Terrorism & Extremism

Bilveer Singh Chinese Uighurs are adding a new dimension to the threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia. Battle-hardened, ideologically fortified and networking with Islamic State, the Uighur militants pose a new challenge to the region that can also complicate ties with China. A few days prior to Christmas …

Ronald Meinardus Hardly a day passes without a new “Islamist” terror attack somewhere in the world. The violence has long since metastasized from its original Near Eastern flash points to Western urban centers. The terrorists’ targets lie in Europe, Africa and also Asia, as the recent attack in …

Stephen Lendman US post-9/11 war on terror reflects state-sponsored deception – with the media complicit in conning the public to believe Washington opposes what it actively supports. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and various splinter groups are US creations, used as imperial foot soldiers, flourishing because Washington and …

A majority of Muslim millennials say terrorist groups such as Daesh and Al Qaida are a complete misrepresentation of Islam. During October and November of 2015, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) conducted face-to-face polls, surveying 5,374 Arab Muslims, both citizens and expatriates, between the ages of 15 and 34 …

TOM BATCHELOR SLAMIC State (ISIS) jihadis are plotting Paris-style lone wolf terror attacks on the US, the former boss of the CIA has warned. The evil death cult “poses a significant and lethal threat” to America and is believed to be expanding its reach in the States. Former …

Russia has unveiled the text of the agreement with Syria on the deployment of the Russian air group in the country. The Russian government on Thursday posted on its legal information portal the full text of the agreement with Damascus on the deployment of the Russian combat air group in Syria.The agreement, concluded on August …

The Indonesian President called the series of exlosions in Jakarta which have taken the lives of at least six people a terrorist act.  Indonesian President Joko Widodo has classified the explosions that were carried out in the country’s capital of Jakarta on Thursday as a terrorist act. “Our nation and our people …

On August 28, 2014, Abdul-Rauf Rigi, alleged to be leading a Sunni sectarian organization called Jaish-al-Nasr, was assassinated in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. The motive for his killing could not be ascertained, but Jaish-al-Nasr had been accused by Iranian officials of carrying out attacks on Iranian …

In 2014, George Galloway, at the time a Member of Parliament, warned the British government that intervention in Iraq and the Middle East would only lead to more terrorism and instability around the world. One year later, the world is reeling from the Paris attacks and other terrorist …