Islamic Jihad

A bullet impact is seen in a window of a building next to the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. Masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, including the paper's editor, before escaping in a getaway car. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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David Cameron condemns ‘sickening’ Charlie Hebdo attack

Kelly Cohen · January 7, 2015 4:49 pm

A member of the Kurdish forces stands in an area damaged by an improvised explosive device placed by Islamic State militants that killed several Peshmerga fighters and injured dozens, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Zana Ahmed)

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Pentagon watchdog chosen to oversee Islamic State combat operations

Sarah Bedford · January 7, 2015 10:00 am

U.S. airstrike takes out al Shabab leader in Somalia

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U.S. airstrike takes out al Shabab leader in Somalia

Kelly Cohen · December 31, 2014 5:44 pm

In this Oct. 20, 2014, file photo, thick smoke and flames from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

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US, allies conduct 12 air strikes against the Islamic State

Zack Colman · December 28, 2014 1:37 pm

Mark Oberholtzer, who has owned and operated Mark-1 Plumbing in Texas City, Texas for the past 32 years, was surprised to see an old pickup truck of his in a photo posted on Twitter by the Ansar al-Deen Front.

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Syrian extremists are using a Texas plumber’s truck as a gun platform

Kelly Cohen · December 18, 2014 4:07 pm

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News group ‘unmasked’ man behind ‘most influential’ pro-Islamic State tweeter

Becket Adams · December 13, 2014 10:00 am

In early April of this year, Brandeis University, under pressure from student activists and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, reversed its decision to give an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a global advocate for womenâs rights. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali fights radical Islam’s real war on women

Ashe Schow · December 8, 2014 10:00 am

President Obama on Sunday denounced the beading of American Peter Kassig as "an act of pure evil by a terrorist group the world rightly associates with inhumanity." (Photo by Patrick Hamilton/G20 Australia via Getty images)

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Obama denounces latest Islamic State beheading as ‘act of pure evil’

Susan Ferrechio · November 16, 2014 11:43 pm

Making the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq is a decision former President George W. Bush will stick by forever, he said on NPR Wednesday morning. (AP Photo)

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George W. Bush: Removing Saddam was the ‘right decision’

Kelly Cohen · November 12, 2014 4:36 pm

The image of two Iranian who were traveling with stolen passports on a missing Malaysia Arlines jetliner is displayed on a screen during a presser at the Interpol headquarters in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

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Jihadis are booking tickets on cruise ships in attempts to reach Syria and Iraq

Justin Green · November 6, 2014 5:59 pm

U.S. European Command Commander, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Philip M. Breedlove speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon, Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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NATO commander: ‘We need to hear the voices of moderate Muslims in the mosques’

Charles Hoskinson · November 3, 2014 6:31 pm

The State Department's "Think Again, Turn Away" campaign falls flat.

U.S. allies struggle to beat back ISIS’ slick propaganda

Charles Hoskinson · November 3, 2014 10:00 am