The Islamic State’s ideological campaign against al-Qaeda
On April 29, the Islamic State’s “province” (wilayah) in Yemen released a lengthy video that is intended to undermine al-Qaeda’s ideological legitimacy within the jihadists’...
Month: May 2020
Islamic State terrorist group intensifies terror attacks in Iraq
ISIS launched two new attacks in Iraq, according to reports early on Monday. The first attack targeted checkpoints of the tribal crowd and its security...
Islamic State terrorist group launch attacks in Iraq during Ramadan
The first of several Islamic State (IS) attacks in Iraq began just before suhoor on May 2, the meal of pre-dawn during the Muslim holy...
Unknown gunmen abducted and killed nine policemen in southern Syria
Unknown gunmen abducted and killed nine policemen Monday in southern Syria in a rare attack on a government building in the defeated cradle of the...
Hezbollah terrorist group slams German ban as ‘submission to America’s will’
The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement on Monday condemned Germany's ban on his group as bowing to US pressure and insisted it was not active...
The Islamic State steps up attacks to demonstrate new leader’s strength
The recent spike in the Islamic State (IS) attacks in central and northern provinces of Iraq are the group’s struggle to demonstrate the strength of...
Widow of German Islamic State rapper goes on trial
A German-Tunisian woman who married a German rapper-turned-ISIS fighter and who kept a child slave in Syria went on trial on Monday. The woman, named...
Islamic State could strike back as the world is paying little attention to the threat
In the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic the crises of tomorrow can fester. A resurgence of Islamic State (IS) is likely to be one of...
Islamic State terrorists used Syria’s al-Hota gorge as dumping ground for dead bodies
Islamic State (ISIS) used a deep gorge in northeast Syria as a dumping ground and mass grave for bodies of people it abducted and executed,...
Rising terrorist threats in Mozambique also threat to Zimbabwe
Mozambique has seen a resurgence in RENAMO attacks on the country, however, more concerning is the growing Islamic extremism in the North East of that...
Al Qaeda urges Indian Muslims to wage jihad against India
Almost a year after its chief Ayman al-Zawahiri asked militants in Kashmir to step up terror attacks against India, Al Qaeda on Monday urged Indian...
Islamic State sniper kills a soldier and injures others in Iraq
A security source said on Monday that a soldier was killed and three others were injured, including an officer, in two separate attacks north of...