Category: Islam

One dead, 3 hurt after stabbing spree at Germany train station (FOX)- One person was killed and three others were injured Tuesday morning when a knife-wielding man attacked people indiscriminately at a commuter rail station outside Munich, Germany. The attack happened in Grafing, about 20 miles east of Munich, shortly before 5 a.m. (11 p.m. […]

Militants opened fire on a microbus filled with plainclothes police in a Cairo suburb early Sunday, killing eight of them, including an officer, in an attack claimed by a local Islamic State affiliate. (FOX)- The attack was the deadliest in the heavily policed capital since November, when gunmen attacked a security checkpoint, killing four policemen. […]

Islamic State militants reportedly shot and killed a 7-year-old Syrian boy reportedly in front of his sobbing parents, all because he let a few curse words slip out of his mouth. (FOX)- The execution took place Thursday in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, ARA News reported, citing rights activists and witnesses. An activist told the […]

Afghan officials hanged six Taliban prisoners Sunday, a resumption of executions in the war that makes good on President Ashraf Ghani’s recent promise to deal harshly with insurgents now that hopes for peace negotiations have evaporated. (WashingtonPost)- The six prisoners were hanged in the morning inside the Pul-i-Charkhi prison — a detention facility on the […]

A “small number” of U.S. forces have been on the ground in Yemen for the past two weeks helping Yemeni and Emirati forces, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, battle Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters, the Pentagon announced Friday. (FOX)- Their presence marks the first time U.S. troops have been […]

UN envoy says more than 50 mass graves found in parts of Iraq re-taken from ISIS (FOX)- A top U.N. envoy in Iraq said Friday more than 50 mass graves have been found in Iraq territory that was once held by the Islamic State. Jan Kubis told the U.N. Security Council that three of the […]

A banner poppy crop in Helmand this year will add significant revenue to the Taliban’s coffers, a senior U.S. military spokesman based in Afghanistan told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday, as hundreds of U.S. troops remain in the volatile southern Afghan province where the Taliban has made gains since the fall. (FOX)- “There is a […]

89 female Afghan cadets start ‘Special Operations Education’ in Turkey (Kaahma)- A group of at least 89 female cadets of the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces have started training “Training of Trainers” and “Special Operations Education” in Turkey, it has been reported. The training of the female ANP cadets kicked off on Monday and will […]

Charlie Keating IV died after IS attackers overran the Kurdish Peshmerga frontline near Telskof, a Christian town north of Mosul. (SKYNews)- Footage has been released of a battle in Iraq between American, Kurdish and Assyrian forces and Islamic State militants, in which a US Navy SEAL was killed. Charlie Keating IV was shot in a […]

Emirati military seized from Al Qaeda the strategically important city of Mukalla (POLITICO)- The United Arab Emirates, under the banner of a Saudi-led coalition, late last month delivered a major blow to the most lethal Al Qaeda group on the planet—Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the primary Islamic extremist group operating in Yemen. […]