As New Scientist went to press, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic were finalising their game plans to tackle the rise of Sunni
jihadist group Islamic State, but the issue of homegrown fighters won't be far from their minds.
The halt will not apply to the battle against
jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and al - Nusra Front.
Not exact matches
Islamic State's offshoot in Afghanistan, known as the Sunni
jihadist group's so - called Khorasan Province, is suspected of carrying out several attacks on minority Shi'ite Muslim targets.
So far, every strike against the
Islamic State in Somalia occurred in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland, where the
jihadist group has a foothold.
Suicide bombers stormed Libya's electoral commission in Tripoli on Wednesday, killing at least a dozen people in an attack claimed by the
Islamic State
jihadist group.
Al - Qaeda in the
Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the
jihadist group al - Mourabitoun claimed to be behind the attacks, which included two hotels along with the Cappuccino Cafe.
Added to this is the presence of numerous
groups that support Palestinian,
jihadist, and al - Qaeda causes, as well as the Takfiri people who left Egyptian society to build a perfect
Islamic society in the Sinai.
Strikes by the US - led air coalition fighting the
Islamic State
group destroyed 116 fuel trucks used by the
jihadist organisation in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Islamic jihadist groups Boko Haram and Al Shabbab terrorize African communities in Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Somalia, Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Tanzania - which of those countries is engaged in military occupation?
The
jihadists have allied themselves with the
Islamic State
group, but experts doubt the scale and scope of the collaboration.
For the first time, the United States and Russia conducted combined airstrikes on an
Islamic State - controlled oil field in Raqqa in eastern Syria, a major part of a half a billion dollar crude industry sustaining the
jihadist group, the Sunday Express reported.
Ten months later, gunmen and suicide bombers from the
Islamic State
jihadist group attacked bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the national stadium in Paris on November 13, 2015, killing 130 people.
The
jihadists, who are allied to the
Islamic State
group, have destroyed swathes of remote northeast Nigeria since 2009, killing at least 20,000 people and forcing more than 2.6 million from their homes.
Winter tells TechCrunch: «Now, there's no two ways about it — Telegram is first and foremost the centre of gravity online for the
Islamic State, and other Salafi
jihadist groups.