Ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

A few weeks before Thursday’s attack in Barcelona, the Islamic State’s main online magazine posted an illustrated article with advice on acquiring a special kind of truck — specifically, the kind best suited for mowing down large numbers of pedestrians.

The terrorist attack in London shows us 3 things - an unseen by now fierce of the bombers in Europe, the spectacular failure of the Secret Intelligence Service, who have received multiple signals for one of them and the problem with radicalization of people who are born and grew up in Europe, but not who came after that.

As the latest barbarity of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square has demonstrated, fighting terror is difficult and it will keep Turkey and the world occupied for a long time. This is because it has sociologic and cultural resources that nurture it. This is the actual problem.
 

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has praised a new "Saudi-led Islamic anti-terrorism alliance" as being "in line with U.S. calls for a greater Sunni role" in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He was speaking during a visit to Turkey's ?ncirlik air base on Dec. 15, which came only a day after the Pentagon gave a conceptual briefing about the front to U.S.

The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has used the shocking image of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi to warn refugees against trying to flee to the West, calling it a "major sin".

Turkey?s top religious affairs body has released a report on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), where it defined the group as a terror organization for the first time.

The report, which was prepared by Turkey?s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), was highly critical of ISIL, denouncing its actions. 

BiH Islamic Community condemns ISIL supporters

Bosnia is working to overcome "a wall of distrust between Muslims and non-Muslims."

Condemnation of Islam harms ordinary Muslims, experts said. [AFP]

A counter-terrorism conference attended by senior Muslim scholars from around the world on Wednesday called for education reform to tackle religious extremism.
      
Participants at the meeting in the Saudi holy city of Mecca urged Muslim leaders to review the religious messages in education, to achieve a more moderate approach."       

Israel said on Jan. 18 it had cracked the first Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) cell on its soil, made up of seven Arab citizens who would be prosecuted on charges of planning attacks in the Jewish state and communicating with the insurgent group in Syria.
   

French police launched raids across the country early on Dec. 15, dismantling a network sending jihadist fighters to Syria, a police source told AFP.
      
Elite and anti-terror police units descended on around a dozen targets, mostly in the southern region of Toulouse, but also around Paris and in the northern region of Normandy, the source said on condition of anonymity.