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Trial of Jihadist Killers of French Priest Highlights Challenges of Radical Islamism
February 16, 2022
This week’s trial of four IS jihadists accused of slitting the throat of a Roman Catholic priest praying at his church altar in northwestern France comes five years after the atrocity, but the details of the event are a reminder of the challenges for Western intelligence agencies in dealing with the transnational Islamist extremist networks that connected the perpetrators to IS networks in Turkey and Syria caliphate.
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UN Report Warns of Taliban’s Afghanistan as Hub for Islamist Terrorism
February 14, 2022
The latest report to the U.N. Security Council by the expert panel charged with monitoring sanctions against al Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State (IS) warns that the six-month period since the Taliban’s full control of Afghanistan has created a hub for Islamist terror groups aiming to establish control across various regions.
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Northwest Syria Rocked by Islamist Internecine Warfare
February 14, 2022
Northwest Syria’s Idlib Province remains a frontline in the continuing war by various jihadist groups aiming to overthrow the authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad, but internecine arrests and military campaigns among al-Qaeda, IS, and Uighur Turkmenistan Islamist extremist organizations are producing governance chaos and human, underscoring the human security consequences of militant Islamist resilience.
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France 24: Burkina Faso Crisis Reveals How Islamist Gains Provoke State Breakdown
February 14, 2022
State failure to control the expanding influence of al Qaeda and IS militants in Burkina Faso has catalyzed a rebellion by sectors of the military and a military move against the president in the West African state where an estimated 1.5 million people have been killed and displaced since 2015 by jihadist activities.
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Jihadist Unrepentant as Trial Continues on 2015 Islamist Attacks Across Paris
February 10, 2022
The key jihadist on trial in Paris along with six others in absentia, for the attacks carried out across the French capital in 2015 by IS militants remained unrepentant in his most recent court testimony, claiming that he bore no responsibility for the assault because he backed out of detonating his suicide vest after being part of the planning for the events that murdered hundreds of people.
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