Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan“We Lost the War in Afghanistan in 2002”
Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan“We Lost the War in Afghanistan in 2002” The war on terror has failed, former FBI intelligence officer Ali Soufan argues in an interview. He believes […]
Terror Expert on Afghanistan “The Real Threat Is Islamic State, Not Al-Qaida”
The attack at the Kabul airport shows that the Taliban are unable to get the country completely under control, terror expert Wassim Nasr argues in an interview. An entity that […]
Ending America’s Endless War
We Must Stop Giving Terrorists Exactly What They Want By Bernie Sanders June 24, 2019 The United States has been at war for too long. Even today, we seem to be […]
How a costly proxy war can be prevented in Afghanistan
Since 2001, more than 775,000 US troops have been deployed to Afghanistan in a war that has cost over $1 trillion and seen the loss of tens of thousands of […]
Pakistan police investigate kidnapping of Afghan envoy’s daughter
Pakistan called the attack “disturbing” and said that security at the residence of the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad has been reinforced. (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/57dc7 Silsila Alikhil was admitted to […]
The world must admit anti-Islam is racism too
BY MUHITTIN ATAMAN Source: Daily Sabah Xenophobia, a growing political tendency of the West, affects Muslims the most. It is time for Europe and non-Western countries to recognize anti-Islam activities […]
Daesh is defeated, but their ‘brides’ are still an issue
DALIA AL-AQIDI June 05, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/zdgme The Daesh “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria has vanished, the vast majority of its terrorists either killed or captured, and their threat […]
German ‘refugee’ soldier in dock over far-right attack plot
By AFP – May 20,2021 – JORDAN TIMES Defendant Franco A (right), a German soldier who allegedly plotted to attack prominent politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee, talks with his lawyer […]
Three Teenage Refugees on Trial in Malta”How Are We Supposed to Be Terrorists?”
International Three Teenage Refugees on Trial in Malta“How Are We Supposed to Be Terrorists?” Three teenagers stand accused of hijacking a merchant vessel to get to Malta. They face stiff […]
ICRC urges countries to reclaim citizens from Syria camps
Peter Maurer Short Url https://arab.news/2h6tc UN rights experts, in an appeal last month, urged 57 states to repatriate nearly 10,000 of their citizens held in the camps in “sub-human” conditions […]
After Garê: Why Turkey’s war on terror is misunderstood
Aydın Selcen aselcen@gazeteduvar.com.tr According to Ankara’s narrative, the West (the U.S and EU) is duplicitous and hypocrite when it is faced with different kinds of terrorist actions or depending on […]
Turkey accuses US of siding with ‘terrorists’ in Iraq
By AFP – Feb 16,2021 – JORDAN TIMES In this file photo taken on November 22, 2014, US Vice President Joe Biden (left) speaks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
Terrorism in Pakistan has declined, but the underlying roots of extremism remain
Madiha Afzal Friday, January 15, 2021 Editor’s Note: This piece is part of a series titled “Nonstate armed actors and illicit economies: What the Biden administration needs to know,” from Brookings’s Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors. According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, Pakistan saw 319 terrorism-related incidents in 2020, […]
White Privilege: where’s Kyle?
Wednesday, February 03, 2021 byAbby Zimet, Further columnist new_big_kyle_state_exhibit_at_bar_5fff8d Good times. Photo is state’s exhibit. It seems the courts have lost track of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old punk charged with […]
UN calls for enhanced international cooperation to tackle terrorism
Vladimir Voronkov, under-secretary-general of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism. (AFP/File) Short Url https://arab.news/v6grs Security Council ministerial meeting told that threats have evolved and spread in the 20 years since 9/11 […]
Radical Indonesian cleric linked to Bali bombings will be told of Islamic State’s ‘faults’, his son says
Abdul Rohim, the son of Jemaah Islamiah co-founder Abu Bakar Bashir, says father was a ‘victim’ for believing in teaching of Islamist extremists But a former counterterrorism police general warned […]
Turkish security forces nab French terrorist with Red Notice
BY DAILY SABAH ANKARA WAR ON TERROR DEC 14, 2020 A French-origin terrorist was caught by Turkish security sources in southern Hatay province on Dec. 14, 2020 (AA Photo) Turkish […]
Can secularism be compatible with Islam?
Source: Global Voices World of confusion between secularism, free speech, and civil liberties By Samee Alhwash, who is a consultant in the development sector. He came to France as a […]
The Bataclan terrorists were the product of war-honed Isis nihilism – not Muslim council estates
Nabila Ramdani 19 hrs ago In the most devastating terrorist attack ever carried out on French soil, it was the random targeting of its victims that was perhaps the most […]
Austria: Anti-Muslim rhetoric rises after Vienna attack
Some Muslims have experienced death threats, while children have been bullied Muslims pray for victims of a gun attack during their Friday prayer at a mosque in Vienna, Austria [Leonhard […]