The power of social media for groups such as Isis is immense as demonstrated when the Iraqi government blocked access to many social media accounts, because they were being used to plan attacks. As Isis continue to use social media sites for such purposes there are important questions about ...
into meeting political demands. At its height, ISIS was an insurgency that sought to gain territory and establish a caliphate. That meant that even though ISIS perpetrated terrorist attacks in the Middle East and Europe, the group focused its greatest energy on local resistance in Iraq and Syria...
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“Bridges then provided training and guidance to purported ISIS fighters who were planning attacks, including advice about potential targets in New York City. Bridges also provided the OCE with portions of a U.S. Army training manual and guidance about military combat ta...
Michael Briggs, a Sanders spokesman, insisted in a statement that, “given the disappearing middle class and massive income wealth inequality in America today, we clearly have to go a lot further than what Secretary Clinton proposes.” The question of how effective those attacks will be is debat...
known for its suicide attacks against Israel, also runs the Gaza Strip since 2007. So these groups do way more than just shoot. They multi-task. They set up complex communication machines -- radio stations, TV channels, Internet websites and social media strategies. And up here, you have ...
The campaign to defeat ISIS in Iraq took more than three years and about 25,000 coalition airstrikes. July 25, 2018 - At least 166 people are killed in a suicide bombing and other attacks in the southern Syrian province of Suwayda, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ...
Six found guilty for Brussels terror attacks, Belgian public broadcaster reports US says drones harassed by Russian aircraft killed ISIS leader in Syria German mother who joined ISIS is jailed for enslaving and abusing young Yazidi woman Twenty people arrested on suspicion of collaborating in Uga...
The apparent uptick in the recruitment of young radicals to carry out acts of terror comes as European security officials express worries at a potential resurgence of organized – or “directed” - terror attacks. The Summer Olympics in Paris, which start on Friday, have been specifically...
It organized a series of deadly terror attacks in European cities andremains activeas a terror group in more than a dozen countries, inspiring and supporting individuals and cells in Europe and Russia in recent years. Even if it is now a loosely linked network rather than a self-declared cali...