January was a spectacularly bad month for The Base. A nationwide FBI crackdown dismantled the neo-Nazi terror group, resulting in multiple arrests of its members for things as sinister as assassination plots and plans to shoot up a protest and as peculiar as animal sacrifice and the production of DMT. …
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US accuses Iran of sheltering Al Qaeda members
The US accused the Iranian government of sheltering members of Al Qaeda. In its annual terrorism report issued on Wednesday, the US State Department said Iran remained unwilling to convict Al Qaeda members living in the country and refused to publicly identify members in its custody.
Read More »Iraqis flee border areas as Turkey strikes Kurdish militants
Dozens of civilians fled villages in northern Iraq on Monday as Turkey stepped up a military campaign targeting Kurdish rebels that has drawn condemnation from Iraqi officials.
Read More »Iraq launches third phase of anti-ISIS operations as coalition withdraws
Iraq on Monday launched the third phase of a military operation in the north to combat ISIS sleeper cells as US-led coalition forces begin to withdraw.
Read More »US State Department insists no ‘back-room deal’ behind release of Hezbollah financier
The US State Department is denying any deal-making or “good-will diplomacy” was behind the impending release of Kassim Tajideen, a Lebanese-Belgian businessman and convicted financier of the militant organisation Hezbollah.
Read More »Al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria detains former commander who defected
Jamal Zeina split from group once known as Nusra Front earlier this year to set up a new hardline organization.
Read More »Judge warned Reading stabbing suspect Khairi Saadallah was falling through the cracks
Extremist reporting in the UK prison system and the top security service, MI5, failed to assess the threat from Libyan asylum seeker Khairi Saadallah in the months before the terror incident that killed three people on Saturday.
Read More »Germany bans neo-Nazi group Nordadler
This is the third ban of a right-wing extremist group in Germany so far this year. Police raided suspected group members across four federal states.
Read More »Idlib to Tripoli: Turkey moves to dominate eastern Mediterranean
The first time Wael Amr got on a plane was not quite what he had hoped for. Air travel in films led him to imagine how glamorous it would be to leave Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province for an exotic holiday abroad.
Read More »Egyptian court sentences 13 ‘Nusra’ convicts to life over joining terrorist group
The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday handed life imprisonment sentence to 13 people over joining a terrorist group and ordered placing 16 defendants in the case on terror lists.
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