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A blonde Danish teenager has murdered her mother after watching multiple sickening ISIS videos, which include the beheadings of British hostages, has been jailed along with her older jihadi lover. Lisa Borch was only aged 15 in October last year when she spent hours on YouTube watching footage of the barbaric decapitation of David Haines and Alan Henning. Afterwards she and her radical Muslim boyfriend, named Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdulla, took a long-bladed kitchen knife and proceeded to stab her mother at least 20 times at the home they shared. [Borch] became obsessed with militant Islam after falling in love with...

"What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as...

U.S. officials report that more than 1,000 foreign fighters are streaming into Syria each month as a United Nations report says that the terrorist influx has reached an "unprecedented scale." According to the new U.N. report, a lot more terrorist boots are on the ground these days as an "unbelievably small" — to use Secretary of State John Kerry's phrase — air campaign, which has taken months to do what should have been done in a day, has failed to achieve the administration's proclaimed goal: to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State. More than 15,000 foreign fighters from as many...

Alan Henning's Brother Begs David Cameron To Send In Troops On The Ground Oct 06, 2014 By Chris Hughes, David Hughes Reg Henning says ground troops are needed to find the "monsters" that b The brother of beheaded British aid worker Alan Henning has called on David Cameron to send ground troops to track down the Islamic State maniacs responsible for the murder. RAF jets continued yesterday to attack the IS in Iraq but Reg Henning insisted more was needed to bring the killers to court. He said: “You’re not going to find them by dropping a few bombs in...

CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State extremists who have beheaded another Western hostage are deaf to reason and must be destroyed, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday as Muslims worldwide were urged to pray for the victim on one of Islam’s holiest days. .....

ISIS has executed Alan Henning. Henning is the fourth western hostage to be executed by the Islamic State. Here’s what we know so far:

By Sarah Hurtubise, Daily Caller ISIS released yet another video on Friday apparently showing the beheading of a British aid worker, Alan Henning, according to the Associated Press. Henning was kidnapped in December 2013 while in Syria with an aid group bringing food and water to the nation’s many refugees. He was abducted by masked gunman the day after Christmas, according to other volunteers. The video’s authenticity hasn’t yet been verified, but it is similar to previous beheading videos from the group. Like in previous videos, the masked jihadi blamed Western forces fighting ISIS for the execution. Read more at...

Henning, 47, a taxi driver from Eccles, Greater Manchester, had been held captive in Syria for nine months. Islamic State militants have published a video that is said to depict the murder of a British aid convoy volunteer Alan Henning three weeks after warning that he would be the next to die. If the video is found to be authentic, Henning will be the fourth western hostage to have been killed by the group, following the video-taped beheadings of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and Scottish aid worker David Haines