Muslims Give Christians Hijabs To Help Them Escape ISIS
Muslims have been helping Christians to escape ISIS-affiliated Maute Group attackers in the devastated city of Marawi in the southern Philippines. More than three weeks after the fighting started, around 1,000 residents remain trapped in the besieged cities as fighting rages between the Philippine Army and Islamist rebels. Fighters from local groups including the Maute […]
Tech firms could face fines in crackdown on online ‘extremism’
The UK and France, working hand in hand against terrorism, are launching a joint campaign to fight online radicalisation. British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron want to get tech giants such as Facebook and Google to do more to remove extremist material from the internet. “Our discussions today have focused on […]
Qatar hosted Taliban ‘at request of US government’
Qatar hosted the Taliban at the request of the US government, the special envoy on counterterrorism for Qatar’s foreign minister told Al Jazeera. Mutlaw Al Qahtani said the Gulf country hosted the Taliban “by request by the US government” and as part of Qatar’s “open-door policy, to facilitate talks, to mediate and to bring peace”.
Qatari FM: For Arabs, Hamas is a resistance movement
The Arab nations view Hamas as a “legitimate resistance movement” and not a “terrorist organisation as viewed by the US”, Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has said. In an interview with Russia Today during a visit he paid to Moscow on Saturday, the Qatari foreign minister denounced accusing Qatar of supporting […]
Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death for Anti-Islam Content on Social Media
An anti-terrorism court in central Pakistan on Saturday sentenced a man, aged 30, to death for posting blasphemous content on social media. The judge conducted the judicial proceedings in the high-security prison in the city of Bahawalpur, prosecutor Mohammad Shafiq Qureshi told VOA. The prosecutor explained that the court found Taimoor Raza guilty of using […]
Trump Steps Up Military Action In Somalia
President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to step up in its fight against Islamic terror groups in Africa after various Al Qaeda offshoot groups have increased their militant actions in the massive continent, according to multiple reports. Al-Shabab , which has primarily operated in Somalia and Kenya, has unleashed a relentless assault on […]
Lal Shahbaz Qalandar and Pakistan’s pluralistic history
There is a legend told through oral tradition in the sub-continent. There was a man who appeared before a great city, a wanderer seeking refuge in a new land. When the king found out about this person, he refused to allow him in. He sent this person a pot of milk, and with it a […]
Trump’s Shifting Alliances Have Global Consequences
French and German leadership voiced major concerns Friday over President Donald Trump’s policies in a joint press conference Friday in Berlin where the heads of state highlighted the dual threats of Islamic terror and rising nationalism in Europe. Their remarks are the latest international reaction to what appears to be a significant shift in foreign […]
US Counterterrorism Authorities Target Student Wing of Pakistani Militant Group
U.S. counterterrorism authorities are growing increasingly concerned about the activities of the student branch of a banned Pakistani militant organization that’s seen as a threat to regional and U.S. interests. The State Department this week announced it was adding the student wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to its list of foreign terrorist organizations. The move against […]
Report: Islamist Terrorism Is Long-term Threat at Home, Abroad
Islamist terrorism will never be fully eradicated, and the threat to the U.S. homeland is real: These are among the sobering conclusions of a new U.S. Institute of Peace study that traces the origins and evolution of Salafist jihadism, a phenomenon it says blindsided the U.S. in September 2001. “The Jihad Threat: ISIS, Al Qaida […]