How Can We Trust ISIS’s Claims of Responsibility?
News outlets have reported that the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack on a London Bridge June 3 as well as attacks inside Iran on June 7. But how do they know? And how reliable are such claims? We asked Monica Duffy Toft, an…
Iran’s Supreme Leader: Attacks Will Increase Hatred of US, Saudis
Iran’s leadership on Friday accused the United States and Saudi Arabia of supporting the attacks on Tehran that killed 17 people this week. As thousands of Iranians attended a funeral for the victims, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday’s attacks would only increase hate for the U.S. and Saudi governments, according to state media.
Two Influential Somali Clerics Reject Violence as Ramadan Begins
Based on confirmed sightings of Ramadan’s new moon crescent, millions of Muslims around the world are fasting on the first day of the holy month. According to Islam, the sighting of the new moon marks the beginning of the Muslim lunar month of Ramadan. Thirty-three countries, mainly those in which the majority of residents are […]
ISIS Calls for ‘All Out War’ on West During Ramadan
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) called for an “all out war” on the West during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins Saturday, just days after it claimed the Manchester suicide bomb attack that left 22 people dead. The group’s spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, killed in a U.S. airstrike in August 2016, had […]
Yazidi Woman Who Suffered IS Enslavement Lobbies Washington for Help
A Yazidi woman who suffered for 10 months as a sex slave under the Islamic State group (IS) came to Washington to push for help for the traumatized, displaced Yazidi community in northern Iraq and the hundreds of others who remain in IS bondage. Shireen Jardo, 25, met with several U.S. congressmen and federal officials […]
Recent terror attacks in Europe
London (dpa) – Europe’s big cities are increasingly on high alert for terror attacks. Here are some of the most recent. STOCKHOLM, April 7, 2017: A hijacked truck ploughs into a busy pedestrian area in central Stockholm, fatally injuring five people. A 39-year-old Uzbek man is charged over the attack. LONDON, March 22, 2017:
A Look at Islamic State’s Operations in Afghanistan
So-called Islamic State has wreaked havoc in eastern Afghanistan since 2015, mostly through its loose affiliates — attacking government installations and villages, killing and abducting hundreds of people, and keeping schools shuttered and replacing them with IS religious seminaries. It also claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks in the country’s capital, Kabul. Here is a […]
Palm Sunday church bombing in Egypt kills at least 26, wounds 71
We strongly condemn and oppose all forms of terrorism and barbaric cowardly acts committed by these despicable group of terrorists and others with the same mentality and ideology. ISIS cowards are at it again, claiming responsibility for its criminal actions and proudly displaying their anti-Islamic practices and lack of any human decency, have managed to […]
FBI: ISIS suspect dreamed of killing and torturing Americans
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An 18-year-old South Carolina man arrested last week on an ISIS-related charge dreamed of replicating the Orlando, Fla., massacre but decided he could better serve by joining the terrorist group in the Middle East where he could kill Americans, the FBI says. Two years ago, when he was 16 and a student […]
Saudi Arabia Touts Closer US Cooperation Against IS as Pressure Mounts
Saudi Arabia says it is intensifying cooperation with the United States in fighting Islamic State militants – a move driven by pressure on Riyadh but also its warming ties to a new U.S. administration that shares Saudi concerns about Iran. Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir touted his nation’s role in the U.S.-led coalition against the […]