terrorism
Last letters : From Mosul schoolboys to Islamic State ‘martyrs’
By Stephen Kalin — March 3, 2017
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) "My dear family, please forgive me," reads the handwritten letter discarded in the dusty halls of an Islamic State training compound. They were schoolboy Alaa Abd al-Akeedi's parting words before he set off to end his life in a suicide bomb attack.
The hardening of Geert Wilders: Anti-Islam crusader — and top Dutch pol?
By Thomas Escritt — March 1, 2017
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) Geert Wilders has lived in safe houses under 24-hour guard to protect him from Islamist militants since 2004. The experience has only strengthened his anti-Islam convictions.
‘Blind sheikh’ convicted in 1993 World Trade bombing dies in NC prison
By Reuters — February 18, 2017
(Reuters) With his long gray beard, sunglasses and red and white clerical cap, the charismatic Abdel-Rahman was the face of radical Islam in the 1980s and 1990s.
Suicide attack on Pakistani shrine kills 72, claimed by Islamic State
By Reuters — February 16, 2017
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) The attack comes as the Pakistani Taliban and rival Islamist militant groups carry out their threats of a new offensive.
Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam, sources say
By Julia Edwards Ainsley — February 3, 2017
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) The revamped program, designed to counter all violent ideologies, would no longer target groups such as white supremacists.
In India, a group defends wrongly accused Muslim terror suspects
By Bhavya Dore — January 30, 2017
MUMBAI (RNS) Young Muslim men in India nabbed on false terror charges has been a recurring problem through the years, often attributed to ingrained biases of the police.
Trump signs executive order to keep ‘Islamic terrorists’ out of US
By Yonat Shimron — January 27, 2017
(USA Today) President Trump ended his first week in office by ordering the State Department to develop "extreme vetting" measures for immigrants from countries with ties to terrorism.
Trump: No Muslim ban, just immigration restrictions
By David Jackson — January 26, 2017
The Trump team is poised to suspend refugee and visa programs as applied to many Muslim countries in the Middle East, including war-torn Syria.
Faith leaders pray Trump will label Muslim Brotherhood ‘terrorist’
By Adelle M. Banks — January 19, 2017
(RNS) A Muslim critic counters that the group is "smelling blood" with the election of President-elect Donald Trump.
FBI probing wave of bomb threats to U.S. Jewish centers
By David Ingram — January 19, 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) Twenty-seven Jewish community centers in 17 states received false threats, the second wave of hoax attacks to target U.S. Jewish facilities this month.
Pope Francis condemns ‘homicidal madness’ of ‘fundamentalist’ terrorism
By Josephine McKenna — January 9, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The pontiff told diplomats that religion was being used as a pretext for the 'rejection, marginalization and violence' that had inspired brutal attacks in the past year.
New video of kidnapped priest raises hopes, concerns
By David Gibson — January 4, 2017
(RNS) Looking thin and wearing a beard, the Rev. Tom Uzhunnalil — kidnapped by Islamic extremists last March — speaks in a weak, almost robotic voice.
ISIS issues hit list of U.S. churches for holiday attacks
By Jerome Socolovsky — December 23, 2016
(USA Today) The Islamic State is urging its followers to attack U.S. churches and has published names and addresses of thousands of prospective targets, according to a report in the news website Vocativ.
Suspect in Christmas market massacre was meant to be deported
By Jerome Socolovsky — December 21, 2016
BERLIN (USA Today) — A massive manhunt is underway Wednesday for the driver of a truck that was intentionally crashed into a Berlin Christmas market, leaving 12 people dead and 48 injured.
Berlin attack piles pressure on Germany’s Merkel over refugees
By Jerome Socolovsky — December 20, 2016
BERLIN (USA Today) Merkel has faced sharp criticism over her decision to allow nearly 1 million asylum seekers to enter Germany from conflict zones in the Middle East and North Africa.
