SITE Intelligence Group reported that the Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh branch of the al-Qaeda in Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS), claimed responsibility for the death of secular blogger Niloy Chakrabartu, who used the pen name Niloy Neel.
A massive wave of assaults carried out by the Taliban in Afghanistan over the weekend–and continuing into Monday–has resulted in hundreds of casualties, including the death of a U.S. Special Forces operator.
On Monday, the U.S. consulate in Turkey was attacked by two female assailants, for reasons as yet unclear.
The onslaught of ISIS in central Syria is threatening yet another Christian town, prompting human-rights activists to warn that hundreds of families could be in peril.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently met to discuss ways to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). Turkey already joined a U.S.-led coalition after an ISIS attack, but Russia stated no desire to join the fight.
The realisation that an Islamist gunman who attacked a free speech conference and a synagogue in Denmark last February had been radicalised in prison triggered a massive reassessment of the national approach to Islam in prisons. In just 10 weeks after the shootings
Officials in Mali ended a 24-hour hostage situation at the Byblos Hotel in Sevare, which left 12 people dead over the weekend. Suspected radical Islamists attacked the hotel on Friday.
Peaceful, multi-cultural Sweden has been rocked by yet another grenade attack in Malmö, as well as a double murder in an IKEA store just outside Stockholm. Police were called to the Västerås branch of the Swedish furniture mega-business around lunch-time today after
Jihadists are reportedly planning to murder the Queen of Great Britain in a plot hatched to take place during a public appearance to commemorate the end of the Second World War. The British security services are apparently aware of the
Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told Reuters the country has documented fewer Germans leaving to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in the past few months.
A mob hacked to death secular blogger Niloy Chakrabartu, who used the pen name Niloy Neel, on Friday in Bangladesh. Chakrabartu is the fourth blogger murdered by alleged radical Islamists in the republic this year.
In blatant violation of the United Nations Security Council restrictions concerning his overseas travel, Iranian General Qasem Soleimani traveled to Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month, multiple reports have confirmed.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) executed at least 19 women who refused to have sex with terrorists belonging to the group, multiple reports assert.
Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government is striving to contain what has grown into a significant drug abuse problem among its population, pushing the limits of both law enforcement and medical care facilities in accommodating criminals and those who need help fighting their addictions.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) militiamen have kidnapped 230 Syrian civilians, including 19 children and 45 women, after invading a village in the province of Homs in central Syria. Among the hostages are 60 Christians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based NGO.
A British man is facing seven years in prison for threatening to stand outside a mosque in Scotland and burn an Islamic State battle flag, in a Facebook post that was reported to police. Kenneth Meek, 54, of Livingston, West
Tensions between Turkey and the Kurds continue to escalate as Kurdish militia groups who have been fighting ISIS in Syria complained of coming under fire from Turkish forces. Notably, these are Kurdish militia units not direct affiliated with the PKK—the Kurdish separatists classified as terrorists by Turkey and subjected to airstrikes by American-made Turkish F-16 jets after several recent instances of violence.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is expected to announce tomorrow that he opposes the nuclear accord President Obama negotiated with the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran. Schumer, as the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, wields heavy influence over his caucus, whose representatives have been split over the deal thus far.
The Department of Homeland Security is instituting new security requirements for those countries in the Visa Waiver Program — or countries whose nationals do not need visas for short visits to the U.S. — due to the threats posed by foreign fighters, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson announced Thursday.
At least 15 people, most of them members of the Saudi special forces, were killed Thursday in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque used by the force in Saudi Arabia’s Abha city, according to the country’s interior ministry.
In the wake of the death of Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban, the terror group’s leadership structure has been thrown into chaos. However, the group is still pursuing a policy of wanton destruction. Most recently, a truck bombing committed by Taliban militants rocked the province of Kabul, Afghanistan.
An alleged Pakistani terrorist from the Lashker-e-Taiba (LT) Islamist militant group was apprehended in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday after he and an accomplice carried out a deadly attack and hours-long gun battle exchange which killed two members of
21-year-old Afghan pilot Niloofar Rahmani says she has been driven to the verge of quitting by the Taliban and her own extended family.
A new Islamic State propaganda video, believed to be the first filmed in the German language, has threatened the life of Angela Merkel and called on believers to attack Germany and Austria. Germany’s Die Welt reports at least two of the
Extract from an interview with former Islamic radical Sohail Ahmed published by The Docklands and East London Advertiser: Over the last five years physics student Sohail Ahmed claims to have witnessed fiery speeches about jihad during Friday prayer at Queen Mary
