The Associated Press is reporting that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has trained at least 400 fighters to "target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum carnage."
Top leaders from more than a dozen countries, including the United States and Russia, on Wednesday announced a ceasefire agreement in Syria as well as a plan to deliver aid to the embattled nation, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.
Roland Martin and the NewsOne Now panel detail what we should expect from President Obama during this evening's State of the Union address.
Seventeen people died during the evening rush on Monday in eastern Baghdad when Islamic State militants attacked a shopping mall. The group has returned to guerrilla warfare in an effort to reassert its dominance after losing control of the capital to Iraqi forces, reports The New York Times.
At what is likely to be his last news conference of the year before leaving for a family Christmas vacation, President Obama on Friday vowed to destroy ISIS, reports NBC News.
In the most intense fighting that northern Iraq has seen this year, at least 180 Islamic State fighters were killed in a U.S.-led assault that began about 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The FBI announced Wednesday that the San Bernardino shooters did not openly post on social media about jihad, but did have conversations about martyrdom using "private direct messages."
Only 22 percent of Americans surveyed expressed confidence in the nation's ability to prevent “lone wolf attacks in which individuals decide to act on their own."
President Barack Obama on Monday pledged solidarity with France after explosives and gunfire killed more than 120 people last week in Paris in coordinated terror attacks claimed by ISIS.
As the world recovers from the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris last week, ISIS is already posing new threats. The terror group released a new video Monday that indicates they are looking to plot an attack on Washington D.C.
