The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIS/IS) is claiming responsibility for kidnapping three African Christians in eastern Libya. According to reports, the Islamic terror group published the three men’s passport pictures as evidence of the kidnapping. Reports were unclear about why the three men, who come from Egypt, Ghana, and Nigeria, were in Libya.
Islamic State supporters on social media are sharing photos of a grand shopping mall the group has allegedly opened in the Iraqi city of Mosul, stocked full of American and Western products the group has previously adamantly declared haram.
The United States-led coalition promised people in Raqqa, Syria, “freedom will come” on numerous leaflets they dropped on the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) self-declared capital of their caliphate, which includes Iraq and Syria.
The Associated Press revealed that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is teaching Yazidi boys how to properly behead people by practicing on dolls.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed “Caliph” of the terrorist group Islamic State, has reportedly issued an edict limiting the kind of graphic material that may appear in ISIS propaganda, out of concern that Muslims who would otherwise be inclined to join the cult change their minds after being “disgusted” by extensive depictions of beheadings.
It is worth noting that Islamic State does not have the monopoly on brutal jihadism. From time to time it is confronted by others with an equally medieval take on punishment, as a local IS commander caught by other jihadis fighting to control a strategically
The recent killing of five Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by a 24-year-old radicalized Islamist named Muhammed Youssef Abdulazeez is just another episode in global Islamic terrorism.
The New York Times reported Thursday that “in the last two or three months,” the Chattanooga gunman Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez “had begun showing up rather regularly at Friday Prayer at the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, a large mosque and cultural center, said Dr. Azhar S. Sheikh, a founding member of the center’s board.”
In a recent conversation, a senior Egyptian security official stated that Egypt needs the technological tools to monitor the borders, especially the western borders, “that is where large numbers of recruits and terrorists come. We have to monitor people and arms smuggling. Tunisia is the largest recruiter of the Mujahedeen,” he said. Tunisians make up the largest group of foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria, estimated at about 3,000.
SRINAGAR, India, July 19 (Reuters) – Indian and Pakistani forces traded fire across their disputed frontier over the weekend, when Muslims celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr, injuring several civilians and raising tension despite a recent agreement aimed at improving
Not one day – not twenty-four hours after the Chattanooga jihad mass murder – the symbol of American individualism, capitalism, and the capital of the world, the Empire State Building, one of the foremost symbols of American freedom, celebrated the Muslim “holiday” of Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan. Ramadan is the most violent month of the year in the Islamic world, because Ramadan is the month in which Muslims renew their devotion to Allah, and violent jihad is a supreme act of devotion to Allah.
On Tuesday, an Israeli court sentenced Dirar Abu Sisi, a Palestinian engineer, to 21 years in prison for work he did making rockets for the Iranian-funded terror group Hamas.
Too many times the economic effects of terrorism are discussed at the macro level. It is often stated that the United States economy is so large that it can absorb the economic effects of these attacks, which are growing in number annually. This is not a false argument, but it is an incomplete one.
Hundreds of people have been killed in attacks by the jihadist group Boko Haram and in sectarian violence in the Middle Belt during the past two months, and emphasizes the intensification of Boko Haram attacks since the start of Ramadan. “The July 20 meeting in Washington D.C. between President Barack Obama and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari offers both nations the opportunity to reinvigorate their commitment to, and develop initiatives that would, help curb both types of violence,” the statement says.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack at a security point in Riyadh near Saudi Arabia’s highest security prison, according to several news reports.
The Turkish government has chosen not to convict a pair of Chechen Islamists on murder charges after they beheaded three Christian priests.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez pulled up to his military targets in a rented, silver Mustang convertible, wearing a vest with extra ammunition, wielding at least two long guns – either rifles or shotguns – and a handgun. His once clean-shaven face was covered with a bushy beard. A short time later, four Marines lay dead. A sailor who was seriously injured died Saturday.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz reacted to the murder of four Marines in Chattanooga on Friday, declaring it an act of war.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) forced a “Cub of a Caliphate,” the nickname for their child soldiers, to behead an abducted Syrian soldier. They released the video as Ramadan comes to an end.
Mohammad Abdulazeez, the slain shooter in the Chattanooga, Tennessee terror attack that took the lives of four U.S. Marines, may have had a strained relationship with his fundamentalist Muslim father Youssuf Saed.
WRCB News in Chattanooga reports that Muhammed Youssef Abdulazeez, the 24-year-old gunman who launched a murderous attack on a military recruiting office and training center, was arrested for DUI last April.
The suspect in the fatal shootings of four U.S. Marines traveled to Jordan and possibly other Middle Eastern countries last year, authorities said on Friday, as the investigation focused on any signs of a connection to Islamist militants.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai claimed it destroyed an Egyptian navy vessel off the peninsula’s Mediterranean coast with rockets, various news outlets report.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), when asked to comment on the terrorist attack in Chattanooga yesterday that left four Marines dead, said the Obama administration needs to accept that the U.S. homeland is under attack by radical Islamic terrorists.
Iraqi Brigadier General Saad Maan told the Associated Press the country closed its border with Jordan to fight the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The terrorist group controls the land between the crossing point of Trebil and Baghdad.
