(Reuters) – A Pakistani court freed on bail on Friday Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused of plotting a 2008 militant assault on India’s financial capital that killed 166 people and seriously strained ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours, his lawyer said.
Over 1,430 French nationals have traveled to join jihadist groups in territory held by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, representing 47 percent of the European militants there, a report by the French Parliament revealed.
A 34-year-old man from Madison, Wisc. was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) released pictures of jihadists beheading a man they allege had been practicing “witchcraft” in Tikrit.
The Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (Supkem) will implement a new program to vet all Islamic preachers after members of al-Shabab slaughtered hundreds of Christians at Garissa University.
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.
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.
A couple of weeks back, Project Veritas released an undercover video they shot at Cornell University in upstate New York, where one the assistant deans of students agreed with the undercover operative that it would be acceptable to have an ISIS “freedom fighter” address the student body, as well as agreeing that sending care packages to the terrorist organization was also aboveboard at the school.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that his forces are readying for war against Israel in an interview with Syrian state-television on Monday.
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.
Islamic jihadists carried out deadly attacks in Egypt’s two biggest cities Sunday, storming a church in Alexandria and conducting a bombing attack in Cairo, which resulted in the death of a police officer and wounding several more.
A just-retired White House National Security Council (NSC) director has written a defense of the Obama administration’s NSC Director for Iran, Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, whom Breitbart News found has previously worked for an alleged pro-Iranian regime lobbying group, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).
Authorities have begun to piece together the planning and execution of last week’s bloody terrorist attack on Kenya’s Garissa University. Among the slain Al Shabaab gunmen– whose bodies remain publicly displayed in the town– is believed to be a university security guard and the son of a Kenyan public official.
In a moving prayer in the Roman Colosseum Friday night, Pope Francis recalled the passion of Jesus Christ, comparing it to the suffering of persecuted Christians in the world today, after sending a telegram of condolence to the victims of the jihadist massacre of Christian students in Kenya.
Mere minutes after the U.S. released a fact sheet that purportedly lays out what the basic framework agreed upon by the Iranian regime and P5+1 world powers entailed, Iranian officials accused the United States of misleading the public about its agreement.
A Spanish mother was sentenced to prison Thursday for attempting to send her 16-year-old twin sons to Syria to join the Islamic State. The mother, her husband, and two sons were arrested in Barcelona trying to board the boys on a flight to Morocco.
The Nigerian people have spoken, and they have elected a former military dictator from the nation’s Muslim north to defeat Boko Haram. President-elect Muhammadu Buhari vowed on Wednesday, in a more extensive second statement on his election victory, to “spare no effort” against the terrorist threat.
Islamic State terrorists conquered large areas of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Wednesday and are battling Palestinian faction Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis for control, media reports indicate.
Turkey is in the process of recovering from a major blackout that has brought the country to a relative standstill. Almost the entire country has been affected by the massive power cut, according to some media reports out of Turkey. Officials are considering the possibility that they were hit by a major cyber attack directed at its critical infrastructure.
As further attacks from the radical Islamist group Boko Haram have disrupted Nigeria’s presidential elections, officials now say that the results will not be released until Tuesday. Cardinal John Onaiyekan, the archbishop of Abuja and Nigeria’s only cardinal, has said that the situation in Nigeria is so serious that no matter who wins the election, a major “turn of page” is needed.
Islamist Black flags are waving in Bosnia, just a step away from Italy and far nearer than neighboring Libya. A “potential candidate country” for the European Union, Bosnia shares a long, unguarded border with Croatia, an EU member since 2013.
Houthi Shiite militants are setting up anti-aircraft batteries at a Yemen University, seemingly utilizing the educational institution to provide civilian cover against the ongoing Saudi-led air campaign against the Iran-backed fighters, Al Jazeera reports.
