More to ISIS than ‘Jihadi John’ brand
Following the brutal killing of James Foley in August 2014, the masked face of “Jihadi John” first gained prominence across our TV screens, newspapers, and social media feeds. Since then,…
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Suicide attack outside Iranian embassy in Kabul kills 2
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham condemned the attack. “All colleagues at the embassy are safe and sound, and no damage has been done to our country’s embassy as a…
Time to silence terrorists on social media
Reports Wednesday that three men have been arrested over plans to travel from New York to join ISISand that one of them allegedly posted online about his desire to shoot…
3 Men in Brooklyn Are Charged With Supporting ISIS
Three men living in Brooklyn were arrested and charged on Wednesday with providing material support to the Islamic State, a terrorist organization that controls large parts of Iraq and Syria…
Jury Awards $218.5 Million in Terrorism Case Against Palestinian Groups
The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization were found liable on Monday by a jury in Manhattan for their role in knowingly supporting six terrorist attacks in Israel between…
Abbott: Australia to strengthen citizenship laws to combat terror
The new measures include suspending and revoking citizenship for dual nationals involved in terrorism, and also stripping certain privileges of Australian citizens who break anti-terror laws. “Those could include restricting…
Abbott: Australia to strengthen citizenship laws to combat terror
“Those could include restricting the ability to leave, or return to, Australia… access to consular services overseas, as well as access to welfare payments,” said Abbott. “We will also clamp…
War on Islam vs. War on the Islamic State: In Obama’s words
An exception came this week at his summit on violent extremism: instead of ignoring the debate over using the words “Islam” or “Islamic” to describe terror threats, Obama addressed the…
Obama Urges Global United Front Against Extremist Groups Like ISIS
WASHINGTON — President Obama called on Americans and more than 60 nations on Wednesday to join the fight against violent extremism, saying they had to counter the ideology of the…
Canada: Attack Plot Is Foiled, Police Say
The police said Friday that they had disrupted a plot by four people to kill a “large number of individual citizens” in the Halifax area of Nova Scotia. The Royal…
ISIS And Boko Haram Are Teaming Up For Terror, Official Says
At a Senate hearing, a top counterterrorism official linked terrorist groups ISIS and Boko Haram for the first time. Read the whole story at The Daily Beast
The Media’s Obsession With ‘Gaffes’ Makes It Impossible To Have Interesting Politicians
violent terrorist attacks are both scary and morally wrong: Read the whole story at Vox.com
This week in politics: Hand-washing, vaccines and ‘Downton Abbey’
Things have gotten worse in Ukraine and the U.S. is considering providing assistance to the military. News broke that ISIS had burned a Jordanian pilot alive, renewing questions about President…
Anger over pilot’s death fuels Jordan’s airstrikes on ISIS
He embraced Safi al-Kasasbeh and promised vengeance for his son’s death. He delivered it the same day in the form of airstrikes on ISIS’ claimed capital of Raqqa in Syria….
Pre-9/11 Ties Haunt Saudis as New Accusations Surface
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — During the 1980s and ’90s, the historic alliance between the wealthy monarchy of Saudi Arabia and the country’s powerful clerics emerged as the major financier of…
Attorney General Eric Holder to go to Paris in wake of attack
In the wake of deadly terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hedbo, the United States has repeatedly said it will work closely within its own intelligence and defense…
Ex-D.C. cab driver lands on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list
The FBI says Mohamed is accused of providing material support to Al Shabaab, the Somali-based group that’s linked to al Qaeda. The group has launched many deadly terrorist attacks, including…
The Israel-Hezbollah conflict is also about ISIS, oil, nukes, and global terror
Yet another war in the Middle East could bring devastation and tremendous international repercussions. So many people around the globe breathed a sign of relief Thursday as word broke that…
Bulgaria Extradites Fritz-Joly Joachin, Man Suspected Of Link To Paris Attacks, To France
A Frenchman wanted in connection with deadly terrorist attacks in Paris has been extradited from Bulgaria to France, where he is facing charges of links to terrorism. – Raf Casert…
Obama: Yemen unrest won’t halt drones
“Yemen has never been a perfect democracy or a island of stability,” Obama said in New Delhi, where he’s on a three-day state visit. He described the U.S. policy there”partnering…
Should nations just pay ISIS ransom?
The black-clad, masked British ISIS terrorist who has taken center stage in the group’s hostage videos appeared in a new video on Tuesday threatening the lives of two Japanese hostages,…
2 Yemeni nationals charged in U.S. court with fighting for al Qaeda
The criminal complaint alleges that Saddiq al-Abbadi and Ali Alvi provided material support to the terrorist organization and conspired to murder Americans abroad. – Lawrence Crook III reported from New…
Michael Moore explains snipers are ‘cowards’ tweet
“My uncle killed by sniper in WW2,” Moore tweeted. “We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren’t heroes. And invaders r worse.” The backlash…
Sen. Angus King: ‘The real weapons of mass destruction today are unemployed 22-year-olds’
King, a member of the Senate’s intelligence and armed services committee, echoed intelligence assessments that “lone wolf” terrorists are the “toughest” threat to counter, but disagreed with his Republican colleagues,…
Third Ottawa man remains in custody on terror-related charges
Suliman Mohamed, 21, stood watching the court proceedings before being remanded into custody. He wore a brown-colored, hooded jacket and was carefully watched by his parents, sitting in the front…
Female terror suspect more radical than boyfriend?
Hayat Boumedienne, believed now to be on the run in Syria, was the more radical of the two, according to George Sauveur, who was for nearly a decade the attorney…
School where Pakistani Taliban massacred over 130 children reopens
The horrifying terrorist attack on the Army Public School and Degree College in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 145 people, including 132 children. Shahrukh Hussain, 15,…