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The student news site of North Forsyth High School

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ISIS has lost much of its territory over the past few months. Ramadi, Manbij, Tikrit, and Fallujah are four large cities that the group has lost to its enemies since December 2015. Mosul, a city of over 600,000 people, is the last remaining large city in Iraq under ISIS control. Photo from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_DiS-qnKjo.

ISIS Puts up Fierce Resistance in Battle for Mosul

Jack Scott, Staff Writer December 2, 2016

The Iraqi and Kurdish armies’ struggle to reconquer the city of Mosul is making swift progress, but the outnumbered and desperate ISIS forces are employing multiple brutal methods to try and maintain...

Islamic State militants force captured hospital workers to treat them after an attack on Iba Sina Hospital on Monday, March 16. The militants invaded the hospital to capture the hospital workers because they needed medical aide, while performing terrorist attacks in Sirte. A hospital official said, in an interview with CNN, that ,” The militants cannot go far, with ISIS militants ordering them not to leave Sirte.”

ISIS Captures 20 Medical Workers in Lybia

Ben Bramblett, Staff Writer March 26, 2015

The Islamic State Militants kidnapped 20 medical workers at the Ibn Sina Hospital in Sirte, Libya. Over 30 gunmen overran the hospital on Monday, March 16. The workers were simply waiting for their bus...

ISIS continues their reign of terror by threatening the Police, keeping them on high alert. ISIS tells their supporters to kill Americans.

ISIS Threatens NYPD

Ben Bramblett, Staff Writer February 3, 2015

ISIS threatened the New York Police Department, ordering their supporters to “Kill police officers, soldiers, intelligence officers, and civilians in the United States.” A re-released video, originally...

Police storm a kosher supermarket in Paris as hostages escape.  Amedy Coulibaly murdered four of the hostages before police raided the store and killed Coulibaly, putting an end to a week of terror in France.  "In the streets of Paris, the world has seen once again what terrorists stand for.  They have nothing to offer but hatred and human suffering,” Barack Obama said.

Terrorists Attack Satirical Magazine Office in Paris

Matthew McFadden, Staff Writer January 27, 2015

Four terrorists executed a series of attacks in Paris, killing 17 people over the span of three days before a police raid killed three suspects: Said Kouachi, Chérif Kouachi, and Amedy Coulibaly. Said...

Nigerian Kidnapping

Sam Perryman, Staff Writer May 13, 2014

In the dead of night on April 14, agents of the terroristic organization Boko Haram broke into a government school in Chibok, Nigeria, shooting the school guards and killing one soldier. 276 school girls...

Hotels in Olympic host city, Sochi, are not quite ready to accommodate journalists, reporters, or athletes with buildings still under construction.

Friday Links: Was Sochi the Right Location for the Olympics?

Lacy Hamilton, Editorials Editor February 21, 2014

There is great controversy surrounding the 2014 Winter Olympics; however, it is not concerning the medal count. Quickly becoming one of the worst locations for the Olympics yet, Sochi, Russia is not fit...

The NFHS Advanced Women's Choir honored the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks during Instructional Focus on Wednesday, September 11, 2013.

Honoring the Anniversary of September 9, 2001

Ben Strube, Online Editor September 11, 2013

On September 11, 2001, the United States was rocked to its core as a pair of metallic passenger jets crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center compound. The duel crashes were engineered and...

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