The German Interior Ministry has reported a significant rise in the number of Islamist extremists living in the country. Officially classified as Salafists, or radicalized Muslims, their number has crossed 11,000 for the first time.
Five years ago the intelligence agencies had placed their number at 5,500—almost half of the present size. Those figures...
A student at Pine View High School in Utah brought a bomb to the school this week.
He attempted to detonate it, but when it let off smoke the school evacuated and sent kids home. Authorities said the bomb “would have caused significant injury or death.”
In August 2014, ISIS released a video of the beheading of captured U.S. journalist James Foley.
We covered it at the time, American journalist James Foley reportedly beheaded by ISIS:
The Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula has been attacking the Egyptian military and is responsible for massacres of civilians.
There has been a symbiotic relationship between ISIS and Hamas, which controls the adjoining Gaza strip. Military supplies from Iran and Hezbollah are smuggled through the Sinai into Gaza for...
The FBI arrested 26-year-old Everitt Aaron Jameson and charged him with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Jameson’s planned terror attack included setting off an explosive device on San Francisco’s Pier 39 on Christmas Day.
Jameson, a tow truck driver born in Modesto, California, was discharged from the Marine Corps...
Authorities have identified the suspect in the New York City explosion on Monday morning as Akayed Ullah, 27. They have also called the explosion an “attempted terrorist attack.” The New York Post reported that sources said the suspect told investigators he wanted revenge:
Akayed Ullah, 27, who is believed to be from...
Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declared that the country has fully liberated itself from the Islamic State (ISIS).
The defeat of ISIS comes after three years of battles since the terrorist group leaked into Iraq and captured Mosul, the country’s second largest city, and other key cities along the border...
German Intelligence Agency (BND) is concerned about the Islamist ideology increasing its influence in the Balkan region, German newspapers report. The main focus of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency is the Muslim-majority country of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The agency has been alarmed by massive investments being made by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries in the religious and Islamist...
Berlin wants to bring back the children of German Islamic State terrorists currently being held under Iraqi detention, German newspapers report.
German Foreign Office has asked the Iraqi government to grant exit permits to the children of captive Islamic State members. Many of these children hold “ISIS birth certificates,” a German broadcaster reported. So...
With the New York truck attacker having been identified as an Uzbek national, at least four of the recent high-profile Islamist terror attacks have been carried out by either an Uzbek national or an ethnic Uzbek. This list includes the Stockholm truck attack that killed four and the Saint Petersburg bombing...
Sayfullo Saipov, 29, killed eight people and injured 11 on Monday in Lower Manhattan when he plowed a rental pickup truck into a crowd of people. He screamed “Allahu Akbar!” after he exited the truck and police confronted him. An officer shot Saipov and...
ISIS is renowned for its harsh rules and for its punishments for breaking those rules. When they weren’t tossing gay people off buildings, beheading “infidels,” or setting Jordanian pilots on fire in cages, ISIS was busy imposing restrictions on the civilian population within its territory (what it once called the caliphate).
When...
Virginia resident Mohamad Jamal Khweis ran off to join ISIS in 2015 and was captured by Kurdish fighters the following year. The Kurds turned him over to the U. S. military, and he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
MORE: Alexandria, VA man who joined ISIS in Iraq,...
Every once in a while there is a glimmer of hope in the global fight against radical Islamic terrorism. When even the French Defense Minister says of French citizens who leave to join ISIS in Syria, “If the jihadis perish in this fight, I would say that’s for the best,” that...
The Islamic State (ISIS) has held Raqqa, Syria, for four years and made it the the group’s de facto capital. That appears to have ended as US-backed Syrian forces have declared they retook the city from the terrorists. From CNN:
“Major military operations in Raqqa are finished but...
File this story under “Feel Good Friday“.
US warplanes are picking off Islamic State militants who are drawn “like moths to the flame” of a stranded convoy evacuating hundreds of terrorists from Syria to the Iraqi border, according to a report on Thursday.
A 21 year old law student at Edinburgh University mocked ISIS on his Facebook page. Now his school is investigating him for potentially committing a hate crime.
