Rebel commanders and opposition politicians who have been battling to unseat Syrian Presidential Bashar al-Assad for five years say the cessation of hostilities brokered by the U.S. and Russia in February is on the verge of collapse, and they are readying for a regime offensive on Aleppo. Anti-Assad activists say they have...
THIS is the dramatic moment Europe’s most wanted man, terror suspect Mohamed Abrini, is arrested. Undercover police officers apprehended the 31-year-old Islamic State (ISIS) fighter, who is believed to have been the third suspect in the attack on Brussels airport in March, after a massive manhunt. France and Belgium...
THE father of Gold Coast jihadist Amira Karroum has launched a legal battle to claim her $300,000 life insurance policy. Karroum, 22, changed from a “beautiful and loving” girl spending her days lounging on beaches to an armed soldier who died fighting for Islamic extremists in 2014. Distraught father...
A TERROR group in East Africa has pledged allegiance to Islamic State's commander in chief in a terrifying harbinger of the rise of the extremist group in the region. The new organisation, calling itself Jahba East Africa, told its recruits to "leave al-Shabaab and their sponsor groups" and back ISIS chief Abu...
Mohamed Abrini, the terror suspect believed to be the "man in the hat," an accomplice of the suicide attackers at Belgium's Zaventem Airport bombing last month and the Paris massacre in November, was finally arrested in a terror sweep Friday after spending months on the run, a French police official told The...
When 14 Islamic State militants stormed his home, 22-year-old Mohammed was hiding. His father and brother, both police officers under the Iraqi government, had already been killed. “They asked my mom, ‘Where is Mohammed?' " he tells me a year and a half later in Europe. “She said I was at the...
The Islamic State’s recent setbacks in Iraq and Syria may portend the group’s eventual collapse, but the chaos left behind will present a challenge of a different sort, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. A major deficiency in America’s history of involvement with armed conflict overseas has been inattention...
Two of Al Qaeda's former explosives experts were just transferred out of Guantanamo Bay and sent to Senegal, the Defense Department confirmed Monday, marking the latest detainees to be shipped out of the prison camp despite the risk they could return to the battlefield. The two Libyan former detainees were separately...
The Royal Air Force has obliterated around 170 Islamic State fanatics in just one week, leaving the brutal terror regime on its last legs. Analysts claim that footage from Tornado and Typhoon gets suggest the death toll could be in the hundreds following a week of the RAF bombarding Daesh targets in their Iraqi strongholds...
The reduction of hostilities in Syria after last month's cease-fire deal has led to a resurgence of demonstrations in rebel-held areas. Thousands of pro-democracy activists have taken to the streets to demand that President Bashar al-Assad relinquish power. And as political activists and ordinary residents again find their...
World leaders declared progress Friday in safeguarding nuclear materials sought by terrorists and wayward nations, even as President Barack Obama acknowledged the task was far from finished. Closing out a nuclear security summit, Obama warned of a persistent and harrowing threat: terrorists getting their hands on a nuclear...
DAVID Cameron has warned world leaders terrorists will use "whatever materials they can get their hands on”. Addressing leaders gathered to discuss the security of nuclear facilities, the Prime Minister said attackers would "like to kill as many people as they possibly could” to wage war against the West....