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OIC Criticizes Yemeni Houthi Missile Launch at Saudi Capital
November 15, 2017
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) issued a statement of "deep concern" over the recent launch of a ballistic missile by Iran-backed Houthi militias at war with Saudi-backed forces in Yemen’s ongoing civil war.
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Ohio Man Receives Prison Sentence for IS Threats
November 15, 2017
The US Justice Department reported a 20-year prison sentence for an Ohio man who pled guilty to using the internet and social media to solicit violence on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) against the American military.
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Malaysian Media Urges Public Discussion of Islamism
November 15, 2017
The growing radicalization of Islamist discourse and penetration of Arab jihadi groups in Malaysia is spurring some of the country's media to call for public debate about the causes and sources of extremism in one of Asia's geopolitically important countries that has sent significant numbers of fighters to support the Islamic State and al-Qaeda operations in the Mideast.
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Italian Police Seize IS Drug Stash
November 14, 2017
Italian police seized a massive cache of opioid narcotics in Milan that had arrived from India en route to Islamic State (IS) jihadis in Libya as part of the growing effort by European police to shut down the drug trade that IS uses to increase jihadist combat performance and to finance the growing number of Islamist terror operations in Europe.
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Foreign Volunteers in Anti-IS Fight Could Face Prosecution
November 14, 2017
Volunteers who fought with Syrian Kurdish forces in the anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition supported by the US and its European allies now face possible prosecution for supporting terrorists, since the US and UK have branded some Kurdish organizations as terrorists as part of the geopolitical moves to negate the outcome of Iraqi Kurds' referendum for independence.
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