Tag: terror

Paris, France- Two police officers were shot by a gunman on Champs-Élysées, a popular tourist boulevard in the capital. One police officer was killed and the other wounded after the gunman got out of a vehicle and fired at the officers. The gunman’s identity has not been released yet but he reportedly killed himself after shooting the […]

An attorney who represents some of the biggest names in the al Qaeda terror group has revealed that even they are uncomfortable with the rise of the Islamic State and are “disturbed” by the group’s behavior. In an interview with West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, Bernard Kleinman talked at length about his time representing clients […]

Strabane, Northern Ireland– The Police Service for Northern Ireland (PSNI) stated that a “substantial” bomb detonated on Tuesday evening while three police officers were patrolling in the area. We are incredibly lucky that the lives of officers and other members of the community were not lost last night,” said Supt Gordon McCalmont. “We appreciate the understanding and […]

Since World War II, U.N. peacekeepers have been dispatched to 69 conflicts — civil wars, border disputes and failed states. But now they are confronting an unsettling new threat: al-Qaeda. Here in the vast, lawless desert of northwest Africa, their convoys are being torn apart by improvised explosive devices and their compounds blasted by 1,000-pound […]

KABUL — Over the past eight years, Afghans have become increasingly disillusioned with the American role in their country. Many blamed President Barack Obama’s policies for an increase in Afghan corruption, for air attacks that killed civilians, and for a foreign troop presence that failed to stop Taliban insurgents and was pulled out too quickly. […]

Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday in a New Year’s address to the nation, and she vowed to introduce laws that improve security after a deadly attack before Christmas in Berlin. Describing 2016 as a year that gave many the impression that the world had “turned upside […]

Islamic State in Syria released a video on Thursday purporting to show two captured Turkish soldiers being burned to death, according to the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group which monitors militant groups online.     Read the whole story from Reuters. Featured image courtesy of Newsweek.

Six police officers were killed and several were injured after an IED detonated at a security check point in Cairo, Egypt. According to Al Jazeera, a group called Hasm Movement (meaning decisiveness) claimed responsibility for the attack. The Hasm movement said it targeted a police checkpoint in Haram Street, close to the famous Giza Pyramids with an explosive […]

A new video purportedly released by Daesh, or the so-called Islamic State alleges to show a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agent asking for help to be freed from Daesh. The video was released on Daesh terrorist channels on September 20.

It is stated to have been filmed in “Wilayat al-Furat”, an Daesh-occupied area on the Euphrates River that is part of Syria. “al-Furat” is Arabic for “Euphrates.”

For example, just this past weekend, when a bomb exploded, injuring dozens in New York, Mayor de Blasio was quick to assert that it was an intentional act but wasn’t terrorism. After a knife-wielding attacker went on a rampage in a shopping mall, the St. Cloud, Minnesota police chief didn’t connect the attack to Islamic terrorism even though the terrorist, when approaching his victims, reportedly was asking them if they were Muslim.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that Wednesday’s arrest was part of French authorities’ efforts to target people vulnerable to “calls to carry out killings, led by a certain number of actors in Syria.” But he didn’t elaborate on any direct links between the boy and the IS group.

The extremist group “uses encrypted means to encourage increasingly young” individuals, he said, citing the messaging application Telegram.

France is currently in “an exceptional level of mobilization” following two failed attacks in six days, he added.

What began as a desperate, stopgap campaign by Iraqi leaders to stem Islamic State forces from overrunning Baghdad and other major cities in the country is now fueling a new era of sectarian violence, as a formidable array of Shiite militias casts a dark shadow over the Iraqi military’s recent battlefield successes.
American commanders have become increasingly wary that the more integral the militias become to the battle plan, the weaker Baghdad’s ability will be to rein in the paramilitary force — which now numbers over 120,000 fighters.