The U.S. State Department and the Afghan Taliban terrorist organization both confirmed this weekend that at least two, and potentially three, American citizens are currently under Taliban criminal custody in Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda leader Sayf al-Adl reportedly urged Muslims to “go to Afghanistan” to train with the Taliban in a recent message.
Widespread online reaction followed a message from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praising pro-Hamas American university students protesting Israel, welcoming them to the terrorist “Resistance Front,” and encouraging them to “become familiar with the Quran.”
Maysr al-Jabouri, a leading Iraqi jihadist widely known by the alias “Abu Maria al-Qahtani,” was killed on Thursday by a suicide bomber.
Recent reports from the U.N. and America’s top watchdog agency on Afghanistan indicate that al-Qaeda is thriving in Afghanistan nearly three years after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.
The Taliban on Thursday rejected a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) report that said al-Qaeda has established “up to eight” new training camps, plus a number of safe houses, in Afghanistan since President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from the country in 2021.
Kash Patel slammed Biden for reversing the Trump administration’s designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization, in the wake of the group’s attack against a U.S. war ship in the Red Sea.
Hamas attack against Israel is inspiring a fresh wave of extremism in Europe in new ways that haven’t been seen before, Germany warns.
A German priest who was abducted by rebels in Mali’s capital in November 2022 has been released by his captors.
Thousands of anti-Israel protesters gathered in London on Saturday, with some waving the black Jihadist flag used by Islamist terror groups.
“It’s clear that things haven´t gone well given the proliferation of military coups,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.
Following Taliban mass celebrations marking the two-year anniversary of the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) accused the Biden administration of having caved to “terrorists” and taken no accountability for the ensuing disaster.
The coup in Niger will undermine the fight against resurgent terror groups in Africa’s Sahel region, France’s defence minister said.
According to U.N. investigators, at least three high-ranking officials in the Taliban regime have strong links to al-Qaeda.
Russia is ready to supply Somalia´s army with military equipment in its war against terrorism, Russia’s foreign minister said Friday.
Documents uncovered by the Media Research Center (MRC) revealed the Biden Administration used a $40 million grant program of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ostensibly earmarked for anti-terrorism purposes, to target conservative organizations and media, including Breitbart News.
An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed.
Terrorists in Afghanistan apparently did not “get the memo” from President Joe Biden that the war against terror is “over,” according to Rep. Mike Waltz.
A counter-terrorism investigation is underway in Britain after a quantity of uranium was discovered in a Pakistani package at London’s Heathrow Airport.
Family members of American troops killed during the battle against the Islamic State in Syria filed suit this weekend against Lafarge SA, a French construction company that pleaded guilty before a U.S. court in October to supporting ISIS and the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby maintained that the Biden administration has said that al-Qaeda would return to Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrew its forces from
Al-Qaeda and regional affiliate al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) both published messages this weekend condemning the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, accusing the Islamist nation of attracting “immoral people, homosexuals, sowers of corruption and atheism” to the Middle East.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday formally announced the “end of the Barkhane operation,” France’s decade-long mission against jihadis in the Sahel region of Africa.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced sanctions against the network of smugglers who supply weapons to the Islamic State and al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The Taliban jihadist terror organization confirmed the arrival in Afghanistan on Monday of convicted heroin “kingpin” Bashir Noorzai, a terrorist-affiliated warlord the administration of leftist President Joe Biden freed in exchange for American engineer Mark Frerichs.
China’s Global Times government propaganda outlet marked the 21st anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on America with a column on Sunday condemning America for allegedly causing “tremendous suffering” globally in the aftermath of the attacks.
Dean Obeidallah commemorated the 9/11 terror attacks by equating “MAGA” Republicans with the terrorists behind the 2001 attacks.
Al-Qaeda forces attacked separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in southern Yemen on Tuesday. 21 separatist fighters were reportedly killed during three hours of gun battles, along with six al-Qaeda members.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a National Guard Green Beret colonel, said there has been “zero accountability” for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan one year ago, with Americans still stuck inside the country.
The Taliban jihadist terror organization celebrated the final withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan on Wednesday, the anniversary of the occasion, with fireworks and a celebration at Bagram Air Base, formerly America’s largest military facility in the country.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a press conference Thursday that the Taliban considers America’s claim to have eliminated al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone strike in a wealthy area of Kabul an “allegation” and that Taliban terrorists have yet to find his body.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price incorrectly labeled the Haqqani network and the Taliban as “separate entities” on August 27, 2021, when responding to a reporter’s question at a press briefing concerning the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan that month.
When the Taliban jihadist organization returned to power in Afghanistan a year ago on Monday, its spokesmen promised one thing above all: the new and improved Taliban regime would be “inclusive.”
Taliban “interior minister” Sirajuddin Haqqani, who several reports claim may have owned the home where a U.S. airstrike eliminated al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri a little over a week ago, launched a tour of remote Helmand province this weekend to applaud the “jihadi achievements” of its people.
During the “Overtime” segment of Friday’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that in Afghanistan “terrorists are running wild. The Taliban are completely back in charge and they reneged on everything.”
Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre appointed Mukhtar Robow — a former deputy chief of al-Shabaab, which is a Somali branch of the international jihadist terror organization al-Qaeda — as Somalia’s new religion minister on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
Taliban jihadists claimed in an official statement on Thursday that they had “no information” on the very conspicuous presence of now-former al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a U.S. airstrike eliminated him last weekend.
Leaders of Afghanistan’s Taliban terror group allegedly met on Wednesday to discuss “how to respond” to a recent U.S. airstrike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, three Taliban sources told Reuters anonymously.
The U.S. Department of State on Tuesday warned American citizens overseas of an increased threat of “anti-American violence” following the announcement this week that an American airstrike had eliminated al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Arabiya reported on Wednesday.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and Chinese government media commentary scolded the administration of leftist American President Joe Biden on Tuesday for executing a successful airstrike against al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan, claiming the move violated the “sovereignty” of the reigning Taliban terrorist organization.
