Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says in a new report that the threat to international peace and security from the Islamic State extremist group is rising, pointing to an “alarming” expansion of its affiliates in Africa and its focus on a comeback in its former self-declared “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq.
The report to the U.N. Security Council, which was circulated Tuesday, said IS and other terrorist groups have taken advantage of “the disruption, grievances and development setbacks”
Just weeks after its launch, the pro-Trump social network GETTR is inundated with terrorist propaganda spread by supporters of Islamic State, according to a POLITICO review of online activity on the fledgling platform.
The social network — started a month ago by members of former President Donald Trump’s inner circle — features reams of jihadi-related material, including graphic videos of beheadings, viral memes that promote violence against the West and even memes of a militant executing
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
Nasrin Afzal was born in February 1960 in Shiraz. Her father was a retired employer of the Agricultural Department of Fars Province and her mother was a homemaker. She passed her studies and became actively involved in the anti-Shah revolutionary activities. She started wearing Islamic hijab during high school. Acquainting with the high character of Imam Khomeini, Nasrin tried to follow his instructions and put them into practice.
She started her revolutionary activities by taking down the
The National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA) is a label invented by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MeK) and took by some individuals to describe the so-called Military Wing of this group. However, those who are familiar with the MeK know the wrongness of this designation. That is because members of this terrorist cult along with its leaders are either actual or potential military forces.
The NLA was established in 1987 during Saddam’s regime. Formed by a few thousand members of the MeK
Adaptation of the concepts and examples of terrorism in customary international law to the violent behavior of MEK terrorist group
In the most common definition, terrorism means creating fear and terror. Countless definitions have been proposed for terrorism which at times are contradictory. However, what most political sciences theorists emphasize is that terrorism is a threat of violence and using it as a strategy or method for achieving a specific goal or changing a particular purpose and
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
Mohammad Galdavi was born on June 20, 1980, in the city of Gonbad Kavus in Golestan Province. Relocated to Zahedan when Mohammad was a child, his father became the custodian of the Zahedan Jame Mosque. He was always quiet and cheerful and hardly became angry at others. He also worked at a home appliance shop along with his brother during his school studies. Living at a mosque had had an enormous impact on Mohammad, making him careful of on-time prayer. He also learned the recitation of the
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
Shortly after the cease-fire between Iran and Iraq, in July 1988, Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group armed and equipped by executed Iraqi dictator gathered all its members across Europe in Iraq and conducted a military offensive on the Western Iranian borders.
Masood Rajavi left France on a private plane for Iraq on June 7th, 1986. An Iraqi delegation headed by "Taha Yasin Ramadan" the vice prime minister welcomed Rajavi at the airport on behalf of the Iraqi president. Mujahedin-e Khalq
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
The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization is one of the rare terrorist groups whose subjects and victims do not fell into a simple classification and cover a wide range of innocent civilians. The MEK tortures and violates the rights of its own members particularly women’s rights.
MEK has confined hundreds of women to its walled compound, once in northeast Iraq and now in southeast Europe, on the pretext of protecting their rights. A number of violations of women’s rights have been reported so far
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