US militia members plead guilty to pipe bomb attack on mosque
In August 2017, the pair say, they threw a pipe bomb into the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in Illinois. Hoping to scare Muslims into leaving the United States, members of an Illinoisan militia group rented a truck and drove more than 805km to bomb a Minnesota mosque, two men admitted on Thursday. Michael McWhorter and Joe Morris said that […]
Egypt Carries Out Mass Execution of Islamic Militants
Egypt executed 15 Islamic militants convicted of carrying out a deadly attack on an army outpost in the Sinai Peninsula in 2013. Tuesday’s executions, carried simultaneously out in two prisons located north of Cairo, is the largest mass execution carried out in Egypt since six convicted jihadists were hanged in 2015. All 15 militants executed […]
After Sinai Massacre, Why Are Muslims Killing Muslims?
Radical Islamist militants converted the Al Rawdah Mosque in Egypt’s northern Sinai peninsula from a scene of prayer to a slaughterhouse on Friday. Jihadis detonated an explosive device and shot revellers dead as they left the compound, which the gunmen had surrounded. In all, at least 235 people were left dead and 130 injured, according […]
UN Team to Collect Evidence of Islamic State War Crimes in Iraq
The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to establish an investigative team to help Iraq secure evidence of atrocities committed by Islamic State militants “that may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.” Britain, which drafted the resolution, said the team would bring some justice to those who had experienced atrocities at […]
Al-Shabab Stones Man to Death in Somalia
A 44-year-old man has been stoned to death by the al-Shabab militant group in Rama Addey town in southern Somalia’s Bay region, reports say. The al-Shabab militant group on its official website said the man was convicted for adultery in Ufurow town, 60 kilometers west of Baidoa. Al-Shabab said the relatives of the woman involved […]
36 IS militants killed in US bombing, Afghan defence ministry says
Kabul (dpa) – 36 militants were killed after the US dropped a massive bomb on an Islamic State cave complex in Achin district of Nangarhar province Thursday night, the Afghan defence ministry said on Friday. The ministry said no civilian casualties were inflicted in the bombing, but an important Islamic State command centre had been […]
Egypt identifies Alexandria church bomber as fugitive with militant ties
A relative of one of the victims reacts after a church explosion killed at least 21 in Tanta, Egypt, April 9, 2017. Egypt on Wednesday named the suicide bomber who attacked a cathedral in Alexandria as 31-year-old Mahmoud Hassan Mubarak Abdullah, describing him as a fugitive with links to militant cells that carried out…