Caliphate: How the New York Times’ Islamic State scoop unravelled
Laila Al-Arian 15 January 2021 The Caliphate podcast has revealed again that the paper needs to confront unpleasant truths about how it handles stories at the nexus of Islam, the […]
Laila Al-Arian 15 January 2021 The Caliphate podcast has revealed again that the paper needs to confront unpleasant truths about how it handles stories at the nexus of Islam, the […]
. By Samuel Jaberg Aug 31, 2016 Switzerland is considering several options against jihadis, including the application of a law stripping them of their Swiss nationality (AFP) Should a young […]
By Jennifer R Williams a foreign editor at Vox.com. Before joining Vox, she was a senior researcher at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. If you […]
Oct 17, 2019 – swissinfo.ch BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi officials appeared cautious on Thursday after holding talks with European powers this week aimed at accelerating efforts to create a […]
Mar 10,2019 – JORDAN TIMES By Bjørn Ihler and Fatima Zaman OSLO/LONDON — Shamima Begum, a 19-year-old British woman who fled to Syria four years ago to marry a Daesh […]
By AFP – Feb 25,2019 – JORDAN TIMES A man prays as men suspected of being Daesh fighters wait to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces […]
Where should the Sunni Islamist fighters of Idlib go? Since their money and their weapons come from the Sunni Gulf, and since their Wahhabi Sunni faith was inspired by the […]
Robert Fisk discovers it would take a year, if not a decade, to understand the killing and the cynicism and the innocent suffering behind this epic battle Robert Fisk in Eastern Ghouta […]
Source: BBC More than 300 people from Kosovo went to join Islamists fighting “holy war” in Syria and Iraq – per capita the highest number in Europe. But not all […]
JUN 7, 2017 – www.swissinfo.ch Homegrown Swiss jihadists often want a fresh start due to troubles at school or in the workplace. They tend to view the world in stark […]
ISLAMIC STATE OCT 15, 2016 – Since 2001, 77 Swiss have left the country for conflict regions to take part in jihad (Keystone) According to Markus Seiler, head of the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS), hardly anyone from Switzerland wants to join the Islamic State (IS) anymore. In an interview with […]
Reuters International AUG 26, 2016 – www.swissinfo.ch Police remove the body of a suicide bomber from the scene of an attack in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia on July 5, 2016 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Maulana Surya/via REUTERS/File photo (reuters_tickers) By Randy Fabi and Kanupriya Kapoor SOLO, […]
TERRORISM Task force wants travel ban for Swiss jihadis NOV 2, 2015 – 11:53 A photo from a militant website showing Islamic State fighters in Syria (Keystone) The Swiss intelligence services are monitoring 70 Swiss alleged to have travelled to conflict zones to join jihadi groups. Given the scale of […]
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE Ali Arkady/VII/DER SPIEGEL For one and a half years, Abu Abdullah was responsible for organizing Islamic State’s suicide bombings in Baghdad. He is one of the organization’s rare leading figures to be captured alive. SPIEGEL met with him in a high-security prison […]
By Jörg Diehl, Hubert Gude, Barbara Schmid and Fidelius Schmid http://www.spiegel.de DPA/ Syriadeeply.org Much is known about men leaving Germany to take up arms on behalf of Islamic State. Less has been reported about the flocks of women traveling to Syria to join the jihad. Experts view them as a growing terrorist […]
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Constanze Letsch in Istanbul, Reyhanli and Kilis The Guardian, Thursday 25 December 2014 18.00 GMT Jump to comments (440) Refugees from Kobani watch the Syrian town during fighting between Isis and peshmerga forces. Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters Muhammad no longer recognises his country. The 35-year-old former teacher from Idlib province says […]
| By AMEL EMRIC WWW.HUFFINGTONPOST.COM TRNOVI, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The long-bearded man burst into the mosque’s yard and pinned Selvedin Beganovic to the ground. Shouting “Now I will slaughter […]
interview Conducted by Markus Dettmer and Jörg Schindler REUTERS Where does Islamic State get its money? In an interview, terrorism expert Louise Shelley says it operates like a run-of-the-mill crime syndicate in which ideology takes a back seat to money making SPIEGEL: Professor Shelley, leaving aside the victims for a […]
Heather Saul, The Independent A father who says he risked his own life to rescue his son from militants in Syria has been returning to the region in a bid to help other families track down European youngsters. Former Belgian soldier Dimitri Bontinck claims he undertook a dangerous ten-month journey […]