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Google has created a free tool for small, user-created online platforms to deal with terrorist content. Called Altitude, the free tool is built by Jigsaw — a unit within Google that tracks extremism, disinformation and censorship — and non-profit group called 'Tech Against Terrorism'.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Syrian government is moving to close a detention camp that held tens of thousands of people including family members of suspected Islamic State fighters, after unrest threatened its grip on the facility just weeks after taking it over. Responsibility for the al-Hol detention camp changed hands in January, when the Syrian government launched an offensive that routed the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led militia that had controlled it along with much of northeastern Syria.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With a swift offensive against a Kurdish-led militia last weekend, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa proved himself once again to be a bold military tactician and a gambler willing to risk his relationship with the U.S. to achieve his aims.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The U.S. is rushing to move captured Islamic State fighters out of northeast Syria amid fears that tensions between pro-government forces and a Kurdish-led militia could lead to a security breakdown and the escape of thousands of militants.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In September last year, more than 1,400 people filled the streets in Sydney’s world-famous Bondi Beach neighborhood to celebrate the opening of a new synagogue and community center. It was a different scene on Tuesday, just days after two gunmen killed 15 people and injured more than three dozen people at a nearby Hanukkah festival, including two rabbis affiliated with the Chabad of Bondi center.

attacks in Syria during the Eid el-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Ramadan. According to a report by AP, Eid could begin in Syria on Sunday, depending on the sighting of the new moon. Syrian authorities have said they arrested several militant cells in recent weeks. These groups were allegedly planning attacks in different parts of the country. Since Islamist insurgents from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) removed President Bashar Assad from power in December, Syria's security situation has been unstable. The US State Department issued a travel warning, saying possible attacks could target embassies, international organisations, and Syrian government buildings in Damascus. Although the Islamic State group was largely defeated in Syria in 2019, its sleeper cells are still active. They have claimed responsibility for multiple attacks, mainly in the northeast, which is controlled by US-backed Kurdish-led fighters.

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday. «The Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism,» Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or "Abu Khadija," was «deputy caliph» of the militant group and as «one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,» the statement said. On his Truth Social platform Friday night, U.S. President Donald Trump said: «Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters» in coordination with the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government. «PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!» Trump posted.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted stealing fuel from a parked car. The middle-aged officers screeched to a halt, jumped out and ran through a small park with their flashlights and Kalashnikov rifles.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the organization that overthrew Syria’s Assad regime, has “assumed the presidency of the country in the transitional phase," according to a statement last week from the military command of the current government in Damascus. The announcement formalizes the government that has existed since Mr.

The U.S. military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term.

As New Orleans seeks to recover from the deadly, Islamic State-inspired truck attack, law enforcement and community leaders are confronting an existential question as old as the city's famed entertainment district: Can Bourbon Street be protected in a ...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The greatest gift from Benjamin Netanyahu to Joe Biden was making the departing American president’s Middle East legacy seem much better than it is. And he did it by ignoring Mr.

Edward Pettifer, a 31-year-old Londoner with close ties to the British royal family. Pettifer was the stepson of Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who served as a beloved nanny to Prince William and Prince Harry during their formative years in the 1990s.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It was New Year’s Eve and Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a Houston military veteran whose life was coming apart, climbed into a rented pickup truck and drove east toward New Orleans. As he made his way across the Gulf Coast swampland, the native-born Jabbar simultaneously recorded a series of videos he would soon post to social media in which he swore his allegiance to Islamic State and declared his intention to commit mass murder.

The FBI said Thursday they now believe a U.S. citizen and Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, acted alone and was a member of the Islamic State terrorist group.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The alleged terrorist behind the New Year’s killing spree in New Orleans was a born-and-bred Texan, an Army veteran, and father of three who had climbed the corporate ladder. But Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s burnished professional résumé belied a path that had gone off course.

Islamic State extremist group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year's partygoers in New Orleans' French Quarter Wednesday, killing 15 people. The investigation is expected to look in part at any support or inspiration that driver Shamsud-Din Jabbar may have drawn from that violent Middle East-based group, or from any of at least 19 affiliated groups around the world.

New Orleans attack posted videos «indicating that he was inspired by ISIS» hours before ramming a truck into a New Year's crowd, US President Joe Biden said Wednesday, citing the FBI.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a native of Texas as the suspect of the New Orleans attack on New Years Day that killed nearly 15 as the federal agency seeks to find the motivation for the attack.

Pakistan army took out its pent-up anger by carrying out airstrikes on an encampment of Pakistani nationals in Paktika province of Afghanistan on December 24, alleging that it was a training camp of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a charge vehemently denied by the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban claimed that those killed were mostly women and children of refugees living there.