Violence and Security

Germany Outlaws Islamist Reading Group as Jihadist Front

November 16, 2016

Germany's Interior Ministry has banned The True Religion, an Islamist organization that holds reading groups with German translations of the Quran, after intelligence data pointed to the group as a front to radicalize and recruit jihadists.
Experts Call for US-Russia Cooperation to End Syrian War

November 16, 2016

According to a discussion among Middle East security experts in Washington, DC, the high stakes of precise, decisive, and recalibrated US-Russia cooperation to end the war in Syria involve preventing the creation of an international jihadist vacuum in the Levant with borders close to several key transatlantic partners.
Taliban Attacks German Consulate in Afghanistan

November 16, 2016

A lethal attack by the Taliban against the German Consulate in northern Afghanistan, condemned by the Afghan President as "a crime against humanity and all international laws," signals the Islamist terror group's disregard for international legal principles in its efforts to make Afghanistan into a sharia state.
UN Announces Investigation of Mass Grave near Mosul

November 09, 2016

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is investigating a mass grave of decapitated bodies, a site believed to be the human killing ground and dumping site for crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Islamic State, discovered during the advance to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the jihadi terror group.
Maine Governor Ends Refugee Resettlement Cooperation

November 08, 2016

Calling the screening of participating asylum seekers for security risks "wholly inadequate," and citing the resulting burden on the state's welfare system, Governor Paul LePage has notified the White House that state authorities in Maine will no longer cooperate with the US federal refugee resettlement program.
IS Manifesto Calls for Election-Day Attacks on US Homeland

November 08, 2016

US security and counter-intelligence agencies are on alert after the Islamic State's foreign-language media division incited followers of the terror group to carry out violent attacks in the US on election day in a seven-page manifesto justifying the religious rationale for the "slaughter" of American citizens.
Material Support to IS Leads to Arrest of Ohio Man

November 08, 2016

US law enforcement and counterterrorism authorities recently arrested an American citizen from Ohio on charges of providing material support to the Islamic State (IS) and of preparing to join IS as a jihadi fighter abroad.
US Intel Warns of Pre-Election al-Qaeda Attack

November 07, 2016

US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have stepped up assessment and cooperation while investigating the credibility of reports that al-Qaeda is planning targeted terrorist attacks inside the country on the eve of the country's November national election.
IS Commits Atrocities in Mosul "Scorched-Earth" Policy

October 31, 2016

The jihadi forces of the Islamic State are using civilians as human shields and are conducting massive summary executions of civilians in a scorched-earth policy against US-led coalition forces closing in on the Islamic caliphate capital city of Mosul in Iraq.
Coalition Readies Offensive Against IS Capital in Syria

October 27, 2016

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State is preparing a massive offensive to capture Raqqa, the IS caliphate capital in Syria, following credible reports that IS forces in Raqqa are planning terror attacks on targets in the West.