Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabab warned Saturday of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa University College that killed 148 people. “Kenyan cities will run red with blood,” said al-Shabab according to the SITE intelligence monitoring group.
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In the worst attack on Kenyan soil since the U.S. embassy was bombed in 1998, gunmen from the Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed a university in Kenya and killed at least 147 people on Thursday.
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Iraqi troops aided by Shiite paramilitaries have driven Islamic State out of central Tikrit, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Tuesday, but the fight to retake all of Saddam Hussein’s hometown continued.
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A two-day Arab summit ended Sunday with a vow to defeat Iranian-backed Shiite rebels in Yemen and the formal unveiling of plans to form a joint Arab intervention force, setting the stage for a potentially dangerous clash between U.S.-allied Arab states and Tehran over influence […]
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Iran’s foreign minister sought to dismiss concerns Friday that his country’s preoccupation with the crisis in Yemen could pre-empt attempts to find common ground at nuclear talks with six world powers, saying the negotiations remained focused on sealing a deal.
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Hundreds of civilians, including many children, have been abducted and are being used as human shields by Boko Haram extremists, a top Nigerian official confirmed Wednesday.
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The two extremist gunmen who killed 21 people at a museum in Tunis trained in neighboring Libya before carrying out the deadly attack, a top Tunisian security official said.
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A new report shows military trade around the world rose by nearly $10 billion last year. London-based IHS, a global information company which publishes Jane’s Defense Weekly, cites growing instability in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific regions for the increase. It also notes that […]
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Tunisia is promising to wage a merciless war against ISIL. The terror group claimed responsibility for the museum attack that left 23 people dead. The siege also delivered a blow to the country’s tourism industry. Two cruise lines canceled stops to Tunisia following the attack. […]
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Concern about extremists is spreading to many countries, especially those with large Muslim populations. Krygyzstan is one of them. It’s a nation that has seen an increasing number of its citizens joining ISIL.
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Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, according to a spokesman for the Islamic State movement.
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Australia is looking into reports one of its teen was fighting alongside ISIL and carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq. The deadly attack happened in Ramadi this week. Australia’s Foreign Minister says that, if confirmed, the teenager would be yet another young Australian caught […]
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Pakistan is collecting its mobile users’ fingerprints nationwide in an effort to create a national biometric database in hope of preventing terrorism in the country.
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Iraqi soldiers and Shiite militiamen entered the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit on Wednesday, authorities said, breaching one of the biggest strongholds of the extremists in a key test for Iraqi forces.
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A man and a boy featured in a chilling Islamic State propaganda video showing the killing of a Palestinian have been identified as French citizens, and investigators are looking into whether the man is related to an extremist who attacked a Jewish school in southern […]
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Zhang Chunxian, the top official of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region said on Tuesday some people from Xinjiang have crossed the border illegally to join the Islamic State.
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Forces from Chad and Niger opened a new front in the regional military fight against the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, as army vehicles full of soldiers crossed the border into northeast Nigeria, officials and witnesses said Monday.
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Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram Islamic extremists have pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group in a message allegedly by the Nigerian insurgent leader posted on Twitter and reported by the SITE Intelligence monitoring service.
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Fighters from the Islamic State group have attacked an oil field in Libya and nine foreign workers are unaccounted for, officials said Saturday.
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Just one final step remains before a jury is seated in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Backed by allied Shiite, Sunni, and Iranian fighters, Iraqi security forces launched a large-scale military operation Monday to recapture Saddam Hussein’s hometown from the Islamic State extremist group, a major step in a campaign to reclaim territory in northern Iraq controlled by the militants.
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The number of Christians abducted by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria has risen to 220 in the past three days, as militants round up more hostages from a chain of villages along a strategic river, activists said Thursday.
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Investigators believe that the man dubbed Jihadi John, a masked fighter who fronted Islamic State beheading videos, is a British man named Mohammed Emwazi, according to two U.S. government sources Thursday.
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A monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Tuesday that Islamic State militants have abducted at least 90 people from various Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria.
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A video purported to be by Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain, and other Western countries.
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Libyan officials say the death toll from three suicide bombings in an eastern town has reached at least 45.
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The U.N. Security Council will meet in an emergency session Wednesday on the crisis in Libya, which comes as Egypt presses the council to take action after the Islamic State group posted a video of the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians.
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Denmark’s domestic intelligence service acknowledged Tuesday that prison officials alerted the agency last year to the suspected gunman in last weekend’s shooting attacks that killed two people and wounded five in Copenhagen.
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Two suspected accomplices of the slain gunman behind the deadly attacks in Copenhagen were jailed by a Danish court on Monday jailed. The prime minister said there were no signs of links to a wider terror network.
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Egypt’s military said in a statement on state television it had carried out an air strike against Islamic State targets in Libya at dawn on Monday, a day after the group released a video appearing to show the beheading of 21 Egyptians there.
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Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show the militant group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya.
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A suspected gunman shot dead by Danish police near a train station in Norrebro, an area in Copenhagen not far from the sites where he is believed to have carried out two deadly attacks, has been identified, the commissioner for Copenhagen police Thorkild Fogde said […]
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U.S. President Barack Obama, elected in part on a promise to end America’s wars, sent Congress Wednesday a proposed joint resolution to authorize military force against the swift rise of Islamic State extremists, who are imposing violent rule in Iraq and Syria and have brazenly […]
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The family of Kayla Mueller, who the White House confirmed was dead Tuesday, released a letter they received from Kayla in the spring of 2014, while she was being held hostage by Islamic state militants. The full transcript follows.
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The parents of an American woman held by Islamic State militants say they have been notified of her death, and President Barack Obama has issued a statement condemning the terrorist organization and offering condolences to Mueller’s family.
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BEIRUT (AP) — A statement attributed to Islamic State extremists claimed that an American woman held hostage by the group was killed on Friday, allegedly in a Jordanian airstrike on the militants’ stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria.
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Jordanian Pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh was a 26-year-old first lieutenant in the Jordanian air force. He was captured on December 24 after his F-16 jet crashed while on a mission over northern Syria as part of the U.S. led coalition campaign against the jihadists.
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The anti-ISIL coalition will need months before they can begin significant combat against the extremists, Britain’s foreign minister said during an international meeting in London on Thursday.
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The man accused of spreading al-Qaida’s call for Muslims to kill Americans has gone on trial in New York. Khalid al-Fawwaz is accused of helping the terrorist organization bomb two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998. He faces up to life in prison if […]
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The ransom request by Islamic State militants of $200 million for two Japanese hostages is in retaliation to Japan’s prime minister’s visit to the Middle East, a political and defense analyst said on Tuesday.
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The Islamic State group released at least 200 Yazidis after five months of captivity in Iraq, Kurdish military officials said on Sunday.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry paid respect in both English and French on Friday to the victims of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris in a show of American solidarity with the French people.
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French, German, and Belgian police arrested more than two dozen suspects in anti-terrorism raids Friday, as European authorities thwarted potential attacks by people linked to Islamic extremists.
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French President Francois Hollande paid tribute to three police officers killed in last week’s deadly attacks in the French capital during a ceremony at the police prefecture in Paris on Tuesday.
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Huge crowds gathered in Paris Sunday for a rally to show unity against terror and to pay tribute to 17 people killed in three days of terrorist attacks.
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PARIS — France ordered 10,000 troops into the streets Monday to protect sensitive sites after three days of bloodshed as it hunted for the accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorized the nation.
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Drama played out live on screens across the world as people watched French police end two hostage situations initiated by the Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects.
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PARIS — For three days, two al-Qaida-linked brothers and an associate who seized a kosher grocery, terrorized France and shook the world. The Kouachi brothers allegedly carried out the massacre of 12 people at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, while their associate is suspected of killing […]
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Brothers Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, were killed Friday during a police shootout in the printing plant north of Paris where they had been surrounded after a massive manhunt. Suspected of murdering 12 people at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, this is what has […]
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This compilation contains the real time social media stream of photos and updates of Friday’s hostage standoffs in France with Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects, Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi and the suspect police say seized a kosher grocery store, Amedy Coulibaly.
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