Violence and Security

UK Ministry Warns About Islamist Gang Activities in Prisons

June 07, 2019

A new report by the UK’s Ministry of Justice warns that Islamist extremist gangs in prisons are operating with impunity in radicalizing and recruiting inmates and forming cells for violent attacks in UK countries.
Former Al-Qaeda Propagandist Launches Anti-Extremism Initiatives

June 07, 2019

A US convert to Islam who spearheaded the most successful al-Qaeda online radicalization and recruitment publications rejected radical Islamism while incarcerated for terrorism and is now working with US authorities to launch online magazines and counter-jihadi organizations that will help to counter violent Islamist extremism.
IS Signals Expansion to Southern Africa

June 07, 2019

An announcement by Islamic State (IS) information networks claiming responsibility for a recent clash of "caliphate forces" with the "Crusader army" of Mozambique's military signals the jihadist group’s expansion beyond the Sahel region into the southern region of Africa.
Taliban Reject Local Peace Activists, Stonewall US Talks

June 05, 2019

Leadership of the Islamist extremist Taliban rejected calls for a ceasefire by one of the country’s local peace movements and reiterated that a precondition for peace negotiations with the US and the Afghan government is the full withdrawal of American forces from the country.
Islamists Destabilize Central Africa

June 05, 2019

Islamist rebels affiliated with the Islamic State perpetrated an attack on civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the ongoing destabilization of Central Africa by radical Islamist groups active on the continent.
Jihadist Groups Use Fragility to Expand West African Footprint

June 03, 2019

Jihadist groups linked with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are expanding their influence in Mali, capitalizing on the combination of a weak and corrupt state and inter-tribal violence to increase radicalization and recruitment for expanding operations across West Africa.
Taliban and IS Continue Afghan Jihad

June 03, 2019

Afghanistan remains an active front for global jihadist groups, as the Afghan Taliban continued its jihadist war to impose sharia across the country with a targeted attack against a US military convoy in Kabul, following the previous day's Islamic State (IS)-perpetrated suicide bombing against an Afghan military academy.
IS Attacks Food Supply in Iraq, Syria

May 31, 2019

Islamic State (IS) forces are claiming responsibility for burning thousands of acres of fertile farmland in Syria and Iraq, using attacks on the countries' food supplies as a weapon of guerrilla warfare in the jihadists' ongoing destabilization of the the two Mideast states.
India’s Religious Pluralism Could Prevent IS Penetration

May 29, 2019

While India's 200-plus million Muslims may seem a target for Islamic State (IS) radicalization and recruitment in the wake of the Easter terror attacks in Sri Lanka, the country's democratic politics, religious pluralism, and inter-religious interaction hold the keys to preventing IS penetration.
De-Territorialized IS Adapts Operational Strategy to Continuing Jihad

May 29, 2019

Islamic State (IS) leaders have developed a de-territorialized model of global jihad that is developing into an effective operational adaptation by which the Islamist extremist group can circumvent the limitations of its military defeat in the caliphate’s territorial core.