Islamic State Cuts Wages For Members in Iraq and Syria by Half

According to the Guardian, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that the Islamic State has announced its intention to reduce its members’s wages by half. This economy!

According to the Guardian, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that the Islamic State has announced its intention to reduce its members’s wages by half. This economy!

Sarah Palin is officially endorsing Donald Trump for President of the United States. Which is why Sarah Palin is currently screaming at a room of crazed Trump supporters about a future with their Dear Leader—specifically, a future in which they’ll be able to “do their job and KICK ISIS ASS!!!!!”
The latest issue of Dabiq, the Town & Country of the bloodthirsty would-be caliphate, just arrived. Included, along with the usual rote propagandizing and tasteful page layouts, is an obituary for the masked militant known as Jihadi John, whose video executions helped make ISIS a household name in terror.
All right, tough guy.
At least 400 civilians have been kidnapped from the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor by Islamic State militants, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. According to Reuters, the monitoring group reported that the families of pro-government fighters were among those taken.
At least 10 people were killed and 15 more were wounded this morning in an attack on Sultanahmet, the historic central district of Istanbul, Turkey. According to Turkish officials, a Syrian suicide bomber who may have been affiliated with ISIS or Kurdish separatists was behind the attack.
At least 17 people were killed when Islamic State militants attacked a shopping mall in Baghdad on Monday night, the New York Times reports. Five members of the Iraqi security forces were among the dead. Forty people were wounded.
Later today, White House officials will be meeting with tech industry experts to brainstorm ways to counter ISIS’s wildly successful online recruiting tactics. Tim Cook will also be there.
Before he became a British jihadist featured in a recent ISIS murder video, the masked man—believed to be a former Arsenal fan named Siddhartha Dhar—worked in a slightly less deadly industry: Bouncy castle sales.
Donald Trump, a man who was once the spokesperson for a line of steaks that he sold at Sharper Image, has now become the spokesperson for a terrorist group. Is he happy about that fact? Sort of.
You’re not going to find a more 2015 SEO-optimized story than this one: Two Belgian newspapers are reporting that during November’s ISIS manhunt in Brussels, eight soldiers and two policewomen coped with the tension by throwing an orgy.
Following several months of fighting, Iraqi forces, supported by a U.S.-led airstrikes, drove Islamic State fighters out of the center of Ramadi, military officials said Monday. Ramadi is the provincial capital of Anbar province. It fell to ISIS in May.
A Syrian activist and documentary filmmaker, Naji Jerf, was killed in Turkey Sunday, Agence France-Presse reports, citing a statement the group with which he worked released on Twitter.
In his first audio statement released in seven months, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threatened an attack on Israel and other nations in a statement on Saturday, according to CBS.
On Sunday, an 82-year-old woman called the police in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, because she heard her neighbor chanting “ISIS is good, ISIS is great” during sex. Authorities found no evidence that a terror plot was afoot, or even that the scary sex shouts happened at all, but nonetheless told the woman to call back if she…
Earlier today, the 31 year-old owner of a pizza shop in Rochester—one of the very first Americans to ever be accused of recruiting for ISIS—pleaded guilty in federal court.