Report: Islamic State Poses ‘Significant Threat’ in Afghanistan
A little over a week after the withdrawal debacle in Afghanistan began, U.S. officials now warn that the Islamic State (ISIS) poses a threat to American troops in the region.
A little over a week after the withdrawal debacle in Afghanistan began, U.S. officials now warn that the Islamic State (ISIS) poses a threat to American troops in the region.
President Joe Biden in an address to the nation on Sunday said, “terrorists may seek to exploit” the United States’ failed withdrawal from Afghanistan as thousands of fearful Afghans and Americans flood the Kabul airport in an effort to escape Taliban violence.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari warned this week that Africa is fast becoming the world’s new epicenter of Islamic terrorism, Voice of America (VOA) reported Tuesday.
Matt Mowers called for Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to “resign immediately” for having “abandoned their duty” while the Biden Administration botched the Afghanistan withdrawal.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s government on Sunday authorized a U.S. military aid mission in the country designed to help the DRC army fight a local affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
The Swedish government has taken the children of five Islamic State women into custody after the women were deported back to the country from Turkey.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group has recently ramped up a propaganda campaign on social media, flooding various platforms with radical material in “vernacular languages” native to regions across India, the country’s National Investigation Agency (NIA), revealed Friday.
Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden in a statement Saturday night, saying that “Biden gets it wrong every time on foreign policy,” and because of that, the Taliban no longer fears or respects America.
Former Trump administration DHS official Miles Taylor said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that “radicalized elements” of the Republican Party represented a “bigger threat to our democracy” than terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS ever did.
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Monday paid a visit to the turbulent northern province of Cabo Delgado to introduce the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Standby Force, a unit including troops from several southern African nations deployed against the Islamic State jihadis wreaking havoc in Mozambique for years.
Yazidi representatives criticized Baghdad on Monday for failing to help facilitate the return of thousands of Yazidis to their homeland despite repeated pledges to do so since ISIS forced the ethnoreligious group to flee the northwestern Iraqi district of Sinjar seven years ago.
The UK taxpayer has reportedly paid for a prosthetic arm and a £500,000 house for a jihadi bride who returned to the UK after joining ISIS.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday that her government will take custody of a 26-year-old woman with two children who joined the Islamic State in Syria in 2014 and was detained in 2021 when attempting to enter Turkey.
A German-Tunisian Islamic State widow has been sentenced to just four years in prison after being convicted of enslaving two Yazidi women while living in the former caliphate.
A Dutch court convicted a 32-year-old woman and sentenced her to six years’ imprisonment Tuesday for involvement in war crimes.
Child soldiers “between the ages of 12 and 14” perpetrated a massacre in Burkina Faso this month that killed over 130 people, Burkina Faso’s government said on Thursday.
Shamima Begum, 21, claims that she was just a “dumb kid” when she travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State and begged “pretty please” to return to the UK.
A British Muslim author has said that certain British towns have “no-go zones” for white people and that school children are attacked by Muslim children for “being white”, in an investigation into mosques in the United Kingdom.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a non-governmental organization, revealed this week that it had confirmed the deaths of nearly 500,000 people during the decade-long Syrian civil war.
Biden spoke about the threat of white supremacy during a speech in Tulsa marking the 100th anniversary of the 1921 race massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood.
Lebanese interim Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe on Wednesday tendered his resignation after making remarks blaming Gulf states, Lebanon’s traditional allies, for facilitating the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), the government announced.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is reportedly looking to modernise 650-year-old treason laws in order to make it easier to prosecute British jihadis returning from the Middle East.
Domestic terrorists may pose the “greatest” threat this year, and likely into 2022, a top FBI official told lawmakers Thursday.
A Syrian Muslim who attacked a homosexual couple with knives, killing one, has no regrets, a German court has heard.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), in a series of tweets on Sunday, expressed his disagreement with former President Donald Trump’s statement applauding President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan after almost 20 years of deployment there.
A study conducted by the Swedish Institute for Future Studies has revealed that women are far more active in extremists groups than previously thought, with women making up one in seven extremists in the country
A man has been charged in Norway for his alleged role in plans to carry out three extremist attacks in Denmark and in London.
An Illinois man who thought he was providing phones to help the Islamic State commit attacks was sentenced Friday to 13 and a half years in prison.
More than 50,000 people have been affected by recent Islamic terror attacks in northeastern Mozambique and need food assistance, the World Food Program (WFP) said Thursday.
A couple was arrested this week in Newark, New Jersey, on criminal charges regarding their alleged attempt to provide material support to ISIS, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for last week’s attack on the Mozambican town of Palma, a local news site reported on Tuesday.
Islamic State jihadists in Mozambique killed dozens of civilians over the weekend during a violent seizure of Palma, a natural gas hub located on the country’s northeast coast that employs scores of foreign workers.
BERLIN (AP) – A German woman accused of taking her son to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and fighting for the extremist group there was arrested Wednesday after landing in Berlin.
Immigration judges have restored the British citizenship of three British-Bangladeshi Islamic State defectors, one of whom was not even born in the country.
Shamima Begum, one of three British schoolgirls who ran away to Syria to marry Islamic State militants, said she joined the terror group because she did not feel loved by her mother and begged for a “second chance” and to be allowed to return to the UK.
British-based charity Save the Children said on Tuesday that children as young as 11 years old have been beheaded by the savage ISIS-affiliated Islamist insurgency in Mozambique.
One of Britain’s leading right-leaning newspapers has published a bizarre, glamour-style photo shoot of Shamima Begum, an Islamic State defector accused of sewing terrorists into bomb vests, in an article and on social media.
A man from a family of several jihadists who plotted a radical Islamic terror attack after his release from prison has been convicted at the Old Bailey in London.
Democrat congressman from California, Ro Khanna (D-CA), disagrees with President Biden’s approach to the Middle East