Category: Counter-Terrorism

Tech giant Google, which has been under pressure to ‘eliminate’ extremist content from its domain, has outlined 4 main steps it will be using to identify and remove terrorist or violent content from the web.The threat of terrorism is evolving. The terrorists have capitalized on the digital age and have been..

A van driven by a 48-year-old man has killed one man and injured ten others near the Finsbury Park Mosque, in North London after 12:00 am BST, on 19th June, 2017. The man has been arrested by the London Metropolitan Police, on grounds of ‘attempted murder’. Amber Rudd..

The ongoing crisis in Syria has dramatically escalated with Iran launching ballistic missile strikes against the ISIS targets in the region. Iran’s Iran Revolutionary Guards fired several missiles at ISIL positions in the Deir Az Zor province, Syria. Experts have noted that this is the first time Iran has..

The Russian defence ministry recently announced that one of the top leaders of the Islamic State militant group (IS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may have been killed in Raqqa, Iraq, during one of the air raids conducted by the state on May 28. If Baghdadi, who is considered a key leader of ISIS..

Mohammed Shafi Armar a top recruiter for the Islamic State in India has been named by the US as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). In the last three years, Armar was in-charge of creating ISIS affiliated groups in India. It has been reported that at least 600-700 youth were…

The United Nations Migration Agency has expressed deep concern over the mistreatment of the Somali and Ethiopian refugees in Libya. The agency has confirmed the authenticity of a video that was posted on June 9 on Facebook which depicts the refugees subjected to extreme brutality…

On 16 June 2017, terrorists Abu Salem and Mustafa Dossa, the key accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case that killed 257 people and left 713 seriously injured, were both convicted. Salem has been found guilty of conspiracy and terror activities by a special court. The convictions came as part..

On 2nd   May 2017 Mexican authorities announced the capture of Dámaso López who is considered to be the right-hand man of El Chapo. El Chapo the drug lord who controlled the Sinaloa Cartel is now facing charges in the USA after being extradited in January.

A group of 36 Yazidis have been rescued from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) by Iraqi forces in Mosul on the 30th of April 2017. The group of men, women and children who were in captivity..

President Rodrigo Duterte on 9th April 2017 ordered the military to wipe out the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf terrorists. While urging the military to use any method to exterminate the terror group..