Persecution of Christians

Hans-Georg Maassen, Germany?s domestic intelligence chief, said in an ARD TV interview on Jan. 11 that Turkey was a ?key country? in countering the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as well as "other terrorist organizations,? because ?well over 90 percent? of radicals traveled into Syria through Turkey. Maassen urged the Turkish government to take ?further measures.?

Muslims do not have any issues with bigotry, violence and gender inequality. Massacre machines such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Taliban and Boko Haram do not belong to Muslims. They are all "provocations" of the West, the U.S., and Zionism?

Hackers claiming to be affiliated to Islamic State (IS) jihadist group on Monday hacked the Twitter and YouTube accounts of US Central Command.

The hackers also leaked online what they claimed were internal documents, according to international media reports.

Germany's domestic intelligence chief on Jan.12 urged Turkey to do more to prevent extremists crossing into Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other terrorist organizations.

A Nigerian archbishop called Jan. 12 for the same international support to tackle Boko Haram as France has received since it was hit by Islamist attacks last week.
      

Balkans deal with threat of terrorists travelling across the region

ISIL fighters crossing through Balkan countries are a serious threat because they are able to commit terrorist attacks anywhere, experts say.

Terrorists reach ISIL battlefields by travelling through Balkan countries. [AFP]

Nigeria's military has called for support in tackling Boko Haram after a major attack on a key northeast town that is feared could be the worst in the bloody six-year insurgency.
      
There are still no independently corroborated figures for the huge numbers said to have been killed in Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad in the far north of Borno State.
      

A former top official of Turkish intelligence has warned that jihadists are "highly likely" to activate their sleeper cells in Turkey in the face of the recent developments in the region.

The profiles of the perpetrators of this week's attacks in Paris and Istanbul attack are completely different. The former suggests two French brothers of Algerian origin, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, whose links with extremist jihadist terror organizations were disclosed by intelligence organizations in Western countries.

The Talat Pa?a Committee, a Turkish nationalist organization aiming to counter recognition of the 1915 events as the "Armenian genocide," has been refused entry to Athens, where it had gone to issue a statement in protest at a recently approved Greek bill.