Prosecutors say a northern Virginia man arrested last week on terrorism charges has a husband-wife relationship with another American who was dubbed by prosecutors as an “empress of ISIS” for her work to establish an all-female Islamic State battalion
“Israel’s army and Palestinian militants exchanged heavy cross-border fire on Wednesday, with hundreds of rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out deadly strikes on what it says are Islamic Jihad organization targets along the strip. The latest violence came after Israeli military airstrikes earlier in the week killed three leaders of the Palestinian militant group and 10 other Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza and led to threats of retaliation. In a new update early Thursday, the IDF said it had targeted another Islamic Jihad commander who was a ‘central figure’ in the Palestinian militant group. ‘We just targeted Ali Ghali, the commander of Islamic Jihad’s Rocket Launching Force, as well as two other Islamic Jihad operatives in Gaza,’ the IDF said in a tweet, adding that Ghali was ‘responsible for the recent rocket barrages launched against Israel.’”CNN: Hundreds Of Rockets Fired At Israel Amid Deadly I
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Terrorism suspect Mohammed Chhipa, 33, of Springfield, Virginia, was reportedly in a relationship with American ISIS battalion leader Allison Fluke-Ekren.