The al-Qaeda wing in Syria may have succeeded its Yemen-based counterpart as the jihadist group’s largest and strongest affiliate, the U.S. government and some experts suggested this week.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the Taliban, an al-Qaeda ally, stand accused again of joining forces to carry out a deadly terrorist attack in Afghanistan that left up to 50 mostly Shiite civilians dead and hundreds of others in captivity
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its alleged rival al-Qaeda are expanding their Sunni jihadi operations into the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir, claimed by Pakistan, India, and China, according to a report published Wednesday.
The Taliban and its affiliate the Haqqani Network, two terrorist groups fighting American troops and their allies in Afghanistan, have established bases in neighboring Pakistan with the knowledge of Islamabad, suggested U.S. National Security Adviser HR McMaster in an interview with MSNBC.
Syrian jihadists affiliated with an al-Qaeda offshoot have captured the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, placing the future of northern Syria “in big danger,” warns the U.S. State Department.
Hamza Bin Laden, the son of the late Osama Bin Laden who has vowed to take revenge against the United States for executing his father, is expected to take over al-Qaeda.
Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living along the eastern border of Lebanon have refused a deal that would have allowed them to return home, citing the miserable and dangerous conditions that persist in their country of origin.
Shiite Iran’s terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, and a Sunni jihadist organization linked to al-Qaeda recently reached a ceasefire after clashes in Lebanon near the country’s border with Syria left more than 150 people dead.
Contents: Indian Kashmir separatists split over announcement of Zakir Musa as al-Qaeda leader; India says that Kashmir’s law and order situation is improving
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton looked at Russia’s effort to undermine the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam.
The U.S. Department of State found that terrorists conducted attacks in over half the world’s countries, or 53 percent of the 195 recognized nation states, throughout 2016.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo appeared at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Thursday where he was interviewed by New York Times columnist Bret Stephens. The discussion ranged from defeating ISIS and countering Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis told Congress this week that Pakistan will not receive some $50 million in outstanding military reimbursements from the 2016 fiscal year because the Pakistani government has not done enough to fight the Taliban and its allies, such as the Haqqani network.
President Donald Trump is reportedly ending a covert CIA program to arm and train Syrian rebel forces that dates back to 2013. According to a report by the Washington Post, the decision was made almost a month ago in an Oval Office meeting with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.
Al-Qaeda, the primary target of the U.S. war on terror that followed the 9/11 attacks, has evolved and grown stronger mainly in Syria where it has set the conditions to establish an Islamic emirate while America primarily focuses on defeating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), some analysts tell House lawmakers.
A foreign national from India in the United States on a student visa pleaded guilty to terrorism charges and a plot to murder a U.S. federal judge in 2015.
A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who killed a U.S. soldier will receive millions of dollars and an apology from the Canadian government, officials announced Tuesday.
A Somali immigrant living in Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty to training with a terrorist organization in Syria and plotting an attack on American soil.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican-led House panel, in a rare show of bipartisanship, has voted to approve an amendment introduced by a Democrat to revoke the 2001 law that grants the president the authority to wage war against al-Qaeda and its affiliates without the consent of Congress, a move that restricts President Donald Trump’s ability to fight terror.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), including its Boko Haram affiliate, proved to be the most prolific and bloodiest jihadi organization during this year’s Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
TEL AVIV — President Barack Obama ignored repeated warnings from Sunni Arab countries about Qatar ties to jihadist organizations in Syria and other places, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
A French court on Thursday sentenced members of a jihadist network once considered among the country’s most dangerous to between one and 28 years in prison for an attack on a Jewish grocery store in 2012.
Jihadi “sanctuary” Pakistan is “the most influential external actor affecting” stability in Afghanistan and the “outcome” of the U.S.-NATO military mission there, reports the Pentagon as President Donald Trump’s administration considers a tough approach towards Islamabad.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has declined “in size, capability, and ability to hold territory” since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, who allowed the U.S. military to drop the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on the jihadist group, reports the Pentagon.
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz made a surprise announcement on Wednesday morning that his son Mohammed bin Salman, 31, would become the new crown prince of the kingdom.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman offered an optimistic outlook on Thursday regarding his country’s efforts to forge better ties with its neighbors.
Former President Barack Obama’s administration, in exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl, transferred five high-level Taliban prisoners from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay to Qatar, known for its Islamic terrorist-friendly environment.
Blackwater founder and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince is recommending, as the Trump administration debates its Afghanistan War approach, that the U.S. military go back to its light footprint approach in Afghanistan.
Contents: US special forces join Philippine military fighting Islamist terrorists in Marawi; History of Abu Sayyaf and Maute Group in the Philippines
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) finally followed through on its threats to attack Shiite powerhouse Iran, disregarding a reported “secret deal” between its Sunni rival al-Qaeda and Tehran not to carry out attacks on the Islamic Republic’s soil, notes the Daily Beast.
Al-Qaeda’s allies in Somalia, al-Shabaab, killed up to 70 soldiers and civilians during an assault on a military base in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland on Thursday.
An Australian Islamic group wants government-sponsored “safe spaces” provided for young Muslims to discuss “inflammatory” issues away from broader public scrutiny.
29-year-old Somali refugee Yacub Khayre took a hostage, killed a man, and wounded three police officers in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday. He explicitly dedicated the attack to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. The Islamic State swiftly claimed him as a “soldier” of the caliphate.
A long-simmering international crisis in the Middle East boiled over on Monday as some of the most powerful nations in the Arab world severed ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism and taking sides with Shiite Iran against Sunni Muslim governments.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS), the intelligence agency in Afghanistan, accused Pakistan, considered a willing terrorist safe haven, and the Haqqani Network, a terrorist group affiliated with allies al-Qaeda and the Taliban, of being behind the recent carnage in Kabul.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has issued an order for the execution of 11 death row jihadists from the Taliban and its ally, the al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, following the deadly attack in Kabul.
The al-Qaeda offshoot group in East Africa al-Shabaab released a propaganda video in the first days of Ramadan condemning the United States as the “Satan of our time.”
The al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia in Libya (ASL), which Washington believes was behind the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, alleged over the weekend that it is dissolving itself.
One of the world’s leading authorities on Islamist and jihadist ideology has said militants are trying to provoke retaliation and conflict in the West, so Muslims will “rise up” and side with extremists.
The final days of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi are ones of apparently extensive international travel, picking a route back from Syria through Turkey and Europe to northern England.
