Militants of the Islamic State terror group carried out multiple coordinated attacks involving suicide bombers and gunmen in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Thursday morning, killing at least 17. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the terror attacks, which involved
In his New Year’s address Friday, Pope Francis said that despite many negative signs that make us think God is absent in the world, His mercy is the only thing capable of overcoming the misery that threatens our world.
Although there has been rivalry among the various jihadist groups training and recruiting in North Africa, new pacts and agreements among the different strains of radical Islam have resulted in deeper collaboration, a harbinger of more trouble for those fighting the terrorists.
A peculiar essay in The New York Times Saturday draws a series of parallels between the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Western conservatives, including patriotism, an appreciation for child-bearing, and a distrust of radical secularism.
Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democrats’ 2016 presidential nomination, expressed an interest in virulently a anti-Israel article written by a radical anti-Israel activist, and published in a Hezbollah-affiliated news site, while she was serving as Secretary of State.
Saudi Arabia said Saturday it had executed 47 people in a single day, including a dissident Shiite cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, who had repeatedly spoken out against the government and the Saudi royal family.
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As 2016 dawns, boatloads of migrants continue to reach Greek shores and thousands trudge across Balkan fields and country roads heading north.
The father of an ex-convict arrested in a plot to carry out an attack at a bar on New Year’s Eve said his son is “impressionable,” noting that “first he was a Blood, then he was a Crip, then he became a Muslim. He’s easily manipulated.”
Gunmen attacked a northern Indian air force base near the border with Pakistan and were exchanging fire with security forces on Saturday morning, police said.
Daily Beast columnist and CNN contributor Dean Obeidallah started off the new year with a tweet suggesting Donald Trump is a bigger threat than the Islamic State.
Friends and family grieved for a New York Air National Guardsman killed in southern Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province last Monday after a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle-borne improvised explosive device (IED) into his patrol near Bagram Air Base, the largest U.S. military facility in the war-torn nation.
Iranian regime officials have pledged to respond to any coming U.S. sanctions by “forcefully” continuing to boost “its missile capabilities,” announced defense minister Brig Gen Hossein Dehqan on Friday. The Obama White House was said to be preparing financial sanctions
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Naryn-Kala fortress in Dagestan, in which shots were fired at a tour group, killing one and wounding 11 others.
Islamic sharia law was enforced with canes once again in Indonesia this week, including the cane beatings of a man and woman whose “crime” was being alone together in a guest room.
The New York Times reports that the United States government currently has no idea how many foreign visitors have overstayed their visas — a long standing problem with America’s immigration system.
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(Reuters) — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who is pushing for executive powers, cites Hitler’s Germany as an example of an effective presidential system, in comments broadcast by Turkish media on Friday.
Germany was on high alert Friday as police hunted for up to seven people suspected of plotting a New Year’s Eve suicide attack in Munich in the name of the Islamic State group. Officials said they were tipped off about
January 1, 2116 — From the vantage point of one hundred years, we can see more clearly the achievements of the new island-nation known as Islamotopia.
As Americans prepare for New Year’s Eve ball drops around the country, law enforcement is in overdrive to keep revelers safe–as the homeland has recently been stung by a Islamic jihadist attack and threats have been flagged around the world.
Police in Munich, Germany are reportedly sweeping trains for explosives shortly after they announced on Twitter that they were aware of planned terror attacks. The police said to avoid crowds and train stations, then announced they were shutting down trains. Train stations were empty.
Police in Munich warned of a “serious, imminent threat” by Islamic State group suicide bombers wanting to commit an attack on New Year’s Eve and asked people to stay away from the city’s main train station and a second train station in the city’s Pasing neighborhood.
About 190 workers, most of them Muslim immigrants from Somalia, were fired from their jobs at a meat packing and distribution plant in Colorado this week for walking off the job to protest a workplace prayer dispute.
The United States is preparing new sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran after the regime in Tehran conducted ballistic missile tests in violation of international sanctions.
The Kurds are a major factor in the uneasy politics of Turkey and Iraq, and they have been holding the front lines against ISIS in Syria. There are Kurds in Iran, too, and they are nervous about the end of sanctions against Tehran, fearing the mullahs will use their increased wealth and power to further oppress the Kurdish minority.
