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Pakistan Convicts Four Islamist Terrorists on Financing Charges Linked to Mumbai Attack
June 23, 2020
A special counterterrorism court in Pakistan sentenced four members of the outlawed Islamist extremist organization Lashar-e-Taiba (LeT) on charges of financing linked to the 2008 high-casualty terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.
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Despite Tensions, AQ-IS Alliance Remains on Course for Jihadist Goals in Afghanistan
June 21, 2020
Despite tensions in the balance of power and methods for establishing sharia law across South Asia, the Af-Pak (Afghanistan-Pakistan) alliance between the two Islamist extremist organizations of Al-Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State (IS) remains stable and durable.
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UK Teen Charged With Islamist Terror Plot
June 21, 2020
A teenage minor in England's southern county of Hampshire has been charged with plotting an Islamist terrorist attack in the United Kingdom (UK), and Counter Terrorism Policing authorities noted that the 14-year-old will be arraigned under the UK's Counter Terrorism Act.
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Iranian Regime Takes Aim at Instagram's "Immorality" as Antithetical to Islam
June 21, 2020
Iran's Islamic Development Organization, a religious and cultural organization under the direct supervision of the Islamic Republic's Supreme Religious Leader, has condemned Instagram as "immoral and un-Islamic," with the Islamist regime taking direct aim at the social media platform estimated to account for the majority of the country's internet bandwidth.
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Civilian Casualties Rise in Al-Qaeda versus IS Competition in African Sahel
June 17, 2020
The intensifying, violent competition across the African Sahel region between local al-Qaeda and IS branches is generating growing numbers of civilian casualties
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