Jihad Training

Amidst a raging row over national broadcaster Doordarshan airing the controversial Bollywood movie 'The Kerala Story', a Catholic diocese in Kerala has screened the film for teenagers as part of an "intensive training programme."

After a video of an arms training camp organised by the right-wing group Rashtriya Bajrang Dal in Assam went viral on social media, the police today said that they have initiated a probe into the case.

Pakistan-based terror groups continue to train their cadre for underwater strikes and exhort them for 'Samundari Jihad' (seaborne jihad) against India, Union minister Hansraj Ahir said on Wednesday.

A 13-year-old boy who was part of group taken into custody at a squalid New Mexico compound last month has told FBI agents his mother's boyfriend was training him to conduct "jihad" against non-believers, according to federal court documents.

A member of the "Virginia jihad network" that trained for combat by playing paintball will be released from prison after serving only a fraction of his original 85-year sentence.

Next Monday, Akhila Ashokan, the Kerala woman who converted to Islam and took the name Hadiya, will appear in the Supreme Court to state before judges why she married a Muslim man Shafi Jehan. Police and security personnel will accompany the family, who had booked train tickets from Kochi, said the lawyers, but are now expected to fly down to Delhi...

A Briton convicted over an attempt to set up a jihad training camp in the US on orders from hate preacher Abu Hamza was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday in New York.

A group of men accused by police of "training for jihad" in broad daylight in a French park were merely taking a self-defence class, one of them told AFP on Wednesday.

A group of people from China's restive western region of Xinjiang who carried out a deadly weekend attack at a train station were trying to leave the country to wage a holy war, state media said on Wednesday.

A Colorado woman who converted to Islam and went to Ireland to join a man she believed was training for terrorist operations was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday.

It's a real shocker. Mumbai Police, in an internal circular, has asked cops to monitor activities of a Muslim organisation - Girls Islamic Organisation. Their reason: The organisation is "indoctrinating young women and training them for jihad."

Canadian authorities are worried after reports that a dozen Canadian converts to Islam are getting trained for jihad at an Al Qaeda camp in Pakistan.Barring the so-called Toronto-18 terror plot which was foiled in June 2006, Canada has not faced any threat from jihadists for its participation in the US-led war in Afghanistan.But now Hong Kong-based...

Hundreds of students, including foreigners are being trained in militant camps in PoK to wage 'jihad' against India, but Pakistan today denied the report by the BBC as "baseless".After a lull, several militant outfits have now again raised their heads and increased their activities in and around Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmi...

Amidst a raging row over national broadcaster Doordarshan airing the controversial Bollywood movie 'The Kerala Story', a Catholic diocese in Kerala has screened the film for teenagers as part of an "intensive training programme."

After a video of an arms training camp organised by the right-wing group Rashtriya Bajrang Dal in Assam went viral on social media, the police today said that they have initiated a probe into the case.

Pakistan-based terror groups continue to train their cadre for underwater strikes and exhort them for 'Samundari Jihad' (seaborne jihad) against India, Union minister Hansraj Ahir said on Wednesday.

A 13-year-old boy who was part of group taken into custody at a squalid New Mexico compound last month has told FBI agents his mother's boyfriend was training him to conduct "jihad" against non-believers, according to federal court documents.

A member of the "Virginia jihad network" that trained for combat by playing paintball will be released from prison after serving only a fraction of his original 85-year sentence.

Next Monday, Akhila Ashokan, the Kerala woman who converted to Islam and took the name Hadiya, will appear in the Supreme Court to state before judges why she married a Muslim man Shafi Jehan. Police and security personnel will accompany the family, who had booked train tickets from Kochi, said the lawyers, but are now expected to fly down to Delhi...

A Briton convicted over an attempt to set up a jihad training camp in the US on orders from hate preacher Abu Hamza was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday in New York.

A group of men accused by police of "training for jihad" in broad daylight in a French park were merely taking a self-defence class, one of them told AFP on Wednesday.

A group of people from China's restive western region of Xinjiang who carried out a deadly weekend attack at a train station were trying to leave the country to wage a holy war, state media said on Wednesday.

A Colorado woman who converted to Islam and went to Ireland to join a man she believed was training for terrorist operations was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday.

It's a real shocker. Mumbai Police, in an internal circular, has asked cops to monitor activities of a Muslim organisation - Girls Islamic Organisation. Their reason: The organisation is "indoctrinating young women and training them for jihad."

Canadian authorities are worried after reports that a dozen Canadian converts to Islam are getting trained for jihad at an Al Qaeda camp in Pakistan.Barring the so-called Toronto-18 terror plot which was foiled in June 2006, Canada has not faced any threat from jihadists for its participation in the US-led war in Afghanistan.But now Hong Kong-based...

Hundreds of students, including foreigners are being trained in militant camps in PoK to wage 'jihad' against India, but Pakistan today denied the report by the BBC as "baseless".After a lull, several militant outfits have now again raised their heads and increased their activities in and around Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmi...