Simon Israel
Government’s counter-extremism strategy faces court challenge
Muslim activist Dr Salman Butt has launched legal action against the Home Secretary after he was named in a Government press release about hate preachers.
Search results for ‘al Qaeda’
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Osama bin Laden left $29m for global jihad
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden left $29m in his will, with instructions that most of this should be used to wage jihad.
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FactCheck: has Donald Trump been rewriting history again?
Donald Trump is taking fire from US fact-checkers over dubious claims that he was against the US-led invasion of Iraq from the outset.
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Saudis form Islamic alliance to combat terrorism
Saudi Arabia is leading an alliance of Muslim countries to combat Islamic State and other terrorist organisations.
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‘At least three dead’ after terrorists storm Mali hotel
At least three people have reportedly been killed after gunmen took 170 people hostage at a luxury hotel full of foreign guests in Mali’s capital Bamako.
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Mali capital targeted by terrorists a week after Paris
A terrorist attack takes place in Mali just a week after Paris, but France and its former colony share more than a fight against terror.
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Al-Shabaab and IS – changing allegiances in Somalia
A high-profile Al-Shabaab preacher has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. Is it a sign of closer ties between the two Islamist militant groups, or a one off?
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Jamal Al-Harith: Guantanamo detainee flees to Syria
A British terror suspect released from Guantanamo Bay after lobbying by the British Government is with the so-called Islamic State in Syria, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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US and Russia to hold talks on Syria air strikes
The US and Russian military will hold talks “very soon” to avoid coming into conflict during their respective air strikes in Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said.
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US-backed rebels hand over equipment to al-Nusra Front
Anti-Assad rebels being trained and supplied by America have handed over some of their equipment to Islamists affiliated to al-Qaeda, according to the US military.
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Mullah Omar: Taliban leader’s death confirmed
The office of the Afghan president confirms in a statement that the leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Omar, died two years ago.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Today’s Iran deal is a triumph for international diplomacy
The most astonishing aspect of today’s deal on Iran’s nuclear capability is that neither side is negotiating the terms of its defeat.
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UK jihadist Thomas Evans ‘killed with al-Shabaab’
British Muslim convert Thomas Evans is reported to have died fighting for the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab in Kenya.
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2015: Living under the horrors of barrel bombs in Aleppo
Barrel bombs, indiscriminate weapons responsible for the deaths of 11,000 civilians in the Syrian civil war, are the increasing weapons of choice of the Assad regime.
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How al-Shabaab is dividing communities in northern Kenya
Al-Shabaab militants killed 148 non-Muslim students in the northern Kenyan town of Garissa last month. Jamal Osman finds that a growing number of Christian residents are now fleeing the community.
