Islamic State Recruiting through Big Tech | Undercover in ISIS (2016) | Full Film

Jan 25, 2024 | An undercover operation sets out to understand the path to joining ISIS. Two undercover European reporters are tasked with joining ISIS via Facebook, Twitter, and direct phone calls. In a world dominated by social media and the internet, illegal communications are no longer defined by clandestine whispered conversations on street corners.

French Trial Begins in Police Couple Killings Linked to Extremists

A court sketch made on Sept. 25, 2023, shows Mohamed Lamine Aberouz during the first day of the Magnanville attack trial at Paris courthouse. (AFP photo)
VOICE OF AMERICA: LYON, FRANCE — It wasn’t the deadliest attack in Europe linked to the Islamic State group, but it was among the most disturbing: One evening in 2016, an assailant killed two police officers in their family home, in front of their 3-year-old son.

On Monday, a trial opened in a French counterterrorism court over the attack in the Paris suburb of Magnanville.
The attacker, Larossi Abballa, was shot to death by police. According to court documents, he told police negotiators that he was responding to an IS leader’s call to “kill miscreants at home with their families.”

A childhood friend of Abballa’s, Mohamed Aberouz, is on trial for complicity to terrorism-related murder, complicity to kidnapping and terrorist conspiracy. Aberouz, who says he is innocent, faces up to life in prison if convicted. » | Associated Press | Monday, September 25, 2023>br />
EN FRANÇAIS :

Au procès de l’attentat de Magnanville, la franchise de l’accusé : « L’islam n’est pas compatible avec la démocratie » : Les deux premiers jours du procès étaient consacrés à la personnalité de l’accusé, Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, qui n’a pas fait mystère de sa vision très rigoriste de l’islam. L’occasion d’un rare moment d’audience : sa première rencontre physique avec son épouse religieuse, citée comme témoin. » [€]

Islamic State Leader Killed during Raid by US Special Forces in Syria

THE GUARDIAN: Joe Biden says military has removed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi from the battlefield

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of Islamic State and one of the world’s most wanted men, has been killed during an overnight raid by US special forces in north-west Syria.

The pre-dawn attack on a house in the village of Atme, just south of the Turkish border, led to up to 13 casualties, among them women and children. It also resulted in the destruction of a US Apache helicopter, which had been used to carry special forces troops from Erbil in Iraq. » | Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent | Thursday, February 3, 2022

Daech affaibli après l’élimination de son chef par un raid américain : ANALYSE - Le leader de l’organisation terroriste s’est donné la mort lors d’un raid des Forces spéciales américaines en Syrie. »

How I Divorced Islamic State - BBC News

The British ex-wife of an American leader in the so called Islamic State describes her journey out of extremism.

Tania Georgelas met her husband John, an American convert to Islam, online and they connected over their Islamist views. After John moved Tania and their children to Syria, she decided to escape. Now she wants to dedicate her life to countering extremism and rehabilitating ex-jihadists.

Reporter: Rickin Majithia, video journalist: Colleen Hagerty

German IS Fighters - Despairing Parents | DW English

More than 900 Germans went to Syria to fight for IS. Many of them are young and left behind desperate parents, some of whom have gone to Syria to bring them back.

Manhattan Attack: Suspect Requests ISIS Flag in Hospital, Trump Asks for Death Penalty

The suspect in Tuesday's deadly attack in New York has been charged with terrorism. Sayfullo Saipov is said to have been inspired by Islamic State, and even requested the group's flag be hung in his hospital room. It seems Donald Trump wants to take matters out of the court's hands, tweeting that rather than a flag, he should be handed the death penalty. The US leader is also open to sending the attacker to Guantanamo Bay

The Islamic State's Claim to Spain

Spain hasn’t been in ISIS’ crosshairs as much as France and Britain, but it has been as a through-point for ISIS recruits and target of its propaganda for years.

US Criticizes Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for Lack of Religious Freedom

US criticizes Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for lack of religious freedom. US President Donald Trump's administration says the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant group remains the biggest threat to religious freedom around the world. The US State Department says the murders of Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims at the hands of ISIL amounted to genocide.

The annual report says almost 80 percent of the world's population continues to live under threats limiting freedom to worship.

The countries criticised include US allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Al Jazeera's Mohammad Vall reports.

How Islamic State Called for 'All-Out War' on West during Ramadan

THE TELEGRAPH: European security services are bracing for more attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, after Islamic State called on its followers to rise up in an “all-out war” on "infidels” in the West.

Last Saturday marked the start of a 30-day period of fasting and reflection in the Islamic world, which has in recent years seen a large uptick in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) terror attacks.

“Muslim brothers in Europe who can’t reach the Islamic State lands, attack them in their homes, their markets, their roads and their forums,” the jihadist group said in a message entitled Where are the lions of war? and published on YouTube. Read on and comment » | Josie Ensor, Middle East Correspondent, in Beirut | Sunday, June 4, 2017

Trump Condemns 'Evil Losers' behind Manchester Attack

During a press conference with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, the US president offered his condolences to those affected by the Manchester attack and called those responsible ‘evil losers’. He added that the United States stood in ‘absolute solidarity’ with the people of the United Kingdom | * ‘We stand in solidarity’ – Trump leads global reaction to Manchester attack

Read the Guardian article here

Champs Élysées shooting: French police officer killed in Paris

A gunman has shot and killed one police officer and wounded two more in an incident on the Champs Élysées on Thursday evening. The gunman is said to have pulled up next to a police van in a car, got out, and then opened fire on the nearby police. He was then killed by police when they returned fire. Police are now investigating the attacker’s car and it has been revealed the man was known to security services before the attack

Read the Guardian article here

Egypt: Islamic State Group Claims Responsibility for Twin Church Bombings

IS Leaves Trail of Destruction in Syria's Palmyra

BBC: The BBC's Lyse Doucet says the trail of destruction left by Islamic State militants in Palmyra extends beyond the ancient Syrian city's famous Roman-era ruins.

She finds the city council building in utter ruin and the basement of a deserted building filled with a paperwork detailing the jihadist group's brutal rule. (+ BBC video) » | Friday, March 24, 2017

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Terror Attack in London

Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster

JIHAD WATCH: NSA McMaster: Islamic State uses “perverted interpretation of religion” »

Graeme Wood: The Rise of Islamic State Is the Modern Reformation - Viewsnight

Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's new place for ideas and opinion. Here, Graeme Wood, national correspondent for The Atlantic argues the rise of so-called Islamic State is a kind of Reformation within Islam. Tariq Ramadan says this argument is "misplaced" and we should not try to "understand Islam through a Christian lens"

WIKIPEDIA: Graeme Wood »

ISIS Destroys Part of Roman Theater in Palmyra – Syrian Antiquities Chief

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists have destroyed part of a Roman theater and the legendary four-column structure ‘Tetrapylon’ in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syrian TV reports.

Iraq’s Christians’ Last Stand Against So-Called “Islamic State”

Hunting Down IS Leader Should Be 'Top Priority': Clinton

Hillary Clinton calls for the United States to track down and kill Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as it did Osama Bin Laden, insisting her Republican rival Donald Trump has no plan to defeat the jihadists.

Paxman Interviews Anjem Choudary in 2010 (Newsnight Archives)

Anjem Choudary - one of the UK's most notorious radical clerics - has been convicted of inviting others to support so-called Islamic State. Here's an interview with him from our archives, from January 2010. Jeremy Paxman speaks to Anjem Choudary and Maajid Nawaz, the founding chair of Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank.