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Illustrative: A symbol for the Islamic State terror group on a shirt worn by a terrorist who attacked security forces at the Qalandiya checkpoint, in the West Bank, December 7, 2024. (Israel Police/ File)
May 3, 2026, 7:52 pm
Four Palestinians charged for planning ISIS-inspired attacks across Israel
Suspects allegedly watched Islamic State videos online, learned how to fire weapons and make bombs; targets included Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate and settlement of Kiryat Arba
By Charlie Summers
Illustrative: Iraqi Army soldiers celebrate as they hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during a military operation to regain control of a village outside Mosul, Iraq, November 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, file)
December 17, 2025, 3:32 pm
Prosecutors to indict 20-year-old Israeli for ISIS membership, contact with foreign agent
Police say northern resident Kenan Azaiza was willing to attack security forces, learned how to build explosives, planned to travel to enemy country with agent to train
By Charlie Summers
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference on August 12, 2025, in Tampa, Florida. (AP/Chris O'Meara, File)
December 9, 2025, 11:09 pm
Following Texas, Florida governor designates CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood as terror groups
Order says Brotherhood’s ‘ideology is irreconcilable’ with US values, accuses CAIR, a leading US Muslim group, of having ties to terrorism; CAIR calls move ‘Israel First stunt’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Supporters of Yemen's Houthis raise placards and flags during a rally marking Independence Day, the anniversary of the end of British rule in southern Yemen in 1967, in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa on November 30, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)
December 4, 2025, 5:31 pm
Iraq backtracks after listing Hezbollah and Houthis as terror groups
Prime Minister Sudani, seeking to stay in power atop bloc containing pro-Iran factions, announces investigation after lawmaker slams his government’s ‘disgraceful stance’
By Noam Lehmann and Reuters
Radical Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary is seen leaving a probation hostel in London on October 19, 2018, following his release from prison. (Daniel Leal/AFP)
July 23, 2024, 6:27 pm
UK convicts radical Islamist preacher for leading proscribed terror group
Head of counter-terror police unit says Anjem Choudary is facing ‘significant sentence’ for directing and being a member of al-Muhajiroun
By Reuters
File - Paris Police chief Laurent Nunez attends a press conference on logistics for the Paris 2024 Olympic games' opening ceremony, in Paris, France, June 13, 2024. (Julien de Rosa / AFP)
June 21, 2024, 7:01 pm
Islamist terrorism is ‘main concern’ for upcoming Olympics, says Paris police chief
Despite ‘no clear-cut threat,’ Laurent Nunez says terror risk no less important than far left, environmentalist and pro-Palestinian protests; notes May arrest of would-be saboteurs
By Reuters
This photo provided by Rewards for Justice, US Department of State, shows Khalid al-Batarf (Rewards For Justice, US Department of State, via AP)
March 11, 2024, 9:15 am
Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch says leader dead, in unclear circumstances
Khalid al-Batarfi had a $5 million bounty on his head from the US, led most dangerous arm of terror group since 2020
By AP
Supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrate in Ramallah, July 7, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
January 15, 2024, 6:12 pm
UK to ban Sunni Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir for antisemitism and promoting terror
Home Secretary Cleverly notes that group, already banned in other countries, praised and celebrated October 7 Hamas attacks
By AFP and ToI Staff
File: Demonstrators display a banner with the lettering "No peace on a stolen land" as they take part in a rally in solidarity with Palestinians and against Israel at Oranienplatz Square in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, Germany, on November 11, 2023. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
November 29, 2023, 5:03 pm
Germany warns of ‘real’ Islamist terror threat in wake of Israel-Hamas war
Berlin’s spymaster says conflict prompting calls for terror groups to join fray, carry out attacks; points at unnamed ‘foreign state actors’ seeking to exploit mood
By AFP and ToI Staff
A fighter from the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an ISIS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, July 17, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)
August 25, 2023, 1:55 pm
Israeli Arab teenager indicted for joining Islamic State, planning terror attack
Hamzeh Abu Zeilah alleged to have begun watching content of terrorist group online, and contacted its members via TikTok
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, the director of Nariman Chabad House, gestures at shrapnel marks left from the 2008 terror attacks, during a media visit on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the attacks in Mumbai on November 25, 2018 (PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP)
July 31, 2023, 11:52 am
India terror suspects said to have plotted attack on Mumbai Chabad House
Two men linked to local Islamist group behind efforts to kill Hindu leaders; Israeli intelligence said involved in probe, security stepped up at Jewish sites
By ToI Staff
Saif al-Adel, Al-Qaeda's likely new leader. (Combatting Terrorism Center, USMA via Wikipedia)
February 14, 2023, 12:08 pm
Iran-based trainer of 9/11 hijackers Sayf al-‘Adl believed to be new al-Qaeda chief
Though successor to Ayman al-Zawahri not officially announced by terror group, most UN member states say commander is its ‘uncontested leader’
By Edith M. Lederer
Illustrative photo of a member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces removing an Islamic State flag in the town of Tabqa in Syria. (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)
June 14, 2022, 1:15 pm
Germany, Switzerland arrest four suspected IS sympathizers in cross-border operation
German intelligence services estimate more than 1,150 people traveled from Germany to Iraq and Syria since 2011 for Islamist reasons
By AFP
Mehmood A. Sheikh, defense lawyer for British-born Pakistani Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, leaves the Supreme Court after an appeal hearing in the Daniel Pearl case, in Islamabad, Pakistan, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
January 6, 2021, 5:11 pm
Murder suspect acquitted in Daniel Pearl’s killing to file petition for release
Omar Sheikh will turn to Pakistan Supreme Court to seek release from jail after conviction was overturned in 2002 killing of American Jewish journalist
By KATHY GANNON
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the alleged mastermind behind the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnap-slaying, appears at the court in Karachi, Pakistan, March 29, 2002. (Zia Mazhar/AP)
December 30, 2020, 7:28 pm
US says it won’t allow Daniel Pearl murder suspect to evade justice
Justice Department ‘stands ready’ to take custody of Omar Sheikh, who was ordered released from a Pakistani jail after acquitted of 2002 killing of American Jewish journalist
By Munir Ahmed
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