Extremists see global chaos from coronavirus as an opportunity
Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their fighters also see the upheaval from the pandemic as an opportunity to win over more supporters and strike harder than before. Messages from the Islamic extremist groups show ...
Kurdish forces end riots by Islamic State prisoners in Syria
Kurdish-led forces have successfully put down riots by Islamic State militants in a prison in northeast Syria with none of the prisoners escaping the facility, the top commander of the U.S.-backed forces said. Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces tweeted shortly before midnight on ...
Unidentified gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 25 people before security forces killed all of the attackers, the government said. Sikhs have been the target of attack by Islamist militants before in South ...
Syria's brutal civil war enters 10th year
Syria's brutal conflict entered its 10th year Sunday with President Bashar Assad's regime having consolidated its hold over the war-wracked country with a decimated economy where foreign powers flex their muscle. When Syrians took to the streets on March 15, 2011, they could scarcely have ...
Afghan gunmen attack 'apostate' political rally, killing dozens
Dozens of people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a political rally in Kabul on Friday, the deadliest assault in Afghanistan since the U.S. signed a withdrawal deal with the Taliban. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, highlights a glaring lack of ...
Syria's Kurds renew appeal for aid to put captive Islamic State fighters on trial
Syria's Kurds on Sunday renewed their appeal for international aid to put on trial thousands of captured members of the Islamic State group, including Western nationals. Almost a year since the March 2019 fall of the last IS bastion in Syria, the victorious U.S.-backed and ...
Islamic State-linked attacks kill five Nigerian security personnel on heels of weekend massacre
Jihadis aligned with the Islamic State group have killed five security personnel in three attacks in northeast Nigeria, sources said Wednesday. In the first incident, truckloads of fighters from the Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) group attacked a military post in Tungushe, a village near ...
Jihadis kill at least 30, abduct dozens in northeast Nigeria
Jihadis killed at least 30 people and abducted women and children in a raid in northeast Nigeria's restive Borno state, a regional government spokesman said on Monday. The attack Sunday evening targeted the village of Auno on a key highway linking to regional capital Maiduguri. The ...
Syria's Kurds hand over 35 Islamic State-linked orphans to Russia
Syria's Kurds Thursday handed over 35 Russian orphans linked to the Islamic State group to their home country in the latest such repatriation of parentless children, an AFP correspondent said. The boys and girls were handed over to a Russian delegation in the town of ...
French police shoot knife-wielding barracks intruder following attack warning
Police shot and wounded a man armed with a knife after he attacked officers inside a police barracks in eastern France on Monday. Shortly before the knifeman struck the police facility in Dieuze, near Metz, the local police operations center received warning that an atrocity ...
U.K. to overhaul early release practice in terror sentences after London knife attack
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday he wanted to overhaul the automatic early release of terror convicts after a stabbing attack in London claimed by Islamic State. Sudesh Amman, 20, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, was shot dead by undercover armed police ...
Mali will increase the size of its army by about 50 percent in a recruitment drive this year aimed at uprooting jihadist groups, Prime Minister Boubou Cisse said on Wednesday. The plan is to hire 10,000 new soldiers in the coming months to "allow our ...
