On the second anniversary of the El Paso shooting, senators heard from experts on domestic terror who are calling on Congress to enact new laws to make it easier for law enforcement and prosecutors to fight back against domestic terrorism.
Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) said the federal government isn’t doing enough to fight domestic terrorism.
“The nation is facing the highest levels of violence based on religion, race, ethnicity and politics in decades,” he said.
Witnesses testified about
Egypt’s Al-Azhar Islamic Center voiced solidarity with Iraq in the fight against terrorism.
The center issued a statement on Saturday, condemning a terrorist attack targeting a mourning ceremony in Iraq’s Saladin Governorate that killed a number of mourners and injured many others.
It said the terrorist attack that caused the deaths of a number of innocent people was an evil act that runs counter to Islamic and human principles, Mawazin News reported.
Al-Azhar said it shows that terrorist
Members of the parliament have proposed a bill to regulate the usage of the Internet in Iran on account of the US government and MeK’s activities in cyberspace.
In recent years, popular social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter have been acting as a tool for the U.S. government, despite being an international platform.
A case in point is the widespread censorship of the Iranian martyr, late Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Since his cowardly assassination in January 2020, Instagram has
Iraq's military says a terrorist attack on a funeral procession has claimed many victims in the country's northern province of Salahaddin.
An attack on a funeral procession in northern Iraq has claimed a number of victims, Iraq's military said in a statement Friday.
The military said the “terrorist” attack in the province of Salahaddin resulted in a “number of victims” but did not provide specific figures.
An Iraqi security official said eight people had been killed, among them police and
Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada headquarters of the IRGC Ground Force said in a statement on Tuesday that their forces had confronted and dismantled a terrorist team in Bukan, West Azarbaijan Province, Iran.
Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada headquarters of the IRGC Ground Force noted that its forces destroyed a terrorist team consisting of three terrorists who were seeking to carry out acts of sabotage and anti-security actions inside the country.
The statement highlighted that the team of three terrorists
Iranian security forces captured key members of a foreign-based terrorist group in the Eastern, Western, and Southern provinces of Iran.
“After identifying the main members of the terrorist-Takfiri group, 11 of its active members were identified in Fars province, other members of the group were identified in 6 Eastern and Western provinces of the country and 25 individuals were arrested in these provinces during a coordinated operation,” Head of the Judiciary Office in Fars Province Seyed
In response to a Newsweek article, the Iranian Mission Counselor at the UN Office in Geneva said that MKO terrorist group still retains its terrorist nature but the West is trying to purge this terrorist group.
On the occasion of organizing a meeting of Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization (MKO also known as MEK) held on July 10, 2021, in a report written by DAVID BRENNA, by examining the background and performance of MKO terrorist group, he tried to respond to the accusations raised
During separate counter-terrorism operations in Iraq's Al-Anbar and Saladin provinces, Iraqi army forces identified and arrested three ISIL Takfiri elements.
The series of anti-terrorist operations of Iraqi army continue in different parts of the country. Iraqi forces have recently launched new counter-terrorism operations against ISIL Takfiri remnants, Al-Ahad News reported.
According to the report, Iraqi army forces targeted ISIL Takfiri terrorist positions in Al-Anbar province. They also
Edy Cohen, the Israeli media analyst close to Netanyahu and Mossad, disclosed Israel’s close ties and support for the separatist groups in Southwestern Iran, specially al-Ahwaziyah terrorist group. Cohen released an image of his meeting with a ringleader of al-Ahwaziyah terrorist group on his Twitter page, stressing that Israel supports the separatist groups in Iran’s Southwestern province of Khuzestan and is standing beside them against the Islamic Republic.
He then addressed the Persian
The presence of NATO in Afghanistan in the past 20 years produced mixed results, a former president of Afghanistan has said.
The reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, helping with education and other areas was very welcome, and produced good results for the country, Hamid Karzai told BBC World News.
But the military plans to fight extremism and terrorism was a failure because they did not do what they should have done, he added.
Violence in Afghanistan has risen, with the Taliban
The Iranian police forces dismantled an arms and ammunition trafficking band in the Southwestern province of Khuzestan where a number of protesters and a police officer have been martyred by rioters in the past few days, misusing peaceful rallies to protest at water shortage.
The police were informed of the arrival of a cargo of smuggled weapons and ammunition in Ahvaz city, the capital of Khuzestan province, Commander of Khuzestan province’s Law Enforcement Police General Seyed Mohammad
Africa became the region hardest hit by terrorism in the first half of 2021 as the Islamic State and al-Qaida extremist groups and their affiliates spread their influence, boasting gains in supporters and territory and inflicting the greatest casualties, U.N. experts said in a new report.
The panel of experts said in a report to the U.N. Security Council circulated Friday that this is “especially true” in parts of west and east Africa where affiliates of both groups can also boast growing
The president of Iran cautioned the Iraqi prime minister about a complicated policy that the US is pursuing in the Arab country, saying the Americans’ double game in the fight against terrorism and their activities along the Iraq-Syria border run counter to regional interests.
In a telephone conversation with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Tuesday, President Hassan Rouhani said the US is pursuing a double-standard policy on the campaign against terrorism in the region, and that its
The Law Enforcement Police Force in Iran dismantled a terrorist team, detaining its members in the Southern provinces.
A terrorist team that had plotted to foment insecurity and armed conflicts inside the Iran was identified and dismantled by Iran's police forces.
The Law Enforcement Police Force announced in a statement on Tuesday that a terrorist gang was disbanded and its main members were arrested.
Following intelligence activities, a group of saboteurs who had planned armed conspiracy
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in Sadr City neighbourhood.
A suicide bomber has killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 60 in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival, security and hospital sources said.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, the group’s Nasheer news agency said on Telegram. It said one of its militants blew up his explosive vest among the crowds. Hospital
The Socialists and Democrats are shocked to learn that the prime minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša, whose country is now chairing the EU rotating presidency, addressed an online gathering on Saturday, which was organised by the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also known as the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI or MEK). This anti-democratic, cult-like organisation, which was on the EU terrorist list until 2009, has a long history of human rights abuses
The white supremacist group, The Base, was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK on Friday 16th July 2021.
This means that members of The Base or those who invite support for the group could be jailed for up to 14 years and/or face an unlimited fine.
The Base have now been added to the list of proscribed organisations in the UK.
The Head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes said:
“The Government’s proscription of a fifth Extreme Right Wing Terrorism (ERWT)
Michèle Flournoy claims she didn’t realize this weekend’s conference where she was a featured speaker on regime change was put on by the once-terror-listed MEK.
An Obama-era Pentagon official who was at one point under consideration to be President Joe Biden’s secretary of defense called for “internal regime change” in Iran at an event held by a shadowy group designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government until 2012. But she claims she didn’t know anything about the
The recent gathering held by the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI) terrorist group in Paris provided a good opportunity to identify the hypocritical nature of the US politicians who claim to be advocates of human rights, an Iranian spokesman said.
“The gathering of the terrorist cult of Monafeqin (the hypocrites as the MKO members are called in Iran) is an opportunity to identify and disgrace the hypocritical US politicians who, contrary to their
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša may hold the rotating EU Council presidency, but he “does not represent” the EU in foreign policy, the bloc’s diplomatic chief Josep Borrell said Monday — a reaction to comments by Janša that sparked tensions with Iran.
Janša's speech triggered a strong reaction from Tehran, with a spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry condemning the remarks as “unacceptable, against diplomatic norms and spirit,” according to media reports.
The diplomatic dust-up