PARIS: A French woman who travelled three times to Syria in support of her jihadist son was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for being part of a terrorist conspiracy...
” Friday’s verdict came barely a week after the conviction and sentencing of another French mother of a jihadist...
BEIRUT: Fighters of the militant Islamic State group succeeded on Sunday in expelling Syrian regime forces from the eastern town of Mayadeen, days after they entered the key remaining jihadist stronghold, a monitor said...
WASHINGTON: In a letter to Hakimullah Mehsud, Osama bin Laden advised the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader not to take measures that would further divide an already unwieldy jihadist movement...
In one of the documents, Bin Laden claims that the jihadi “work in Pakistan is almost self-sufficient”...
”French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said the goal was to ensure pro-jihadist content “is taken down within two hours of it going online...
The meeting on the Italian island of Ischia off Naples also focused on ways to tackle one of the West’s biggest security threats: jihadist fighters fleeing Syria...
THE HAGUE: War crimes judges said on Thursday that a Malian jihadist was liable for 2...
Rights groups welcomed the ruling, but said it remained a “drop in the ocean” compared to all human rights abuses that happened at Timbuktu...
BEIRUT: A US-backed alliance of Arab-Kurdish forces entered the key jihadist-held town of Tabqa on Monday as they pursued their campaign against the militant Islamic State group in northern Syria...
O'Neill, 39, who grew up in Butte, told The Washington Post last year that he was the Navy SEAL who fired the fatal gunshot that struck bin Laden in the forehead during the US raid in May 2011 on the Al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan...
"Both elements of the threat were documented by the private SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist activity...
PARIS: A French journalist infiltrated a cell of would-be jihadists, filming them with a hidden camera as they plotted an attack in the name of the militant Islamic State group, before they were arrested, he told AFP...
The journalist, a Muslim using the pseudonym Said Ramzi, carried out the investigation for a documentary entitled Allah’s Soldiers which gives an insight into the minds of young jihadists
ISTANBUL: Turkish police arrested a Frenchman suspected of being an self-styled Islamic State (IS) fighter on Wednesday after he had a hair transplant procedure at a beauty salon, local media reported...
The Dogan news agency quoted police sources saying the man, identified as Mehdibend Said, was under surveillance after entering the country from Syria, where he was plotting a terrorist attack on Turkish soil
ROME: Police on Thursday announced a swoop on a European jihadist network that was allegedly planning to kidnap diplomats and carry out attacks to try to spring its leader out of detention in Norway...
ANKARA: A suspected jihadist, belonging to the self-styled Islamic State, blew himself up in southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, during a police raid late Saturday, injuring four police officers, one seriously, media reports said...
But his is a redemption story: He offers a rare glimpse into the recruitment of a so-called jihadist who eventually found his way back into mainstream society from religious extremism...
During his jihadist days, he frequented the Islamic Thinkers Society, a group that is an offshoot of the Al-Muhajiroun extremism that seeks to restore an Islamic caliphate...
MOSUL: Crawl through a labyrinth of narrow tunnels in near total darkness and suddenly they appear: two great winged bulls dating from the Assyrian empire found intact under the ground of Mosul...
But as fighting rages to evict the militant Islamic State (IS) group from the main city in northern Iraq, it will be a race against time to save the archaeological treasures uncovered in the tunnels
Government and allied forces backed by Russian warplanes have since Monday been fighting mostly jihadist fighters in an area straddling the border between Idlib and Hama provinces...
Since Thursday, the clashes have killed 32 soldiers and allied members of paramilitary units, as well as 29 rebels from Islamist groups or from former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham, the Observatory said...
PARIS: France announced on Thursday that it was withdrawing its troops from Mali after a breakdown in relations with the country’s ruling junta, ending a near 10-year deployment against jihadist groups that pose a growing threat in West Africa...
“What would have happened in 2013 if France had not chosen to intervene? You would for sure have had the collapse of the Malian state,” he said, adding that French troops had also killed the...