Life under Islamic State: the devotion of some young Syrians
“Were you afraid of Jihadi John?” “No, because I’m a Muslim. He was right to kill those journalists because they were all spies under the cover of journalism.”
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Kurdish fighters reportedly advance to within 30 miles of the Islamic State group’s stronghold of Raqqa, while pro-Assad forces battle Sunni militants on the Lebanese border.
Is the rise of the Islamic State the biggest threat to the UK’s security and safety in the history of the country?
A major counter-terrorism exercise is taking place in the UK capital today, as we approach the 10th anniversary of the London bombings in which 52 people died. What has changed since 2005?
The attack on a factory near Lyon is not the first time France has experienced Islamist violence. It is just six months since the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket killings in Paris.
“Were you afraid of Jihadi John?” “No, because I’m a Muslim. He was right to kill those journalists because they were all spies under the cover of journalism.”
The killing near Benghazi of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, al-Qaeda’s top man in north Africa, is unlikely to quell the rising jihadi movement in Libya and the surrounding region.
British Muslim convert Thomas Evans is reported to have died fighting for the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab in Kenya.
Islamic State has gained new momentum, capturing territory as it approaches the capitals of Syria and Iraq. With countries meeting in Paris to discuss combating IS, can its advance be halted?
US spy agencies lose the legal authority to collect Americans’ phone records and other data after the Senate failed to pass legislation extending such powers.
The whistleblower Edward Snowden is defended by a privacy watchdog as a new report claims his “reckless” actions caused “serious damage” to counter terrorism.
It has been a bad week for the American-led “strategy” against militants from so-called Islamic State – a strategy with the US president himself views with great qualms and some reluctance.
Islamic State fighters are reported to have seized the last border crossing between Syria and Iraq, in the latest advance by the jihadist group against Bashar al-Assad’s struggling military.
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.
With time running out on a humanitarian window, residents in the Yemeni city of Aden – which has suffered much of the country’s recent violence – race to replenish the city of basic food supplies.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is panned for trashing the official version of the Osama bin Laden assassination – so should we start believing other outlandish theories about the killing?