The terror attacks in India as well as abroad has created an impression as if jihad is central to Qur’anic teaching. First of all, as we have asserted repeatedly,...

One of the problems with countries like Syria - secretive and authoritarian - is that whenever a bomb goes off or someone is assassinated, the list of possible suspects...

In the third part of this series, Pakistani analyst Khawar Mehdi tells Pepe Escobar how al- Qaeda after 9/11 reorganized and established itself in North Waziristan in...

Let’s get a couple of things straight here. I don’t like Bush and I don’t like terrorists. I don’t like the CIA any more than I like Bin Laden. And the idea of...

Palestinian hardline faction Hamas is feeling the pressure leading up to the holiday marking the Islamic feast of Eid-Al-Adha. Gaza’s desperate economic and...

Afghanistan is gradually turning into a secure shelter for international jihads and the jihadist movements. It is getting stronger even than Iraq. But how it has been...

If you are afraid of Muslims, here is story you should not miss reading. If you hate them, this is story that can trigger an impulse of change in your mind. Who said...

Salary: “Every Muslim knows his life is not his, since it belongs to this violated Islamic nation whose blood is being spilled. Nothing should take precedence...

I was talking with a friend in Kabul over the phone earlier today as he was walking out of Indra Gandhi Paediatric Hospital in Kabul. My friend signed in her daughter...

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The two assailants behind China’s deadliest militant assault in a decade were Islamic jihadis intent on turning 2008 into a “year of mourning” for the...

Haj Pligrims Vs Amarnath Pligrims

Jihadis are making little headway in garnering support for their cause among Muslims in the Indian mainstream. And the chief of the rump Students Islamic Movement of...

Hardly 4 months of apparent peace and we see the menace of militants taking a rebirth in NWFP, current example being the killing of 17 cops in Swat yesterday, the...

# The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language. # Americans may understand “jihad” to mean...

Some do’s and don’t’s from the National Counterterrorism Center:_ Don’t use the term “jihadist,” which has broader religious...

Don’t call them jihadists any more.And don’t call al-Qaida a movement.The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time...

Since the invasion of Iraq five years ago, Europe was concerned about the radicalisation of its Muslim-dominated societies mounting a serious challenge to long standing...

The prosecution says they were planning violent jihad, but the 12 men at the centre of Melbourne’s terrorism trial maintain that angry words do not equate to violent...

Law enforcement officials and security experts are warning against the threat of homegrown terrorism as several cases involving alleged American jihadists enter the...