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Contents: Qatar crisis triggered by $1 billion ransom payment to Iran and al-Qaeda; How to stop lone wolf attacks in London and Manchester

The vast majority of Brits have backed routinely arming police constables after the London Bridge terror attacks.

Contents: Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations cut ties with Qatar in new Mideast crisis; Arab nations’ split caused by Qatar’s relations with Muslim Brotherhood and Iran

As London Bridge terrorist Khuram Shazad Butt’s home in Pakistan is raided, authorities reveal the Islamist had access to tunnels under Parliament.

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.

A federal judge sentenced the first American ever to be convicted of attempting to engage in jihad on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to 35 years in prison.

A U.S.-led coalition airstrike in eastern Syria has killed the founder of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) propaganda arm known as the Amaq News Agency, according to activists and his brother.

Criminal people-smugglers are generating around 35 billion USD in revenue from the migrant trade, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Lacy Swing, who heads the United Nations agency, estimated that around 1,700 migrants have died while in the

A massive suicide car bomb explosion devastated a highly secure diplomatic area in the Afghan capital of Kabul only days into the holy month of Ramadan, killing about 90 and injuring up to an estimated 463 others, including 11 Americans.

Contents: Turkey builds a northern Syria ‘National Army’ from Free Syrian Army militias; US begins arming YPG Kurds in northern Syria on eve of battle of Raqqa

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) launched a car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and injuring 32 others at an ice cream shop packed with families who were breaking their fast during the ongoing Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

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.

The spokesman for American operations against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria declined to predict when the U.S.-backed local troops would retake Mosul, suggesting the final battle to liberate the Iraqi city may be long.

Contents: Terrorists massacre dozens of Coptic Christians in Egypt; Egypt’s warplanes bomb al-Qaeda jihadist training camps in Libya

Government sources have confessed that there are at least 23,000 jihadists in Britain – more than seven times higher than previously revealed. Until recently, the public had been led to believe there were around 3,000 known jihadists in Britain, with 500 being subject to

Colonel Richard Kemp, a former member of the COBRA committee, Joint Intelligence Committee, and commander of the British Task Force in Helmand, Afghanistan, has called on the Government to deport or intern all foreign nationals on the terror watch list.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in its annual call for violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, has urged jihadists and sympathizers to wage an “all-out war” in the West, stressing the targeting of noncombatants.

Police fear Salman Abedi may have armed more Islamists before carrying out his deadly attack in Manchester, after discovering a “working bomb factory” at his address.

The chief of NATO, ahead of American President Donald Trump’s speech, said the alliance would join the U.S.-led coalition combating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), but it may not “engage in combat operations.”

Libya descended into chaos following the U.S.-backed overthrow and execution of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, creating a vacuum for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and other jihadist groups to fill.

Islamist and jihadi organizations encourage their followers to carry out violent attacks on Ramadan, the holiest month for Muslims, when terrorist groups especially encourage and value martyrdom.

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.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Pope Francis discussed “the protection of Christian communities” in the Vatican soon after the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in claiming responsibility for the recent massacre in England, threatened “more severe” attacks against “worshippers of the Cross and their allies.”

Heavily armed troops have conducted a “significant raid” on a building in Granby Row, Central Manchester, following the arrest of three further suspects in relation to the terror attack on Monday.

The Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, returned to Britain from Libya just days before carrying out his deadly attack and is thought to have also travelled to Syria.

Virgin Atlantic have evacuated a flight from Dubai to Heathrow as a “precautionary measure” following a bomb threat.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday provided an update on the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, including on two significant changes President Trump has authorized that will accelerate progress and defeat the terrorist group.

Contents: US warplanes strike Syrian regime military convoy near al-Tanf base; Al-Tanf becomes a military flash point because of strategic value

British historian and broadcaster Tom Holland’s latest documentary, ‘ISIS: The Origins of Violence’, has angered a leading Muslim organisation. Prior to its broadcast on May 17th, Holland said the question his Channel 4 documentary sought to answer was “basically this: just

Contents: Washington shocked as Turkey’s security forces attack peaceful protesters; Turkey’s Erdogan leaves empty-handed from meeting with Trump

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has taken responsibility for an attack on a government-controlled television station in the jihadist group’s stronghold of Nangarhar province that left at least six people and an estimated 14 others wounded.

Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad accused of burning thousands of political opponents in crematorium; Final push to expel ISIS from Raqqa, Syria, to begin in June

U.S. -backed Iraqi troops and their allies are advancing on Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-held territory in Mosul in an effort to push the jihadists out of their Grand al-Nuri Mosque stronghold before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

WASHINGTON, DC — The American homeland is facing “the most frequent and unpredictable” Islamic terrorist threat from Sunni “U.S.-based homegrown violent extremists (HVEs),” warns the most recent Worldwide Threat Assessment issued by the United States intelligence community (IC).

An estimated 5,000 members of China’s Uighur, or Uyghur, minority group are waging jihad on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), al-Qaeda, and other terrorist groups, according to Reuters, citing the Syrian ambassador to Beijing.

The Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf terrorist group, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), has been dramatically degraded, according to the Filipino military.