The embarrassing blunder in Amazon’s content policing was publicized by the Washington Post, which reported a discovery by SITE Intelligence Group, a watchdog monitoring terrorist propaganda online. One of their targets was Nida-e-Haqq, an outlet that disseminated messages of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Urdu, a language spoken in …
Read More »Here’s what we know about ISIS-K, the splinter jihadist group feared to be behind terrorist attacks on Kabul airport
As its name suggests, the group pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and has since been mostly active in Afghanistan’s eastern Khorasan Province. While IS was rapidly gaining ground in Iraq and Syria in 2015, the militants viewed ISIS-K as the caliphate’s sword in future conquests in South …
Read More »Man who murdered policewoman in France watched jihadist videos & sought mental treatment – prosecutor
The attacker, identified as a 36-year-old Tunisian national named Jamel Gorchene, fatally stabbed a 49-year-old female police employee in Rambouillet, a Paris suburb, on Friday. Gorchene, who was yelling “Allahu Akbar” – “God is great” in Arabic – during the assault, was shot and killed by police. The country’s chief …
Read More »Syrian JIHADIST fighters are operating in Nagorno-Karabakh, Macron says, citing ‘credible information’
“Now, we have credible information, which indicates that Syrian fighters from some jihadist groups have reached the Nagorno-Karabakh battlefield through Gaziantep,” Macron told journalists as he arrived at an EU summit in Brussels, mentioning a southern Turkish city the militants supposedly passed through on their way to the disputed region. …
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