Category: Islam

Authorities have rounded up about 1,600 suspected petty criminals, including some believed to be Islamist radicals, in a nationwide crackdown aimed at halting a wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists in Bangladesh. (FOX)- Police spokesman Kamrul Islam said Saturday that officers and paramilitary soldiers had fanned out across the country Thursday night to […]

The leader of Al Qaeda has reportedly backed Afghan Taliban in a move to boost the group’s efforts after President Barack Obama approved the expansion of the U.S. military’s role in battle-torn nation. (FOX)- According to Reuters, Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announced the he would “pledge allegiance” to Taliban guerrillas fighting in Afghanistan in […]

50 MURDERED, 53 WOUNDED IN POSSIBLE ACT OF ISLAMIC TERROR IN ORLANDO GAY CLUB; GUNMAN KILLED BY COPS Shooter ID’d as Omar Mateen, 29, a US citizen with Afghan ties ***UPDATE*** 11:52 AM EST A gunman who federal authorities say had possible ties to terrorism opened fire early Sunday morning in a packed Orlando nightclub, […]

A decorated Army Reserve officer left bacon at a mosque and brandished a handgun while threatening to kill Muslims and bury them there, North Carolina authorities said Friday. (FOX)- Russell Thomas Langford, 36, made death threats against members of the mosque about 20 miles southwest of Fayetteville, authorities said. “He told people at the mosque […]

U.S.-backed fighters on Thursday closed all major roads leading to the northern Syrian town of Manbij, a stronghold of the Islamic State group, and surrounded it from three sides, officials and Syrian opposition activists said. (FOX)- The town is one of the largest areas held by ISIS in the northern Aleppo province. Many of its […]

‘We were told we were jihadists’: Yazidi teen details daring escape from ISIS training camp (FOX)- A Yazidi boy who escaped an ISIS training camp and made a daring trek to safety across the desert of northern Iraq told FoxNews.com in an exclusive interview about his hellish, nine-month ordeal under the black-clad terrorist army’s brutal […]

Taliban gunmen have killed 12 people they captured in recent ambushes, including policemen and soldiers, in Afghanistan’s restive southeastern Ghazni province, an official said on Wednesday. (FOX)- All 12 had been abducted from their vehicles after being ambushed at different times this month as they drove along a major highway, said Gulam Mohammad Tahiri of […]

Hindu priest shot, hacked to death in Bangladesh (FOX)- Bike-riding assailants shot and hacked a Hindu priest to death Tuesday in southwestern Bangladesh amid a spate of similar attacks allegedly by radical Islamist groups since last year. Local police chief Hasan Hafizur Rahman said three men intercepted 70-year-old Anando Gopal Ganguly while riding his bicycle […]

The State Department’s admission that it deleted footage of a spokeswoman’s comments on the Iran nuclear deal is raising concerns about the extent of such practices — including renewed questions over how two words in the French president’s remarks at a March summit got dropped from a White House video.  (FOX)- Francois Hollande, at that […]

Nineteen Iraqi Yazidi girls who refused to have sex with their Islamic State captors were placed in iron cages and burned alive in front of a crowd of hundreds in Mosul on Thursday, activists and witnesses say. (FOX)- “The 19 girls were burned to death, while hundreds of people were watching,” a witness told ARA […]