Tag: Al-Qaeda
Yemen: Understanding the conflict
The military conflict now escalating in Yemen threatens the lives of more than 250,000 people in the port city Hodeidah while 8 million more people across...
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...
Bin Laden’s Son Orders Muslims to Attack Agents Of U.S.
The new face of Al-Qaeda and the son of the mastermind of the deadliest attack in U.S. history, Hamza bin Laden, released a new...
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...
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,...
US drone strike kills five suspected al-Qaeda fighters
A US drone strike has killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda in central Yemen, local media and a security official say. Yemen Ajel, a...
Al-Qaeda to Muslims: ‘Kill Americans’ for Mosque Strike
Al-Qaeda called on Muslims to take revenge against the U.S. Friday after accusing Washington of destroying a mosque and killing civilians in an airstrike...
Does Bannon’s Rhetoric Make America Less Safe?
An expert on jihadists says recent comments by chief White House political strategist Stephen Bannon apparently has refocused militants’ attention on the United States,...
Trump Is Our Own Worst Enemy
The jihadis shoot their propaganda across the internet in search of the Western world’s frightened and dispossessed. On Twitter and Facebook, from YouTube to...
Donald Trump: US will wipe out ‘Islamic terror groups’
The Trump administration will make defeating "radical Islamic terror groups" its top foreign policy goal, according to a statement posted on the White House...