Jabbar’s case is particularly unsettling because of his background. Once a decorated soldier, he served in Afghanistan before transitioning to a civilian career at Deloitte, a major consulting firm. On New Year’s Day 2025, as fireworks lit up the French Quarter and revelers filled Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a pickup truck tore through the…
Syrian opposition fighters ride in a truck in Talhiya, Idlib countryside, Syria, Friday, November 29, 2024. (AP) Eight years ago, Russian airstrikes helped Syrian President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces push rebels out of Aleppo. This was a significant event in the Syrian civil war, which had mostly been in a deadlock since 2020. Last week, however,…
Fawzia Sido, a young Yazidi woman, has revealed the horrifying details of her captivity under ISIS, where she and other prisoners were forced to eat the flesh of babies. She was taken from her home at just 11 years old during the Islamic State’s attack on her hometown of Sinjar in 2014. Speaking to The…
Representational image (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Government on Thursday officially declared Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT), an international pan-Islamic organisation founded in Jerusalem in 1953, as a banned group due to its alleged involvement in promoting terrorism and radicalising vulnerable youth to join terrorist organisations like ISIS. The Union home ministry issued a notification saying that HuT…
Terrorist organisation ISIS reportedly created two fake channels on Google-owned video platform YouTube and Facebook. The YouTube channels claimed to be of global news platforms – CNN and Al Jazeera. This aim was to lend legitimacy to facilitate the dissemination of ISIS propaganda.A report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue reveals that along with two…
NEW DELHI: The Karnataka BJP has come down heavily on the Siddaramaiah-led state government after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two accused in the Rameshwaram cafe blast case on Friday.Read also: NIA arrests Bengaluru cafe blast mastermind, bomber from KolkataThe BJP, in a post on ‘X’, termed the accused as “Brothers of Congress”, saying…
NEW DELHI: In the aftermath of the harrowing attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall, which left at least 140 people dead, the Russian Foreign Ministry is casting doubt on the involvement of Islamic State, despite its claim of responsibility. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed skepticism on Wednesday, saying it was “extremely hard to believe” that Islamic…
