Iraqi forces gain ground near Islamic State stronghold
Baghdad (dpa) – Iraqi forces on Saturday recaptured four villages from Islamic State near the extremist militia’s northern stronghold of Mosul, a government official said. The villages located to the south of Mosul were regained in a dawn attack, the head of the town of Qayyara, Saleh Hassan, told dpa. He said that government troops […]
Afghan officials confirm death of Islamic State leader
Kabul (dpa) – Afghan officials on Saturday confirmed that Hafiz Sayed Khan, the leader of the Islamic State movement’s Afghanistan branch, was killed in a US airstrike. The Pentagon on Friday said Khan was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province. “We can confirm that Hafiz Sayed [Khan] was killed on July […]
Twitter Not Liable for ISIS Propaganda
Twitter is not responsible for the propaganda posted to its social network by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), a U.S. district judge has ruled. A class action lawsuit had been brought against Twitter after two American defense contractors were shot and killed by ISIS in Jordan. The families of the two men claimed that […]
Opinion: Nadia Murad – The Story That Shames Us
A young girl, members of her family, girls from her village and from Iraqi Yazidi villages were kidnapped by ISIS fighters who gang raped them. All of this was done in the name of Islam and under its banner at a time when there are still a handful of extremists among us who publicly and […]
Taliban and ISIS Both Claim Quetta Hospital Bombing
Both the Pakistani Taliban and the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) have claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at a hospital in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Tuesday, which killed at least 70 people and injured some 120 more. The detonation took place outside the gates of the hospital’s emergency ward. It came after […]
Pakistan mourns bombing victims; Islamic State claims responsibility
Islamabad (dpa) – Pakistan began mourning on Tuesday for the 71 victims of a suicide bombing at a hospital in Quetta, as the Islamic State militant group said overnight it was behind the deadliest attack against the country since March. One more victim succumbed to injuries overnight, bringing the death toll from the bombing in […]
Death toll rises to 70 in bomb attack on hospital in Pakistan
At least seventy people are now confirmed dead with over 100 injured following a suicide bomb attack at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan. The terrorist targeted a group of mourners, mostly journalists and lawyers, who had gathered in honour of a prominent lawyer who had been shot dead just hours before. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif […]
The ISIS Hostage: My Torturers Were Not Evil
Daniel Rye Ottosen has just returned to the Malawian town of Chikwawa from a week in the bush with a small family, surviving on a bland dough known locally as nsima. The austere diet reminds the 27-year-old Danish freelance photographer of harder times. “Right now, I am looking forward so much to having a decent […]
Muslims pray with Catholics over French priest’s murder
Muslims have attended Catholic mass in churches around France in solidarity and sorrow following the brutal murder of a priest in an ISIL-linked attack. More than 100 Muslims were among the 2,000 who gathered at the cathedral of Rouen near the Normandy town where two teenagers slit the throat of 85-year-old Father Jacques Hamel.
Opinion: We all face the same enemy – the enemy of humanity.
Each time a new atrocity is committed in the name of Islam in a Western country, the government and the network of think-tanks are put in high gear to face the inevitable question: what can we do to stop this black series? Typically, three answers are offered. The first, coming from the politically-correct crowds, asserts […]