While this report focuses on the overly aggressive application of article 299-2, several concerns we raise, including treatment of terrorism suspects, also apply to the broader government response in Kyrgyzstan to the rise of transnational Islamist armed groups such as the Islamic State (also known..…

Instead, the U.S. has aimed its missiles and bombs at the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), operating in a de facto alliance with the Assad regime. . ..…

In Saudi Arabia, for example, the increase in score was due in part to attacks throughout the year by the Islamic State militant group (also known as ISIS or ISIL). ..…

France experienced several religion-related terror attacks in 2015, including the Jan. 7 shooting at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Nov. 13 attacks claimed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) at the Bataclan concert hall and various other locations..…

Some insurgent groups, including those that have affiliated themselves with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, have carried out attacks on schools. . ..…

By subnational groups that use religion such as the, For the purposes of this study, religion-related terrorism includes acts carried out Nigeria-based Islamist group Boko Haram al-Qaida in Islamic Maghreb and Islamic State, the militant group also known as ISIS or ISIL. ..…

If we succeeded as Syrians, Iranians and Lebanese, those who are fighting terrorism in the Middle East, if we succeeded to destroy ISIS in Raqqah, that means one of the headquarters of ISIS has gone, and when you separate Raqqah from Iraq, that means the geographical continuity no longer existed, and we all..…

Most Republicans and Democrats also agree with their own party's policies on range of specific issues, including the economy, immigration, health care and policies to deal with Islamic militant group Iraq and Syria.. Among Democrats, the percentage that agrees with their party's policies to deal..…

Currently, 80% say the Islamic militant group in Iraq and Syria known as ISIS is a major threat to the well-being of the United States, while 72% view cyberattacks from other countries as a major threat and 67% say the same about global economic instability. . ... Most Republicans (74%) say..…

But today’s expanding operations against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq are sanctioned only by the Iraq War Resolution of 2002 (with Saddam Hussein and his supposed WMD threat gone in 2003) and by the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against those..…

At a time when the federal government regards ISIS and other Islamic terrorist groups as an existential threat to the security of the United States, the recent rash of suspected arson cases raises questions as to whether the domestic threat from white supremacist terrorist groups will be..…

They are part of government response to January 14 bomb and gun attacks in Jakarta that killed seven people, linked to the extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS. ..…

Meanwhile, the U.S. war on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), carried out in coordination with the Washington-supported government in Baghdad, rages on. . ... And the collapse of the economy in Islamic State territory means the group is running low on tax revenue. . ..…

The gamble failed, and it's impossible to understand many aspects of the world today--from the international refugee crisis, to the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), to the rise of the far right in Europe and Donald Trump here--without appreciating the origins and..…

Currently, 47% favor the use of U.S. ground forces against ISIS, little changed from July (44%). ... ISIS ranks high as the top global threat to U.S. . The Islamic militant group known as ISIS has risen higher atop the public’s list of global threats to the U.S. ..…

Anyone seeing Graeme Wood's must-read February Atlantic piece, What ISIS Wants, will be struck by Cruz's eerily similar to Islamic extremists commitment to prophecy and theocratic rule, of world divided by their preferred form of Abrahamism vs everyone else — good vs evil... ..…

More than an enactment of anything Islamic, the resort to suicide by groups such as al-Qaeda or ISIS represents a deliberate challenge to traditional, patriarchal authority. ..…

A successful campaign against Islamic extremism should deepen, not undermine, allegiance toward liberté, égalité, fraternité, especially among Muslim citizens. . ISIS strategy also seeks to make Europeans think of refugees as potential security threats rather than the victims that they..…

Obama once said in speech that his father was born Muslim and as adult became atheist... ..…

Bolton made his remarks, Jim Mattis, the defense secretary, told journalists at the Pentagon that American troops in Syria remained focused on the Islamic State. . . . “Right now, our troops inside Syria are there for one purpose, and that’s under the U.N. authorization about defeating..…

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday that defeating ISIS involves projecting American ideals to the world. ..…

But the threat became real in 2015 when foreign fighters from Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia joined ISIS (Islamic State) and other Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq. ..…

Recently, Andrew Sullivan has been flogging the idea that Islamic State Iraq and Syria ( ISIS or now just. Islamic State ) was never subordinate to Qaeda based on the essay, Closer Look at ISIS Iraq, by Evan Perkoski and Alec Worsnop. ..…