France wants UN to address new threats from terror financing
France is preparing a UN Security Council resolution that would step up measures to counter threats from terrorism financing, the French ambassador said on January...
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ISIS executed over 6,000 people in Syria since 2014
The Islamic State (ISIS) carried out over 6,000 death sentences in Syria in four and a half years of control of large areas in the...
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) leader gunned down in Libya
A leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), referred to as Abu Talha Al-Libi, was gunned down in an assault on his compound on...
Assassinating al-Qaeda’s leaders crushed its power but will the same happen with ISIS?
The world awoke to the importance of a 39-year-old Syrian called Taha Falaha when he fell prey to a missile fired from an American drone....
Belgium refuses political asylum to Moroccan jihadi Black Widow
The Belgian Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) rejected the request of a Moroccan jihadi, Malika El Aroud, for political asylum in Belgium...
Southeast Asia’s vulnerability to terrorism
Throughout Southeast Asia, entrenched rivalries, repeated splintering of terrorist organizations, and infighting between factions of jihadi groups have limited their rea
Kenyan police authorities detained 17 al-Shabaab terror suspects
Police in Kenya are detaining 17 suspects arrested over suspected links with Somalia-based terror group Al-Shabaab, sources said. The suspects were ordered to be deta
Al-Qaeda’s advance in northern Syria threatens fragile truce
It only took a few days for Al-Qaeda-linked militants to seize more than two dozen towns and villages in northern Syria from rival insurgents earlier...
Six aides to the ISIS chief al Baghdadi killed in airstrike on Iraq’s Anbar
Six top aides to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were killed Tuesday in an airstrike that targeted their 4×4 cars in the Iraqi province...
Home-grown terrorism is a huge threat for Kenya
The six attackers and 12 suspects in court for the 15 January terror attack on Nairobi’s dusitD2 hotel complex are mostly Kenyans. This was also...
Two people killed and five are wounded in the latest car bombing attack in Mogadishu
Two people were killed and five wounded on Tuesday when a car packed with explosives was detonated near the ministry of petroleum in the Somali...
Terrorism threatens to destabilize Burkina Faso and its neighbors
A series of actions undertaken by terrorists to target the international community have occurred in Burkina Faso over recent weeks, including the kidnapping of two...