As the world digests the heartbreaking details of last week’s white nationalist terrorist attack against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, we must once more reckon with the same horrid violence we’ve seen from Dylann Roof, Robert Bowers, and others in recent years—the latest reminder in the post 9/11 West that terrorism is not limited to radical jihadists.
As the Islamic State's (IS/ISIS) territory in Syria shrinks to a final pocket of small villages in Deir al-Zour, many of its Western members are coming out of the woodwork: Fighters, wives, and media workers from America, Canada, Germany, the UK, and elsewhere.
Even after the Islamic State lost massive swaths of territory in the past few years, there’s one place where it still has survived: the Internet.
Heads up, tech companies: If your product appeals to the masses, it likely also holds allure for terrorist groups like ISIS.
On Wednesday, November 28, Austrian Islamic State (IS/ISIS) fighter Mohamed Mahmoud, known by the alias “Abu Usama al-Gharib,” was announced dead, ending the dark saga of a lifelong ladder-climb to the top of the global jihadi community—and ultimate fall.
Before most people even knew that terrorist outreach was happening online, YouTube was a top recruitment venue for jihadi terrorist groups.
During the last year, the Islamic State’s (ISIS) presence in the Philippines has fallen into the emerging narrative of the group’s defeat.
Three years since Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a “caliphate” from the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq, his terrorist group has gone through significant change in terms of its global military and media presence.
Islamic State (IS) and pro-IS media units have turned to the Baaz social media platform as a new means of propaganda distribution.
