ISIS

ISIS militants have launched a drive to recapture the world heritage site of Palmyra. Islamists have cut the road between Homs and Palmyra to disrupt supply routes used by Syrian government forces, according to the London-based organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A professor from the Russian State University for the Humanities, says Moscow could be drawn into a new phase of the Syrian conflict where control over Palmyra will be the main key.

ISIS murdered 45 Jihadis under its command and buried them alive in a mass grave in north-west Iraq. The ISIS fighters were caught fleeing the battle against Kurdish Peshmerga in the village of al-Bashir. Recruitment for ISIS fighters is at a two year low, with the number of foreign fighters joining the terror group down by 90% in recent months. Mass grave found in the village of al-Bashir The Daily Express reports: Today’s brutal execution came after the group of men allegedly fled fierce fighting that was raging against Kurdish Peshmerga forces in al-Bashir village.

Things are deteriorating fast for the cash-strapped Islamic State.

While celebrating V-Day (marking the day the allies accepted Nazi surrender in WWII), Russian president Vladamir Putin said that Russia is all for creating a non-aligned system of international security to counter global terror.

Millions of pounds worth of British aid to  war stricken Syria may have ended up in the hands of ISIS, according to a Government report. The revelation was made in a December report by the Department for International Development (DFID), a British government institution responsible for administering foreign spending According to the Mail Online, the DFID admits that ‘the most serious risk’ to its programmes in the war-torn country is ‘from the large scale diversion of aid, including for the purposes of terrorism’.