CHINA TOPIX

05/02/2024 12:55:50 am

Make CT Your Homepage

ISIS

U.S. President Barack Obama

Obama Admits Underestimating ISIL, Syria Town Fears Carnage

United States President Barack Obama on Sunday said the government may have "underestimated" the situation in Syria, making the country "ground zero for worldwide jihadists," CBS reported.

Worst Nightmare For ISIS/Daesh: A Female Muslim Pilot

UAE's first female fighter pilot led an airstrike mission this week against ISIS, also known as Daesh. Major Mariam Al Mansouri, who joined pilots from the United States and four other Arab countries in Syria, could be the terrorist group's worst nightmare.

Airstrike

Why Airstrikes Alone Will Not ‘Defeat And Degrade’ Islamic State

Airstrikes alone will not win the war against the Islamic State and the Western governments’ decision to rule out ground troops is a major mistake, a former chief of the United Kingdom military told the Sunday Times over the weekend.

Putin meets with Ukrainian officials in possible attempt at peace

Russia Condemns U.S., NATO Allies; Calls U.S. Violator of Other Nations' Sovereignty

Russia has condemned the United States and its NATO allies at the U.N. General Assembly Saturday for violating the sovereignty of other nations in the latest example of the deteriorating relations between Russia and the West.

Planned Islamic State Attacks Against American and French Population

ISIL’s Next Possible Targets: New York and Paris' Subways

Unconfirmed intelligence estimates cited that the subways of New York and Paris are now the primary targets of the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Police said 30-year-old Alton Nolen rushed into an Oklahoma food distribution plant and stabbed two women, one fatally.

Corrections Officials Confirm Felony Records of Oklahoma Factory Beheading Suspect

Oklahoma corrections officials confirmed Thursday that the newly-fired employee at a processing plant. who decapitated one of his former co-workers. had been recently released from probation three years early.

Police said 30-year-old Alton Nolen rushed into an Oklahoma food distribution plant and stabbed two women, one fatally.

Oklahoma Islam Convert Beheads Woman, Stabs Another In Workplace Incident

A seemingly ISIS copycat beheading at an Oklahoma food distribution plant wasn't an act of terror but a workplace violence issue, police and the FBI said Friday. Fired the day before, Alton Nolen, 30, allegedly stormed into Vaughan Foods at Moore, Okla. and beheaded a former co-worker before stabbing and critically injuring another food plant worker and wounding a company official who happened to be a local police reserve member.

James Comey

FBI: Masked Militant In Beheading Videos Identified

FBI Director James Comey said he believes they have identified the masked man in the videos of the beheading of two Americans.

ISIS airstrikes

U.S. Authorities Unaware of IS Plot to Attack New York, Paris Subways

Officials from the United States and France said that they found no evidence of a reported Islamic State plot to attack subways in New York and Paris, reports revealed on Friday.

U.S. Airstrikes Against Islamic State

Air Strikes Against Islamic State In Syria Expected To Slow Down

The air campaign mounted by the United States and its five Arab allies against Islamic State targets in Syria on Tuesday is expected to slow down, U.S. defense officials said.

Planned Islamic State Attacks Against American and French Population

Islamic State Plans To Attack American and French Subways, Iraqi PM Says

Iraq’s prime minister on Thursday said his government has received credible intelligence of Islamic State attacks on American and French population, but U.S. and French officials found no evidence to confirm any specific threat.

Syrian Women in Hijab

Undercover Syrian Woman Reveals Life Under Islamic State Rule In Raqqa

With a camera under her veil, a brave Syrian woman risked her life to document oppression under the Islamic State rule in Raqqa, a northern city in Syria known to be the group’s stronghold. The remarkable footage was aired this week on a French news site called France 2

U.S. President Barack Obama greets U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon Outlines World’s Mounting Terrorism Woes At U.N. General Assembly

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened the world’s largest gathering of world leaders in New York with ominous tones and dire warnings of global terrorism, calling 2014 “a terrible year for the principals in the United Nations Charter.”

U.S. President Barack Obama

‘No God Condones Terror’, Obama Urges World Leaders, Muslims to Fight Islamic State

U.S. President Barack Obama called on global leaders and Muslim communities to reject harsh Islamist ideologies like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, during his address at the annual UN General Assembly on Wednesday.

A man who identified himself as Herve Gourdel (C) speaks as he sits in between two masked armed gunmen in this still image taken from video which was published on the Internet on September 22, 2014.

Video Shows French Hostage Beheaded by Algerian Jihadists

A 55-year-old French tourist kidnapped while hiking on Sunday in Algeria was shown beheaded on video posted Wednesday by an Algerian jihadist group who said this was in response to French air attacks on ISIS in Iraq.

Real Time Analytics