The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed on Monday that the man who opened fire on concertgoers in Las Vegas, killing at least 50 people, was acting on behalf of the group, but offered no evidence, according to CBS News.
A court in the Central Anatolian province of Eskisehir has arrested an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) "commander" after police detained him as part of an anti-ISIL investigation carried out by Eskisehir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
Two men, suspected of involvement with the Islamic State terrorist organization, have been detained by SBU Security Service operatives at a parking lot outside a shopping mall in Kharkiv, TSN news service reports.
U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said, according to the Associated Press.
The spokesperson of the self-proclaimed "DPR"’s ministry of defense, Eduard Basurin on Saturday voiced baseless claims that an "Islamic brigade" with as many as 500 fighters had been deployed to the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and was working with the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, according to the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.