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Al-Qaeda Chief Killed: US Drone Strike Spells End for 9/11 Mastermind
Ayman al-Zawahiri succeeded Osama bin Laden as al Qaeda leader after years as its main organizer and strategist, but his lack of charisma and competition from rival militants Islamic State hobbled his ability.
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New York Suspect Planned Attack Year Ago, Said Proud Of What He Had Done
Federal authorities on Wednesday charged the 29-year-old Uzbek immigrant they say plowed a rented truck into people walking and cycling on a New York City bike path - killing eight - with providing support to a terrorist organization, alleging that he was inspired by the Islamic State to inflict mayhem and chose Halloween because he figured there w...
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Protesters Rally Against Islamic Law In Dozens of US Cities
Protesters held rallies across the United States on Saturday to denounce sharia law, the Islamic legal and moral code that organizers say poses a threat to American freedoms, but critics believe anti-Muslim hatred is behind the condemnation
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Elite Unit That Helped Kill Osama Bin Laden Gets Expanded Power To Hunt Terrorists
The Obama administration is giving the elite Joint Special Operations Command - the same organization that helped kill Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs - expanded power to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe, a move driven by concerns of a dispersed terrorist threat as Islamic State militants a...
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Growing Evidence Of Terror Groups Reviving Slave Trade: Report
A new report on fighting human trafficking in conflict says there is growing evidence that terrorist groups, including the Islamic State and Boko Haram, are reviving slavery and organizing slave markets.
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It Turns Out Many ISIS Recruits Don't Know Much About Islam
A recent trove of documents linked to the Islamic State reveals an increasingly pronounced phenomenon: Many of the young recruits to the extremist organization don't know much about Islam.
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The Most Absurd Islamic State-Inspired Plot Yet? Packing A Kangaroo With Explosives
The Islamic State's ability to inspire individuals all around the world to commit acts of terror has been one of the most worrying aspects of the militant group's rise. However, there have been repeated reminders that the "lone wolfs" it inspires may not be so capable of organizing elaborate terror plots -- even if they still have the potential to ...
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How Saudi Arabia And The Islamic State Find Common Ground In Beheadings
Over the past year, Saudi Arabia has faced recurrent criticism that its ultraconservative interpretation of Islamic law is not so far off from what is practiced by the Islamic State, an extremist organization that proclaimed its "caliphate" across parts of Syria and Iraq in June 2014. The criticism clearly irks some Saudi officials, who have threat...
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ISIS Sanctioned Organ Harvesting In Document Taken In US Raid
Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group's Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking in body parts.
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No Indication California Attackers 'Part of Organized Group': White House
There is no indication that the shooters who killed 14 people in California are part of a larger terrorist group, the White House said Saturday, even as the Islamic State group claimed the pair were "soldiers" of its caliphate.
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If You Keep Saying Saudi Arabia is Like the Islamic State, You Might Get Sued
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have long been annoyed that everyone keeps suggesting they are anything like the Islamic State. Sure, they say, perhaps some of the laws on the books may look similar to the punishments in the extremist organization, but the Saudi kingdom is a sovereign state that abides by the rule of law and uses these punishments with...
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How the Islamic State Makes Its Money
Weapons, vehicles, employee salaries, propaganda videos, international travel - all of these things cost money. The recent terrorism attacks in Paris, which the Islamic State has claimed as its own work, suggest the terrorist organization hasn't been hurting for funding. David Cohen, the Treasury Department's Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financ...
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Need to Finalise Global Convention on Terrorism: India to UN Security Council
India has said the multiple terror attacks in Paris and Beirut highlight the urgent need to finalise a global convention on terrorism, asserting that the financing being provided to terrorist groups such as Islamic State (ISIS) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) needs to be addressed collectively.
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Number of Displaced Iraqis Hits 3.2 Million, Says United Nations
The number of people who have been displaced by conflict in Iraq since the start of 2014 has reached 3.2 million, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday.
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The Islamic State is Making These Afghans Long for the Taliban
At war for more than three decades, Afghans are familiar with violence perpetrated by a raft of armies and militias. But even by their jaded standards, the emergence here of the Islamic State - the extremist organization that arose in the Middle East - has ushered in a new age of brutality.
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Al-Qaeda Chief Killed: US Drone Strike Spells End for 9/11 Mastermind
Ayman al-Zawahiri succeeded Osama bin Laden as al Qaeda leader after years as its main organizer and strategist, but his lack of charisma and competition from rival militants Islamic State hobbled his ability.
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New York Suspect Planned Attack Year Ago, Said Proud Of What He Had Done
Federal authorities on Wednesday charged the 29-year-old Uzbek immigrant they say plowed a rented truck into people walking and cycling on a New York City bike path - killing eight - with providing support to a terrorist organization, alleging that he was inspired by the Islamic State to inflict mayhem and chose Halloween because he figured there w...
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Protesters Rally Against Islamic Law In Dozens of US Cities
Protesters held rallies across the United States on Saturday to denounce sharia law, the Islamic legal and moral code that organizers say poses a threat to American freedoms, but critics believe anti-Muslim hatred is behind the condemnation
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Elite Unit That Helped Kill Osama Bin Laden Gets Expanded Power To Hunt Terrorists
The Obama administration is giving the elite Joint Special Operations Command - the same organization that helped kill Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs - expanded power to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe, a move driven by concerns of a dispersed terrorist threat as Islamic State militants a...
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Growing Evidence Of Terror Groups Reviving Slave Trade: Report
A new report on fighting human trafficking in conflict says there is growing evidence that terrorist groups, including the Islamic State and Boko Haram, are reviving slavery and organizing slave markets.
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It Turns Out Many ISIS Recruits Don't Know Much About Islam
A recent trove of documents linked to the Islamic State reveals an increasingly pronounced phenomenon: Many of the young recruits to the extremist organization don't know much about Islam.
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The Most Absurd Islamic State-Inspired Plot Yet? Packing A Kangaroo With Explosives
The Islamic State's ability to inspire individuals all around the world to commit acts of terror has been one of the most worrying aspects of the militant group's rise. However, there have been repeated reminders that the "lone wolfs" it inspires may not be so capable of organizing elaborate terror plots -- even if they still have the potential to ...
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How Saudi Arabia And The Islamic State Find Common Ground In Beheadings
Over the past year, Saudi Arabia has faced recurrent criticism that its ultraconservative interpretation of Islamic law is not so far off from what is practiced by the Islamic State, an extremist organization that proclaimed its "caliphate" across parts of Syria and Iraq in June 2014. The criticism clearly irks some Saudi officials, who have threat...
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ISIS Sanctioned Organ Harvesting In Document Taken In US Raid
Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group's Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking in body parts.
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No Indication California Attackers 'Part of Organized Group': White House
There is no indication that the shooters who killed 14 people in California are part of a larger terrorist group, the White House said Saturday, even as the Islamic State group claimed the pair were "soldiers" of its caliphate.
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If You Keep Saying Saudi Arabia is Like the Islamic State, You Might Get Sued
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have long been annoyed that everyone keeps suggesting they are anything like the Islamic State. Sure, they say, perhaps some of the laws on the books may look similar to the punishments in the extremist organization, but the Saudi kingdom is a sovereign state that abides by the rule of law and uses these punishments with...
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How the Islamic State Makes Its Money
Weapons, vehicles, employee salaries, propaganda videos, international travel - all of these things cost money. The recent terrorism attacks in Paris, which the Islamic State has claimed as its own work, suggest the terrorist organization hasn't been hurting for funding. David Cohen, the Treasury Department's Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financ...
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Need to Finalise Global Convention on Terrorism: India to UN Security Council
India has said the multiple terror attacks in Paris and Beirut highlight the urgent need to finalise a global convention on terrorism, asserting that the financing being provided to terrorist groups such as Islamic State (ISIS) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) needs to be addressed collectively.
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Number of Displaced Iraqis Hits 3.2 Million, Says United Nations
The number of people who have been displaced by conflict in Iraq since the start of 2014 has reached 3.2 million, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday.
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The Islamic State is Making These Afghans Long for the Taliban
At war for more than three decades, Afghans are familiar with violence perpetrated by a raft of armies and militias. But even by their jaded standards, the emergence here of the Islamic State - the extremist organization that arose in the Middle East - has ushered in a new age of brutality.
