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ISIS Group Sends Threat to U.S. Military Members

A hacking group connected to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS is sending a threat to members of the U.S. military and government workers, saying that they’re being watched in their own homes.

The group published a list on Tuesday that they claim contains personal information of soldiers and government employees.  The hackers for ISIS told The Blaze that they are continually spying on Americans.

(All grammatical errors in the quotes below are directly from the terrorists.)

“Just like they spy on the muslims,” the terrorists stated, “we are spying on them, watching their employees, watching their soldiers, recording their movements and taking their location information and passing it on the soldiers of the islamic state.”

The terrorists focused on what they say is the fact they don’t need to attack military facilities.

“the brothers don’t need to attack them in military bases or secured buildings,” the hacking group member added. “they can now turn up in their houses. in their homes. this is war, what did you expect? u think u can bomb the islamic state and we don’t do nothing back? soon, very soon you will see.”

The hackers said this is “war.”

“this is what, what did you expect?” the hacker wrote.  “u think u can bomb the islamic state and we dont do nothing back?”

The declaration comes just days after a Mississippi couple was arrested for attempting to fly to Turkey to join the terrorist group.

ISIS Kidnaps Over 200 Syrians

Islamic terrorist group ISIS seized control of a key village in the province of Homs, kidnapping around 230 people including initially at least 60 Christians.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Friday that the terrorists have taken control of the heavily populated town of Qaryatain.  The town of about 40,000 people is located in the middle of a triangle formed by Homs, Palmyra and Damascus.  Many residents who fled Homs because of the terrorist group had fled to Qaryatain.

SOHR reported that 60 Christians had been kidnapped by the group but the head of the Christian Assyrian Network for Human Rights in Syria told the Associated Press that half of the Christians were released and fled to nearby villages.

Reuters reported that some of the Christians were seized from a monastery in the city.

SOHR also said that 45 women and 19 children were among those taken by the terrorists.

Officials said that around 1,400 families in the city have fled the city, most of them traveling to Homs, which is now under the control of government forces.

Kidnapping of Christians and residents is a standard tactic for the terrorist group.  In March, the group kidnapped 230 Christians and demanded $23 million in ransom for their release.

United Nations Confirms ISIS Selling Young Girls as Sex Slaves

The United Nations has officially confirmed something long believed among opponents of Islamic terrorist group ISIS:  they are selling girls under 10 as sex slaves for as little as $165.

Zainab Bangura, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict, confirmed the document first reportedly found in November 2014 is legitimate and being used by the terrorists.

“The girls get peddled like barrels of petrol,” she told Bloomberg. “One girl can be sold and bought by five or six different men. Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom.”

Bangura said that girls from ages 1 to 9 are being sold for $165.  Girls in their teens fell to $124 and women over 40 sell for as little as $41.

“They have a machinery; they have a program,” said Bangura. “They have a manual on how you treat these women. They have a marriage bureau which organizes all of these ‘marriages’ and the sale of women. They have a price list.”

“It’s not an ordinary rebel group,” she added. “When you dismiss them as such, then you are using the tools you are used to. This is different. They have the combination of a conventional military and a well-run organized state.”

ISIS has already released a document claiming the buying and selling of women is acceptable under the Koran.  The claim by ISIS reportedly comes after taking the idea of selling women from Islamic terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Radical Imam in Training Turns to Jesus

A man who was a devout Muslim and training to be a radical imam in the land of ISIS is now a Jesus fanatic who claims Christ came to him supernaturally in a dream.

“I was a…Muslim and often preached, but there was something missing. There was something empty about Allah and the Quran. Jesus appeared to me in a dream and open my eyes … what has missing was His love and peace,” said Iraqi Barazan Azeezi to The Christian Post.

Azeezi said that he was a “violent person” and was motivated by fear of Allah.   After the meeting with Christ in his dream, he not only renounced violence but says he experienced “love” for the “true God” and that he sees God’s truth.

Azeezi also faced persecution and anger from his Islamic family.

“In the beginning, my family thought I was joking and claimed that I was going mad,” he said. “After months of debates, they started to threaten to kill me. … It was God’s grace that helped me overcome the fear.”

Azeezi said that he is not the only person to come to Christ through supernatural experiences.  He shared the story of an ISIS terrorist who had been sent to destroy a church building.  When he entered the church, a bright light appeared on him.  A voice in the light said he was Jesus.  The fighter immediately dropped his items and accepted Christ as Lord.

Azeezi says that he believes satan is trying to keep those in the Middle East from seeing the truth of Christ.

“I believe Satan creates chaos in the Middle East to stop the gospel from reaching our people. This is one of his last strongholds in the world and he won’t back off easily,” he said.

FBI Issues Alert: Middle Eastern Men Harassing Military Families

The FBI has issued an alert to officials in Colorado and Wyoming over a group of Middle Eastern men who have been harassing military families in the region.

Areas specifically mentioned by the FBI alert include Greeley, Colorado and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

One incident had two Middle Eastern men approaching a woman outside her home.  The men stated they knew she was the wife of a U.S. interrogator.  The men laughed when she denied the claim and then the men entered a dark-colored sedan that contained two other Middle Eastern men.

Other incidents have the men attempting to gain information.

“On numerous occasions family members of military personnel were confronted by Middle Eastern males in front of their homes,” the FBI alert reads. “The males have attempted to obtain personal information about the military men’s family members through intimidation.”

“The family members have reported feeling scared,” it added.

ISIS has stated that they intend to strike military members in their homes and last March published a list of addresses they claimed belonged to U.S. military members.

The alert also says the FBI cannot confirm if the incidents involve the same men.

Turkish President in China

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in China for an official state visit.

Erdogan will be meeting in Beijing with his counterpart, Xi Jinping.

The visit is the first for Erdogan since his election as president in 2014 and the first since Turkey agreed to work with the U.S. to eliminate terrorist group ISIS in parts of Syria.

Erdogan traveled to China with around 100 business owners and leaders in what’s expected to be a discussion of trade deals.  The trade between the two nations has reached about $24 billion a year.

However, some believe that the current Syrian crisis will cause Erdogan to try and purchase a long-range missile system which has been a source of concern to Turkey’s fellow NATO members.

Turkey and China have also had issues regarding illegal immigration in southeast Asia of Muslims.  Last month, there were protests in Turkey after a group of Muslims illegally crossed from China to Thailand and then were returned to China.

“It’s quite obvious that the current Turkish government is supporting illegal immigration of Uighurs by giving them passports and working with Southeast Asian countries,” said Yin Gang an expert on the Middle East with the government-supported Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. “It would be hard for the relationship between China and Turkey to improve significantly unless Turkey makes serious promises on that issue.”

Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Confirmed Dead

He may have died in 2013, but officials in Afghanistan are now confirming for the first time that the leader of the Taliban is dead.

Afghani President Ashraf Ghani released a statement Wednesday citing “credible information” that the one-eyed Omar died in a Karachi, Pakistan hospital in April 2013.

“The government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, based on credible information, confirms that Mullah Mohammad Omar, leader of the Taliban died in April 2013 in Pakistan,” the statement said. “The government of Afghanistan believes that grounds for the Afghan peace talks are more paved now than before, and thus calls on all armed opposition groups to seize the opportunity and join the peace process.”

Omar had been suffering from liver and kidney issues.  Afghani Security Services spokesman Abdul Hassib Seddiqi told the BBC Omar died from health problems.

Several U.S. intelligence officials said they had long believed Omar to have died because of the fractured nature within the current Taliban.

“I’ve tended to believe the rumors that he was dead since the serious splits started in the Taliban,” one official told CNN. “If he were alive, he wouldn’t allow these rumors to continue to threaten the movement’s unity to this degree. He would risk some small exposure to invalidate the rumors, and he has not done that despite incredible internal demands that he do so.”

Analysts are now concerned the official announcement of Omar’s death will spur ISIS to try and gain a foothold among the Taliban supporters in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Assad Believed To Still Have Chemical Weapons

The Wall Street Journal has reported U.S. intelligence agencies have told them the Syrian regime of Bashir al-Assad has not turned over all of their chemical weapons as agreed to in 2013.

Assad and his government had agreed to give up all their chemical weapons after a sarin nerve agent attack on a Damascus suburb.  The negative response of the international community and threats to the Syrian government appeared to make them relent of their use of chemical agents.

Inspectors told the Journal that in their visits to Syria, they were only taken to areas that the Assad government said were chemical weapons storage and/or production facilities.  The inspectors were not allowed into areas that were not designated chemical weapon locations by the Syrian government.

“Under the terms of their deployment, the inspectors had access only to sites that the Assad regime had declared were part of its chemical-weapons program. The US and other powers had the right to demand access to undeclared sites if they had evidence they were part of the chemical-weapons program. But that right was never exercised, in part, inspectors and Western officials say, because their governments didn’t want a standoff with the regime,” the report states.

“Members of the inspection team didn’t push for answers, worried that it would compromise their primary objective of getting the regime to surrender the 1,300 tons of chemicals it admitted to having,” the report stated. “The Syrians laid out the ground rules. Inspectors could visit only sites Syria had declared, and only with 48-hour notice. Anything else was off-limits, unless the regime extended an invitation.”

Now, American intelligence agencies say they believe Assad is holding a cache of nerve agents even more powerful than Sarin for use if the terrorist group ISIS makes a run at Syrian government stronghold and appear to be close to overrunning them.

The breaking of this news comes on the heels of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons saying the Syrian chemical weapons have been neutralized at sea on a U.S. Naval vessel, the Cape Ray.

However, 16 metric tons of hydrogen fluoride from the Syrian stock remains in storage at a facility in Port Arthur, Texas.

ISIS Releases Video of Children Calling For Jihad

The media wing of the Islamic terrorist group ISIS has released a video showing young boys being indoctrinated into the group’s extremist theology, training to fight and championing the group’s cause.

The video, “The Cubs of Dilja”, shows children as young as three reciting verses of the Quran directly into the camera for the first time.

A boy asks the camera “where are the martyrs?  Where are the suicide attackers?” and then says “give me my weapon.”  The video later shows the child firing the gun.

The video release Wednesday follows reports the group has been training children to behead people using dolls for practice.

The Associated Press spoke with Yazidi children who escaped the training camps who said the terrorists are brainwashing children into converting to Islam and becoming fighters.

“Then they taught me how to hold the sword, and they told me how to hit. They told me it was the head of the infidels,” the boy, renamed Yahya by his ISIS captors said to the AP.

He told the AP that he was at the camp five months where he studied the Koran and was trained in fighting 8 to 10 hours a day.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 8 children have been used by the terrorists in suicide bomb attacks.

ISIS Claims Kidnapping of Christians in Libya

Three African Christians have been kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist group ISIS.

The group released photographs of the men bound and blindfolded along with pictures of their passports on various social media sites sympathetic to the terrorists.

The International Business Times says the three men were all migrants from other nations:  Egypt, Nigeria and Ghana.  A source told Reuters they were kidnapped in Noufiyah, an ISIS dominated town which was later confirmed by a government source.

ISIS has been attempting to strengthen their hold in parts of Libya, using the vacuum created by the governmental strife to swoop into areas not strongly controlled by the military.  The terrorists have also attacked multiple foreign missions in Tripoli.

The capital city of Tripoli has been controlled by the rebel faction Libya Dawn since last year forcing the government to operate in exile.

Meanwhile, another kidnapping of Christians is believed to have taken place in Syria.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that Friar Antoine Boutros, pastor of the Shahba parish, was kidnapped on July 12th along with his driver.  The two men haven’t been seen or heard from since that date.

The Friar had just finished celebrating mass when he disappeared.