Violence against LGBT people

At least 100 European Isis fighters will be prosecuted in Iraq, with most facing the death penalty, the country’s ambassador to Belgium has reportedly said.

Jawad al-Chlaihawi said Belgians were among those detained, along with jihadists from Russia, Chechnya and Central Asia.

Police in the southern province of Hatay detained five Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspects on Aug. 19, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. Police and intelligence units launched a joint operation in the İskenderun-Antakya highway and later stopped a vehicle.

A list of dozens of suspected ISIS militants trained to deal with explosives and potentially aiming at terrorist attacks in Europe has been shared with EU intelligence by The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), the Guardian reports.

An investigation has been launched into a fugitive Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant over sexually abusing a 15-year-old Indonesian girl in the southern province of Adana. 

A paediatrician who left Australia in 2015 to join ISIS has resurfaced in a new propaganda video, urging Muslims in the West to join the terror group.

Perth-born Tareq Kamleh – dubbed ‘Dr Jihad’ – is seen for the first time in more than two years in an official six-minute video released on Tuesday.

The trial of a Kurdish man who tied one of his three wives to the back of a car and dragged her through the streets of a town in Lower Saxony has drawn attention to an outbreak of Muslim honor violence in Germany.

Suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State of Irap and the Levant (ISIL) killed at least 27 people in Baghdad, officials said yesterday, as Iraqi forces fight to retake the last jihadist-held areas in Mosul.

Police carried out anti-terrorism raids in four German states on Wednesday morning, targeting ISIS sympathizers, prosecutors said in a statement, but said no arrests had been made, contradicting earlier media reports.

The Uzbek national suspected of mowing down pedestrians in Stockholm on April 7 was deported from Turkey two years ago while he tried to join the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group in Syria, an Uzbek source told Russian agencies.     

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly three years ago, a military spokesman said April 11.

Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led air strikes and other support are now battling ISIL inside second city Mosul, after retaking much of the other territory the jihadists had seized.