Violence and Security

IS Takes Jihad, Rape, Sexual Enslavement to Afghanistan

August 01, 2018

The globalization of Islamic State (IS) jihadist activities to countries like Afghanistan, despite the military defeat of the core caliphate in Iraq and Syria, has meant the pervasive application of rape and sexual enslavement of young girls and women in the Southwest Asian country.
IS Claims Suicide Bombing in Philippines

August 01, 2018

Official Islamic State (IS) media sites claimed that a foreign fighter from Morocco perpetrated a deadly suicide bombing attack in the area of the Philippines that suffered a major jihadi assault last year, indicating the transcontinental footprint of diverse Islamist groups with global mobilization capacity and active operations in Asia.
IS Tajikistan Attack Kills Two Americans

August 01, 2018

Two US citizens were among the four dead in a group of seven foreign bicyclists attacked in Tajikistan by loyalists of the Islamic State (IS)-affiliated Islamic Renaissance Party of Pakistan.
UN Migration Compact Seeks Pressure Against “Intolerant” Media

July 31, 2018

Michael Feeley reports that the draft Global Compact for Migration recently negotiated by UN member states calls for signatories to engage in “sensitizing and educating media professionals on migration-related issues and terminology” and to stop public funding of media outlets that convey “intolerance” and “xenophobia” toward migrants.
EC Plans Fines for Companies over Online Terrorist Content

July 31, 2018

The Economic Times reports on European Commission (EC) plans to introduce legislation in the coming months that would fine social-media companies that fail to rapidly remove content promoting terrorism from their platforms.
USAID Funds Went to Al-Qaeda Affiliate in Sudan

July 30, 2018

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded almost $1 million to World Vision Inc., an international evangelical charity, much of which went to the group’s sub-grantee, the Khartoum-based Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), despite ISRA’s earlier US Treasury designation as an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization.
IS Claims Responsibility for Assault on Midwife Center in Afghanistan

July 30, 2018

Continuing its jihadi war in the geopolitically crucial Southwest Asian state of Afghanistan, the Islamic State’s (IS) official news site claimed responsibility for a fatal assault on a midwife training center in one of the country’s important provincial capitals on the eastern border with Pakistan.
Boko Haram Leader Urges Murder to “Purify” Land

July 25, 2018

The leader of Nigerian jihadi group Boko Haram released a new video urging adherents of the Islamist extremist entity to murder infidels and non-conforming Muslims who have “strayed” from authentic Islamic faith, by "killing them in whichever way you can and take their souls in order to purify the land.”
Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Mosque

July 25, 2018

The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram perpetrated a multiple-casualty suicide attack on a mosque in Nigeria, the latest in a recent spate of attacks by the jihadi group in its continuing war to impose sharia law in West Africa.
IS Targets Afghan VP in Mass-Casualty Attack

July 23, 2018

The latest episode of violence in the cycle by the Islamic State (IS) and Taliban in Afghanistan was a suicide bombing that reportedly killed and injured over 100 people in Kabul, targeting the returning former Vice President and General Abdul Rashid Dostum, whom IS has condemned as an apostate from Islam.