Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Tashfeen Malik and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook. who gunned down people at a holiday party for a health center in San Bernardino, California, were affiliated with ISIS. They killed 14 of Farook’s co-workers and injured another 21 people, resulting in the belief that the killing spree was a work-related gripe.

Islamic State (IS) militants claimed responsibility for the shooting in San Bernardino in southern California on Wednesday, which claimed the lives of fourteen people and left 21 injured.

Militants of IS described the two perpetrators, who stormed a Christmas party at the county department of public health as "supporters" of the terrorist group.

Al Qaeda's Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, released 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen held captive since August, 2014 on Dec. 1 in a Qatari-mediated deal that also secured freedom for a jailed ex-wife of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who said she wished to come to Turkey. 

France's reaction to what its president called "an act of war," the series of attacks which claimed the lives of 129 people on Nov. 13, was to hit the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, Syria. 

A German rapper who joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and publicly threatened President Barack Obama was killed in a US air strike in Syria, a defense official said Oct. 29.

Iraq has started bombing Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets with help from a new intelligence center that has staff from Russia, Iran and Syria, the head of parliament's defense and security committee said Oct. 13 as Russia intensifies attacks on the jihadist group in neighboring Syria. 

Syrian troops backed by Russian air strikes fought their fiercest clashes with rebels in weeks on Oct. 12 as Russia?s air force hit 53 targets in the country in 24 hours, Moscow has said. 

The Iraqi air force struck a convoy of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in western Anbar province close to the Syrian border on Oct. 11, a military statement said. 

The fate of the militant leader, who has declared himself the leader of a caliphate in areas his ultrahardline Sunni group controls in Iraq and Syria, is unknown, the military said. 

The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has used the shocking image of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi to warn refugees against trying to flee to the West, calling it a "major sin".

The second-in-command of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been killed in a US air strike in northern Iraq, the White House said Aug. 21.
 
The National Security Council identified the slain militant as Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Haji Mutaz, and said he was ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?s senior deputy.