Posts Tagged: Al Qaida
Southern Libya: Terrorism’s Next Frontier
ISIS' recent battleground defeats and its loss of most of the areas in Syria and Iraq that it once controlled have forced group leaders to find an...
Islamists Threaten to Disrupt Egyptian Presidential Elections
Islamists have been attempting to disrupt the Egyptian political scene for decades -- often by infiltrating the political process or disrupting it through systematic negative propaganda...
Protecting Afghan and Muslim Women Is a National Security Issue
There was the woman whose husband sliced off her genitalia, and then reached inside her with his hand, damaging her inner organs. There was the woman whose husband cut...
Bin Laden Heir Breathes New Destructive Energy Into Al Qaeda
Since the start of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has sworn to destroy ISIS, threatening to be "nasty" and to "annihilate" the terrorist group and its leaders...
Al Jazeera: The Terrorist Propaganda Network
Al Jazeera's support for terrorism goes far beyond on-air cheerleading. Many of its employees have actively supported Al Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist groups. In...
Russia’s Terrorist Double Game
In April, a Muslim Russian national from Kyrgyzstan detonated an explosive device in St. Petersburg's subway system, killing 14 people and injuring many others. The...
Syrian Terrorist Group Rebrands to Ensure Survival
Jabhat al-Nusra's July 28 announcement of its new name and avatar, the Fateh al-Sham Front ("The Victory in Al-Sham Front"), does not mean that the terrorist group...
State-Run Egyptian Paper and Others Question What Clinton Knew About Muslim Brotherhood
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails suggest that she may have known about connections between the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and hardcore jihadist groups such...
Dutch Intelligence: Competition Could Fuel Jihadi Plots
The Netherlands' Intelligence Service (AIVD) is predicting a "large scale, spectacular attack in Europe or the US." And, they say, it could happen very soon. AIVD's report on 2015,...
How Radicalization Was Allowed to Fester in Belgium
These are the numbers, the hard facts: Twenty months. Three terrorist attacks. One hundred seventy dead. And almost all the killers grew up in, or...
Islamist Activist Asks Obama to Support Libyan Al Qaeda Group
The revelation of northern Virginia surgeon Esam Omeish's praise for Palestinians who chose "the jihad way" forced him to resign from a statewide immigration commission in 2007. But...
Plans That Lead Astray: Closing Guantanamo Bay
We often hear the line from a Robert Burns poem, "The best laid schemes of mice and men, often go askew," invoked when someone's grandiose...
IDF Preparing for Arrival of ISIS on Syrian Border
As conflict and mayhem continue to rage across Syria, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is preparing to encounter the threat of ISIS and al-Qaeda forces...
Jihadis Exploiting SoundCloud to Spread Messages: Watchdog Group Says
Arab media analysts at MEMRI are claiming that Al-Qaeda and ISIS-affiliated jihadists are exploiting SoundCloud, the "YouTube of audio," as a channel for disseminating messages...
