Suspected Islamic extremists are holding about 30 men from the Dogon ethnic group hostage after ambushing several public transport buses in central Mali earlier this week, a community leader said Friday. Bocar Guindo said that armed men initially kidnapped about 40 people
Leaders with Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad met Wednesday to discuss their ongoing war against Israel. Hezbollah official Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri and Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala spoke Wednesday about the conflict. “An assessment was made of
A steady stream of rocket misfires by Hamas and Islamic Jihad have resulted in the deaths of several Palestinians since the war between Israel and Iran-backed terrorists first began earlier this month, according to one Israeli defense official. “They are killing their
Israel claimed that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an Islamic terrorist group based in Gaza, is responsible for the airstrike that claimed the lives of at least 500 Palestinians in a hospital in Gaza City. Hamas immediately blamed Israel. In response, the
The Hamas operative continues: “They are saying that the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not Israeli shrapnel.” The bombshell audio leak comes after Hamas militant group blamed the blast on an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a
A Hamas-run hospital treating wounded Palestinians and others seeking shelter in the Gaza Strip was hit by an airstrike Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, though Israel Defense Forces (IDF) blame the strike on the Islamic Jihad. The Health Ministry said at least
Aine Leslie Davis, 39, was held at Luton Airport in August last year after being deported from Turkey where he had spent seven and a half years in jail for membership of Islamic State. Yesterday he pleaded guilty to two charges of
German authorities on Wednesday arrested an Iraqi man accused of involvement in the killing of prisoners and the amputation of a person’s hand in his homeland as a member of the Islamic State group. The suspect, identified only as Abdel J.S. in
Hamas is a group of Iranian-backed terrorists. The group is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the State Department. According to the U.S., E.U. and Israel, it has maintained an iron-clad grip on Gaza since violently taking over the territory
Syrian Kurdish fighters and American forces have captured a senior member of the Islamic State group, a militant described as one of its “key facilitators,” the force said Friday. Mahmdouh Ibrahim al-Haji, also known as Abu Youssef, was taken into custody on