Terrorism
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 06:11
Somalia's government has offered an amnesty to fighters of Islamist group al-Shabab, amid uncertainty over whether its leader survived a US air strike.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 06:00
He is merciless toward opponents, secretive to the point of being a recluse and a true believer in the cause of global jihad.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 12:26
The Nigeria Security Network, a group of academics and think tankers, has issued a special report on the remarkable expansion of Boko Haram’s control in the northeastern state of Borno.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 09:18
Italy will empower Lebanon’s Army and enhance the role of UNIFIL troops, the president of the Defense Commission of the Italian Senate said Tuesday, while pledging to support Lebanon in its struggle against terrorism.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 07:11
France and Saudi Arabia are close to signing a $3 billion arms deal for Lebanon, the Elysee Palace said Monday following talks between President Francois Hollande and the Saudi crown prince.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 07:03
Les insurgés islamistes de Boko Haram poursuivent leur campagne de terreur dans les villes récemment conquises dans le nord du Nigeria. Massacres et tueries sont légion dans une région où Abubakar Shekau, le chef de la secte, avait déjà proclamé un "califat islamique".
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 06:32
Chancellor Angela Merkel told lawmakers on Monday that her government had decided to break with a taboo on delivering weapons to conflict zones because Germany and all of Europe faced a security threat from the extremists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 06:31
The collapse of the USSR in December 1991 produced a hunger among Central Asians to reacquaint themselves with their Islamic heritage, heavily suppressed during the Soviet era. Foreign Muslim missionaries, often with suitcases of cash subsequently flooded Central Asia. While they were initially welcomed, Central Asian governments soon learned that the outsiders were not reacquainting their citizens with ideology from their historic Hanafi Islamic jurisprudence heritage, but instead were promoting Wahhabi, Salafist and Deobandi theologies, far more austere and radical than Central Asia’s indigenous traditions.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 06:22
U.S. military forces conducted an operation Monday against the Al-Shabaab network in Somalia, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 06:11
Kenya will host the Africa Union Peace and Security Council Summit on Terrorism, to be attended by a number of Heads of State and Government from the continent on Tuesday