Islamic Extremism

Somali refugee uses online persona to fight Islamic extremism

March 28, 2016

Fight against ISIL: Syrian government reclaims city of Palmyra

The Syrian government has reclaimed the historic city of Palmyra to fight against ISIL.

March 28, 2016

Pakistan vows crackdown on Islamic militants following terror attack

The Pakistani government said it will launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamic militants.

March 27, 2016

Government forces retake ancient city of Palmyra from ISIL

Syria said it has won the Battle of Palmyra, handing ISIL a major blow. The Army says the last ISIL militants have now retreated.

March 26, 2016

Syrian forces advance into IS-held Palmyra

Government forces have moved into Palmyra, Syria in an offensive to take back the city from ISIL.

March 26, 2016

Prosecutors begin to charge some Brussels terrorism suspects

Brussels was still on heightened alert Saturday, days after terror attacks killed 28 at the airport and a metro station.

March 25, 2016

Latest in Belgium attack: Raids linked to deadly bombings

The Latest on the suicide bombings in Brussels (all times local):

March 25, 2016

U.S. kills senior Islamic State commander

U.S. forces killed a senior Islamic State leader, among several key members of the militant group eliminated this week, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.

March 24, 2016

Key suspects in recent attacks on Brussels and Paris

Below is a glance at key suspects in the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris and Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels. The suspects are believed to have been part of a cell linked to the Islamic State group, which claims responsibility for the attacks.

#recherchebruxelles: Families use Twitter in search for missing in Brussels attack

March 24, 2016

#recherchebruxelles: Families use Twitter to find those missing in Brussels attack

Families of people still missing following the Brussels terror attacks are turning to social media to find any shred of information.

March 24, 2016

The latest on Brussels attacks: Brussels bomber’s brother saddened about attacks

The Latest on explosions at Brussels airport and metro station (all times local).

March 23, 2016

The Heat: Examining Brussels terror attacks

A major development in the Brussels Terror Attacks. The person who authorities believe made the bombs in both the Brussels and Paris attacks is now believed to be dead.

March 23, 2016

Brussels unites in grief

Brussels is a city in mourning. Overwhelmed in grief, people gathered to pay tribute to those killed and wounded in Tuesday’s terrorist attacks.

March 23, 2016

What is ISIL and what does it want?

The Islamic State, Daesh, ISIS, ISIL. CCTV America’s Jim Spellman breaks down the most feared terrorist organization in the world.

March 23, 2016

Here’s what we know about the Brussels terror attacks suspects

Belgian authorities searched Wednesday for a man pictured at the Brussels airport with two apparent suicide bombers, amid growing suggestions that the bombings of the Brussels airport and subway were the work of the same Islamic State cell that attacked Paris last year.

March 22, 2016

ISIL claims responsibility for Brussels attacks

Air and rail operations in Brussels were temporarily suspended and a massive manhunt is underway as Belgian police hunt for a suspect caught on airport closed-circuit cameras this morning, walking beside two other suspects.

March 22, 2016

Photos: Terror attack in Brussels

Some images from the attack in Brussels and the all too familiar aftermath of grief and solidarity.

March 22, 2016

Now captured, Abdeslam traveled Europe before Paris attacks

Salah Abdeslam, the Belgian-born Frenchman who was arrested Friday in a police raid in Brussels’ Molenbeek neighborhood, had crisscrossed central and southern Europe before taking part in the Paris terror attacks — then going on the lam as Europe’s most-wanted fugitive.

March 22, 2016

Explosions rock Brussels airport, subway; at least 31 reported dead

For more on the latest updates on the Brussels terror attacks follow along here. Update 4:23 p.m.: The Transportation Security Administration will send additional security to major city airports and various rail and transit stations around the U.S., according to a statement from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh […]

March 19, 2016

Bombing in Istanbul kills 4, another bomb defused

A suicide attack in the heart of Istanbul. Four are killed, in addition to the bomber, with more than 30 wounded.

March 19, 2016

France seeks extradition of Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam

The lead suspect in the November Paris terror attacks has been moved from a hospital in Brussels to a high security prison in Bruges. Salah Abdeslam was arrested after a shootout with police.

March 18, 2016

Both sides still talking at end of first week of Syria peace talks

The United Nation’s Syria envoy wrapped up a fractious week of peace talks. U.N.’s Steffan De Mistura called on the Syrian government to offer clear proposals for a political transition, and said agreeing on plans for a unity government was the most daunting obstacle to […]

March 18, 2016

Paris attacks fugitive Abdeslam arrested in Brussels raid

After an intense four-month manhunt across Europe and beyond, police on Friday captured the top fugitive in the Paris attacks in the same Brussels neighborhood where he grew up.

March 18, 2016

American IS fighter: I made a bad decision

The American Islamic State group fighter who handed himself over to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq earlier this week said he made “a bad decision” in joining the IS, according to a heavily edited interview he gave to an Iraqi Kurdish television station.

March 17, 2016

Kerry: IS group committing genocide in Iraq, Syria

The Obama administration on Thursday formally concluded the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, a declaration long sought by Congress and human rights organizations but likely to change little in the conflict against the extremists.

March 17, 2016

Kerry to miss deadline on Islamic State genocide question

Secretary of State John Kerry will miss this week’s congressional deadline for deciding whether atrocities by the Islamic State against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria should be designated genocide, the State Department said Wednesday.

March 16, 2016

Hunt on for 2 in Belgian raid linked to Paris attacks

Belgian investigators were hunting Wednesday for two suspects who fled an apartment linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, one day after a police sniper killed a gunman holed up inside and authorities found a stock of ammunition and an Islamic State flag there, […]

March 15, 2016

IS leader al-Shishani dies of wounds from US strike in Syria

Top Islamic State commander and feared ethnic Chechen jihadi fighter Omar al-Shishani has died of wounds suffered in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, a senior Iraqi intelligence official and the head of a Syrian activist group said Tuesday.

March 14, 2016

UN Syria envoy: Only Plan B to talks is ‘return to war’

The U.N. special envoy for Syria restarted peace talks between the government and the opposition on Monday, warning that the only alternative is a return to war and describing the political transition in the country now led by President Bashar Assad was “the mother of […]

March 9, 2016

Party officials: Security has improved in Xinjiang

Two top Communist Party officials from the Xinjiang Region said security there has improved in the past year and passport restrictions have been lifted.

March 8, 2016

US airstrike targeted IS military commander ‘Omar the Chechen’

The U.S. military targeted a senior Islamic State commander in an airstrike in northeastern Syria last week, officials said Tuesday.

March 8, 2016

The Heat: US Special Forces in the global war on terror

What took place over the weekend in Somalia is part of what is known in the West as the “Global War on Terror” — many aspects of which are part of an invisible campaign led by the United States to neutralize Islamic insurgents wherever they may […]

March 6, 2016

Suicide attack kills at least 47 south of Iraqi capital

A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

February 29, 2016

World leaders meet to support Syria cease-fire

The international community met Monday in Geneva to shore up the shaky cessation of violence in Syria and pave a way to the resumption peace talks. While all sides are reporting some incidents of shelling and bombing, Syria is overall calmer than it has been […]

February 21, 2016

Kerry: Syria cease-fire could be just hours, or days, away

A ceasefire in Syria could be hours or days away according to the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

February 19, 2016

Pentagon says US bombed IS training camp in Libya

American F-15E fighter-bombers struck an Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border Friday, killing dozens, probably including an IS operative considered responsible for deadly attacks in Tunisia last year, U.S. and local officials said. The strike did not appear to mark […]

February 18, 2016

A look at Turkey’s friends and foes in Syria conflict

Turkey has accused several of its enemies of carrying out the suicide bombing on Wednesday in Ankara that killed at least 28 people. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blames the attack on the Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey’s own outlawed Kurdish rebel group, and the Syrian […]

February 11, 2016

Diplomats aim for temporary Syria truce in a week

Diplomats trying to secure a ceasefire for the civil war in Syria fell short in organizing an immediate truce but agreed to try to work out details and implement a temporary “cessation of hostilities” in the coming week.

February 5, 2016

Backlash towards asylum seekers in Germany grows

German police have arrested three Algerians suspected of planning a terrorist attack in Berlin. One of them appears to have entered the country posing as a Syrian refugee, which could put more pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, amid growing backlash at her asylum policies.

January 24, 2016

Egypt wary as 5th anniversary of toppling of Mubarak approaches

January 25 marks the five year anniversary of a revolution that saw President Hosni Mubarak toppled in Egypt. Authorities have boosted security across the county amid fears of bombings. Militant groups have increased their attacks in the country since the army ousted former president Mohamed […]

January 20, 2016

Islamic State destroys 1,400-year-old monastery in Iraq

Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery has been completely destroyed by ISIL militants.

January 20, 2016

Taliban in Pakistan kill 20 at university in northwest

Taliban gunmen stormed a university in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and triggering an hours-long gun battle with the army and police before the military declared the assault in a town near the city of Peshawar was over.

January 20, 2016

AP: IS destroys oldest Christian monastery in Iraq

Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State group’s relentless destruction of heritage sites it […]

January 19, 2016

Fighting ISIL recruitment in the Philippines and Malaysia

ISIL is looking to the Philippines for potential recruits. Footage recently uploaded online shows jihadist training camps and a gathering of different armed groups from the south. They’ve been seen pledging allegiance to the terror group.

January 18, 2016

New Paris attacks suspect in custody in North Africa

In Morocco, a suspect in custody who is linked to the November Paris terrorist attacks.

January 15, 2016

Burkina Faso hotel seizure ends; 4 jihadis, 28 others dead

The Al-Qaida fighters who stormed a popular hangout in Burkina Faso’s capital at dinnertime came with a mission to kill as many people as possible, firing at people as they moved to a nearby hotel and setting the cafe ablaze, survivors and officials said Saturday.

January 14, 2016

Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly Jakarta attack

Islamic State group backers have circulated a claim of responsibility for the Indonesian suicide attacks resembling the extremist group’s previous messages.

January 12, 2016

10 dead, 15 wounded in Istanbul tourist district explosion

A suicide bomber affiliated with the Islamic State group detonated a bomb in a historic district of Istanbul popular with tourists Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people — nine of them German tourists — and wounding 15 others, Turkish officials said.

January 10, 2016

Denmark to send 120 soldiers to Iraq in fight against ISIL

More than 30 countries are involved in the fight against Islamic State – but how many of those make a material difference on the ground? In February, Denmark will send just 120 soldiers to Anbar province.

January 10, 2016

One year on, Paris remembers the victims of terrorist attacks

The French gathered to honor victims of last year’s Islamist militant attacks as the president, prime minister, and mayor of Paris laid a wreath at a statue symbolizing the French Republic.

January 10, 2016

EU worried about growing grip of ISIL in Libya

ISIL’s presence in Libya is a growing concern for the European Union. The EU is urging Libyan politicians to back a unity government, following suicide attacks claimed by ISIL.

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