Tag: Isis
Afghanistan is officially the most dangerous country in the world — more proof the US war there has failed
The US has been fighting a war in Afghanistan for nearly two decades. Peace talks are stalled and ISIS is reorganizing there after its defeats.
Trump tried to convince lawmakers his Syria pullout was popular by having his social media director read Twitter
"Get Dan Scavino in here," Trump reportedly said at a meeting to persuade skeptical lawmakers of the popularity of his abrupt pull-out from Syria.
Trump reportedly vexed with advisers’ approach to rising tensions with Iran
President Donald Trump's views towards Iran are reportedly at odds with some of his staff, including national security adviser John Bolton.
Experts say that ISIS’ leader is taking a big risk to capitalize on the Sri Lanka attacks — and that it’s a ‘big middle finger...
One expert described a new video as the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's "way of saying that he's still in control and is still calling the shots."
A deadly shootout between Sri Lankan soldiers and suspected militants has killed at least 15 people, including civilians and children
Authorities in Sri Lanka have been conducting raids across the country after bombs erupted on Easter Sunday, targeting luxury hotels and churches.
Sri Lanka’s president has vowed to search ‘every household in the country’ to root out the terrorists responsible for the Easter bom...
With a nation of 22 million people, such an effort would be difficult to accomplish.
Sri Lanka’s president says the mastermind of the Easter Sunday bombings died in one of the attacks
Multiple reports say Zahran Hashim was a radical cleric who was driven out of his hometown for his extremist beliefs.
US ambassador to Sri Lanka says the scale of the Easter Sunday attacks suggests bombers may have had foreign support
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks which have killed 359 so far, while Sri Lankan officials have pointed to two domestic terror groups.
An Islamic extremist group has been linked to Sri Lanka’s Easter attack, and it’s a symptom of rising extremism across the country
Religious extremism has been on the rise in Sri Lanka since the end of the country's civil war, culminating in the attack that killed almost 300.
A man was arrested for considering an attack in the US to avenge the New Zealand mosque shooting
An Albanian man was arrested in Montana after claiming he wanted to attack random people to avenge those killed in New Zealand's mosque shooting.