Shooting comes a year to the day since 12 people were killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine, where a man ‘wearing fake explosives belt shouted Allah Akbar’ before being shot dead outside police station. by John Lichfield (The Independent), additional editing by Adam MS A man reportedly shouting “Allah Akbar “ and wearing a […]
July 3, 2015
(WASHINGTON) – Senior ISIS leader Tariq al-Harzi — a man known as the “emir of suicide bombers” — was killed by a coalition airstrike in Syria last month, a U.S. official said Thursday (7/2). Al-Harzi played a key logistical role for ISIS, overseeing efforts to get jihadists and weapons into Iraq and Syria to fuel the […]
June 29, 2015
The durability of the terror proto-state proves daunting by Bradley Matthews, editing by Adam MS Military commanders like to say that “quantity has a quality all its own.” It’s a shorthand way of saying that greater numbers of inferior weapons or troops often can beat smaller, superior forces. Given that Monday marks the first birthday […]
June 26, 2015
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Terrorists attacked sites in France, Tunisia and Kuwait on Friday, leaving a bloody toll on three continents and prompting fresh concerns about spreading jihadist influences. In France, attackers stormed an American-owned industrial chemical plant near Lyon, decapitated one person and tried unsuccessfully to blow up the factory, in what French authorities said […]
January 7, 2016
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