US Airstrike Kills 13 al-Shabab Militants in Somalia
The U.S. military said Wednesday that an airstrike in Somalia killed 13 al-Shabab militants. Officials in the Lower Jubba region confirmed the strike hit militants in the rural Beerhani area, about 50 kilometers northwest of Kismayo, in southern Somalia. “The strike targeted the militants as they mobilized to launch an attack against our base. Fortunately, […]
Russia Says About 10,000 IS Militants Now in Afghanistan
Russia has estimated there are about 10,000 Islamic State militants in Afghanistan and their number is growing because fighters fleeing Syria and Iraq also are heading to the war-ravaged country. Russian media on Saturday quoted Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special presidential envoy for Afghanistan, as saying Moscow is particularly worried about an increasing foothold of Daesh […]
Europe’s Far-Right Wants Its Own Muslim Ban
Europe’s most extreme right leaders gathered in Prague on Sunday to discuss their aspirations for implementing a Muslim ban resembling President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy. “We must have the courage to have travel bans as President Trump has done in the United States,” Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician who sports a mop of […]
Iraqi general: War with ISIL is over
An Iraqi senior military commander said his country’s war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group is over. In an announcement on Saturday, Lt General Abdul-Amir Rasheed Yar Allah said that armed operations against the fighters have ended after Iraqi forces regained control of the country’s border with Syria. “All Iraqi lands […]
Half of Yazidis kidnapped by IS still missing
Around half of the Yazidis kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Sunday. In 2014, IS jihadists killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the religious minority to abuse them as sex slaves. Kurdish fighters backed by the US-led […]
Huge Decline in ISIS Propaganda Mirrors Losses on Battlefield
As Islamic State stands on the brink of defeat in its previous heartlands in Syria and Iraq, analysts say the group’s effort to win the information war is also failing. As its propagandists can no longer maintain a pretense of military victory, they are switching attention to trying to inspire attacks overseas. A recent video […]
Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos
President Donald Trump on Wednesday retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy head of a British far-right group who has been convicted of a hate crime. One of them purports to show a Muslim beating up a Dutch boy on crutches. Another is described as showing an Islamist mob pushing a teenager of a […]
Teen Called a “Muslim B**ch” After Accusing Teacher
A Virginia teen who alleges a teacher pulled off her Islamic headscarf is now being harassed online by other students and another teacher from her school, a Muslim civil rights group has reported. Student Yasmin Yahye said last week that that teacher Lesmond Saunders removed her headscarf without her consent and has since told the […]
ISIS Reveals Top 5 Terror Attacks of 2017
The Islamic State militant group revealed Thursday a list of what it considered to be its most prominent attacks around the world this year and called for more deadly violence. ISIS, by most accounts, was effectively defeated as a warfighting force in 2017, but its ability to strike without warning in major cities across the […]
IS Bomb Kills More Than 20 Displaced People in Syria
At least 20 internally displaced persons were killed by a car bomb Friday in Syria — an attack blamed on Islamic State. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor put the death toll at 26, adding that 12 of the victims were children. Syrian state broadcaster SANA said that 30 others were injured at a […]