What's the latest with ISIS?

From its Libyan front:

ISIS beheaded and crucified 12 men in Sirte, Libya during a battle over control of the city.
Gulf News reported:

Daesh terrorists have beheaded 12 people and hung them on crosses during a battle for the coastal city of Sirte, the national news agency LANA reported Saturday.

The fighting for control of Sirte, hometown of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been raging since Tuesday, with one top Libyan diplomat warning of a “massacre” in the city.

LANA said the 12 people beheaded were local gunmen who had been battling Daesh in the eastern Sirte district known as “neighbourhood three”.

The agency also reported that Daesh terrorists executed 22 other Sirte residents who had taken up arms against the terrorist group as they lay wounded in a city hospital.

It said the terrorists also set the hospital on fire.

New disclosures regarding its head honcho:

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi personally raped Kayla Mueller repeatedly before her death in captivity, counter-terrorism officials recently told her parents.

Al-Baghdadi delivered the 26-year-old humanitarian aid worker to the home of ISIS official Abu Sayyaf, where she was imprisoned, and where al-Baghdadi regularly returned to sexually assault her, counter-terrorism officials told ABC news. “He delivered Kayla Mueller, live and in person,” one official said.

The report refutes rumors Kayla had cooperated with her captors or been a willing spouse of Sayyaf toward the end of her one and a half years of captivity. Her death was confirmed in February, although exactly how she was killed is unclear.

A U.S. Army hostage-rescue unit killed Sayyaf — a Tunisian in charge of oil and gas revenue — during a raid of his compound in May, but took his wife, Umm Sayyaf, and several captives alive.

Umm “spilled everything” while under interrogation, including information about al-Baghdadi’s role in Kayla’s capture and details about ISIS leaders’ locations and patterns of life, a counter-terrorism official told ABC News. Two teenage Yezedi girls rescued from the compound also provided information about Kayla’s life at the compound.

“We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of al-Baghdadi,” Carl and Marsha Mueller told ABC News Thursday. “We were told that in June by the government.”

To personnel of the post-American military and government, ISIS says, "We know where you live": 

A representative for a pro-Islamic State hacking group issued a chilling warning to members of the U.S. military and government Wednesday, promising that “very soon” followers of the organization would retaliate for overseas bombing targeting the terror organization.

Speaking to TheBlaze using smartphone messenger application Kik, a representative for the Islamic State Hacking Division said the group is constantly spying on U.S. servicemen. The organization on Tuesday published personal information purporting to belong to U.S. military and government online.

“Just like they spy on muslims, we are spying on them, watching their employees, watching their soldiers, recording their movements and taking their location information and passing it on to the soldiers of the islamic state,” the anonymous male member told TheBlaze.

“they have no security just like their employees and military personnel have no OpSec,” he continued, “they are people who like to brag and boast and this is to our advantage.”

The message goes on to play a little cat-and-mouse regarding its cyber-capabilities:

The individual would not provide specifics on the Islamic State Hacking Division, declining to say where the group is based or how many members are in its ranks. He did, however, go after Anonymous, the hacking group which recently targeted the Islamic State.
“Anonymous, GhostSec, CtrlSec who are apparently ‘hackers’ against IS, till date they have hacked nothing, they are all talk,” the Islamic State Hacking Division member said. “the only thing they can do is report twitter accounts and ddos websites for 5mins.”

Boasting of the group’s own skill set, the individual claimed his group “probably” could have breached security guarding the private email server of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. He, however, declined to get into the group’s specific methodology, saying, “Let the US gov figure that out.” 

Yes, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are threats.  So are these guys. It is more crucial than ever that we learn to walk and chew gum at the same time.