Screenshot from Islamic State propaganda video.

One Icelander fighting for Islamic State

19 Apr 2016 One Icelander is among the 4,000 jihadists believed to have joined the ranks of Islamic State in 2013-14, it has emerged.

People light candles at the site of the blast.

No Icelandic victims in Turkey suicide bomb attack

20 Mar 2016 The Icelandic Foreign Minister has now confirmed that the individual in question is a national of Ireland, not Iceland, as previously communicated.

Islamic State hacks Reykjavik nursery school website

3 Mar 2016 This is not the first time IS (also variously known as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh has targeted Icelandic websites in this way.

Screenshot from Kristsdagur.is

Islamic State hacks Icelandic website

25 Nov 2015 A party or parties unknown claiming to be acting on behalf of jihadist extremist militant group Islamic State (IS) has carried out a cyber-attack against an Icelandic Christian mission website.

Rúv reporter Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson. The Islamic State believed he was a spy working for NATO.

Icelander believed to be spy by Islamic State

16 Nov 2015 "They didn't say directly that they wanted to kill me but when they started publishing my name I got a bit scared," says Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson, journalist at national radio, RÚV to mbl.is after disclosing on Facebook last night that he'd been put on the Islamic state's hit list.

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