The number of foreign fighters who have traveled to Iraq and Syria to join jihadist groups, such as the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the official al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front, has more than doubled in the last 18 months to between 27,000 and 31,000, revealed a new report.
U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA—Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow alleged al-Qaeda travelers—Walid Muhammad Salih, Mubarak Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam Al Hawsawi—appeared in high spirits Tuesday.
An Iraqi national who is believed to have smuggled jihadists into Europe has been arrested as part of a wider anti-terror sweep after being heard planning further terror attacks. Majid Muhamad, a 45-year-old kebab shop owner, was arrested in the Italian city of
Today, near the media operations center here at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pre-trial hearings will continue at the Guantanamo war court.
US NAVAL STATION GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA—The primary debate during pre-trial proceedings here at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base on Tuesday will revolve around whether female guards are allowed to make contact with detainees.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka explained this apparent ideological dissonance by noting that ISIS grew from al-Qaeda, and despite their current, occasionally violent rivalry, there is still ideological connective tissue between them.
GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE— More than 14 years after Islamic terrorists took down the Twin Towers, killing thousands of American men, women and children in the process, the man most involved in coordinating the attack remains here at Guantánamo Bay detention camp, unpunished for his crimes.
San Berardino jihadis Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik took some steps to clean up their online footprint before launching the attack.
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who killed 14 people and injured dozens more on Wednesday, have connections to radical Islamic groups, officials say.
An influential activist who met with members of the Obama Administration to promote net neutrality campaigned on behalf of a convicted Al Qaeda supporter, Breitbart Tech can reveal.
WASHINGTON— In the wake of a radical Islamic terror attack in San Bernardino, California, that saw 14 people dead and a dozen others wounded, three Democratic Congressman will show “solidarity” with the American Muslim community by visiting a mosque once led by Anwar al-Awlaki, the deceased chief recruiter for Al Qaeda.
The United Nations Security Council released a report on Tuesday warning that the Islamic State (IS) terror group continues to make unimpeded gains in Libya, locking down territory in the nation plagued by civil war and sectarian strife.
Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has been outspoken in his criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the Islamic State before, but his new interview in Der Spiegel contains some of his toughest words yet, and he offers stern criticism of the Bush administration as well.
A loyal subordinate of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent her an email just days after the Benghazi terrorist attack, assuring her that some of the attack’s consequences were a win for her and the dead ambassador Chris Stevens.
The Obama administration pursued a policy in Libya back in 2011 that ultimately allowed guns to walk into the hands of jihadists linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda (AQ) in Syria, according to a former CIA officer who co-authored a report on behalf of the Citizen’s Commission on Benghazi (CCB), detailing the gun running scheme.
Iranian media are denying a report circulating in various Arab media sources, which has reached the White House, claiming that General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s notorious special Quds Forces, was injured in Syria by rebel fire while fighting on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad.
Ohio Judge James Knepp rewarded Sultane Roome Salim, 40, with a $500,000 bond, even though he allegedly raised funds for al-Qaeda.
A Pakistani man was sentenced by a U.S. judge to 40 years in prison on Tuesday for plotting to bomb a shopping center in England, as part of an al Qaeda plan to carry out attacks in Europe and the United States.
A Mclean, Virginia-based defense think-tank has published a prescient white-paper on the Islamic State terror group, which has been made available exclusively to Breitbart News prior to its release.
In a surprising twist in the 2016 election, presidential aspirant Sen. Marco Rubio has proposed a new plan for helping President Obama resettle Syrian refugees in the United States.
The terrorist attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali (a former French colony) offers another grim reminder to those in the West of the wide and lethal reach of practitioners of radical Islamic extremism, notwithstanding recent claims to the contrary of U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
The Nigeria-based Boko Haram, a jihadist organization that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) earlier this year, has been named the world’s deadliest terrorist group in a new study.
Al-Qaeda has released this statement in regards to the hotel attack in Mali at the Radisson Blu.
The United States State Department announced Wednesday that a $5 million dollar reward is being offered for information leading to the whereabouts of Abu Muhammad al-Shimali, a leader in the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
A southern Syria Islamist coalition, led by Syria’s al Qaeda offshoot al-Nusra Front, issued an ultimatum for the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate, to surrender within 24 hours, reports the Lebanon-based NOW News.
Barack Obama implied Monday that opponents of his mad scheme to fill this country with Syrian refugees (including an untold number of active Islamic jihadists) were motivated by religious prejudice.
There will be no meaningful vetting of the Syrian migratory tide, as our own Homeland Security apparatus has admitted to Congress. In fact, we’ll be lucky if the majority of them are Syrians. False claims of Syrian origin are the hottest ticket in Europe right now, backed up by a thriving black market in forged and stolen identity papers. The growing revolt among state governors suggests the American people want to slam on the brakes. It remains to be seen if this will be more than a temporary pause in the project, if indeed the Administration can be persuaded or coerced into slowing down at all.
The Defense Department announced on Monday that five Yemeni nationals have been released from the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, including an Al Qaeda terrorist who reportedly had close ties with Osama bin Laden. They are in transit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pentagon said.
The most basic, primitive honor a nation owes to its dead is to fight to defend itself—to defeat the enemy and win. And yet the West won’t.
Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Saturday that climate change is directly related to terrorism.
The Islamic State’s affinity for social media takes another grim turn, as users of an ISIS message channel can now download graphics of Islamist flags, beheadings, and immolations to spice up their chat sessions and text messages.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA), which includes fighters trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has reportedly been decimated by widespread desertions.
Forces from the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad have been able to break the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) siege of a key military airbase in the northern province of Aleppo, handing ISIS one of its worst defeats to date.
Members of Al Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group traditionally allied with Al Qaeda, have released a video on social media in which they are seen pledging allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Reports indicate Al Shabaab leadership is looking to find and kills its pro-ISIS members.
The Justice Department is charging four men in Ohio with allegedly conspiring to travel to Yemen to provide money to Anwar Al-Awlaki in support of jihad against the U.S.
Federal authorities charged four men in Ohio for conspiring to raise money and aid for Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch and its former member, U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that, before talks on a cease-fire in Syria can move forward, Western powers must agree to identify the “terrorist” groups within the Syrian opposition.
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Somali al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab has released a new video calling for Muslims to engage in “tourism” in “the land of Islam,” consisting of killing kufr (infidels) and eating exotic animals. The jihadis show off their latest catch, a butchered giraffe.
Publishers, writers, and bloggers in Bangladesh have had enough of their colleagues being executed simply for expressing secular beliefs and critiquing Islam.
