Pan-Islamism

Former Bosnian Army Third Corps commander Sakib Mahmuljin was indicted for failing to prevent Islamic volunteer fighters killing and torturing Serb civilians and prisoners of war.

Former Bosnian Army Third Corps commander, Sakib Mahmuljin, was charged with failing to prevent Islamic volunteer fighters from killing over 50 Serb prisoners in 1995, some of whom were decapitated.

Two Syrian nationals were arrested in Geneva on Friday accused of the “manufacture, concealment and transport of explosives and toxic gases”, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

They are also under suspicion of violating Swiss law prohibiting “groups like Al-Qaeda, Islamic State and similar organisations”, it added.

The United States on Dec. 9 placed on its terror watchlist a jailed Turkish-born German national said to have extensive ties to Al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic 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

It was quite intriguing - or maybe not - when, shortly before the Nov. 1 elections, a staunchly pro-President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an columnist for daily Yeni Akit claimed that Mr. Erdo?an would become the "new ['ecumenical'] caliph" once he has won the executive presidential powers he much desires. Since then no one has denied Mr.

'The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State' by William McCants (Macmillan, 256 pages, $27)

I narrowly escaped al-Qaeda?s bombing of the London Underground on July 7, 2005, while I was doing my postgraduate in London. The same bombs had hit Istanbul just two years before, leaving 57 people dead, making Turkey also a victim of global terror. Four years had passed since the Sept. 11 attacks in New York. 

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group’s spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnini confirmed on Tuesday the killing of the militant organization’s second in command in the U.S. air strike earlier this year.

Islamists plan to conquer territory "from Spain to China"

The extremist organization Islamic State plans to conquer the Middle East, North Africa, parts of Europe, all in the next five years, claims BBC journalist Andrew Hosken.