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In 2009, when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi walked away from a United States detention camp in Iraq, he warned his former captors: “I’ll see you guys in New York.”

Just five years later, in 2014, this same man became the leader of ISIS.

After Tuesday’s terror attack in New York City, the deadliest since 9/11, al-Baghdadi’s words seem more ominous – and relevant.

This week, CNN noted the resilience of New Yorkers. Yet, we deceive ourselves if we go on with our lives and dismiss Tuesday’s attack as another senseless atrocity carried out by a “lone wolf.” (After all, the alleged attacker wanted to display the ISIS flag in the hospital while he recovered, and the militant group claimed him as a “soldier of the caliphate.”)

What motivates ISIS to commit such carnage? Radical jihadists such as al-Baghdadi are more than psychopaths perverting Islam. ISIS wants to usher in the apocalypse.

Here are four things you need to know about ISIS from the research of Jim Denison, author of Radical Islam: What You Need to Know:

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There have been recent reports that the Biden administration is planning to remove five groups from the U.S.' foreign terrorist blacklist. Each of these groups is now considered defunct. But it's strange that if they are defunct anyway, why anyone would worry about delisting them. It's better to let dead terror groups lie.

In the past few weeks, it was revealed that Hamas had planned a series of attacks against Israelis after Israeli forces arrested more than 50 members of a Hamas terror cell.

Security forces in Israel are on high alert after a Hamas terrorist opened fire in Jerusalem’s Old City Sunday, killing one and injuring four others.

A group of GOP Senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the State Department to designate the Taliban as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

This week, Drive Thru History is releasing 9/11: A Drive Thru History Special. Through incredible video footage and narration, this special walks through the events of 9/11, highlighting stories of terrorism and heroism, introducing the perpetrators of great evil and incredible sacrifice.

On Friday, Authorities in New Zealand fatally shot a suspected Islamic terrorist after he stabbed six people in an Auckland supermarket.

A retired Army lieutenant general who served as a national security advisor in the Trump administration is warning that Afghanistan will become a "new epicenter of jihadist terrorism" with the Taliban controlling it and the United States having withdrawn from the middle eastern nation.

Historians trace the Taliban’s origins to the early and mid-1990s, when Afghanistan was facing social upheaval after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The word “Taliban” means “students” in Pashto, one of the languages spoken in Afghanistan. The Taliban is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.