Islamic Militant Networks

Militants use satellite dishes to connect to the Web, or illicit microwave dishes that hook them into broadband networks in government-held areas.

Tamara Fields said Twitter knowingly let the militant Islamist group use its network to spread propaganda, raise money, and attract recruits.

Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, Islamic State group militants built a network of tunnels, complete with sleeping quarters, wired with electricity and fortified with sandbags. There, they had boxes of US-made ammunition, medicines and copies of the Quran stashed on shelves.

Islamic State militants have killed three Assyrian Christian captives who were among nearly 200 Christians abducted earlier this year in northeastern Syria, two human rights monitoring groups said today.

If the first public comments from the Afghan Taliban's newly appointed leader are anything to go by, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour recognises how fractured the militant movement has become and that humility and consensus may be his best way forward.

Indonesian militants believed to have returned from fighting with the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria are suspected of being behind an attempted chlorine bomb attack in a shopping mall last month, police said today.

Twitter Inc and US authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network's co-founder and other employees, according to media reports.

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan asserted a strong joint commitment to combat financial networks supporting Islamic State militants at a G20 summit in Istanbul, a US Treasury spokesperson said today.

Militants from the Islamic State group blocked all mobile phone networks in the largest Iraqi city they control, Mosul, accusing informants in the city of tipping off coalition forces to their whereabouts, residents told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Declaring the world at a "crossroads between war and peace," President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to lead a coalition to dismantle the Islamic State militant group's "network of death" that has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and drawn the U.S. back into military action in the region.

A US teenager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trying to help IS, in a deal with prosecutors requiring her to tell all she knows about the jihadist network in Syria and Iraq.

The US Treasury Department is targeting a procurement network suspected of helping the Islamic militant group Hezbollah.

Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, residents said Saturday amid mounting condemnation by Muslims of the Nigerian terrorist network that abducted more than 300 schoolgirls nearly a month ago.

A U.S. drone strike has killed an al Qaeda commander in Pakistan's northwest, the second member of the Islamic militant network killed in the area in less than a week, Pakistani intelligence officials and a Taliban militant said on Monday.

Militants use satellite dishes to connect to the Web, or illicit microwave dishes that hook them into broadband networks in government-held areas.

Tamara Fields said Twitter knowingly let the militant Islamist group use its network to spread propaganda, raise money, and attract recruits.

Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, Islamic State group militants built a network of tunnels, complete with sleeping quarters, wired with electricity and fortified with sandbags. There, they had boxes of US-made ammunition, medicines and copies of the Quran stashed on shelves.

Islamic State militants have killed three Assyrian Christian captives who were among nearly 200 Christians abducted earlier this year in northeastern Syria, two human rights monitoring groups said today.

If the first public comments from the Afghan Taliban's newly appointed leader are anything to go by, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour recognises how fractured the militant movement has become and that humility and consensus may be his best way forward.

Indonesian militants believed to have returned from fighting with the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria are suspected of being behind an attempted chlorine bomb attack in a shopping mall last month, police said today.

Twitter Inc and US authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network's co-founder and other employees, according to media reports.

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan asserted a strong joint commitment to combat financial networks supporting Islamic State militants at a G20 summit in Istanbul, a US Treasury spokesperson said today.

Militants from the Islamic State group blocked all mobile phone networks in the largest Iraqi city they control, Mosul, accusing informants in the city of tipping off coalition forces to their whereabouts, residents told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Declaring the world at a "crossroads between war and peace," President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to lead a coalition to dismantle the Islamic State militant group's "network of death" that has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and drawn the U.S. back into military action in the region.

A US teenager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trying to help IS, in a deal with prosecutors requiring her to tell all she knows about the jihadist network in Syria and Iraq.

The US Treasury Department is targeting a procurement network suspected of helping the Islamic militant group Hezbollah.

Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, residents said Saturday amid mounting condemnation by Muslims of the Nigerian terrorist network that abducted more than 300 schoolgirls nearly a month ago.

A U.S. drone strike has killed an al Qaeda commander in Pakistan's northwest, the second member of the Islamic militant network killed in the area in less than a week, Pakistani intelligence officials and a Taliban militant said on Monday.