KARIN LAUB and FARES AKRAM / The Associated PressApr 2, 2019
An unlikely overlap of interests with Israel’s right-wing government results in the two sides once again meeting with Egyptian mediators. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
MATTHEW LEE / The Associated PressDec 22, 2018
Brett McGurk follows Defense Secretary Jim Mattis out the door in protest of the president's abrupt decision to withdraw troops. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
MAGGIE MICHAEL, TRISH WILSON and LEE KEATH / The Associated PressAug 8, 2018
Such deals have allowed militants to survive to fight another day—and risk strengthening the most dangerous branch of the terror network, one that carried out the 9/11 attacks. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
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By Jon Queally / Common DreamsJan 27, 2016
Worries mount as affiliates of the group issue calls for sympathizers to head to the area. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 30, 2015
Authorities say former members of a Paris neighborhood gang ended up aiding the Charlie Hebdo attack, recruiting militant fighters to Syria. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigJan 15, 2015
Al-Qaida's chapter in Yemen was officially behind the deadly shooting at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris on Jan. 7, at least according to al-Qaida's chapter in Yemen. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigJan 7, 2015
The top-ranking leader of the Taliban faction that claimed responsibility for last month's mass slaughter of 153 people, many of them children, at the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, has taken to the Internet to warn that his group is prepared to strike again. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigJan 4, 2015
A U.S. drone strike and air assaults by Pakistani military forces killed 38 people this weekend in tribal areas near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, official sources reported Sunday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigOct 7, 2014
According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Islamic State forces were closing in on capturing the Syrian town of Kobani on Tuesday. This development was of particular concern to Erdogan, as Kobani is close to the border between Syria and his own country. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 18, 2014
The Islamist militant onslaught in Iraq raises the specter of a sectarian conflict spilling across the embattled nation's borders, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Tuesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigJan 21, 2014
Islamist militants from Russia's Caucases region released a video taking credit for a previous attack (unconfirmed) and promising to give a "present" if Russia goes ahead with the Winter Games next month. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 3, 2012
Members of al-Qaida, the Taliban and militant groups from Afghanistan and Pakistan met up twice late last year in an effort to combine forces against America's diminished presence in Pakistan -- one common target on which they might agree to focus. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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