Violence and Security

IS Terrorism in Afghanistan Continues Apace with US-Taliban-Kabul Peace Negotiations

November 24, 2020

The Islamic State branch in Afghanistan perpetrated a high-casualty rocket attack in the heavily fortified internationalized Green Zone in Kabul, signaling their ongoing commitment of imposing sharia law in Afghanistan as the US-Taliban-Kabu government peace negotiations continue.
Iran Makes a Show of Drone & Military Tech

November 24, 2020

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a heavy warship last week in a show of the regime's expanding domestic production of advanced military technologies, including a growing drone force to go with missile launchers and helicopters, signaling that Tehran remains committed to asymmetrical warfare as a mechanism for exporting the Islamist revolution.
Saudi-Iran Islamist Rivalry Intensifies with Appeals for International Action

November 20, 2020

According to Aljazeera, The Islamist regime rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran intensifies in the wake of the US presidential elections as Riyadh signals for a US-led, International military strike against Iran.
Utah Man Charged as IS Plotter Pleads Guilty in Federal Court

November 20, 2020

A Utah man entered a guilty plea in federal court to charges that he recruited and trained individuals in bomb making for a planned IS terrorist attack inside the United States.
IS Claims Veterans Day Attack on Foreign Consular Officials at Cemetery in Saudi Arabia

November 16, 2020

According to the Business Standard, IS posted to its online Telegram channel that they had carried out the improvised explosive attack on a Veterans Day commemoration held at the main cemetery in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah, heralding the targeting of French, British, Italian, and Greek consular dignitaries as an assault on “Crusader countries.”
Paris Memorials Underscore Threat of Islamist Violence in France

November 16, 2020

Following a wave of recent terrorist attacks, the Prime Minister of France and Mayor of Paris led remembrance ceremonies across the country’s capital city to commemorate a series of high-casualty, soft-target attacks perpetrated in 2015 by Islamic State cells.
IS Attacks Over Speech Rights Reveal Strengths of Virtual Caliphate

November 13, 2020

The recent attacks in Europe over free speech is a warning of the deeper structural challenges of the IS “virtual caliphate,” which is increasingly global and effective at using social media platforms and AI (artificial intelligence) tools to recruit, radicalize, and activate Islamist extremists.
IS Militants Use Mass Beheadings in Jihadist Campaign in Mozambique

November 13, 2020

Jihadist militants in Mozambique affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) are engaging in patterns of mass beheadings to terrorize civilians and depopulate areas around the country’s geopolitically crucial natural gas reserves, destabilizing the southeastern region of Africa on the Indian Ocean.
Terrorism Not New in the EU

November 11, 2020

A recent article in Modern Diplomacy explains that jihadist terrorism is not new in the European Union but there has been a new wave of islamist attacks since 2015 with The goal of making EU countries an Islamic state governed only by Islamic Sharia law.
Afghan Woman Blinded in Suspected Taliban Attack

November 11, 2020

As she left her job in a local police station in eastern Afghanistan, a 33-year-old Afghan woman was deliberately blinded in an attack by three assailants believed to be Taliban associates connected to her father.