Posts Tagged: Islamists
Jordanians Protest Against Water-for-Energy Deal with Israel
Several thousand Jordanians protested on Friday against a water-for-energy deal with Israel and the United Arab Emirates, calling on their government to scrap its peace...
Taliban Begin Paying Salaries to Government Employees
i24 News –Afghanistan's Taliban authorities said Saturday they had begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck since the Islamists seized power and...
Resurgent Taliban Take Provincial Capital, Kill Afghan Govt Spokesman
Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the government's senior media officer in Kabul on Friday amid a deteriorating security situation as US...
Israel Launches Dozens of Strikes as Gaza Fighting Enters Second Week
Israel launched dozens of air strikes in Gaza and the Hamas militant group kept up its rocket attacks on Israeli cities in fighting that spilled...
Reformers Launch Group Aimed at Challenging Muslim Antisemitism
Antisemitism has become "a pandemic raging for many years" among a large number of Muslims, said interfaith activist Soraya Deen. "Unfortunately though, we have no...
Women’s March Figure Linda Sarsour’s Radical Background, Ties
By all accounts, last Saturday's Women's March protests generated huge crowds in Washington, DC and throughout the country. It also has triggered a heated debate, playing out largely...
Are We Finally Getting Serious About Identifying Islamists?
After the jihadi attacks in Paris in January and November 2015, the French intelligence agency Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure (DGSI, General Directorate for Internal Security)...
Israeli Commander Warns Syria, Lebanon Borders Teeming With Terrorist Activity — ‘We Have to Prepare Our Forces for War’
Israel's border with Syria has become a hotbed for terrorist activity targeting Israel, said Israel Defense Forces Northern Command chief Aviv Kochavi on Tuesday, Israeli NRG news...
French Islamist Group Goes On Trial After Authorities Find Jewish Target List, Nuclear Bomb Manual
Fourteen members of Forsane Alizza, a banned French Islamist group, went on trial on Monday facing terrorism charges after a list containing Jewish targets was...
Hamas Allowing ‘Palestinian Hezbollah’ to Operate in Gaza
The Gaza Strip's Sunni Muslim rulers Hamas have been allowing a Shia organization beholden to Iran called "Al-Sabirin" to carry out its activities in the...
Video of Hezbollah Militants Executing Syrian Rebels Surfaces Online (VIDEO)
A video purporting to show Hezbollah militants executing captive Syrian rebels is making the rounds on the internet, and could revive tensions in Lebanon between...
Egypt Continues Crackdown on Sinai Militants Near Gaza Border, Finds Anti-Aircraft Missiles and Motorized Paragliders
Egypt's crackdown on militants in the Sinai continued over the weekend as military forces raided several villages near Rafah, Palestinian Ma'an News Agency reported. Ma'an reported seeing...
Islamism’s Likely Doom
As recently as 2012, it appeared that Islamists could overcome their many internal dissimilarities — sectarian (Sunni, Shiite), political (monarchical, republican), tactical (political, violent) or...
U.S. Administration Wrongly Advocates the Islamist Interpretation of Islamophobia
The State Department issued a report denouncing what it called "a spike in anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe and Asia." It said that "Muslims...
