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The Arab League said it had postponed indefinitely a ministerial meeting set for Aug. 27 to approve the creation of a joint military force to intervene against jihadists.

New York Times attempts to map the strategy behind the Islamic State’s (IS) destruction of ancient historical sites in a piece posted by Sarah Almukhtar. On the one hand, the jihadists want to instill fear into the hearts of its enemies, on the other hand they want to impress would-be recruits to its ranks. They do it all for the glory and the money the article argues.

Islamists plan to conquer territory "from Spain to China"

The extremist organization Islamic State plans to conquer the Middle East, North Africa, parts of Europe, all in the next five years, claims BBC journalist Andrew Hosken.

When the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) made its debut in the highly competitive marketplace of Islamist terror last summer, it became popular with its serial beheadings and other mass killings in order to impose Islamic law in the large swaths of Syrian and Iraqi lands that it captured. ISIL systematically made its extreme brutality a popular but disgusting visual material accessi

Turkish police detained a young French woman who crossed back into Turkey after joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists in neighboring Syria, a security official said June 4.

During a three-month stay in Syria, the woman married and then split up from a jihadist and was put in a jail operated by the ISIL group before being released, the official said.

Islamic Community acts to stop ISIL recruitment

Citizens and experts support the Islamic Community's efforts to stop people from joining ISIL and to reintegrate them into society when they return.

Hundreds of Balkan Muslims have fought for ISIL in Syria and Iraq. [AFP]

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu, on Monday, in a post on the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) Twitter account, has firmly condemned the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) having executed 21 Christian Egyptians, in Libya.

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'We voice our solidarity with Egypt in the fight against terror,' Aurescu added.

An influential Iranian general who has reportedly been near the front line against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was quoted Feb. 12 saying the jihadists are "nearing the end of their lives".
      

Nobody admits to doing so openly, but some have recently considered rethinking whether Samuel Huntington’s infamous prophecy of the “Clash of Civilizations” is actually correct after the rise of Islamism, and especially the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Ahmed Musa Ahmed, who was arrested after a special operation in Pazardzhik earlier this week, dreamed of Bulgaria becoming the first EU country to hoist Islamic State (IS)'s black flag, the intelligence had has said.