative known as Abu Abdullah.
	2015-08-21 19:15:58	sentences	site	Islamic State second-in-command killed in air strike: White House
	2015-08-21 17:35:07	sentences	site	The Islamic State group's demolition of the St. Elian Monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs is the latest in a long campaign that has destroyed or extensively damaged some of the Middle East's most spectacular archaeological and cultural sites.
	2015-08-21 17:33:07	sentences	site	In addition to pre-Islamic sites, the militants have also targeted churches, mosques and museums.
	2015-08-21 17:23:57	sentences	site	U.S. officials have been looking into reports that Islamic State militants used the chemical weapon mustard gas in the Aug. 11 attack in Makhmour.
	2015-08-21 17:10:09	sentences	site	US: Tests show mustard gas traces in Islamic State attack Preliminary tests show traces of the chemical agent sulfur mustard on mortars that Islamic State militants used to attack Kurdish forces in Iraq, a senior U.S. military officer said Friday.
	2015-08-21 15:42:57	sentences	site	Islamic State demolishes ancient monastery in central Syria with bulldozers
	2015-08-21 14:43:07	sentences	site	"The Islamic State group yesterday used bulldozers to destroy the Mar Elian monastery in Al-Qaryatain, in Homs province," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.
	2015-08-21 13:25:03	sentences	site	"Daesh continued the destruction of the monastery," said Edward, using an Arabic acronym to refer to the Islamic State group.
	2015-08-21 00:39:56	sentences	site	The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has struggled with a wave of unusually brazen militant attacks this summer, including by jihadis who have pledged loyalty to Islamic State operating in Syria and Iraq.
	2015-08-20 18:05:06	sentences	site	Carter said Turkey should contribute more to the international fight against the Islamic State, saying that even after granting the U.S. military permission to fly combat missions out of Turkey air bases, the Turkish government needs to "do more."
	2015-08-20 17:50:15	sentences	site	WASHINGTON (AP) " Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday called on Turkey to "do more" to assist the U.S.-led international coalition fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
	2015-08-20 13:55:07	sentences	site	Bosnia trial begins for 12 men accused of fighting with Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A dozen Bosnian men have gone on trial on charges of fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. Prosecutors allege the defendants, whose trial opened Thursday, fought with the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq in the second half of 2013 and in 2014. The indictment states they entered Syria illegally from Turkey to "participate in terrorist activities....and fight on the side of the Islamic State" group.
	2015-08-20 10:45:37	sentences	site	On the day it was approved by ministers, Islamic militants launched a multi-pronged attack attempting to seize a northern Sinai town, hitting the military with suicide attacks and battling soldiers for hours. A huge truck bomb in January 2014 targeting Cairo's security headquarters killed four people and damaged a nearby museum dedicated to Islamic arts and history.
	2015-08-20 07:46:33	sentences	site	An image of children of Indonesian jihadists taken from Islamic State social media propaganda aimed at recruiting Indonesians. Jakarta: Justice Minister Michael Keenan has called for Islamic State propaganda used to groom recruits online to be torn down and replaced with an online "counter-narrative to the violent and barbaric ideology".
	2015-08-19 06:25:20	sentences	site	BEIRUT - Syrian state media and an activist group say that Islamic State extremists have beheaded one of the country's most prominent antiquities scholars in the ancient town of Palmyra.
	2015-08-19 04:19:11	sentences	site	Islamic State militants beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site, Syria's antiquities chief said on Tuesday. Syrian state antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said the family of Khaled Asaad had informed him that the 82-year-old scholar who worked for over 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra was executed by Islamic State on Tuesday. Before the city's capture by Islamic State, Syrian officials said they moved hundreds of ancient statues to safe locations out of concern they would be destroyed by the militants. In June, Islamic State did blow up two ancient shrines in Palmyra that were not part of its Roman-era structures but which the militants regarded as pagan and sacrilegious.
	2015-08-18 15:25:15	sentences	site	Iraq's economy battered by Islamic State war, low oil prices As the country battles the Islamic State group on the ground, it faces massive budget deficits brought on by the lowest global oil prices in six and a half years. Since early 2014, Iraq has suffered a serious economic decline after the Shiite-led government in Baghdad started losing territory to the Sunni militants of the Islamic State group. Reeling from the Islamic State advance, Iraq's government now has stopped spending money on construction projects to fund its military.
	2015-08-18 13:57:44	sentences	site	Islamic State fighter urges fellow Turks to conquer Istanbul
	2015-08-18 13:57:44	sentences	site	The steps followed a suicide bombing, blamed on Islamic State, in the Turkish border town of Suruc on July 20 which killed 34 people. "Altogether and under the orders of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi ... let's conquer Istanbul, which the traitor Erdogan works day and night to hand over to crusaders," the man said, referring to Islamic State's leader. The United States carried out its first manned air strikes against Islamic State from Turkey's southern Incirlik Air Base last week and officials have said operations will be ramped up once additional coalition forces arrive. Ankara and Washington are working on plans to provide air cover for Syrian rebels and jointly sweep Islamic State fighters from a strip of land along the Turkish border in a bid to cut off one of the group's lifelines.
	2015-08-17 00:36:12	sentences	site	Pataki: Fighting Islamic State should be higher priority Former New York Gov. George Pataki is telling Iowans he would make fighting the Islamic State group a higher priority of the federal government by increasing U.S. airstrikes against the violent militant group in the Middle East.
	2015-08-15 00:11:44	sentences	site	Uzbek Pleads Guilty To Supporting Islamic State
	2015-08-14 22:49:09	sentences	site	The news is but the latest in a litany of horrors perpetrated by the Islamic State group, which has beheaded, burned and crucified male captives while passing around women as sex slaves.
	2015-08-14 20:51:03	sentences	site	The Islamic State group claimed Mueller was killed in a Jordanian air strike near Raqqah, the group's self-declared capital in Syria.
	2015-08-14 20:10:10	sentences	site	Mueller, whose death was reported in February, was held for a time by Islamic State financier Abu Sayyaf and his wife, known as Umm Sayyaf. Abu Sayyaf was killed in a Delta Force raid of his Syrian compound in June, which resulted in a treasure trove of intelligence about the Islamic State group.
	2015-08-14 19:48:21	sentences	site	The parents of the late American hostage Kayla Mueller say they were told by American officials that their daughter was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group.
	2015-08-14 15:01:30	sentences	site	France is hosting a conference next month to raise money and rally support for Mideast Christians and other minorities persecuted by the Islamic State group.
	2015-08-14 00:10:00	sentences	site	Although the U.S. and its coalition partners are mounting airstrikes against the Islamic State, they are relying on local forces like the Kurds, the Iraqi military and others to do the fighting on the ground.
	2015-08-14 00:07:09	sentences	site	"That makes the most sense," the Journal quoted a senior U.S. official as saying about the possibility that Islamic State obtained the mustard agent in Syria.
	2015-08-14 00:07:09	sentences	site	Islamic State could have obtained the mustard agent in Syria, whose government admitted to having large quantities of the blistering agent in 2013, when it agreed to give up its chemical weapons arsenal, the newspaper reported.
	2015-08-13 23:34:00	sentences	site	U.S. investigating whether Islamic State used chemical weapons against Kurds -- The United States is investigating whether the Islamic State used chemical weapons, the White House said Thursday, following allegations that IS militants deployed chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.
	2015-08-13 14:08:55	sentences	site	A statement circulated online by supporters of Islamic State said the blast had targeted what it called a stronghold of the "charlatan army" and Shiite Muslim militias. Security forces and militia groups are fighting Islamic State in Anbar province, the sprawling Sunni heartland in western Iraq.
	2015-08-13 13:53:38	sentences	site	Islamic State truck bombing at Baghdad market kills 67 The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the explosion, saying it targeted a gathering place of Shiites and vowed more such attacks. In a message posted on an IS-affiliated Twitter account, the Islamic State said it detonated a parked explosives-laden truck in order to have the "rejectionists (Shiites) experience the same harm as their bombardments cause to our Muslim people."
	2015-08-13 12:50:17	sentences	site	Al-Bayan radio station said Thursday that "soldiers of the Caliphate" killed Tomislav Salopek, "whose country is participating in the war against the Islamic State."
	2015-08-13 12:45:12	sentences	site	CAIRO (AP) - The Islamic State group's radio station says its Egyptian affiliate killed a Croatian hostage, the first word from the extremist group a day after a gruesome image of his beheading circulated online.
	2015-08-13 12:35:17	sentences	site	Libyan officials: Islamic State affiliate in Sirte is shelling besieged residential area BENGHAZI, Libya - Libyan officials and witnesses say the country's Islamic State affiliate has attacked a rival Islamist group in the central city of Sirte and is shelling a residential area.
	2015-08-13 12:32:24	sentences	site	Islamic State Affiliate in Libya Shells Residential Area
	2015-08-13 11:02:59	sentences	site	The Associated Press could not independently verify the image, though it bore markings consistent with the filmed hostage demand released last week by Egypt's Islamic State affiliate, the Sinai Province of the Islamic State.
	2015-08-13 09:27:17	sentences	site	The militant group Islamic State said in an audio broadcast on Thursday that its Egyptian affiliate had killed a Croatian hostage, a day after a photograph of a beheaded corpse purported to be that of the Croat was circulated by the group's supporters.
	2015-08-12 22:51:03	sentences	site	Pentagon officials have said the main advantage of using Incirlik is its proximity to Islamic State targets in northern Syria, although a senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday that the F-16s may also be used on missions over Iraq. A Foreign Ministry official in Ankara said Wednesday that Turkey has not carried out its own airstrikes against the Islamic State recently because the U.S. asked it to wait so that the two countries can coordinate efforts. "More than anybody else in the region, Turkey did not want to tangle with ISIS," he added, using an alternative acronym for the Islamic State group.
	2015-08-12 21:39:55	sentences	site	The group changed its name from Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis to Sinai Province after it pledged allegiance to Islamic State, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. The photograph, circulating on Twitter accounts of Sinai Province supporters, shows a man's severed head placed on his body, with a knife driven into sand next to it and the black Islamic State flag in the background.
	2015-08-12 18:18:03	sentences	site	Jeb Bush says Hillary Clinton shares blame for Islamic State rise
	2015-08-12 12:49:43	sentences	site	An online image circulated Wednesday purported to show the beheading of a Croatian hostage held by the Islamic State group's Egyptian affiliate, the first such killing of a foreign captive in Egypt since the extremists set up a branch here. In Libya, an Islamic State affiliate also has beheaded its captives.
	2015-08-12 12:28:42	sentences	site	The latest in the events surrounding the purported slaying by Egypt's Islamic State affiliate of Croatian hostage Tomislav Salopek, after an online image was circulated Wednesday showing his beheaded body.
	2015-08-12 12:14:25	sentences	site	The militants rename themselves the Islamic State group.
	2015-08-12 12:14:25	sentences	site	Jan. 31 - The Islamic State group releases a video saying it beheaded Goto.
	2015-08-12 11:56:54	sentences	site	History of the Islamic State Group as Croat Killed in Egypt
	2015-08-12 11:56:09	sentences	site	Oct. 3 - The Islamic State group releases a video showing a jihadi behead British hostage Alan Henning. Feb. 15 - Libyan militants who earlier pledged their loyalty to the Islamic State group behead a group of Coptic Christians from Egypt in an online video.
	2015-08-12 11:44:46	sentences	site	A black flag used by the Islamic State group and a knife were planted in the sand next to him.
	2015-08-12 11:25:17	sentences	site	The still image, shared by Islamic State sympathizers on social media, showed the apparent body of Tomislav Salopek, a married, 30-year-old father of two, wearing a beige jumpsuit looking like the one he had worn in a previous video. The photo carried a caption in Arabic that said Salopek was killed "for his country's participation in the war against the Islamic State," and after a deadline had passed for the Egyptian government to meet their demands.
	2015-08-12 11:20:31	sentences	site	Online image purports to show Croatian hostage beheaded by Islamic State affiliate in Egypt
	2015-08-12 08:48:26	sentences	site	Bush: US may need more troops in Iraq to beat Islamic State The former Florida governor said the U.S. may need to send more ground troops into Iraq to defeat Islamic State militants, but he stopped short of saying how many as he outlined his strategy for combating a threat that's "spreading like a pandemic."
	2015-08-12 03:11:27	sentences	site	No bail for couple accused of trying to join Islamic State Jaelyn Delshaun Young, and Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla, were arrested over the weekend on charges that they were trying to travel abroad to join the Islamic State militant group. (AP) - A young Mississippi couple who are charged with attempting to join the Islamic State were ordered held without bail Tuesday, pending federal grand jury action on the charges.
	2015-08-11 22:15:20	sentences	site	NEW YORK (AP) " U.S. authorities say two former New York City college students have been indicted on terror charges accusing them of plotting to help the Islamic State group.
	2015-08-11 21:46:04	sentences	site	2 Ex-NY Students Indicted on Islamic State Terror Charges
	2015-08-11 21:30:22	sentences	site	Taliban condemns 'barbarity' of Islamic State execution video Kabul: The Taliban condemned a video released this week showing what appeared to be a group of fighters belonging to the radical Islamic State movement killing a group of Afghan prisoners by blowing them up with explosives. The video, apparently shot in the eastern Afghan province of in June, gave a glimpse into the struggle the Taliban is waging against Islamic State - both considered ultra-hardline groups - for supremacy of the Islamist insurgency in Afghanistan. Groups associated with Islamic State have made growing inroads in Afghanistan in recent years, attracting fighters and support away from the Taliban by preaching a more extreme form of Islamist militancy.
	2015-08-11 14:53:14	sentences	site	The attorney also said the man's father, Oda H. Dakhlalla, is imam of the Islamic Center of Mississippi in Starkville.
	2015-08-11 14:22:22	sentences	site	The Latest on Islamic State arrests in US: Case stuns family
	2015-08-11 14:20:25	sentences	site	An attorney representing the family of one of two Mississippi residents charged with trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State militant group says the family is "absolutely stunned" by the arrest.
	2015-08-11 14:03:43	sentences	site	BEIRUT (AP) - A Syrian hard-line Islamic faction has expressed strong support for a U.S.-Turkish plan to set up a safe zone in northern Syria free of the Islamic State group.
	2015-08-11 07:23:08	sentences	site	Bush has yet, either on the campaign trail or in the preview of his Tuesday speech released by his campaign, to say exactly what a U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State would look like if he is elected president.
	2015-08-11 07:18:42	sentences	site	"The threat of global jihad, and of the Islamic State in particular, requires all the strength, unity and confidence that only American leadership can provide," Bush will say, according to excerpts of his remarks as prepared for delivery.
	2015-08-11 07:18:42	sentences	site	Bush links Clinton to rise of Islamic State Both countries tried to negotiate plans to keep at least several thousand U.S. forces in Iraq beyond the deadline to help keep a lid on simmering tensions among Islamic sects. Since last year, after the Islamic State gained a foothold in Iraq and Syria, Obama has ordered the deployment of about 3,500 American military trainers and advisers who are helping Iraqi forces fight the Islamic State.
	2015-08-11 04:33:07	sentences	site	Later, the charge says, she told the second FBI agent that Dakhlalla could help with the Islamic State's Internet media, saying he "really wants to correct the falsehoods heard here" and the "U.S. media is all lies when regarding" the group, which she called by its preferred internal name, Dawlah.
	2015-08-11 04:33:07	sentences	site	Young and another Mississippi resident were arrested on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, on charges that they were trying to travel abroad to join the Islamic State militant group.
	2015-08-11 04:29:31	sentences	site	In later conversations peppered with Arabic phrases, she said she planned a "nikkah," or Islamic marriage to Dakhlalla so they could travel without a chaperone under Islamic law. In June, the first FBI agent passed Young off to a second FBI agent posing as an Islamic State facilitator.
	2015-08-11 04:10:16	sentences	site	Charge: 2 Mississippi residents aimed to join Islamic State JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) " Two Mississippi residents were arrested over the weekend on charges that they were trying to travel abroad to join the Islamic State militant group.
	2015-08-11 02:13:09	sentences	site	A California college student who lied on a passport application so he could travel to Syria and join the Islamic State pleaded guilty Monday to a terrorism-related charge. Adam Dandach, 21, of Orange pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State and to lying on a passport application. He told FBI agents who questioned him at John Wayne Airport that he was heading to Syria and planned to pledge allegiance and offer assistance to the Islamic State.
	2015-08-11 02:13:09	sentences	site	California man guilty of trying to support Islamic State
	2015-08-10 20:08:07	sentences	site	Feds: Man wanted to form small army for Islamic State
	2015-08-10 18:01:25	sentences	site	The Nusra Front's withdrawal from rural positions north-east of the Syrian city of Aleppo came amid newly announced steps by Turkey and the United States to fight the Islamic State in Syria. It said that the decision to push the Islamic State out of the proposed safe zone was not "the free choice of the fighting factions; in fact, its first goal is the national security of Turkey." US and Turkish officials last month described plans to provide military support to Syrian rebels to clear the Islamic State, from a roughly 95-kilometre-long strip of territory along the Turkish border.
	2015-08-08 10:02:13	sentences	site	Islamic State supporter Budi Waluyo (right) with three former Jemaah Islamiah members in front of the al-Fataa mosque in Jakarta. Fauzan al-Anshori, right, an Islamic State recruiter, leads the "bayat", an oath of devotion, to the leader of Islamic State.
	2015-08-08 09:13:00	sentences	site	Islamic extremists started the attack Friday at the hotel in Sevare, about 375 miles north of Bamako.
	2015-08-08 07:05:25	sentences	site	Saddam-era veterans also serve as "governors" for seven of the 12 "provinces" set up by the Islamic State group in the territory it holds in Iraq, the intelligence chief said.
	2015-08-08 06:59:11	sentences	site	An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran for wearing an Iraqi flag pin into the bathroom because it included the words "God is great."
	2015-08-08 06:59:11	sentences	site	Under its leader, Iraqi jihadi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State group's top command is dominated by former officers from Saddam's military and intelligence agencies, according to senior Iraqi officers and top intelligence officials. Now al-Ani is a commander in the Islamic State group, said Omran, who rose to become a major general in the Iraqi army and now commands its 5th Division fighting IS. But Islamic militants grew in prominence, particularly with the creation and increasing strength of al-Qaida in Iraq.
	2015-08-07 23:45:15	sentences	site	Islamic State 'kidnaps 230 Christians' after Syrian town falls Amman: Islamic State militants have captured dozens of Christian families after snatching the regime-held Syrian town of Qaryatain. Rased News Network, a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State militants, published this picture showing a militant on a tank captured from Syrian forces in Qaryatain. Islamic State militants carry weapons as they battle against Syrian government forces in Qaryatain in a photo released by Rased News Network on Facebook.
	2015-08-07 13:55:45	sentences	site	BEIRUT - Activists say Islamic State group has abducted 230 residents, including dozens of Christians, from a central Syrian town captured by the extremists earlier this week.
	2015-08-07 12:46:00	sentences	site	Mali's north fell under the control of Islamic militants following a military coup in 2012.
	2015-08-07 12:35:16	sentences	site	BAMAKO, Mali (AP) " Islamic extremists attacked a hotel in central Mali near an army camp in Sevare, an army spokesman said Friday.
	2015-08-07 11:50:32	sentences	site	Islamic State militants have abducted dozens of Christian families after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Friday.
	2015-08-07 09:33:34	sentences	site	Islamic State Abducts Dozens Of Syrian Christians
	2015-08-06 23:13:06	sentences	site	Umm Sayyaf, wife of the Islamic State's head of oil operations Abu Sayyaf, was in U.S. custody since May 15. They said she provided a "trove" of intelligence about Islamic State operations.
	2015-08-06 19:10:13	sentences	site	BENGHAZI, Libya - The body of a Libyan judge abducted last month by an Islamic State affiliate was found on Thursday, Libyan officials said. Islamic State fighters man checkpoints in the area and have in the past taken non-Muslims or government officials hostage there.
	2015-08-06 16:42:08	sentences	site	An alleged new affiliate of the Islamic State group in Saudi Arabia has claimed responsibility for an attack that targeted a mosque used by police special forces in the kingdom's southwest on Thursday, killing 15 people. It was one of the deadliest attacks in years against Saudi security forces that battled a wave of al-Qaida attacks about a decade ago and which have come under sporadic attacks in recent weeks in the capital, Riyadh, by militants purportedly linked to the Islamic State group. The claim by the so-called Hijaz Province of the Islamic State appeared hours after the attack in the city of Abha, close to Saudi Arabia's southern border with war-torn Yemen. Previous attacks in the kingdom by Islamic State militants have been claimed by a group calling itself Najd Province, a reference to Saudi Arabia's central region, where Riyadh is located. The Islamic State's other affiliate in Saudi Arabia claimed responsibility for a number of attacks in the kingdom in recent months, including various deadly shootings and smaller attacks against police at checkpoints in Riyadh.
	2015-08-05 23:18:00	sentences	site	Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate released a video Wednesday threatening to kill a Croatian hostage in 48 hours if Muslim women aren't released from the country's jails.
	2015-08-05 20:18:35	sentences	site	Turkey says ?extensive? fight against Islamic State to start soon
	2015-08-05 13:59:20	sentences	site	LONDON - Authorities in Britain are charging two people - including radical preacher Anjem Choudary - with inviting support for the Islamic State group through lectures that were published online.
	2015-08-05 10:39:23	sentences	site	His comments came following reports that members of the Free Syrian Army who went through a U.S. training program to fight Islamic State militants were captured by the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in Syria.
	2015-08-04 07:23:06	sentences	site	Facing Islamic State threat, Iraq digitizes national library
	2015-08-04 07:20:34	sentences	site	In recent months, the library donated some 2,500 books to libraries in Iraq's Diyala province after Iraqi forces recaptured towns there from Islamic State militants.
	2015-08-04 07:16:27	sentences	site	As the Islamic State militants now set out to destroy Iraq's history and culture, a major preservation and digitization project is underway in the capital to safeguard a millennia worth of history.
	2015-08-04 03:40:35	sentences	site	Islamic State selling sex slaves, the younger the better, claims UN official Yazidi Kurdish women chant slogans against the Islamic State's invasion on Sinjar a year ago. The official, Zainab Bangura?, said that on a trip to Iraq in April she was given a copy of an Islamic State pamphlet, which included the list, showing that captured children as young as one fetch the highest price. Yazidi Kurds at a protest in Dohuk, Iraq, against the Islamic State's invasion on Sinjar city a year ago. Thousands of Yazidi Kurdish women and girls have been sold into sexual slavery and forced to marry Islamic State militants, according to Human Rights organisations, Yazidi activists and observers.
	2015-07-30 21:48:41	sentences	site	The PKK is affiliated with, but separate from, Syrian Kurdish fighters allied with the United States in its fight against the Islamic State group.
	2015-07-29 06:02:28	sentences	site	Among other things, the FBI says Suarez also sought to make an Islamic State recruitment video using a script he wrote himself.
	2015-07-28 19:53:42	sentences	site	According to the criminal complaint, the FBI was alerted to Facebook posts made by Suarez in April of this year in which he expressed his support for Islamic State.
	2015-07-28 19:53:42	sentences	site	Washington: A Florida man has been charged in an alleged backpack bomb plot he planned to carry out on a public beach in Key West to show his support for the Islamic State militant group, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Numerous young men have been arrested in the United States in recent months, with many plotting 'lone wolf attacks' in support of Islamic State.
	2015-07-28 17:40:09	sentences	site	For Iraq's Shiite majority, the war against the Islamic State group - which views them as heretics to be killed - is a life-or-death fight for which the entire community has mobilized.
	2015-07-28 17:05:21	sentences	site	'I am an American' says man who tried to join Islamic State
	2015-07-28 16:05:18	sentences	site	- A Georgia man who wrote that he was "ready for jihad" before booking a flight overseas to join the Islamic State group has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
	2015-07-28 15:50:14	sentences	site	AP News Guide: Turkish-US deal may have far-reaching effect on Islamic State group, Syrian war A 110-kilometer (68-mile) stretch along the Turkish border in Syria is under Islamic State control. The deal further embroils Turkey, a key NATO ally, in Syria's civil war, and also catapults it into a front-line position in the global war against the Islamic State group. An Islamic State-free zone along the Syria-Turkish border - through which the group has smuggled foreign fighters, oil and other goods for the past year - would strangle the militants in Syria, weakening the group.
	2015-07-28 13:51:42	sentences	site	Confronting Islamic State's propaganda machine You only have to look at Islamic State's intelligent use of propaganda to see what happens when your adversary is crippled by silence, dithering and inaction. The first priority must be to counter Islamic State's highly effective propaganda machine. That is why I believe Islamic State's appalling treatment of those under its control will ultimately result in the caliphate breaking up with widespread dissent and resentment spreading within its ranks. We must make clear that Islamic State's dominance has been achieved through the intimidation of local tribes, who are too afraid to challenge the Islamists' brutal regime, and that its military prowess is bogus, while their actual field losses are significant.
	2015-07-28 08:26:07	sentences	site	An estimated 500 Indonesians are thought to have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with Islamic State forces, seen here in Iraq. Expressing sympathy for the Islamic State group could become an offence under Indonesia's proposed laws.
	2015-07-28 07:10:18	sentences	site	BAGHDAD - In the steamy Baghdad night, sweat poured down the faces of the Iraqi teens as they marched around a school courtyard, training for battle against the Islamic State group.
	2015-07-28 06:55:16	sentences	site	At Shiite militia 'summer camps', Iraqi children undergo training to fight Islamic State
	2015-07-28 06:50:32	sentences	site	The Associated Press has found that militia forces battling the Islamic State group are actively training children under 18 years old. FILE - In this Sunday, March 15, 2015, file photo, young Shiite volunteer militia fighters pose for a photo before battle against Islamic State fighters in Tikrit, Iraq. It's yet another way minors are being dragged into Iraq's brutal war as the military, Shiite militias and Kurdish fighters battle to take back territory from Islamic State militants, who seized much of the country's north and west over the past year.
	2015-07-28 06:50:32	sentences	site	BAGHDAD - A quiet middle-class Shiite neighborhood in western Baghdad was transformed recently into a mini-boot camp, training teenagers for battle against the Islamic State group.
	2015-07-27 17:50:59	sentences	site	NATO holding rare emergency meeting to review Islamic State threat, Turkey's reaction "The rise of Islamic State in northern Iraq, in northern Syria, has effectively destabilized the southern border of Turkey. But also domestically, the threat of terrorism has become very real," Lete told The Associated Press.
	2015-07-27 15:24:00	sentences	site	The Syrian Kurds are among the most effective ground forces battling the Islamic State group and have been aided by U.S.-led airstrikes, but Turkey fears they could revive an insurgency against Ankara in pursuit of an independent state. The PKK is fighting Islamic State "for power, not for peace, not for security." The Turkish leader also said Turkey's action against Islamic State has "changed the regional game."
	2015-07-27 15:08:00	sentences	site	JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia and Britain agreed Monday to step up joint efforts to fight terrorism and the Islamic State group.
	2015-07-27 12:44:21	sentences	site	Tensions flared again after an Islamic State suicide bombing in the southeastern Turkish city of Suruc last week killed 32 people.
	2015-07-27 12:44:21	sentences	site	BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Turkish plans to create an "Islamic State-free zone" in Syria along the Turkish border could escalate the conflict between Turkey and Kurdish fighters in Syria and Iraq.
	2015-07-27 10:26:53	sentences	site	The United States and Turkey are finalizing plans for a military campaign to push the Islamic State out of a strip of land along the Syrian border, deepening efforts to halt the extremists' advances.
	2015-07-27 10:26:53	sentences	site	US, Turkey seek to establish Islamic State-free zone The discussions come amid a major tactical shift in Turkey's approach to the Islamic State. Despite the U.S. and Turkey's shared interests in fighting the Islamic State, the Turks have also prioritized defeating Syrian President Bashar Assad.
	2015-07-27 10:26:53	sentences	site	A U.S. official said the creation of an "Islamic State-free zone" would ensure greater security and stability in the Turkish-Syrian border region.
	2015-07-26 15:57:32	sentences	site	BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials in Iraq's western Anbar province say government forces have retaken Anbar University from the Islamic State militant group after hours of fierce clashes. Another Anbar councilman, Faleh al-Issawi, tells The Associated Press that about two dozen Islamic State fighters were killed in the clashes. The Iraqi military launched a large scale operation this month to retake Anbar province, in which most of the biggest cities are held by the Islamic State group.