An Afghan soldier surveys a former ISIS-K jail in Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan. Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images. But after suffering major territorial, leadership and rank-and-file losses The areas it has secured have been kept under control by an endless stream of floggings, mutilations, beheadings and crucifixions. The targets can be well-chosen or arbitrary, but no one is spared - Shia opponents, Sunni rivals, captured soldiers or "immoral" women. ISIS 'execute' 1,700 Iraqi soldiers, post gruesome pictures (GRAPHIC) Suppression of Sunni dissent was the best recruiting sergeant ISIS has. The group's leader served four years in a U.S. prison camp. ISIS uses cash reserves from banks, equipment seized from Within days, militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria destroyed three extraordinary cultural heritage sites in Iraq going back thousands of years: Nineveh, Hatra and Nimrud. For the ancient Assyrian capitals, their wanton destruction was a tragically ironic turn of events, given that their rulers, some 2,700 years ago, had been among the most brutal and destructive the region had known. Horrifying images and video have emerged following the brutal killing, including one showing the victim, who was reportedly in his 50s, plummeting in mid-air, still sitting on a white plastic chair An undated picture released by Iraq's Interior Ministry claiming to show Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (AP) Isis launched a well-planned campaign last year including a successful assault on Abu The photographs, released by ISIS' official propaganda wing, show the militants reading the Koran, enjoying a picnic, and even riding ponies as they relax in northern Iraq's mountainous region A Kurdish militia fighter who was killed by an ISIS sniper in al-Suwar, eastern Syria, in October. Lorenzo Meloni—Magnum Photos A destroyed bridge between the eastern and western sections of Mosul The below two images show possibly the last surving product of the infamous ISIS "Workshop"- read more about the factory here- a Toyota Pickup mated to the turret of a BMP-1 IFV, complete with 73mm 2A28 Grom cannon, making an excellent improvised platform for mobile fire support or artillery. We can even see the distinctive logo of ISIS's Islamic State militants killed up to 770 captured Iraqi soldiers after they captured a former US military base in Tikrit back in June, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. Three new mass execution sites have been discovered at the Camp Speicher air base near the Iraqi city of Tikrit, the international human rights group In November 2014, ISIS released a video depicting the decapitated head of Kassig. In January 2015, ISIS released videos with images of two dead Japanese citizens. "Today, we remember the victims, Jim Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller, and their families who are forever affected by these senseless acts of violence," said Christopher Wray, FBI Director. Two militant fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization, are expected to arrive in the United States today in FBI custody on charges related to their participation in a brutal hostage-taking scheme that resulted in the deaths of four American citizens, as well as the deaths of British and Japanese nationals, in Syria. Two militant fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization,