Turkish Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his address before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to renew his calls for expanding Security Council membership, claim that his country had “actually fought the biggest battle against ISIS,” and politely suggest to genocidal China to recognize the rights of its Muslim population.
Tom West, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan, said on Tuesday that the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have “significantly degraded” their rivals in the Islamic State, including the liquidation of several top ISIS leaders since the Taliban took over in 2021.
Ugandan police on Sunday announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with a plot to bomb a church in the capital city of Kampala. Five more arrests were announced on Tuesday, and more explosive devices were reportedly recovered, suggesting a major terrorist attack linked to an Islamist insurgent group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) had been thwarted.
Officials said they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman.
A German woman has been jailed for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun.
The slaughter of Christians has become a regular occurrence in sub-Saharan Africa, the Barnabas Fund reports on Saturday, and the “cause is Islamism.”
Britain’s Foreign Office warned that terror attacks are “likely” in Denmark over Qur’an burnings as Sweden increased its terror threat level.
A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 46 people and injured over 150 at an Islamist political event near the Afghan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, on Sunday, believed to have been attended by hundreds of people.
Jury to render verdict on Belgium´s deadliest peacetime attack, suicide bombings at the Brussels airport and a busy subway station.
Britain is bracing for a potential surge of Islamist terrorism as a swath of convicted terrorists are set to be released from prison.
Released from his prison sentence for supporting ISIS in 2018, infamous radical who calls for hardline Sharia for Britain has been arrested.
Poland´s Internal Security Agency arrested an 18-year-old planning a suicide attack, on a government office, using an explosive belt.
The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday that three Russian fighter jets harassed three American drones during a mission against Islamic State targets in Syria.
According to U.N. investigators, at least three high-ranking officials in the Taliban regime have strong links to al-Qaeda.
A gruesome terrorist attack on a boarding school housing high school students left at least 42 dead in Kasese, Uganda.
UNESCO announced Monday that the far-left administration of President Joe Biden has decided to return America to the organization.
Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to the campaign trail this weekend in anticipation of the country’s May 14 elections. He made two public appearances before granting an interview on Sunday night in which he claimed his administration eliminated the head of the Islamic State.
White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby claimed in a statement on Tuesday that Taliban jihadists had killed a senior Islamic State official described as the “mastermind” of the 2021 Kabul airport bombing.
Terrorists in Afghanistan apparently did not “get the memo” from President Joe Biden that the war against terror is “over,” according to Rep. Mike Waltz.
Documents allegedly procured from a trove of Department of Defense leaks suggest that the Islamic State’s Afghanistan operation, ISIS-Khorasan, has strengthened markedly under Taliban rule and is consistently plotting attacks around the world, the Washington Post claimed this weekend.
Patel questioned the evolving narrative around the Pentagon leaks and if the 21-year-old Air National Guard reservist acted alone.
Last weekend saw a rash of mass casualty attacks in Africa, with atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burkina Faso, and Nigeria claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) and other terrorist groups.
Canada said it’s in the process of repatriating more than a dozen citizens, including 10 children, from Kurdish-operated Syrian detention camps holding thousands of foreign nationals accused of being connected to the Islamic State.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Monday took over the investigation of a weekend knife attack on a bus in British Columbia because it was deemed an act of terrorism, perpetrated by a supporter of the Islamic State.
The Premium Times of Nigeria reported on Monday that a panel investigating human rights violations in the insurgent-plagued northeast has heard testimony from 50 witnesses on abuses perpetrated by the Nigerian military, including mass abortions and the murder of children.
Iraq’s ancient Christian community is still hanging on, twenty years after the U.S. invasion forced thousands of Christians to flee and nine years after the Islamic State threatened to wipe out those who remained.
Muhammed Momtaz al-Azhari, a 26-year-old U.S. citizen born in California who lately resided in Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty last week to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.
A British court has denied an appeal by Shamima Begum, the former bride of an Islamic State fighter, to regain her British citizenship.
British media, including the publicly-funded BBC and the Times, has come under fire for their portrayal of former “ISIS bride” Shamima Begum as a victim and celebrity in a bid to restore her UK citizenship.
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Syrian government troops fought with rebel forces in the region devastated by the earthquakes of February 6 on Thursday night, the first battles in the affected area since the disaster occurred.
Two members of the House subcommittee on Africa, Reps. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), on Wednesday asked President Joe Biden to halt a $1 billion arms sale to Nigeria due to humanitarian abuses, including the Nigerian military allegedly killing children and running a near-genocidal illegal abortion program.
U.N. Undersecretary-General for Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov said on Thursday that the Islamic State (ISIS) remains a serious threat, with a “particularly worrying” show of growing strength in Africa’s conflict zones.
The United States Swedish Embassy has issued a terrorism warning, noting a heightened risk of attacks following Qur’an burnings.
The devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday damaged a prison in the Syrian town of Rajo near the Turkish border, giving its 2,000 prisoners an opportunity to riot, during which at least 20 of them reportedly escaped.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported this week that sub-Saharan Africa has become “the new global epicenter of violent extremism,” accounting for half of the world’s terrorism-related deaths last year. On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Mali, one of the four African nations with the highest number of terrorism deaths, in a bid to extend Moscow’s influence over Africa by helping the ruling junta fight jihadi rebels.
Afghanistan’s Khaama Press on Monday reported the Taliban junta is having trouble protecting Chinese business interests from attacks by the Islamic State, which seeks to both wrest control of Afghanistan from its rival Islamist extremists and punish China for its oppression of the Uyghur Muslims.
Jurors deliberated for about seven hours over two days before finding Sayfullo Saipov guilty in a Halloween attack inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State militant group.
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang called his Taliban counterpart this weekend demanding the Sunni jihadist terrorist organization “take strong measures” to protect Communist Party investments in Afghanistan.
Pope Francis offered condolences and prayers Tuesday to the victims and families of a lethal bombing by the Islamic State on a Christian church in eastern Congo that took the lives of at least 14 people and injured more than 60.
Dutch authorities arrested a Syrian man suspected of having been a security chief for the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra.
