When John, a Syrian Christian, chose to stay in Raqqa after the Islamic State took control of the city in 2014, he had no idea how he would survive. Thousands abandoned the city, believing it better to save their lives than live at the centre
Eleven-year-old Abu Imara al Omri kneels down to kiss his father’s hand; a final blessing before the boy blows himself up in a truck full of explosives. The disturbing goodbye was captured in a series of ISIS propaganda photos last month. Supporters of the terror group
Seoul (CNN) North Korea is currently planning a “terrorist attack” on South Korea according to the South’s spy agency. A lawmaker, briefed by the National Intelligence Service (NIS), says leader Kim Jong Un himself gave the order to make preparations. “North Korea’s terrorist attack could be in
The more than 200 missing Chibok schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria nearly two years ago are allegedly being used as a bargaining chip by Boko Haram, according to a commander from the militant group that is waging a violent insurgency in the region. The students went missing overnight on April
The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says ISIS members slipped into the country along with the more than 1 million refugees who have entered, but added there was no concrete evidence of an imminent attack. “We have repeatedly seen that terrorists … have slipped
Five years after the violent uprising that brought down Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, fighters from so-called Islamic State (IS) have established a base in the coastal city of Sirte. With an estimated 1,500 fighters in the city, they have started to impose their own rule
Missionaries and humanitarians from the U.S. and Canada lost their lives in terrorist attacks in Africa and Indonesia last week. The victims included a Canadian family. When al Qaeda-linked terrorists stormed a hotel and cafe in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday evening, they killed an estimated 28
As American talking heads continue to express their “moral outrage” at Donald Trump’s call “for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,” perhaps they should first consider what is the
Recently I have noticed a lot of friends and associates posting articles on social media that claim right wing extremism is more dangerous than Islamic extremism. For many, the claim is surprising, so I thought I would take a look at the numbers to see
Saeed Abedini has finally been freed. The Iranian-American pastor from Idaho, held for more than three years, wasexchanged as part of a prisoner swap in which Iran released four people and the United States released seven. “It is confirmed,” his wife Naghmehannounced on Twitter. “Saeed
