Iran said Sunday it supports Nuri al-Maliki’s bid to stay on as Iraq’s premier but that it is ready to back any other candidate chosen by parliament in Baghdad. Maliki’s “State of Law coalition won first place in the last
After reports their leader was killed in an attack ISIS has released a video filmed in a mosque in the city of Mosul allegedly showing the first public appearance of it’s leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi giving a Ramadan sermon
BEIRUT (AP) — The military chief of Syria’s main Western-backed rebel group warned Saturday that the country risked a “humanitarian disaster” if allies do not send more aid to help his moderate forces halt the advance of Islamic militants. Extremist
Sunni Muslim religious scholar Yusef al-Qaradawi said on Saturday that the declaration of an Islamic caliphate by jihadists fighting the governments in Syria and Iraq violates sharia law. Last Sunday, the jihadists declared an “Islamic caliphate” in areas they control
A British-born jihadi who claims to be fighting in Syria has branded his former country “pure evil” and said he will only return to the UK when the “black flag of Islam” is hanging outside Buckingham Palace. According to the
Here’s an interesting headline: “You soon may not need citizenship to vote in the US; just become a New Yorker.” Who wrote that headline? And who published it? Some nativist right-winger? No, it’s an article by Ron Hayduk, a professor at
Perhaps more than any other jihadist terror group in the world, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS–or, as they now refer to themselves, the Islamic State), boasts a great variety of nationalities in its ranks and a significant
More than 100 British imams have signed an open letter urging UK Muslims not to join jihadi fighters in Iraq and Syria, according to Sky News. The letter comes during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and against the backdrop
BAGHDAD (AP) — More than 40 Indian nurses who were trapped by in territory captured by Islamic militants who have overrun much of Iraq in recent weeks are safe and will fly home this week, an Indian official said Friday.
A man claiming to be Nasser Muthana, the British-born Jihadist who appeared in alongside two others in an ISIS propaganda video two weeks ago, has posted new pictures of over a dozen homemade bombs, with the caption: “So the UK
While the jihadist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham is regarded one of the most media-savvy jihadist organizations to ever exist, its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is a recluse that rarely poses for the group’s many propaganda videos.
Thursday at a joint press briefing with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, NBC Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski asked what the “end game” was with the current engagement with the ISIS
You might have seen some online chatter about a new series of elevated terror warnings at international airports. The UK Telegraph explains what it’s all about: Terrorists are plotting to use new stealth bombs in laptops and even humans to
Nineteen-year-old Shannon Maureen Conley, a nurse from Denver, was prepared to give up her life and move to Syria to meet a jihadist claiming to be a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and upon being arrested attempting
Uyghur Muslims located in the northwest of China have been ordered to cease their observance of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that necessitates taking part in fasting during the day. According to the Associated Press, statements about the ban have
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Jerusalem violence triggered by ‘price tag’ killing of Palestinian teen China bans Ramadan fasting for Uighurs in Xinjiang province Muslim players at World Cup Football (Soccer) face Ramadan problems Airport security to increase as
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that al-Qaida is trying to develop a new and improved bomb that could go undetected through airport security. There is no indication that such a bomb has been created or that there’s
DENVER (AP) — FBI agents tried more than once to discourage a 19-year-old suburban Denver woman who said she was intent on waging jihad in the Middle East before arresting her in April as she boarded a flight she hoped
Reuters on Tuesday published figures showing that Iran has, for the eighth straight month, violated crude export restrictions set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) agreement. Reuters cited experts suggesting that the Obama administration has been deliberately looking the other
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say rebel factions affiliated with a powerful tribe in an eastern stronghold of al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate have pledged allegiance to the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In an activist video posted online
Security at British airports is being stepped up after the U.S. received intelligence that jihadists plan to target flight with so-called “stealth bombs”. Passengers at London Heathrow will now face extra checks on footwear and electronic devices before they can
On Wednesday, Reuters reported the Department of Homeland Security is set to increase security measures at overseas airports that have direct flights to the United States. Part of the reason for those heightened measures according to the report was a
On Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) castigated the Obama administration on various grounds including for its handling of the U.S. southern border and it’s policies regard ISIS in Iraq and Hamas in the Palestinian-Israeli
DENVER (AP) — Newly unsealed court documents show the FBI thwarted a Denver woman’s attempt to help a terrorist organization by arresting her before she boarded a flight in April. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered documents unsealed in the
A sad postscript to yesterday’s post about the anti-Christian pogroms carried out by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and ISIS in Iraq, from Christian Today: The Chaldean Catholic Church’s Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, in Kurdish-governed northern Iraq, is reported as
