Persecution of Christians by ISIL

Every weapon obtained by the People's Protection Units (YPG) constitutes a threat to Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 10, emphasizing Ankara's opposition to a U.S. deal to arming Syrian Kurdish fighters in the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Iraqi forces pushed further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly seven-month attempt to dislodge Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), commanders said on May 5.

A suspect in a case into a deadly Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) twin suicide bomb attack case has threatened the families of victims during a hearing held in the capital Ankara. 

Metin Akaltın, one of the suspects in the Oct. 10, 2015 ISIL attack case, wagged his finger at the families as a gesture of threat in the third hearing of the case on May 3. 

A powerful blast targeting an armored NATO convoy in Kabul killed at least eight people and wounded 28 yesterday, including three coalition members, officials said in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

An FBI agent, who was assigned to investigate the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant Denis Cuspert in Syria, has hit headlines after falling in love and marrying him. It has also been reported that she stayed in a hotel in Istanbul before heading to Syria in 2014.

An assailant who was plotting a car bomb attack in the Suruç district of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa was "neutralized" by security forces on April 21, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Police in the district police headquarters opened fire on a suspected bomb-laden car after it refused to obey stop calls in the evening hours.

A total of 12 militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were arrested in Istanbul on April 21. 

The militants, who were previously detained as part of an investigation launched by the Istanbul Terror and Organized Crime Prosecutor Ufuk Can Gazezoğlu, include an ISIL militant in charge of media. 

AP Photo/ Kamil Zihnioglu

The Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State) terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Champs Elysees that killed one police officer and injured two others on Thursday.

A known terror suspect shot dead a French policeman and wounded two others on April 20 on Paris's Champs Elysees in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group days before a presidential election.
 

A gunman has killed a police officer and seriously wounded two others before being shot dead in an attack on the Champs Elysees shopping district in the French capital, according to Paris police and the interior ministry, Aljazeera News Agency reported.