Terrorism

He is merciless toward opponents, secretive to the point of being a recluse and a true believer in the cause of global jihad.

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.

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".

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.