Posts Tagged: Jabhat al-Nusra
What CAIR Shares in Common With Synagogue Hostage Taker
Most Americans may not have heard of Aafia Siddiqui before Saturday, when a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, and took the rabbi...
Russia’s Terrorist Double Game
In April, a Muslim Russian national from Kyrgyzstan detonated an explosive device in St. Petersburg's subway system, killing 14 people and injuring many others. The...
New Study Emphasizes Islamism as Terrorist Foreign Fighters’ Main Motivation
Some prominent public figures and officials often claim that Islam has nothing to do with the jihadist terrorist violence spreading throughout the world. A recent...
US Special Forces Host Islamist Who Urged Support for Radical Faction
The US Special Forces Command hosted Mouaz Moustafa -- an American Islamist who urged US policymakers to embrace the Islamic Front in 2013 -- at their Tampa headquarters on Thursday, according to a post on Mustafa's...
Syrian Terrorist Group Rebrands to Ensure Survival
Jabhat al-Nusra's July 28 announcement of its new name and avatar, the Fateh al-Sham Front ("The Victory in Al-Sham Front"), does not mean that the terrorist group...
Leader of Syrian Islamist Group Threatens Kurds
A radio transmission between the commander of an Islamist brigade with ties to the US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and a Kurdish man contained a chilling message, threatening to...
Dutch Intelligence: Competition Could Fuel Jihadi Plots
The Netherlands' Intelligence Service (AIVD) is predicting a "large scale, spectacular attack in Europe or the US." And, they say, it could happen very soon. AIVD's report on 2015,...
IDF Racing to Restructure for New Middle East Warfare
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is in a race against time, and their race is also relevant to how other Western powers will deal with the...
Competing Jihadists Place 2 Million Euro Bounty on Hezbollah Chief’s Head
The leader of an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria placed a two-million-euro bounty on the head of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in the latest edition of Al-Risalah,...
Islamic State Reportedly Gains Ground Near Israeli Golan Heights
JNS.org - The Islamic State terror group is reportedly making gains in the Golan Heights region near the Israeli-Syrian border as rebel groups operating in the...
Hezbollah’s Nasrallah Calls Israel a ‘Cancerous Tumor’ to be Destroyed
JNS.org - In an address on Tuesday, Hezbollah terrorist chief Hassan Nasrallah said that Israel is a “cancerous tumor” that needs to be “wiped out.” According to...
Report: Hezbollah Fighters Are Deserting Their Posts Amid Offensive in Syria
Hezbollah fighters in Syria and their allies on the ground have apparently been deserting their posts, Saudi news outlet Al Arabiya reported on Wednesday citing recordings from the...
Israeli Arab Arrested for Joining Syria Al-Qaida Group, Was Urged to Attack Jewish State
Jerusalem Post - Security forces arrested an Israeli Arab resident of Kfar Yassif on suspicion of fighting with radical rebels in Syria, including Jabhat Al-Nusra,...
Al Qaeda Group Spokesman Rejects Islamic State Alliance Rumors
A Jabhat al-Nusra spokesman tells the blog Syria Direct that rumors of an alliance between his Al Qaeda affiliate and the Islamic State are false. Western...
