The Islamic State and Al-Qaeda will use the global chaos with coronavirus as an opportunity to mobilize
Both the Islamic State group and Al-Qaida see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their fighters also see the upheaval from the pandemic...
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Islamic State newsletter urged followers to show no mercy and launch attacks during the coronavirus crisis
A new editorial in the latest al-Naba newsletter has called for members to continue their globe-spanning terror, even as the virus spreads, and provides a...
Islamic State trials suspended ahead of the prison riot in Syria
“It’s like we are holding a ticking bomb in our hands,” a guard in a prison in northeastern Syria told us in February. The facility...
Islamic extremists use the global chaos from coronavirus as an opportunity for new attacks
Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their fighters also see the upheaval from the pandemic...
New breeding grounds for terrorists is forming
In mid-March, Islamic State (ISIS) warned jihadis not to travel to Europe (“the land of the epidemic”) and advised any who were ill and already...
Syrian Kurds struggle to contain the Islamic State prison riots
Kurdish officials said they narrowly avoided a “catastrophe” and warned they are having increasing difficulty controlling the ISIS prison population. Kurdish news service Rudaw reported...
Terrorist groups call the COVID-19 virus as God’s “smallest soldier” that is attacking the West
While much of the United States and Europe has been staying home to avoid COVID-19 as it kills thousands, terrorist groups are blasting online propaganda...