ISIS claims responsibility for Baghdad bombing that killed dozens
Source: CNN By Jomana Karadsheh and Joshua Berlinger (CNN)At least 64 people were killed when a bomb went off at a market in Baghdad, according to Iraqi police. An additional […]
Britain Grapples With Enduring Questions of Religion and Race
Source: The New York Times By STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLE APRIL 25, 2016 LONDON — As Britain engages in fierce debates centered on national identity, it is also confronting […]
ISIS Spreading in Europe, U.S. Intelligence Chief Warns
Source: The New York Times By ERIC SCHMITT and ALISSA J. RUBIN WASHINGTON — The Islamic State is operating clandestine terrorist cells in Britain, Germany and Italy, similar to the […]
Is The Quran One Solution to Terror?
Source: The Huffington Post By Kabir Helminski ………………… A small minority of the world’s one and a half billion Muslims has misconstrued the teachings of Islam to justify their misguided […]
Israel says Hamas suicide bomber attacked Jerusalem bus
Source: Yahoo News By Shatha Yaish AFP Bethlehem (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Israeli police said Thursday a Hamas militant carried out a “suicide” bus bombing in Jerusalem that wounded 20 people, […]
Boko Haram luring young people with loans, Nigerian military says
Source: CNN By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN)Boko Haram is luring young people by giving them loans as a bait for membership, the Nigerian military warned. As part of the “clandestine dispensation,” the terror group is offering loans to young entrepreneurs in the country’s troubled northeast as part of recruitment, the […]
Israel arrests six members of ‘Jewish terror cell’
Source: BBC Israel says the suspects tried to copy an arson attack that killed three Palestinians last year Israel’s security agency says it has arrested six West Bank settlers who […]
Explosion injures 3 at Sikh temple in western Germany
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German police say three people have been injured in an apparently deliberate explosion at a Sikh temple in the western city of Essen. A spokesman for Essen police told The Associated Press that a masked person is reported to have fled the scene shortly […]
Kidnapped to kill: How Boko Haram is turning girls into weapons
Source: CNN By Brent Swails and David McKenzie, CNN Minawao refugee camp, Cameroon (CNN)The question was always the same, she says. So, too, was the answer. “They came to us […]
How Germany Has Resisted the Influence of ISIS
Source: Time By Simon Shuster / Düsseldorf, Germany Programs to integrate Muslim communities may have helped Germany so far avoid the Islamist violence in neighboring France and Belgium During his lunch […]
Boko Haram crisis: ‘Huge rise’ in child suicide bombers
Source: BBC Boko Haram’s use of child bombers has increased over the last year with one in five suicide attacks now done by children, the UN’s child agency says. Girls, […]
ISIS decides fate of 300 abducted workers after questioning their religion
Source: CBS News BEIRUT— The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released most of the 300 cement workers it abducted near Damascus after questioning them to find out who were Muslims and killing four who were members of the minority Druze sect, a Syrian opposition monitoring group […]
Turkey warning: US advises of threats to Istanbul and Antalya
Source: BBC The US has warned its citizens of “credible threats” to tourist areas in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul and the southern resort city of Antalya. Both the Islamic State […]
Spain To Teach Koran In Schools ‘To Counter Islamic Extremism’
Source: Britbrat, London By Liam Deacon Spanish schools plan to “tackle extremism” by segregating Muslim students and teaching them more about the Koran and Islam, according to new government guidelines. Critics […]
Today’s new terrorists were radical before they were religious
Washington Post: The attacks in Brussels, on the heels of those in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., have stoked an already white-hot debate about Islamic terrorism in the United States. Many in the West, including the two Republican presidential front-runners, Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), urge a campaign […]
A Terror Attack, Then Far Right Moves In
Source: The New York Times By BEN C. SOLOMON, TAIGE JENSEN, STEFANIA ROUSSELLE and LESLYE DAVIS MARSEILLE, France — In the United States and Europe, mainstream political parties find themselves besieged. Two-party systems that were once stable are under new pressure, fracturing and creating openings for populists on the extremes, […]
Prior to Lahore bombing, Pakistanis were critical of Taliban and other extremist groups
Source: Pew Research Center BY JACOB POUSHTER A senior researcher focusing on global attitudes at Pew Research Center. The bombing that took place on Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan, was a devastating reminder that the scourge of terrorism is not confined to the recent headlines from the Middle East and […]
How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe’s Gaze
Source: The New York Times By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Reporting was contributed by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt from Washington, Laure Fourquet and Aurelien Breeden from Paris, Katrin Bennhold from […]
Can Pakistan win its war against the Taliban?
Source: The Guardian By Mohammed Hanif, whose novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes was longlisted for the Booker prize, shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, Commonwealth literary prize and […]
Poland’s leaders want no refugees after Brussels blasts
Source: Hindustan Times Poland’s president on Thursday threw his support behind a government decision to renege on a deal to accept thousands of refugees, blaming security concerns raised by Tuesday’s […]