July 2, 2014 DENVER — Newly unsealed court documents show the FBI thwarted a Denver woman’s attempt to help a terrorist organization by arresting her before she boarded a flight in April. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered documents unsealed in the case against 19-year-old Shannon Maureen Conley, who was charged with conspiring to help…
July 4, 2014 More than 100 Islamic prayer-leaders from various denominations of Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims have signed a letter calling on British Muslims not to travel to Iraq or Syria to fight. “We urge the British Muslim communities to continue the generous and tireless efforts to support all of those affected by the crisis…
July 3, 2014 In January 2014 the French Secret Service identified more than seven hundred individuals believed to be involved in the “Franco-Syrian conflict.” In recent months, the French government, along with the European Union, has promised to take steps to curb the spread of jihad in European countries. The French state promises to “reinforce…
July 3, 2014 Abderakaz Cherif’s two sons left their home in Nice to go fight in Syria as part of an al-Qaeda brigade. According to the father, his two sons told him they were going to a nightclub but never returned home. “From the moment he left I knew I would never be able to…
July 2, 2014 Syria-based Jihadists have vowed to retake Spain – “the land of our ancestors” – in a video shot in Castilian Spanish that emerged on YouTube from a Syrian pro-government account. “We are in the Holy Land [Syria], the land of Islam and I tell and warn everyone: we are living under the…
