Islamist groups

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has called for unity of Muslim leaders to fight extremism after the recent Paris terrorist attacks, warning that otherwise jihadists will commit further atrocities."We are at a crossroads in the fight against terrorism and on the issue of the refugee crisis after the terror attacks in Paris," Erdo?an yesterday told a meeting of the Atlantic Council Energy

?Friend-less? Turkey has not only tried to survive in a quagmire maps call the Middle East, but it has remained confident that it would be the mighty game-maker in the quagmire. Former Ottoman lands would cheerfully unite under the emerging Turkish empire.

Bulgarian authorities detained three Dutch citizens, two men and a woman, suspected of terrorism at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint.

The three people are sought by Dutch authorities for participation in a terrorist group, the preparation of a terrorist attack and murder, private bTV station informs.

Yousaf al Salafi, the man believed to be the leader of the Islamic State in Pakistan confessed during investigations that he was receiving money through the united States.

At least 60 people were killed and 200 wounded in a bomb attack on August 13 at a market in Baghdad's Sadr City district, police and medical sources said, in one of the largest attacks on the capital since Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took office a year ago. 

A US air strike in Afghanistan killed a senior Al-Qaeda commander in charge of suicide bombing and two other militants, the Pentagon said July 24.

An Indonesian court on July 13 jailed three members of China's Uighur minority for six years each after they were caught attempting to join an Islamic extremist group led by the country's most wanted militant.

Al-Qaeda in North Africa has denied reports its former leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed in a US air strike last week in Libya, in a statement posted online overnight.
 
"The mujahid Khaled Abu al-Abbas is still alive and well," said the statement from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, using the name by which Belmokhtar is widely known in jihadist circles.
 

A growing number of extremist groups from Africa to southeast Asia are shifting their allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, leading to greater risks for "cross-pollination" among conflicts beyond Syria and Iraq, the head of Interpol said May 29.
                   

Around 75 people protesting against Islam gathered outside a mosque in Phoenix, bearing Muhammad sketches, a few weeks after the attack of armed gunmen during a Texas exhibition.