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Islamic terrorism

Four caskets are covered with the Canadian flag of red and white as mourners look on.
Extremism
For the first time, Canada applies terrorism charges to acts of Islamophobia
Nadia Murad gestures with her hands against a blue sky.
Conflict & Justice
Yazidi women still fear ISIS months after their defeat
IS spokesman and head of external operations Abu Muhammad al-Adnani is pictured in this undated handout photo, courtesy the U.S. Department of State.
Conflict
Who was Abu Muhammad al-Adnani and what does his death mean for ISIS?
United States commits ground soldiers to battle militia in Uganda
Violence returns to Iraq as America plans withdrawal
Global Politics
How 9/11 prompted more young people to enter the military
Police have erected barricades and mourners have left flowers outside Reina, the nightclub in Istabul where 39 died during a terrorist attack.
Conflict
These three charts will help you understand Turkey’s recent terrorist attacks
A local vigilante checks a vehicle at a check point in Michika town, after the Nigerian military recaptured it from Boko Haram, in Adamawa state May 10, 2015.
Conflict
Getting the Chibok girls home is one thing. Knowing what to do with them once they get there is another.
ISIS black and white flag
Fighting ISIS At Home & Abroad
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Restaurant window damaged in 2008's militant attack is seen at the railway station in Mumbai.
Justice
Did bulk surveillance programs really stop an American-born terrorist? Probably not
Andrew Luger, US Attorney for Minnesota, speaks during a news conference in Minneapolis on April 20, 2015. FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard Thornton stands at left.
Justice
Six Somali Americans are caught attempting to join ISIS ‘by any means possible’
A Kenyan security officer searches a boy for weapons before an Easter Sunday service at a Catholic church in Garissa, Kenya, on April 5, 2015. Somali Kenyans fear a crackdown following a massacre at the Garissa Univeristy by Somali militants.
Conflict
Somalis in Kenya brace for a backlash
A Kenya Defense Force soldier runs for cover during al-Shabab's attack on a university compound in Garissa on April 2, 2015.
Conflict
Al-Shabab are masters of terror — and masters of the media
The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Thursday saw the remains of a pressure-cooker bomb that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a gunfight four days after the bombing as well as jihadist files recovered from his laptop.
Justice
US prosecutors portray Boston Marathon bombing suspect as a radical extremist
Betul Ulusoy (center back) leads an educational tour of Sehitlik Mosque in Berlin.
Belief
Germany seeks to undermine Islamic extremists with religious education
A carnival float by artist Jacques Tilly with a papier-mache caricature drives past revelers during the traditional 'Rose Monday' parade on Carnival in the western German city of Duesseldorf. "You can't kill satire," the sign reads.
Culture
German satire takes aim at Islamic extremism, despite fears
Police guard the scene of a shooting at cafe 'Krudttonden,' which was hosting a free speech event, in Copenhagen on Monday.
Belief
This German activist who worked with skinheads and neo-Nazis is now trying to de-radicalize young Muslims
A screen shot from an "Average Mohamed" animated cartoon directed at 8- to 16-year-olds that debunks ISIS recruitment messages.
Global Politics
Meet ‘Average Mohamed,’ a gas station manager who’s using cartoons to fight ISIS recruitment
State of the Union 2015
Global Politics
What Obama didn’t mention in the State of the Union
An increasingly common sight across Europe, heavily armed security forces on guard. These are Belgian special forces police, blocking a street in Verviers, near the scene of a deadly firefight with suspected Islamic militants on Thursday night.
Justice
Europe mounts a series of sweeping anti-extremist raids: A scorecard
Said and Cherif Kouachi, the gunmen who killed twelve people during their attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, are seen in an image from an amateur video shot in Paris January 7, 2015. The Kouachi brothers were the children of Algerian immigrants to Fr
Conflict
Here’s what ISIS recruiters and sexual predators have in common
Police and emergency workers investigate a bombing scene in Kano, Nigeris, on November 29, 2014.
Conflict
Nigerians are ‘desperate’ for intervention as Boko Haram steps up its attacks
Police officers secure access to a residential building during investigations in the eastern French city of Reims on January 8, 2015, after the shooting against the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper.
Conflict
How the Kouachi brothers fell through the cracks
French police patrol near the Eiffel Tower in Paris as part of the highest level of "Vigipirate" security plan after a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015.
Conflict
The Charlie Hebdo attack slipped past one of Europe’s most alert governments
Charlie Hebdo protests
Global Politics
After Charlie Hebdo, what next? Readers weigh in on the long-term effects of the attack
Police and rescue crews respond to the scene near where a man drove a van into a crowd, injuring 10 people, some seriously wounded, in Nantes, December 22, 2014.
Conflict
France endures deadly attacks, but can’t decide if they’re terrorism
Canadian John Maguire in ISIS recruitment video
Conflict
A Canadian jihadist calls for ‘lone-wolf’ attacks on domestic targets
A screenshot from a video released by al Qaeda on December 4, 2014, showing captured British-American photojournalist Luke Somers.
Conflict
A failed rescue attempt in Yemen may have put an American hostage at greater risk
Foad, the brother of 15-year-old Nora, who left her home in Avignon for Syria nine months ago, shows a portrait he took last September, during an interview on October 6, 2014.
Conflict
The French are stunned that many of their own are winding up in ISIS training camps
BringBackOurGirls campaigners
Conflict
Boko Haram militants take over Chibok in northeastern Nigeria
vigilante photo
Conflict
Vigilantes with homemade weapons take on Boko Haram in Nigeria
Clean India campaign
Global Scan
Indian politicians exposed cleaning up garbage intentionally left for them
Smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 18, 2014.
Conflict
Foreign fighters are joining jihadi groups in ‘unprecedented’ numbers
Conflict
Film traces how Nouri al-Maliki’s treatment of Iraqi Sunnis helped ISIS get stronger
Women react during a protest demanding that Nigerian security forces search harder for 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants.
Conflict
Nigerian girls who escaped from Boko Haram describe their ordeal
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a live televised address to the nation on his plans for military action against the Islamic State on September 10, 2014.
Global Politics
In dealing with ISIS, Obama could take cues from the Camp David Accords
US Border Patrol agent Art Del Cueto points to the Mexican border just a few feet away.
Conflict
Is ISIS a threat on the US border? Some border patrol agents believe it is — but others say not so fast
A relative of a victim lights a candle during the first anniversary memorial service of the Westgate shopping mall terrorist attack in Kenya's capital Nairobi on September 21, 2014.
Conflict
Kenya considers its security on the anniversary of the Westgate mall siege
A man inspects a damaged site in what activists say was a US strike in Kfredrian, Idlib province, Syria, on September 23, 2014.
Conflict
Airstrikes in Syria may help — but their impact will be limited
The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches a Tomahawk cruise missile against ISIS targets in Syria on September 23, 2014.
Conflict
The many reasons why ISIS will be hard to dislodge in Syria
Kashmiri men shout slogans praising Osama Bin Laden after funeral prayers for him in Srinagar May 6, 2011.
Business
With terrorism, as with business, it’s all about market share
A car drives near a flag belonging to Islamic State militants at the end of a bridge in southern Kirkuk.
Conflict
Muslim leaders in Scotland say ISIS has ‘no right to call itself Islamic’
Demonstrators hold up a banner during a rally in Abuja that was held to mark the 120th day since the abduction of 200 schoolgirls by the Boko Haram Islamist groups on August 12, 2014.
Conflict
The men tracking down Boko Haram are committing Boko Haram-like atrocities
A fighter from Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria earlier this year. Qatar has facilitated fundraising efforts to provide money and weapons to Islamic militants like Jabhat al-Nusra, which is al-Qaeda's branch in Syria.
Global Politics
How Qatar is placing its bets on militant terrorist groups
ISIS black and white flag
Belief
Sex toy or ISIS? Ever wonder what this black-and-white flag means?
A militant Islamist fighter waves a flag during in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province.
Conflict
Turkey tries to amp up its border security as the threat from ISIS rises
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A refugee woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sits with a child inside a tent at a refugee camp in north-eastern Syria. The Yazidis have been brutally persecuted by militants from the Islamic State, some
Conflict
An American veteran and a jihadi share memories of Robin Williams
People gather at the site of a drone strike on the road between Yafe and Radfan districts of the southern Yemeni province of Lahj on August 11, 2013.
Conflict
Six months later, no one knows exactly who died in an American drone strike in Yemen
Lifestyle & Belief
If you follow US travel warnings, ‘Out of Africa’ is more a strategy than a summer read
Global Scan
These Disney princesses are being used to spread a distinctly serious message
al-Shabaab radio stations in Somalia
Conflict & Justice
How al-Shabab is building a media empire and creating chaos in Kenya
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria holds an ISIS flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul. Picture taken June 23rd, 2014.
Business, Economics and Jobs
How the US can take the fight to ISIS on the financial front
Global Politics
Why the ‘Yemen model’ may not work in Iraq — or Yemen
Conflict & Justice
The number of global jihadis is increasing, but Americans aren’t necessarily less safe
Lifestyle & Belief
Bloodbath in Baghdad church leaves at least 41 dead
What's left of the state boarding school in Chibok, a remote town in northeast Nigeria Borno State. On April 14, Boko Haram militants raided the school on April 14th in search of food. They found the girls and kidnapped them. More than 200 are still missi
Conflict & Justice
The town where the Nigerian girls were kidnapped is the heartland of Boko Haram
A student who escaped when Boko Haram rebels stormed a school identifies her friends from a video released by the Islamist militants.
Conflict & Justice
An emboldened Boko Haram tells Nigerians — ‘wherever you are, we can reach you’
Conflict & Justice
A new video appears to show the kidnapped girls from Nigeria
Conflict & Justice
A new video appears to show the kidnapped girls from Nigeria