A second night of violence by Islamists angry over a French government ban on Muslim face veils burned at least 20 cars and led to four arrests.
A police official told reporters that at least 50 Islamists were involved, firing weapons at police. At least one assailant threw a gasoline bomb at police officers. Continue reading
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban has sent a letter to a schoolgirl that the Taliban tried to assassinate in 2012.
Adnan Rasheed doesn’t apologize but says he wishes the attack “had never happened” and that she was not attacked for advocating for girls’ education but because she an ran “an anti-Taliban smear campaign.” Continue reading
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group is apparently planning more attacks on schools after their leader called for his members to rise up against “western education.”
Abubakar Shekau said “Western-style” education is a “plot against Islam.” Continue reading
At least 54 people were killed and over 400 wounded in a clash outside a military building in Cairo where Muslim Brotherhood affiliated protesters were demanding the return of Mohammed Morsi to power. Continue reading
A homicide bomber detonated his device near a church in the Christian quarter of Damascus in a terror attack aimed at killing Christians.
Rebel sources confirmed four people dead in the attack in the Bab Sharqi. The apparently target of the terrorist was the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox church. Neighboring shops were also damaged in the attack. Continue reading
The Taliban sent a terrifying message to local residents to not work with local authorities by beheading two young boys who spoke to the Afghan army and police. Continue reading
Chicago police are on heightened alert after discovering a street gang has created a special group aimed only at killing police officers.
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told CBS that his department is taking the seriously reports of a “hit squad”. Deputies with the Cook County Sheriff’s office discovered the plot. Continue reading
Syria has stationed missile batteries aimed at Israel in the aftermath of alleged Israeli air strikes in the country, the website of Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV, considered close to the regime of President Bashar Assad, quoted a top Syrian official as saying on Sunday.
The report came as Syrian Information Minister Omran Zoabi said on Sunday that alleged Israeli air strikes against three targets on the outskirts of Damascus “open the door to all possibilities.”
Source: The Jerusalem Post – Report: Syria stations missile batteries aimed at Israel
Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
As Syria’s two-year-old civil war veered into the potentially atomic arena of Iran’s confrontation with Israel and the West over its nuclear program, people were woken in the Syrian capital by explosions that shook the ground like an earthquake and sent pillars of flame high into the night sky.
“Night turned into day,” one man told Reuters from his home at Hameh, near one of the targets, the Jamraya military base.
Source: Reuters – Israel strikes Syria, says targeting Hezbollah arms
United Nations head Ban Ki-moon has said that at least 11,000 peacekeepers will be needed in Mali to ward off threats from Islamic terrorists.
The peacekeepers would be backed up by a second force, lead by African troops, that would concentrate on combat operations against the remaining terrorists hiding in the northern mountains. French forces that are scheduled to leave at the end of April currently head combat operations. Continue reading
