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Security forces carried out raids against 72 alleged Islamic extremists this week ahead of the 23th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The Taliban is repressing women and young girls in Afghanistan with unparalleled restrictions and will jeopardize the country’s future, a shocked U.N. rights chief warned Monday.

Specialist police have taken over the investigation after a migrant knifeman shouting “Allahu Akbar” raided a police station.

Afghanistan-heritage man arrested after car driven at speed onto sidewalk, suspect allegedly telling police he had acted “on Allah’s orders”. 

Nigerian Shiite militants with close ties to the government of Iran allegedly killed at least two police officers in Abuja.

During his visit to Chechnya, Russian President Vladimir Putin was filmed kissing a gold-leafed Quran at a major mosque.

No beard, no fighting for you. That was the stern message delivered by the Taliban’s morality ministry Tuesday after more than 280 members of the Afghanistan security force were dismissed for committing “hairstyle violations” by failing to grow sufficient amounts of facial hair as required under Islamic law.

A group of Hamas supporters flew the banner of the terrorist group at a pro-Palestinian rally outside the Democratic National Convention — but they flew it upside-down, and not on purpose.

Vice President Kamala Harris has named Nasrina Bargzie as her liaison to Muslim and Arab voters, despite Bargzie’s record battling pro-Israel and Jewish students, and the fact that she was reportedly questioned by law enforcement after 9/11.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz praised radical Imam Asad Zaman, who had posted content promoting Hitler, as a “master teacher” — contradicting claims by the Kamala Harris campaign that Walz had no personal relationship with him.

Right-wing Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir led a group of over 1,000 Jews to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel, on Tuesday, where many performed prayers in defiance of a status quo that has held for 57 years.

The prime suspect in bomb plot to kill Taylor Swift fans at a concert in Vienna “today or tomorrow” has been revealed.

Organizers have planned protests in at least seven provinces on Thursday throughout Iraq in response to the introduction of amendments to a core family legal framework that could legalize child marriages, deprive widows of their inheritance, and facilitate sex slavery.

The Bangladeshi Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) said on Tuesday that hundreds of Hindu homes, businesses, and temples have been vandalized since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced out of office by protesters over the weekend.

Scottish leader John Swinney visited the Edinburgh Central Mosque to express his government’s solidarity with the Islamic community.

The tenderfoot Labour government announced that mosques will be offered “emergency security” protection amid the national unrest and riots over mass migration.

An Islamist cleric reportedly called upon his followers to raise money to buy an island in Scotland to establish a de facto Islamic State.

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for directing a terrorist group, days after he was convicted in Woolwich Crown Court.

NEW YORK — The man accused of trying to kill the author Salman Rushdie has been charged with terrorism for allegedly acting on behalf of Hezbollah, according to documents unsealed Wednesday.

PARIS (AP) — French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla says she has been barred from Friday’s opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics because she wears a hijab, and the French Olympic Committee said it is working with her to find a solution that adheres to the team’s secular requirements for athletes.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen have apparently decided music and singing will no longer be tolerated in areas under their control.

Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court has sentenced young Christian Ehsan Shan to death for allegedly reposting a blasphemous image of a desecrated Quran on social media.

The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis will canonize eleven Christians hacked to pieces by radical Muslims in 1860 rather than renounce their faith in Jesus.

Pope Francis asserted this week that Christians, Jews and Muslims, all worship the one God and are “brothers and sisters.”

At least 21 people have been killed in a large coordinated terror attack on two synagogues, two churches, and a police outpost.

Authorities say more than 1,000 Muslims died during the recent Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the area suffered extreme temperatures.

Pakistan police are investigating the lynching of a tourist whom a Muslim mob murdered for allegedly burning pages from the Quran.

Over 1,000 people participating in the Hajj, the Islamic mandatory pilgrimage to Mecca, have reportedly died this year as of Friday, prompting growing outrage at authorities in Saudi Arabia for allegedly failing to offer proper safety protocol, access to water, and other services.

Germany’s spy chief admitted that Islamist terrorists have likely infiltrated the European Union through the Ukraine refugee scheme.

There are too few Muslim moderates when it comes to Hamas. It is time to ask Muslim leaders: will they condemn Hamas? Will they accept Israel’s right to exist? Will they support peace?

Israeli hostages were forced by their Palestinian captors to recite the Quran and Islamic prayers every day, according to one of the hostages freed in a daring raid on Saturday.

A liberal, women-led Berlin mosque known as a haven for gay Muslims was a target for an Islamic State terror cell in Germany, prosecutors say.

Days after Afghan migrant suspect attacked anti-Islamification rally in Germany, police have decided there was probably an extremist motive.

A rally to “stop political Islam” in Germany was ended before it even began after a knifeman attacked anti-Islamification campaigner.

Farage warns of sectarianism, pointing to the unedifying spectacle of a top Labour MP pleading with “group of Muslim leaders” for votes.

Turkey’s authoritarian Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, this week converted the historic Chora Church in Istanbul into a mosque, outraging Christian leaders and drawing a mild rebuke from the Biden State Department.