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More convicted dangerous terrorists due for release over the next five years

May 31, 2020 Terrorism / Terrorist Threat Country: australia

The nation's domestic spy agency has warned the growing number of convicted terrorists due for release from Australian prisons over the next five years could use their profile to recruit more people to their cause. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation also[...]

Rebuilt Islamic State growing more brazen in Syria and Iraq

May 30, 2020 ISIL / Terrorism / Terrorist Threat Country: syria

Fighters and followers of the Islamic State, undaunted by the collapse of the terror group’s self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq, are growing bolder and more dangerous, according to recent assessments by U.S. counterterrorism officials. The new appraisals attribute the change[...]

US authorities offer up to $3 million reward for arrest of senior Islamic State leader

May 29, 2020 ISIL / Terrorist Threat Country: united states

The United States would offer up to $3 million for the arrest of a senior leader of ISIS who has overseen the extremist grisly execution videos. The State Department said it would provide the reward in return for information on the[...]

Islamic State criticizes Muslim leaders for closing mosques as preventive measure

May 29, 2020 ISIL Country: syria

ISIS is criticizing senior Muslim scholars for closing mosques as a preventative measure against the spread of the coronavirus, the group said in a recording released Thursday. “Those who sided with the shutdown [of mosques] are a group associated with government[...]

Coalition strike kills senior Islamic State leader wanted by the US authorities

May 29, 2020 ISIL Country: united states

A senior Islamic State leader the U.S. had put a $5 million bounty on was killed this week in a coalition airstrike aided by Syrian partner forces, officials said. Mutaz Numan Abd Nayif Najm al-Jaburi, believed to be one of the[...]

Islamic State terrorist group says coronavirus is God’s divine punishment

May 29, 2020 ISIL / Terrorist Threat Country: syria

ISIS said yesterday they were glad the West had been affected by the coronavirus - calling the pandemic divine punishment from God. In an audio broadcast posted on one of the militants' websites, the person on the tape identified himself as[...]

Al-Shabaab terrorists kidnapped and killed nine doctors in Somalia

May 29, 2020 Al-Shabaab / Terrorism / Terrorist Threat Country: somalia

Terrorists from al-Shabaab group, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda, have kidnapped and killed nine doctors in southern Somalia, media reported. The Hiiraan news outlet reported on Thursday that the bodies of the doctors had been found near the city of Balad[...]