Islam

The Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on Sept. 24 shot down a warplane from the U.S.-led coalition over northern Syria, a monitoring group said, with the jihadists claiming to have captured a Jordanian pilot.

Members of the Council of Ministers and top military officials will get new anti-wiretapping phones before the end of the year, Industry Minister Fikri Işık said, while arguing that the "parallel structure" - a phrase used to describe the Gülenist movement - was deeply rooted in the strategic boards of the country's top science body.

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali's condition is improving and he is expected to be released from hospital soon, his spokesman said on Dec. 22.
      
Bob Gunnell said two days ago when Ali was admitted to hospital, that the 72-year-old's pneumonia condition was caught early and his stay would be a short one.
      

U.S.-led air strikes in Syria have killed more than 1,000 jihadists in the past three months, nearly all of them from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a monitoring group said Dec. 23.

Five bombs exploded on Dec. 23 in Sanaa's old quarter, where many supporters of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement live, killing a member of the group and wounding another person, a senior security official said.
   

The gruesome murders of foreign journalists by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) contributed to 2014 being a particularly deadly year for international correspondents, an annual review by the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Dec. 23.

Turkish light-heavyweight boxer Ismail Özen sold the boxing gloves he used in a fight against Serbia's Culum Slobodan on Dec. 20, in a bid to support children that fled Kobane, the Syrian town that has been under siege by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, into Turkey.

A new video from Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram extremists shows gunmen mowing down civilians lying face down in a dorm, and a leader saying they are being killed because they are "infidels" or non-believers.
     
There are so many corpses the gunmen have difficulty stepping to reach bodies still twitching with life. Most appear to be adult men.
     

A German government minister said Monday Berlin aimed to set up a trauma centre for victims of a mass rape campaign by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
      
Overseas development minister Gerd Mueller told the Bild newspaper that the care facility in Germany could serve 100 women and girls from Syria and Iraq.
     

Haider Ali Motar was convicted of terrorism charges about a month ago for helping to carry out a string of Baghdad car bombings on behalf of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Now, the 21-year old is a reluctant cast member in a popular reality TV show.