In an editorial with The Washington Post, Professor Mia Bloom describes how IS is using social media to recruit and radicalize teen girls through social media. Further, there is a need to balance the security of the United States (preventing the return of dangerous foreign fighters) with allowing young people who made a mistake a…
August 7, 2014 A Briton who claims he is fighting alongside militants in Syria has said he also recently went to Iraq to be at the “forefront” of the conflict there. The man, who calls himself Abu Abdullah, said he had been involved in fighting in the Iraqi city of Ramadi. It is the first…
August 12, 2014 A young British jihadist who fled his home to fight for the Islamic State boasted of a waiting list for “martyrdom” among the troops. Reyaad Khan also claimed the militants had “fireworks for the US” that have carried out air strikes to halt the advance of the Islamic State (IS) forces in…
August 10, 2014 A former Primark worker from Portsmouth has become the latest Briton to be killed in the Middle East fighting for the feared Jihadist group Islamic State. Muhammad Hamidur Rahman, 25, whose father runs an Indian Restaurant travelled to Syria via Turkey telling his family he was going to help deliver humanitarian aid….
August 13, 2014 A British schoolboy-turned jihadist who appeared in a recruitment video for Islamist militants in Syria has apparently boasted online of blowing up a building with his own homemade bombs. A Twitter account believed to belong to Nasser Muthana displayed before-and-after photographs of a building at a Syrian army base that had been…
