Headlines- The IRGC launched ballistic missiles at two US warships "patrolling regional waters," according to US Central Command, which then launched an attack on Iranian oil vessels.
- The US attacks on three oil tankers were denounced by Iran's Foreign Ministry as a "war crime," and the Iranian military threatened to launch further strikes on US naval vessels if the blockade persisted.
- On Saturday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Moscow.
- As part of an anti-immigrant protest, hundreds of masked people halted ferry traffic between France and the UK on Saturday at the port of Dover, England.
- Ten days after the catastrophic floods near the border between Nepal and Tibet, a man and a woman found alive, according to officials.
Tag: Terrorist Watch
Military widows in Burkina Faso Receive...
The International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism is observed on Saturday, August 21, and is tragically relevant in Burkina Faso, which is fighting Islamist extremists. Go Paga, a Burkinabe organisation, is assisting widows and orphans who have lost their spouses or fathers in rebuilding their lives
Kidnapping and Hostage Taking in the...
Kidnapping and hostage-taking is a criminal strategy used by terrorist and religious extremism to inflict heavy psychological burden on family relations, and to expose challenges of human security by the state and its security machinery. The profile of those or individual abducted, generates an anxiety and fear to the community; how secured is the community?
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Case: The 9/11...
The phenomenal case to be examine in relation to international and national norm is that of Islamist militant Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaeda’s brainbox and architect of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.
The Controversial Return of Shamima Begum
On September 24, 2014, the United Nations Security Council, expressing grave concern about the increasing threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters and by individuals who are recruited by the so-called Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIL or ISIS); the Al-Nusrah Front; and other cells, unanimously adopted Resolution No. 2178 of 2014 condemning such groups and individuals. The Resolution was adopted under chapter VII of the UN Charter and is binding on the Member States
Terrorists In India Are Using Online...
The NIA found that the youth chemicals like ammonium powder for making IEDs, batteries, clothing and other accessories were bought by him from Amazon using his online shopping account on the retailer’s platform. He disclosed to the NIA sleuths that he was acting on the directions of Pakistan based terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammad
Former Jihadi Launches Counter-Jihadi Magazine
2009, Jesse Morton, then al-Qaida’s chief American propagandist, launched a glossy online publication called “Jihad Recollections,” which years later gave rise to the Islamic State’s “Dabiq” and “Rumiyah” magazines. But that same propagandist is now a changed man. Using the same tactics and the same approach that he learned from the old publication, he’s launched a new magazine, this time with the aim of countering online jihadi propaganda
Report: Iraqi Forces Sexually Abuse IS...
The mistreatment of the so-called IS families is also justified by many Mosul community members as a fair punishment, the report claimed
Al-Shabab Battles IS in Northeastern Somalia
Militarily al-Shabab severely the purged group’s sympathizers and fans in the southern regions of Somalia. In January al-Shabab executed three men, including two foreign jihadists who were accused of supporting IS although the men reportedly denied association with IS