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Sri Lankan Bomb Attacks On Hotels, Churches: 20 Minutes Of Carnage

Sri Lankan Bomb Attacks On Hotels, Churches: 20 Minutes Of Carnage

Bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing 290 and injuring 500 people, in the first major attack on the Indian Ocean island since the end of a civil war 10 years ago. Here is a timeline of the explosions and subsequent events on Sunday Many of the […]

Online Propaganda Builds Islamic State Brand in the Face of Military Losses

Online Propaganda Builds Islamic State Brand in the Face of Military Losses

By  Sune Engel Rasmussen Aug. 26, 2018 7:00 a.m. ET   Islamic State has lost most of the territory it once held in Syria and Iraq. It is vying for survival with other, sometimes stronger, extremist groups. But one sphere where Islamic State still reigns supreme among terrorists is in cyberspace. The group’s vast online […]

U.S. officials say an ex-Islamic State fighter entered America as a refugee

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An Iraqi man accused of killing for the Islamic State terrorist group entered the U.S. as a refugee after claiming to be a victim of terrorism, in a case drawing attention amid the Trump administration’s criticism of the resettlement program’s vetting process. Omar Abdulsattar Ameen, 45, was arrested in California on Wednesday […]

Russia Says IS Turning Afghanistan Into ‘Resting Base’ for Regional Terrorism

Russia Says IS Turning Afghanistan Into 'Resting Base' for Regional Terrorism

Russia has warned Islamic State is turning northern Afghanistan into a “resting base” of international terrorism and a “bridgehead” for establishing its “destructive” caliphate in the region. The “international wing of Daesh” is spearheading the effort of terrorists spilling over the borders of Syria and Iraq and moving worldwide, asserted Russian ambassador to Pakistan, Alexey […]

What Will ‘Actually Solve’ Terrorism Problem?

What Will ‘Actually Solve’ Terrorism Problem?

National Counterrorism Center NCTC This is the second of James Kitfield’s in-depth analysis of the continuing challenges posed by America’s so-called “forever wars” in Afghanistan and Iraq. At the height of its powers several years ago, ISIS was attracting an estimated one thousand new foreign fighters each month. While U.S. officials always believed that the […]

Iraqi general: War with ISIL is over

Iraqi general: War with ISIL is over

An Iraqi senior military commander said his country’s war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group is over. In an announcement on Saturday, Lt General Abdul-Amir Rasheed Yar Allah said that armed operations against the fighters have ended after Iraqi forces regained control of the country’s border with Syria. “All Iraqi lands […]

Half of Yazidis kidnapped by IS still missing

Half of Yazidis kidnapped by IS still missing

Around half of the Yazidis kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Sunday. In 2014, IS jihadists killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the religious minority to abuse them as sex slaves. Kurdish fighters backed by the US-led […]

Huge Decline in ISIS Propaganda Mirrors Losses on Battlefield

Huge Decline in ISIS Propaganda Mirrors Losses on Battlefield

As Islamic State stands on the brink of defeat in its previous heartlands in Syria and Iraq, analysts say the group’s effort to win the information war is also failing. As its propagandists can no longer maintain a pretense of military victory, they are switching attention to trying to inspire attacks overseas. A recent video […]

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 […]

ISIS Reveals Top 5 Terror Attacks of 2017

U.S. Puts $5 Million Bounty On Pakistani Taliban Leader

The Islamic State militant group revealed Thursday a list of what it considered to be its most prominent attacks around the world this year and called for more deadly violence. ISIS, by most accounts, was effectively defeated as a warfighting force in 2017, but its ability to strike without warning in major cities across the […]