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☆ How ISIS has Europe and the US in sights after deadly Moscow attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Tim Lister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

ISIS claimed responsibility for the Moscow attack. Maxim Shemetov/ReutersHe regards the Moscow attack as a “breakthrough success” for the group, demonstrating a level of planning not previously seen beyond south Asia. Russia’s support for authoritarian regimes in central Asia – which ISIS-K has described as Russia’s “puppets” – has deepened the animus. The attitude of the Russian government, both pre- and post- the Moscow attack, may not help it confront the threat. For ISIS-K, the Moscow attack is a coup.

Persons: Erik Kurilla, “, Sanaullah Ghafari, Edmund Fitton, Brown, Fitton, Amira Jadoon, ” Jadoon, Hans, Jakob Schindler, Christine Abizaid, ” Fitton, Maxim Shemetov, –, Gabriel Attal, ”, Jadoon, Putin, Abu Bakr al, Sinai, Vladimir Putin, Assad, Shamsidin, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Muhammadsobir Fayzov, Yulia Morozova, Shamil Hukumatov, ” Putin, ” Schindler, Alexander Bortnikov, they’ll, Rita Katz Organizations: CNN, Analysts, ISIS, Islamic, US Central Command, UN, Taliban, Russian, Clemson University, Counter, ”, K, US National Counterterrorism Center, –, Crocus City, US Defense Department, Paris, Central, Crocus City Hall, St, City, Tajik, Kyiv, SITE Intelligence Locations: State, Ukraine, Gaza, Moscow, Khorasan, Afghanistan, Europe, Asia, Russia, ‘, Islamic State, Pakistan, Iran, Crocus, United States, West, New York, Tajik, Kabul, Afghan, Kandahar, Central Asia, Baujur, Pakistani, Baluchistan, Iranian, Kerman, Germany, al Qaeda, Turkey, France, America, Russian, Sharm el, St . Petersburg, Syria, Kaluga, St Petersburg, Istanbul, Washington

☆ White supremacist fitness clubs are fat-shaming Trump supporters and plotting a race war
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

White supremacist "active clubs" are spreading across the US. The clubs recruit disaffected white men and promote physical fitness and masculinity. AdvertisementA network of white supremacist fitness clubs is spreading across the US, recruiting men to prepare for what they believe will be a race war. AdvertisementThe investigative news outlet, Bellingcat, has also reported that the white supremacist active club movement had spread to Europe. The movement was inspired by Robert Rundo, who founded the white supremacist MMA club known as the Rise Above Movement.

Persons: Donald Trump, —, Jon Lewis, Lewis, Robert Rundo, Kent Nishimura, Sean Kauffman, Kauffman, they're, Jeff Tischauser, Trump, Tischauser, David Becker, shaming Trump Organizations: Service, Extremism, George Washington University, Counter Extremism, Patriot, Los Angeles Times, Getty, Nazi, Southern Poverty Law Center, Trump, Central CA, Alamo, Lewis Locations: United States, Europe, Tennessee, Nashville

☆ No European country more than Germany is going further in clamping down on Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Sophie Tanno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Adding to a complex picture, Germany has the largest Palestinian diaspora in Europe, estimated at 300,000. J'rg Carstensen/picture-alliance/dpa/APThere are thought to be around 450 Hamas members in Germany and, like the rest of the European Union, Germany considers Hamas a terrorist organization. There were also reports of people celebrating the Hamas attacks on the streets of Berlin. Spreading propagandaOn November 2, Germany took the step of banning Hamas and all activities linked to the group. Police stand outside a building that houses a synagogue following a pre-dawn attack on October 18 in Berlin, Germany.

Persons: Friedrich Merz, “, Molotov, Jakon Schindler, Schindler, ”, Uli Deck, Der Spiegel, Matthew Levitt, Maja Hitij, Yossi Mekelberg, ’, Germany we’re, Lamya Kaddor, Nadine Schmidt, Sophie Tanno Organizations: CNN, Nazi, Christian Democratic Union, ZDF, Palestine, European Union, Federal Office, Protection, Counter Extremism, Hamas, Police, Brandenburg’s, Act, George Washington University, Israel, Washington Institute for Near East, U.S ., EU, Atlantic Council, IDF, Israel Defensce Forces, Chatham House, West Bank, Reuters, Rights Watch Locations: Israel, Gaza, Germany, Berlin, Europe, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, German, Potsdam, Karlsruhe, Israel American, U.S, Austria, Hamas, East, Africa, Chatham, Palestine, London

☆ Why some 40 Israeli hostages may have gone missing in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementSix experts on hostage-negotiation efforts, who spoke to Business Insider, explained how Hamas might have been able to allow hostages to go missing in Gaza. "You've got to appreciate that there's lots of confusion, with the fact that Gaza is essentially a warzone," he told Business Insider. Hamas rounded up a lot of hostages on October 7, and Gaza quickly found itself in a state of chaos amid Israeli retaliatory strikes. All of the aboveFor Chris White, the co-founder of Negotiation Global, who has experience of hostage negotiations in Gaza, hostages going missing could be plausibly explained by all of the above explanations. He told Business Insider: "Is it possible that some hostages escaped?

Persons: —, Scott Walker, You've, Brian Carter, Lebanon's, Hans, Jakob Schindler, Schindler, I've, There's, Roni Krivoy, Rachel Briggs, Boaz Ganor, Ganor, Chris White, Hamas doesn't Organizations: Business, Service, Financial Times, UN, Hamas, Martyrs ' Brigade, Wall, Counter, Factory, Israel's Reichman University, Negotiation Locations: Israel, Gaza, al, Jihad

☆ Former U.S. Security Officials Call for Military Action Against Hamas in Qatar
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Two former senior U.S. security officials called for military action against Hamas leadership allegedly being provided safe haven in Doha if Qatari authorities don’t hand the officials over to the U.S. or Israel. Ismail Haniyeh, president of the Hamas political bureau sanctioned by the U.S. under terror powers, allegedly oversaw from Doha the group’s strike against Israel over the weekend. “We should not hesitate to act militarily on Qatari soil to bring to justice Ismail Haniyeh and Hamas leadership,” Wallace said. Frances Townsend, a top counterterror adviser to George W. Bush and head of the non-profit Counter Extremism Project, also joined the call for action. Neither representatives for Qatar in Washington nor the State Department immediately responded to requests for comment.

Persons: Ismail Haniyeh, ”, Mark Wallace, ” Wallace, Frances Townsend, George W, Bush Organizations: U.S, Doha, NATO, United Nations, Nuclear Iran, Qatar, State Department Locations: U.S, Doha, Israel, Qatar, York, Washington

☆ The Taliban promised to provide security to Afghans. New data shows threat from ISIS is growing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Eliza Mackintosh Ehsan Popalzai Antonio Jarne Lou Robinson | Eliza Mackintosh | Ehsan Popalzai | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

“Currently we don’t have security in Afghanistan at all, whenever we go out we don’t know if we will come home alive or not,” he added. Taliban security forces guard a checkpoint near the foreign ministry in Kabul on March 27, after an ISIS-K suicide bomber struck the site. The data, which is available in a live map, includes 367 pieces of open-source evidence — largely videos and images shared on social media — about 70 ISIS-K attacks since August 2021. As the Taliban try to minimize the threat ISIS-K poses, attacks on civilians continue. Taliban security forces have been waging ongoing operations and night raids against ISIS-K.

☆ A woman who left Alabama to join ISIS says she felt 'broken' after she was stripped of her US citizenship
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hoda Muthana left America at the age of 20 to join the terrorist group ISIS in Syria. She told TNM that she felt "broken" after she was told that her citizenship had been revoked. The appeals court supported that decision, describing Hoda as "a prominent spokeswoman for ISIS on social media, advocating the killing of Americans and encouraging American women to join ISIS." During her time with ISIS Muthana married three jihadi fighters, was widowed twice, and gave birth to a baby boy. In her interview, Muthana claimed those tweets were sent by someone else in ISIS after they took her phone.

☆ La zece ani de la moartea lui Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida are o conducere slăbită
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-28 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

Sursa foto: APLa zece ani de la moartea lui Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida are o conducere slăbităAl-Qaida va rămâne prima centrală jihadistă din lume, responsabilă pentru atentate grave în istoria modernă. Însă, la zece ani de la moartea fondatorului său Osama bin Laden, organizaţia nu a găsit un succesor pe măsura acestuia, comentează miercuri AFP. Lipsit de carismă, egipteanul Ayman al-Zawahiri, care i-a succedat lui Bin Laden, se ascunde în zona frontierei afgano-pakistaneze. Cel mai mare succes al lui Al-Zawahiri este că a menţinut în viaţă Al-Qaida'', a explicat Barak Mendelsohn, profesor la Universitatea Haverford din Pennsylvania. Considerat drept unul dintre cei care au conceput planul atentatelor de la 11 septembrie 2001, semnătura fundamentală a Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri a intrat la vârsta de 15 în rândurile Frăţiei Musulmane şi a supravieţuit timp de 40 de ani jihadului, o longevitate rarisimă, adaugă AFP.

Persons: Osama bin Laden, Al - Qaida, - Qaida, ., organizaţia, Bin Laden, Al -, -, Barak, Ayman, Zawahiri, Abu Mohammed al, Adel . Organizations: Universitatea Haverford, Agerpres, New York Times, Stat Islamic, ONU Locations: afgano, Pennsylvania, Peninsula Arabică, Somalia, Afganistan, Siria, Irak, Myanmar, -, Teheran, Washington, New, Regatului Unit, Adel, Iran

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