Violence and Security

Spain Uncovers IS Prison Network

December 05, 2018

Spain’s Interior Ministry has uncovered a widespread Islamic State (IS) prison radicalization network spanning 17 of the country’s prisons, a discovery that reinforces the findings of a recent British think thank study showing that prisons frequently function as incubators for jihadism.
Release of Hate Preacher Roils UK

December 05, 2018

The pending release of Islamist hate preacher Anjem Choudary from a British prison, where he served time because of his recruiting efforts for the Islamic State (IS), is generating enormous social tension in the UK.
Islamist Groups Intensify Destabilization in Nigeria

December 05, 2018

An amalgam of Islamist jihadi groups in Nigeria, including Boko Haram and a West African branch of the Islamic State (IS), has demonstrated growing strength in a significant intensification of attacks across the country in a systematic effort to destabilize it in the run-up to the early-2019 presidential elections.
Mozambique Uses Courts to Try to Staunch Islamist Expansion

December 05, 2018

Mozambique courts will begin a trial of 200 citizens and foreign nationals accused of perpetrating a pattern of Islamist attacks in the country over this past year, as the government tries to tamp down a growing jihadist threat aimed at imposing sharia law throughout the West African nation.
Australian Trial Shows Global-Local Network of Jihadists

December 05, 2018

The Melbourne Supreme Court trial of four pro-Islamic State (IS) jihadists arrested in late 2016 for plotting to perpetrate multi-city terror attacks on Christmas Day shows how radical Islamists are adapting their global movement to local conditions.
IS Resiliency Shows in Operational Shift to Global Insurgency

December 05, 2018

The leadership of the Islamic State (IS) has responded to the military defeat of the IS in its core Iraq-Syria territories by reconfiguring the jihadi group’s organizational structure and operational approach away from the focus on territorialized state-building toward a globalized terrorist insurgency designed to disrupt states worldwide.
IS Plot Leads to Widespread Arrests in the Netherlands

December 04, 2018

Dutch police have arrested seven men linked to the Islamic State (IS) on suspicion of a threat to carry out high-casualty, multi-location, explosives attacks across the Netherlands.
IS Cells Threaten Iran with More Attacks

December 03, 2018

Islamic State (IS) cells that claimed responsibility, with an Arab separatist group, for a high-casualty attack on an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) parade in Southwestern Iran have pledged to carry out more attacks.
IS Increases Targeted Attacks Against Afghan Shiites

December 03, 2018

The ISKP, the Afghan affiliate of the Sunni terror-jihad group Islamic State (IS), has steadily increased its targeted violence against Afghanistan's Shiite minority community, deliberately aggravating sectarian tensions in a country weakened by decades of war.
Boko Haram Remains a Disruptive Influence in West Africa

December 03, 2018

The ongoing war by Boko Haram ("Western education is a sin") Islamist militants to impose sharia in West Africa continues to impose limits on the gradual reopening of schools at the Cameroon-Nigeria border.