Tag - terrorism

 
 

TERRORISM

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 8, 2016
Anti-social media: Online chats give away plan for rocket attack on Singapore
It was the social media chatter that gave him away, although changing his profile picture on the Line messaging app to a banner pledging "Indonesian support and solidarity for ISIS" probably didn't help.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2016
Washington is letting the Russians win in Syria
The U.S. can only hope that Assad regime forces will somehow be defeated at Aleppo. That, judging by events on the ground, is a thin thread to hang on to.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2016
This is the world that the invasion of Iraq left behind
The Chilcot report detailing British culpability in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq reminds us that we're still dealing with the terrible consequences of that reckless decision.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 6, 2016
Kerry presses on with Russian cooperation talks on Syria despite Aleppo setbacks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is still pursuing an agreement with Russia on military cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria despite major setbacks and skepticism from other administration officials and U.S. allies, U.S. officials with knowledge of the talks said on Friday....
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 6, 2016
Singapore calls for vigilance after alleged rocket attack plot foiled
Singapore called for heightened vigilance Saturday, a day after Indonesian police arrested a group of men they believed were plotting a rocket attack on the wealthy city-state with the help of a Syrian-based Islamic State militant.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2016
The radical post-modernism of Islamic State
Islamic State's strategy to destabilize liberal societies is working.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 2, 2016
Cabby starts life term at mental hospital over attempted beheading in London subway
An Islamic State-inspired taxi driver who tried to behead a London Underground passenger has been sent to a high-security mental hospital to begin a life sentence.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 1, 2016
As its territory shrinks, Islamic State group increasingly looking to global attacks
The Islamic State group, losing territory and on the retreat in Iraq and Syria, has claimed credit for a surge in global attacks this summer, most of them in France and Germany.
WORLD
Aug 1, 2016
Islamic State calls on its members to carry out jihad in Russia
In a nine-minute video posted on YouTube on Sunday, the Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 1, 2016
Taliban claims truck blast on key Kabul compound, reports dozens of casualties
The Taliban claimed responsibility for a truck bomb attack on a military and logistics services compound in Kabul early on Monday after a powerful explosion was heard all around the city.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 28, 2016
German police raid mosque and apartments in crackdown on Salafists
German police have searched a mosque and eight apartments in Hildesheim that are believed to be a hotbed of a radical Salafist community, the interior minister of the northern state of Lower Saxony said on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2016
The jihadi-inspired wave of 'lone wolf' attacks
A veteran al-Qaida leader is a major inspiration of the 'leaderless jihad' strategy that is now wreaking havoc and spreading fear in the West and in the Middle East.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 26, 2016
Two attackers 'neutralized,' one hostage killed in France church attack
French police "neutralized" two men armed with blades who had taken several people hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday, the police said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 24, 2016
Spy agencies struggle to spot threats from lone, mentally ill attackers
Recent attacks on civilians in the U.S. and Europe have exposed a gap in the intelligence community's efforts to track suspected extremists and prevent mass killings, half a dozen American, British and French counterterrorism officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jul 24, 2016
Kerry's Syria plan with Russia faces deep skepticism in U.S., abroad
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's latest proposal for closer U.S.-Russian cooperation against extremist groups in Syria is drawing questions over Russia's intentions from skeptics in the U.S. government, European nations in the coalition against the Islamic State and the main Syrian opposition groups....

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