The Islamic State has found its latest social media flavor of the month, the encrypted and security-conscious messaging service known as Telegram. J. M. Berger The Islamic State has found its latest social […]
Islamism
A police raid in Belgium
VERVIERS, Belgium: An alleged key figure of the November 2015 terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in Paris had slipped away from Belgian police 10 months earlier, when they stormed an apartment and […]
Life and death of a terrorist
MOLENBEEK, Belgium: This once-proud industrial district is better known today as a “jihadi conveyor belt” for having churned out such townsfolk as Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a key alleged conspirator in the November 2015 Paris […]
The Swedish Connection
Two of the foremost leaders of the Somali extremist group al-Shabaab have previously lived in Sweden, resulting in the recruitment of young Scandinavian Somalis to jihadism. (more…)
The IS media jihad
Tech-savvy young media producers are boosting the Islamic State’s allure with increasingly competent presentation skills and graphics to enhance the brutal videos that have long been a staple. A video-game ethos is part […]