A gun battle between security forces and Islamist insurgents in Nigeria a week ago killed 228 people, a local senator said on Saturday, putting the death toll six times higher than the government's estimate. A large number of civilian deaths will fuel accusations that the military acted heavy-handedly and failed to protect bystanders and
The brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attacks on the Boston Marathon planned to head to Manhattan to party after the explosions, New York City's police chief said. Either Dzhokhar or Tamerlan Tsarnaev apparently said "Manhattan" in a conversation overheard by the driver of the sports utility vehicle they carjacked in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Investigators in the Boston suburbs told ABC News that Tamerlan Tsarnaev – the elder Boston Marathon bomber, who was killed in a firefight with police – may have been involved in an unsolved grisly triple homicide of a former roommate and two others. The murders took place around September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it was postponing a controversial change in rules, which would have allowed passengers to carry small knives on planes. The TSA last month said it was abating its rules on pocket knives, which have been banned on aircrafts since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, in order to
Greek Muslims have prayed in a 111-year-old mosque in the city of Thessaloniki for the first time in 90 years. Fifty madrasah students from Komotini who were visiting Thessaloniki prayed on March 30 in the historical New Mosque, which is normally used as an exhibition hall. The students reportedly went to Thessaloniki with an initiative
When Tuaregs and Islamists swarmed in to seize Northern Mali, one of the old grievances animating their campaign was slavery. The Tuaregs were not former slaves, they were, and in some cases still are, slaveholders. The French invasion of Northern Mali, liberating towns and villages under Islamist rule, was a historical echo of the
The brothers accused of staging the Boston Marathon bombings planned a new attack in Times Square as they were being hunted by police, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev confessed the plan to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in his hospital bed, Bloomberg said, calling it a "horrific reminder that
Ideological and religious warfare are forms of the same jihad. Islamic jihadists aim to use people who do not look Middle Eastern to commit atrocities on soft targets in the US in order for them to blend in with the majority. Is Boston the first? Mahatma Gandhi is quoted in the book, Gandhi: The
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has denounced comments by Richard Falk, a top official on the United Nations Human Rights Council, which attempted to explain the Boston Marathon bombings as a reaction to United States policy in the Middle East and Tel Aviv. Mr. Falk, the United Nations Human Rights Council-appointed “Special Rapporteur on the
Lebanese youth from the city of Saida, south of Beirut, began on Wednesday to sign up for “armed Jihad in Syria”, Al Arabiya reported. The youth were responding to a call a day earlier by Sunni cleric Ahmad Assir, who called on Lebanese youth to fight the Hizbullah terrorist group. Individuals in charge
