After years of campaigning for ancient artifacts to be returned from foreign museums to the nations where they were found, archaeologists and museum officials are rethinking the concept of “repatriation”–particularly in Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has made destruction of historical artifacts a priority.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) captured a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, but some managed to escape. These survivors told media sources the horrific incidents that took place at the hands of the savages.
A U.S.-trained member of the Afghan National Army (ANA) opened fire on American troops in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing one U.S. service member and wounding at least two others, local and foreign news agencies report.
Iraqi forensic teams have begun the grim work of exhuming mass graves around the formerly ISIS-held city of Tikrit and taking account of the victims. What they have found tells a mind-shattering tale of horror.
Our American Freedom Defense Initiative’s Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest will be held on May 3 in the Dallas area to show that we will defend free speech and not give in to violent intimidation. We have received over 350 submissions of Muhammad cartoons from all over the world, and now we are throwing open the voting on the best of these to you. You and voters worldwide will choose the winner of the People’s Choice Award.
Iran deployed its 34th naval fleet over to the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, which means that its ships may infringe upon a Sunni coalition-led naval blockade over Yemen, Iranian state-media reports.
Foreign girls who are lured via the internet to join ISIS are being misled by a glamorized vision of women posing with AK-47s and in martial arts positions—in essence, a vision of women performing forbidden, male-only holy mission tasks.
Nearly a week has passed since the deadly jihadist attack on Kenya’s Garissa University that killed at least 148, and students who watched their colleagues being slaughtered now say they will never step foot in the city again, with some even renouncing higher education entirely and vowing to live as farmers.
Libya’s internationally recognised parliament said Tuesday it has uncovered “new elements” behind the 2012 assassination of the US ambassador when the American consulate was stormed in eastern city Benghazi.
A 15 year-old South African girl believed to be en route to join ISIS has been found and taken off the British Airways plane on which she planned to travel.
Britain’s latest ISIS terror recruit is a resident of Britain’s most racially-segregated town and the brother of this country’s youngest convicted terrorist. Labour’s junior justice minister Shahid Malik dismissed any link, saying, “Lightning stuck twice.” Hassan Munshi, 17, from the
The New York Times profiled the small town of Lisleby in Norway. However, it is not just any old small town. At least seven young men left the cozy town for Syria to join terrorist groups. Seven does not appear to be a large number, but it is for Lisleby, considering the town consists of only 6,000 residents.
At least 100 Islamist teachers and teaching assistants implicated in last year’s “Trojan Horse” teaching scandal in Birmingham, England may face lifetime teaching bans.
The Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front released the estimated 300 Kurds it reportedly kidnapped in northwestern Syria after Kurdish authorities freed three jihadists who had been arrested, according to a Kurdish official and a monitor group.
A group of an estimated 20 Boko Haram terrorists attacked a northeastern Nigerian village on Sunday night after gathering Muslims during evening prayers, claiming to be preachers, and bombing the village’s mosque while shooting anyone in sight. The attack differs from many as the Islamist group tends to target Christian populations.
Nine days after ISIS shocked the civilized world with a video of its beheading of American journalist James Foley, the Imam of the largest mosque on the East Coast, Suhaib Webb, directly challenged President Obama’s circumlocutions about jihad.
In his ongoing campaign against Christian persecution, Pope Francis underscored the responsibility of the international community Monday in his address to the pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square, urging governments not to stand idly by while anti-Christian violence continues.
Islamic State terrorists have begun English-language radio news transmissions on their al-Bayan radio network. The bulletins were launched Tuesday and are the latest step in the group’s campaign to reach extremists beyond the Middle East. The first bulletin, which provided
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A fourth man was charged on Monday in a terrorism case accusing him of raising money for a plot to have U.S. residents travel overseas to fight for the Islamic State.
Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen Michael Flynn (Ret.) said the Iran deal is “carte blanche to become the hegemonic…dominant country in the Middle East for three decades of bad behavior” in an interview broadcast on Monday’s “Kelly File”
Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) argued that terrorism is “not about people who are alienated” or impoverished, but really caused by Islamic extremism on Monday’s “Situation Room” on CNN. After being read President Obama’s concern about the “alienated, youth” population turning
Many former Iraqi officers, who once served under Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime, are playing a “pervasive role” in the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as “leaders” of the jihadist group, reports The Washington Post.
A new video produced by an Iranian opposition group documents how the Ayatollah’s regime in Tehran has proliferated its Khomeinist revolution into 60 countries, graduating 50,000 Mullahs at its Al Mustafa International University in the past seven years.
J Peter Pham, Director of the Africa Center for the Atlantic Council, said that Al-Shabaab is “morphing” “into a transnational regional terrorist organization” on Monday’s “CNN Newsroom.” “In recent years, the United States, the European Union, the international community have
