The transition from insurgency to governance was never easy for the Taliban when it seized power in Afghanistan after a coalition of foreign forces led by the United States fled in 2021.
Some of the Taliban’s fighters were so used to jihad and fighting they reportedly felt bored when they had to switch their weapons to paperwork. In an Afghan valley that raised some of the organization’s best and most ardent fighters, some regret that they haven’t fulfilled their duties as suicide bombers for the Taliban.
A teen from the United States was arrested for allegedly providing financial support to someone he thought was a supporter of the Islamic State through gift cards, which were intended to fund a supposed war on nonbelievers.
Ventura wanted the gift cards to be sold on the dark web for slightly less than face value with the resulting proceeds to be used to support the Islamic State group, prosecutors said. https://t.co/xdLvSevFrQ
An Iraqi Islamic leader claimed that the Israeli Mossad used a prostitute in the 7th century to kill the first Shia Imam, adding that the Israeli-Jewish intelligence agencies use money and women to achieve their goals.
Several Iraqi Twitter accounts posted a video of Qais Al-Khazali making these claims while speaking in public. Al-Khazali is the leader of the Asaib Ahl Al-Haqq, a radical Iraqi Shia political party and paramilitary group backed by Iran.
More than two years after an Islamic extremist murdered and beheaded a French secondary school teacher in October 2020, French prosecutors sought to convict 14 suspects related to the crime. This incident shocked France and the world.
French prosecutors on Friday requested that 14 people stand trial in connection with the terrorist attack on schoolteacher Samuel Paty https://t.co/Z7dShD5Vpx
Greek authorities arrested two men for allegedly planning an attack at a Jewish center in central Athens. The suspects appeared in court on March 31 to answer accusations of plotting a terrorist attack and appeared before a public prosecutor, who ordered their detention while pending trial.
On January 30th, an Islamist suicide bombing occurred inside a Peshawar, Pakistan, mosque. As the number of victims rose throughout the day, police and rescue officials had reached a final death toll of 101 within 24 hours. Many of the victims were crushed under the collapsed roof. Over 200 were injured.
Spanish authorities have arrested a 25-year-old Moroccan man after two Catholic churches in Algeciras, Spain, were attacked. The suspect is accused of killing a sexton and injuring a priest with a machete on January 25. Police are investigating the attack as an act of terrorism.
A 19-year-old man named Trevor Bickford is accused of assaulting New York Police Department (NYPD) officers using a machete on New Year's Eve. Prosecutors say that he traveled to the city "in order to kill people and carry out Jihad."
An Egyptian deputy sheikh likened homosexuality to terrorism, calling it a “moral perversion” and urging religious authorities to fight against homosexuality, according to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
