A new report suggests that converts to Islam are more likely to become radicalised than so-called “heritage Muslims”, with criminals and the disaffected being popular targets for jihadi preachers.
A senior government adviser has told the BBC that the authorities are not prosecuting many Islamic State volunteers, believing they should be reintegrated rather than punished. Max Hill QC, who acts as the government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, told Radio
A Filipino military unit has disputed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that one of 100 sniper rifles donated by China took out the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) “emir” in Southeast Asia.
The Trump administration should “embrace” the opportunity to prevent American taxpayer funds appropriated to help ethnoreligious minorities in Iraq from being channeled to United Nations projects that suffer from “significant corruption,” argues a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
Textbooks the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) left behind in an Iraqi town reportedly confirm that the jihadist organization is indoctrinating boys to become the next terrorist generation committed to its cause.
Al-Qaeda in Syria, considered the global group’s most prominent branch, is capitalizing on the U.S.-led coalition’s significant gains towards annihilating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), urging jihadists from its collapsing competitor to defect and join its resurgent ranks as it continues to grow stronger.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s new Afghan war strategy has yet to produce “any real gains” despite a record number of bombs dropped on the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) wing in the country, reports an expert group that covers the conflict from Kabul.
Contents: Kurds flee Kirkuk after Iraq army defeats them in complete rout; Devastating defeat to Iraq in Kirkuk exposes major splits between Kurdish factions
Contents: Mattis and Tillerson work to prevent Iraq vs Kurd military confrontation in Kirkuk; ISIS fighters permitted to leave Raqqa, Syria, with human shields; Syria demands ‘immediately’ pullout of Turkey’s forces from Idlib province
Suspected Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have reportedly carried out a sort of drive-by shooting assault early this month in Niger, killing four American troops and injuring two others in an attack that marks the first American combat casualties in the country, reports the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
A Manhattan detention center mistakenly housed an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) suspect with the jail’s general population soon after he was arrested for allegedly participating in a terrorist plot with at least two other men to attack New York City in 2016.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has intensified the American air war against the resilient Taliban and growing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan, dropping 3,328 bombs on the jihadists so far in 2017, more than during any other full year since 2012, military figures reveal.
Contents: Hundreds of ISIS fighters surrender as Iraqi town of Hawija falls; Tensions grow between Turkmens and Kurds in Kirkuk
An excess of one thousand Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists have reportedly surrendered to Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshmerga troops despite the martyrdom they pledged was their only acceptable end, according to a report.
A series of attacks in northern Afghanistan, where both the Taliban and Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have intensified their terror campaign, has prompted the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to “drastically reduce” its operations in the country.
Contents: Turkey announces major military operation in Syria’s Idlib province; Turkey’s success in Idlib is far from certain
WASHINGTON, DC — The United States government is “financing the spoils of genocide” committed by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) against Christians and other ethnoreligious minorities in the Middle East through a United Nations program that only benefits Sunni Muslims, argued a lawyer who represents the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital Erbil.
Contents: International Red Cross: Fighting in Syria worst since Aleppo; Analyst gives a chilling analysis of where the Syrian war is going
Russia has refuted the authenticity of a “proof of life” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) video purportedly showing two wounded soldiers from the Kremlin whom the jihadist group claims it kidnapped in Syria.
Contents: Kirkuk becomes the flash point after the Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum; Significant differences in the three recent independence movements
French interior minister Gérard Collomb has warned that “no-one is safe” after the authorities foiled an attempted apartment bombing in Paris.
Canadian authorities have named the suspect in the Edmonton terror attack as Somali refugee Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, a known extremist investigated by police in 2015.
Canadian authorities have confirmed that a stabbing and multiple vehicle rammings near Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, are being investigated as terrorism.
Russia and U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism Iran continue to provide weapons and other military aid to Taliban jihadists in Afghanistan, reiterates United States Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, repeating accusations made by the United States armed forces.
Vulnerable children in Britain are being deprived of care because resources are being assigned to adult migrant posing as child refugees.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, echoing the position of the United States, says the only “two options” available for the Taliban at this juncture in the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan are to continue pursuing their terror campaign and be annihilated or renounce violence and embrace peace.
Contents: Iraqi Kurds’ independence referendum appears headed for big approval; Israel may be the only country recognizing the Iraq Kurdistan referendum
The first publicly announced American airstrikes in Libya under U.S. President Donald Trump targeted a camp operated by the renascent Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in the country, killing 17 terrorists and destroying three vehicles, revealed the Pentagon Monday.
Contents: Russia’s ‘telephone terror’ forces evacuation of over 200,000 people; Kenya’s government in chaos as it faces a new election delay
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is strengthening its presence in Afghanistan, spreading its tentacles into seven provinces where it carried out 237 attacks in just the first half of this year, nearly doubling the assaults attributable to the terrorist group during the same period in 2016, reports the United Nations.
Significant losses suffered by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in its dwindling Middle East-based caliphate have not translated into victories for authorities in the United States and Europe struggling to defang the jihadist organization’s successful online propaganda efforts, warns a new report by the U.K.-based Policy Exchange think-tank.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy to end the 16-year-old war in his country, saying it conveys a message to the Taliban terrorists that they will lose militarily.
Chaos-ridden Libya is experiencing an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) resurgence that is posing a clear and present danger to Europe while the jihadist group’s so-called caliphate continues to dwindle in Iraq and Syria, primarily at the hands of the U.S-led coalition.
ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkey’s official news agency says police have detained 74 suspects who are alleged members of the Islamic State group.
Russia launched seven cruise missiles from two submarines in the Mediterranean Sea against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) targets in Syria, according to the Kremlin’s Defense Ministry.
Pro-Syrian opposition Turkey along with allies of the country’s dictator Russia and Iran are getting close to finalizing an agreement on establishing four de-escalation zones in Syria, according to a senior Kremlin negotiator.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in a recently released propaganda video, is urging would-be terrorists to travel to the Philippines to engage in jihad instead of Iraq and Syria, home to the group’s dwindling caliphate.
Shiite Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah, fighting on behalf of forces loyal to Russian-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria, has reportedly declared victory in the war-ravaged country despite recent claims that al-Qaeda has set up the conditions to establish an Islamic emirate there.
Al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban, the jihadi allies responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the American homeland, have grown stronger in the last 16 years despite the thousands of U.S. military casualties from the ongoing fight against the terrorist groups.
Contents: Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi under fire for allowing Rohingya ethnic cleansing; BBC reporter Jonathan Head returns from Burma’s government-controlled visit; Generational explanation for Burma’s genocide and ethnic cleansing; The future of Burma and the Rohingyas
