President Donald Trump’s administration, marking a departure from the position of its predecessor, did not hesitate to refer to the Afghan Taliban, which has killed and wounded U.S. service members for nearly 16 years, as a “terrorist organization.”
The U.S. Air Force considers “maintaining space superiority” one of its “core missions,” high-ranking American military officials told lawmakers Wednesday, warning that “space is now a warfighting domain.”
Beijing is planning to use its investment plan to revive China’s Silk Road through Pakistan, officially known as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), to suppress Islamic terrorism, diversity, and democracy in the Muslim-majority country, a leaked documented obtained by DAWN purportedly reveals.
An estimated 300 U.S. Marines have been deployed to the Taliban-stronghold Helmand, considered one of the deadliest provinces of the 16-year-old war for the American-led coalition and their Afghan allies.
The Line of Control (LoC), which refers to the 450-mile disputed border that separates the Kashmir region into territory respectively controlled by nuclear-armed foes Pakistan and India, is no stranger to acts of brutality, such as the recent beheadings and mutilations, considered “particularly humiliating,” reports the New York Times (NYT).
The humanitarian situation in the Yemeni provinces of Hudaydah and Taiz is deteriorating further, driving families to live out “in the open in harsh conditions” and resort to “begging and child labor” to survive, reports the United Nations as a cholera epidemic grips the war-ravaged nation.
A Pakistani law that would fine and incarcerate people who eat, drink, or smoke in public during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has drawn the ire of the daughter of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
A 24-year-old Nigerian shared his ordeal as one of the thousands of West Africans who have traveled to Libya where their traffickers forced them into “a grim and violent world of slave markets, private prisons, and brutal forced brothels,” reports the Guardian.
U.S. -backed Iraqi troops and their allies are advancing on Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-held territory in Mosul in an effort to push the jihadists out of their Grand al-Nuri Mosque stronghold before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has warned that deliberate leaks of “sensitive or classified” U.S. government information by “trusted insiders” will “remain a significant threat” during President Donald Trump’s tenure.
WASHINGTON, DC — The American homeland is facing “the most frequent and unpredictable” Islamic terrorist threat from Sunni “U.S.-based homegrown violent extremists (HVEs),” warns the most recent Worldwide Threat Assessment issued by the United States intelligence community (IC).
WASHINGTON, DC —Afghanistan will “continue to deteriorate” this year despite U.S-led international support, primarily because of capability lapses among the American-trained Afghan forces and the expected “gains” by a resurgent Taliban that grew stronger under former President Barack Obama, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Daniel Coats warns lawmakers in the most recent Worldwide Threat Assessment.
President Donald Trump inherited an Afghanistan war in much worse shape than the one Barack Obama took over from George W. Bush, a conflict he made his own soon after taking office in 2009.
An estimated 5,000 members of China’s Uighur, or Uyghur, minority group are waging jihad on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), al-Qaeda, and other terrorist groups, according to Reuters, citing the Syrian ambassador to Beijing.
A Guantánamo prisoner, Abu Zubaydah, is expected to testify for the first time about allegedly being subjected to prolonged torture at CIA black sites.
The Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf terrorist group, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), has been dramatically degraded, according to the Filipino military.
American senior and foreigner policy advisers are reportedly proposing urging President Donald Trump to boost the U.S military footprint in Afghanistan by at least 3,000 troops to force the resilient and resurgent Taliban to negotiate peace with the Afghan government.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Syria, where the Russian military is fighting on behalf of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, have published a video purporting to show the decapitation of an alleged Russian colonel, reports the SITE intelligence group that monitors jihadi activity online.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has decided not to let the United Nations (UN) nor any other oversight body to monitor the “de-escalation zones” he negotiated with Turkey and his allies Russia and Iran, declared the war-ravaged country’s foreign minister.
Muslim-majority Pakistan has sentenced a Christian pastor to life behind bars for allegedly sending out blasphemous texts in another instance of legal abuse of its notorious blasphemy laws.
The U.S. military killed Abul Hasib, the top leader of Afghanistan’s Islamic State branch, in an airstrike targeting the jihadist group in its main stronghold in the region, located in the eastern part of the war-devastated country along the Pakistan border, officials from both countries have conceded.
Authorities from the predominantly Muslim Republic of Chechnya, an autonomous province in Russia, have threatened parents of gay children, warning them, “Either you kill them, or we we will,” reports France24, citing testimony from one of the victims of alleged concentration camps for homosexuals operated by the local government.
A recently published video purportedly shows shadowy Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau once again contradicting reports that the Nigerian military injured him in northeastern Nigeria, the group’s stronghold.
United States-backed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani welcomed the return to the country’s capital of a notorious U.S.-designated global terrorist known as the “Butcher of Kabul” who has urged his alleged Taliban “brothers” to “stop this pointless holy war” in Afghanistan, therefore ending “all reasons for the presence of foreign troops.”
WASHINGTON, DC — Illegal migrants are “victimized” by American agricultural and restaurant employers who hire and pay them “slave wages under the table,” declared U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly on Thursday.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly defended President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts, reminding American lawmakers that, if they do not like the laws on the books, they have the power to change them.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly has warned would-be illegal migrants from Central America not to waste their money on paying for a human trafficker to enter the United States because they “will be turned around within our laws relatively quickly and returned.”
Former Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the Russian-backed Libyan opposition leader who has been compared to the country’s deposed and executed dictator Muammar Gaddafi, is reportedly expected to be nominated for president in March 2018.
The leader of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has reportedly suffered yet another “fatal injury” at the hands of the Nigerian military more than a year after his alleged death.
India has rejected news reports accusing New Delhi of bombing bunkers and killing “several enemy” soldiers in the disputed region of Kashmir controlled by Islamabad as retaliation for Pakistan allegedly decapitated two Indian soldiers.
India has accused its regional rival Pakistan of killing and mutilating two of its soldiers along their border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), testified Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee that there had been a substantial rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and linked that rise to President Donald Trump and his supporters.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) alleges that it captured the opium-rich Chaprahr district in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province from the Taliban, following clashes between the two groups that left dozens dead, including a nine-year-old girl.
Jihadists from the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), considered by the United States the most dangerous branch of the terrorist group, have fought alongside U.S.-backed Yemeni factions, claims the leader of the organization.
The United States and NATO are contemplating deploying additional troops to Afghanistan as security conditions primarily fueled by clashes with the Taliban continue to deteriorate.
The American government placed a revised version of the U.S. counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan “on hold for more than two years” while cultivation and production of opium and its deadly heroin derivative has reached historic levels in the war-ravaged nation, reports a watchdog agency.
It is hard to argue that the U.S.-backed Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) lack the will to defend their country when they have incurred a historic number of fatalities in the past year, primarily at the hands of a resurgent Taliban, the most potent jihadist group in Afghanistan.
Communist China, in a rare move, released some details behind the arrest of a suspected Islamic terrorist who allegedly had more than 100 people under his command in Turkey, reports the South China Morning Post (SCMP), citing state media.
The Nigerian military reportedly insists there is no resurgence of Boko Haram terrorist activities in northeastern Nigeria, considered the group’s stronghold and birthplace.
The United States will deploy about 6,000 American soldiers to Europe and Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Army.
