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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari lashed out at the Catholic bishop of Sokoto Monday for criticizing his government’s response to Islamic terrorism in the country.

British immigration judges handed out lifelong anonymity orders in over 90 per cent of cases involving terrorists and extremists, a report has claimed.

The United Kingdom’s lax judicial system saw nearly half of all convicted terrorists receive less than four-year prison sentences last year.

Time has run out for Christian pastor Bulus Yakuru, who is due to be executed by the Boko Haram Islamic terror group on Wednesday, after having been abducted in northeast Nigeria on December 24, 2020.

Scores of armed militants from the Islamic State terror group in West Africa (ISWAP) invaded the town of Dikwa in northeast Nigeria late Monday and attacked a military camp and a U.N. base.

Pope Francis recalled the sixth anniversary of the Islamic State execution of 21 Christians on a beach in Libya, calling them “our saints.”

Pope Francis denounced terrorism Monday as a “serious scourge of our time,” while highlighting the root cause of religious extremism.

The Iraqi government executed three convicted Islamic terrorists Monday, amidst growing national sentiment that authorities are doing too little to stop jihad in the country.

Britain’s prison system is facilitating the spread of extremist ideologies by taking a soft approach to convicted terrorists, the government’s independent terrorism watchdog has found.

Britain’s youngest terrorist has been deemed to be “suitable for release” by the Parole Board after serving just five years behind bars for plotting an attack on an Australian policeman. The terrorist, known only as RXG, will be free to

A young woman reportedly of the Boko Haram terror group blew herself up in northern Cameroon last Friday, killing at least 13 people, the Barnabas Fund reported Tuesday.

The British government’s anti-radicalisation programme is only monitoring two per cent of all suspected terrorists flagged with security services, Home Office data has revealed.

Britain’s youngest terrorist, who was convicted of plotting to behead a police officer at the age of 14, is set to be released back on to the streets wit lifelong anonymity after serving just five years in custody.

While the Philippines is a majority Catholic country, its southern island of Mindanao is home to a separatist Muslim minority known for a decades-long campaign of guerilla warfare to gain control of the region.

Three French soldiers were killed in Mali on Monday after their armored vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) during a counterterrorism operation in the West African country, the French government said.

Days before the killing of an Israeli mother of six last week, the Palestinian Authority, on its official television network, praised the murderer of another Israeli mother and her five-year-old son as “heroic.”

Austrian police have arrested two more suspects for alleged involvement in the November 2 Islamic terror attack in Vienna.

A Kenyan national indicted this week for allegedly plotting an Islamic terrorist attack on Americans similar to that of the September 11, 2001, attacks sought a visa to the United States.

The Islamic terror group Boko Haram claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the kidnapping of nearly 700 students from a secondary school in northern Nigeria on December 11.

Radical Islamists have killed at least 30 Christians, raped 10 young women and girls, and kidnapped fifteen others in a spate of recent attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Christian Post reported Wednesday.

PARIS (AP) – A draft law aimed at arming France against Islamist radicalism was unveiled Wednesday, a measure promoted by President Emmanuel Macron to rout out what he calls “separatists” undermining the nation. Parliament is expected to open what is

French authorities have charged a Tunisian migrant for allegedly stabbing three people to death during a terror attack in Nice, France.

A memorial to the victims of terrorism was destroyed by a Turkish woman, who subsequently admitted to the vandalism.

The assassination of Iran’s nuclear weapons mastermind Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last week was carried out using a satellite-controlled machine gun with “artificial intelligence,” the deputy commander of the country’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) told local media Sunday.

A Nigerian state governor warned on Wednesday that Nigeria’s military is struggling to defend the country from the Islamic terror group Boko Haram, which has recently ramped up the intensity and frequency of its attacks in northeastern Borno State.

ROME — Pope Francis denounced the massive slaughter of rice farmers by Islamist terrorists that occurred this past weekend in northeastern Nigeria.

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid said that left-wing activists who victim blame the West or consistently “cry Islamophobia” when attempts are made to confront radical Islamism undermine the UK’s ability to deal with the problem.

Militants from the Boko Haram Islamic terror group slit the throats of at least 70 farmers Saturday in Borno State, northeast Nigeria, according to local reports.

Four more pupils have been indicted in the murder of Samuel Paty, with three of the four accused of complicity and helping to identify the teacher to his killer.

The British government has failed to deport nearly 50 foreign Islamic terrorists after they were released from prison, a report from a foreign policy think tank has found. Analysis of Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service records by the Henry

Police visited Khairi Saadallah the day before he committed a stabbing attack which authorities labelled as terror, killing three and seriously injuring three others.

Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates will seek Hezbollah’s designation as a terrorist group by countries that have not yet done so as well as the United Nations, a senior Israeli official told Israeli daily Israel Hayom Thursday.

A French judicial source has claimed that threats and apologies for terrorism have surged in the weeks following the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty.

Over 100 convicted terrorists could be set free from prison and released onto British streets as soon as next month, despite the UK recently upgrading the terror threat to the second-highest level following the recent spate of Islamist attacks across Europe.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said there are “breeding grounds for terrorists in France”, in his latest remarks regarding Islamist ideology following two terror attacks in his nation.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has denounced recent Islamic terror attacks in Europe and elsewhere, calling on the international community to confront the radical ideology that motivates them.