US forces eliminated a senior ISIS official in a raid in northern Syria, CENTCOM announces. The official was a key financier and planner of terror attacks.

ISIS has claimed credit for 153 attacks in Iraq and Syria during the first six months of this year, which have prompted 196 "Defeat ISIS Missions" in 2024 alone.

“ISIS is a local insurgency, and might not be an imminent transnational risk,” she said. “But if there is a vacuum of some sort in Syria, this is where these movements really thrive.

The group's ultimate goal is to establish a “caliphate” in Central Africa, similar to ISIS’s vision in Iraq and Syria. A massacre of Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has spotlighted the growing threat of extremist groups operating across Central Africa.

The organisation named Abu Qais al-Iraqi and Abu Muhammad al-Iraqi as the other senior ISIS members arrested. Abu Qais al-Iraq is a top security official, while Abu Muhammad al-Iraqi was once the governor of Salah Al din in Iraq.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) carried out a successful raid in al Bab, Syria in late July, reportedly killing ISIS leader Dhiya’ Zawba Muslih al-Hardani and his sons. Reports have indicated that the operation posed no threat to U.

Iraqi officials have exhumed human remains from what they believe is a mass grave that the Islamic State (ISIS) left behind in the Middle Eastern country, The Associated Press reported. The Iraqi Martyrs Foundation confirmed to the state-run Iraqi News Agency that the country's Forensic Medicine Department will examine all recovered remains.

Syrian authorities on Monday described a deadly incident in northern Aleppo province as an isolated case, stating that a man who detonated a hand grenade - killing only himself - was a drug user with a criminal record,