(Reuters) – The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied reports at the weekend that it had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State movement fighting in Syria and Iraq, saying that its statement to the media had been misinterpreted. The group’s spokesman Shahid Shahidullah said
The BBC has published a report detailing the reasons why Western women are drawn to Iraq and Syria to join jihad. The report by Dr Katherine Brown of Kings College London cites examples of numerous women, saying that social media
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An al-Qaida cell in Syria that was targeted in American military airstrikes last month could still be working on a plan to attack the United States or its allies and is “looking to do it very, very
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Twin bombings near an elementary school in Syria killed at least 32 people on Wednesday, including at least 10 children, with the second blast going off as screaming parents frantically searched for their sons and daughters
(AFP) Few people had ever heard of Iraq’s Yazidis until Vian Dakhil, who received the Anna Politkovskaya human rights award Monday, made a poignant appeal to save her hunted minority from jihadists. On August 2, the Islamic State group launched
Just a day after Breitbart London speculated over the role former Guantanamo inmate Moazzam Begg may have had in British attempts to retrieve the recently murdered captive Alan Henning, a number of British newspapers have printed his admission that he
CHICAGO (AP) — A 19-year-old American left a letter expressing disgust with Western society for his parents before trying to board a plane in Chicago, the first step in his plan to sneak into Syria to join the Islamic State
Leon Panetta, who served as Obama’s CIA director and Pentagon chief, said that the president should not rule out the option of deploying ground troops to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a conflict that may last “30
The Syrian Kurds claim the United States-led airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) are not working. The terrorist group is still advancing on Kobani, a key city on the Syria/Turkey border. The black flag of the group was raised in
In what is being reported as the first recorded instance of suicide bomber tactics being used against the terrorist Islamic State group, a female commander in the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) blew herself up to attack an Islamic State
Hey, did you know President Obama’s already-debatable authority to unilaterally bomb Iraq and Syria runs out today? Is the War Powers Act still “the settled law of the land,” to borrow a phrase? Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) lays out the
The New York Times reported on Saturday that Dublin, Ohio residents are so worried their town’s young people may “succumb to the Islamic State’s savvy social media appeal to join its fight on the battlefields in Iraq and Syria” that
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Was Moazzam Begg detained as a part of Britain’s strategy to find the most recent beheading victim Alan Henning, as well as other hostages of the Islamic State and their would-be murderer Jihadi John? It was always questionable, even to hawks
Nick Clegg has said the Liberal Democrats would block any further plans to bomb ISIS, potentially shattering coalition unity on the subject. He warned that although his party supported attacks in Iraq against ISIS they would oppose any efforts to
Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes battled the Islamic State group for a key Syrian town Sunday, with one woman defender blowing herself up using the jihadists’ own tactic. IS fighters seized part of a strategic hill overlooking the
Activity by counter-terror police is at its highest level for nearly ten years due to fears that Islamic State sympathisers will launch attacks in the UK. The Times reports that police are increasing armed patrols and are searching homes and
The Pakistani Taliban has pledged support for Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq. On October 4, BBC reported that Maulana Fazlullah, the leader of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), directly addressed the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates said Sunday it wants “a formal clarification” of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s recent comments that America’s allies in the Middle East sent weapons and cash to extremists fighting in
Britain’s spy chiefs gathered with the Prime Minister at Chequers yesterday to discuss action against ISIS propagandist ‘jihadi John’, after another brutal video depicting the beheading of a British citizen was released, but a second attempt to deliver justice to
On a visit to Washington, D.C. to discuss, among other things, the global war on terrorism, Malaysian Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi announced that authorities in his home nation would work with America’s FBI to secure their country
The clash between Islam and the Western world is as old as Islam itself, but perhaps as misunderstood as any great historical conflict. In what is sure to shed light on this timely topic, worldwide Catholic satellite network EWTN will
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British Prime Minister David Cameron has responded to the news of the beheading of aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State terrorists. Speaking late last night the Prime Minister said: “The brutal murder of Alan Henning by ISIL shows just
