Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-appointed Caliph of the Islamic State, issued a 19-minute audio message entitled, “A Message to the Majahideen and the Muslim Ummah in the Month of Ramadan” where he called on Muslims across to globe to join the caliphate and its jihad.
Russia and China will meet to continue negotiations of its ruble-yuan swap deal next week, in its quest to end the dominance of the dollar, the Voice of Russia reported.
Saudi Arabia has sent 30,000 troops to reinforce its 500-mile-long border with Iraq against jihadists, the Telegraph reported.
China revealed its cyberspace intelligence research center to facilitate its cyber espionage efforts around the world, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
The ‘Islamic State’ continued its assault on the Iraq’s Balad air force base, formerly known as Camp Anaconda, as U.S. does not expect F-16s to be supplied in Iraq until the fall.
A young Denver woman, 19, fell in love with an Islamic State (IS) jihadist online, vowed to aid the group, and then was arrested by authorities at an airport, ABC News reported.
Gun-toting children paraded through the streets of Mosul in Iraq. Human Rights Watch says in Syria, the ‘Islamic State’ has already recruited young children as snipers.
The Iraqi parliament fails to elect a new prime minister as Sunnis and Kurds shun the parliament leading to concerns Iraq will break apart into sectarian regions. Meanwhile, the well-armed ‘Islamic State,’ which has captured enough U.S. made weapons for 200,000 soldiers, took another border town yesterday.
Thousands of people crowded the streets of Hong Kong organized by “Occupy Central with Love and Peace” to press the mainland China for full democratic elections. Estimates greatly vary from 100,000 to 800,000 assembled advocating free and open elections.
In 2010, France instituted a ban on Muslim woman wearing a full-face veil, niqab, and the law was upheld by the European Court of Human Rights yesterday.
Last week, a company introduced ‘digital tattoos’ worn on the wrist to protect access your cell phone.
U.S. President Barack Obama ordered another 200 troops to Iraq to protect American interests in the country.
Ukrainian forces launched new military operations against pro-Russian separatists, hours after the expiration of a unilateral cease-fire.
The United States fears that al-Qaeda affiliated groups are plotting to bring down commercial airliners with sophisticated and advanced bombs that can bypass airport security with the help of Western jihadists with U.S. or European passports returning from the Middle East.
The newly formed ‘Islamic State’ paraded scud missiles, tanks, and other armored vehicles around Al-Raqqah, Syria in a demonstration of its military power.
According to a world map released by the “Islamic State” on Twitter shows the jihadist organization’s 5-year plan to establish the Caliphate across the entire Middle East including Israel, North Africa, Spain, Greece, Pakistan, Georgia, China and parts of Russia.
Two U.S. universities conducted a psychology experiment with over 600,000 Facebook users unbeknownst to them as Facebook altered their news feeds both positively and negatively to see if it affected their online behavior.
On the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has declared a new Islamic Caliphate in the areas it now occupies, and has renamed itself as simply, “Islamic State”, as it ushers in a new era of international jihad.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) declared the establishment of a “Caliphate” on Sunday announcing that its leader as the ruling “Caliph”, according to Agence France-Presse.
As negotiations for a nuclear agreement with Iran enters its final stage with a deadline looming just weeks away, Israel sent an emergency high-level delegation to Washington to express its concerns.