Islamist groups

The nature of terrorist actions has changed since the al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. After 9/11, a global guerilla war and a global counter-guerilla war took the stage. 

A suicide attack carried out in a park in Pakistan's second largest city of Lahore on Sunday evening claimed the lives of at least seventy people and left 300 other injured.

A Taliban breakaway group, which has carried out several attacks on civilians and security forces in the past months, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The nature of terrorist attacks changed when al-Qaeda used civilian planes with passengers on board as weapons to attack civilian targets in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. 9/11 marked the beginning of global guerilla warfare.

The nature of terrorist attacks changed when al-Qaeda used civilian planes with passengers on board as weapons to attack civilian targets in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. 9/11 marked the beginning of global guerilla warfare.

A 16-year old Danish girl was planning to carry out terrorist attacks against two schools, one of which was Jewish, Danish police reported. The girl, whose name has not been released by the authorities recently converted to Islam and planned to plant bombs with her 24 year old accomplice.

Thousands of supporters of the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir organization gathered in Ankara to discuss the re-establishment of the caliphate, just three days after holding an international conference in Istanbul to mark the 92nd year of the institution's abolition, daily Cumhuriyet has reported. 

Greek police told BIRN on Monday that Bektasevic (aged 29, a Swedish citizen) and Al Hasani Amer (20, a Yemeni citizen) were arrested in the town of Alexandroupolis last Thursday during their attempt to enter Turkey on route to joining Islamic State in Syria.

The US Justice Department on Thursday announced it had sent two released prisoners from the Guantanamo camp to Bosnia and Montenegro as they had nowhere to go. One had Bosnian citizenship, having fought there in the 1990s.

At least 20 people are reported to have been killed and other wounded in an Islamist attack in the city center of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

The four-star hotel is frequently used by westerners and United Nations staff, while according to witnesses speaking to media, about 100-150 people are believed to have been in the hotel and restaurant at the time of the attack.

Bangladesh's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for a top Islamist party leader on Jan. 6 for atrocities committed during the country's war of independence from Pakistan more than four decades ago, a government lawyer said.