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"We have concluded that the real intention of ISIS is to begin a mission they're calling 'break down the fences,'" Iraq's Lieutenant General Saad al-Allaq said.

Jason Brown, 37, is accused of providing $1,500 to a confidential informant with the understanding that the money would be wired to a front-line ISIS soldier.

A Kurdish source who reportedly acted as one of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's security advisers gave DNA samples to U.S. forces prior to the raid that led to al-Baghdadi's death.

"Both operations were very significant setbacks," for Al-Qaeda and ISIS, Michael Morell said.

"Does the president not trust the Speaker of the House with sensitive national security information?" Chris Wallace asked.

"Al Baghdadi spread 'fire and brimstone' on earth; now he feels it for himself in hell," GOP Senator Mitt Romney tweeted.

The president has come under fire from Republican lawmakers over his Syria troop withdrawal, allowing Turkey's invasion of Kurdish areas.

"This is a complete and utter national security disaster in the making and I hope President Trump will adjust his thinking," the Republican senator tweeted.

"We should in a bipartisan way seek to ... change Turkey's behavior," Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell said.

"We've set the conditions for ISIS 2.0 ... and we're repeating the mistakes of the Obama administration, which pulled out of Iraq too soon and led to all of this in the first place, except we won't have any local allies to fight them again," Michael Waltz said.

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff joined several GOP lawmakers in condemning President Trump's U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria, warning that ISIS is already beginning its resurgence.

"I don't understand how a president that claims he's the toughest President ever would do such a weak move like this," Representative Adam Kinzinger said.

An intelligence official told Newsweek about Trump's phone call with the Turkish leader, saying the U.S. president was "out-negotiated."

"By abandoning the Kurds we have sent the most dangerous signal possible – America is an unreliable ally," the Republican senator from South Carolina argued.

One of the women has also declared that she and her bomb-making collaborator are "citizens of the Islamic State," according to the FBI.

In the view of tens of millions of Muslims, pledging allegiance to a true Islamic Caliphate can help solve many of today's world problems.

The Christchurch shooter mentioned only one U.S. state in his manifesto: Texas. The El Paso shooter answered this online call to arms.

Americans' fears of North Korea's nuclear program and the Islamic State have both fallen significantly in the past two years of Donald Trump's presidency.

Salah Abdeslam is serving a 20-year sentence for his role in the terrorist atrocities committed in November 2015.

ISIS eventually occupied the site meant to host Syria's nuclear reactor. If Israel hadn't destroyed it seven years earlier, ISIS might have been able to inflict destruction on an almost unimaginable scale.

Ten weeks of gunfire and airstrikes have reduced the village of Baghouz to a horrific wasteland pocked with huge bomb craters and littered with burnt-out vehicles and bodies.

ISIS is fighting for its life in a small, collapsing pocket of eastern Syria and it warned Muslims that the mosques massacre in Christchurch would only be the beginning.

"She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States," Pompeo said in a statement.

"To those groups who are betting on the Americans, we say the Americans will not protect you," Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said.

U.S.-backed Kurdish forces are poised to seize control of the remaining ISIS stronghold in Syria.

"We have a base in Iraq, and the base is a fantastic edifice. I mean, I was there recently, and I couldn't believe the money that was spent on these massive runways," the president said.

"What we need is actually rational policy in Syria, on border security. All we have is the emotional rantings of a child," Congressman Adam Smith said.

"ISIS presents a very real threat to the long-term stability in this region and our mission remains the same, the enduring defeat of ISIS," said Major General Christopher Ghika, Operation Inherent Resolve deputy commander.

"To be allies is to fight shoulder to shoulder. It's the most important thing for a head of state and head of the military," Macron said.

President Donald Trump has announced the withdrawal of troops from Syria, having informed his military officials after a call with the Turkish president regarding an arms deal and a potential offensive against U.S. allies.