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Dec 18 2020
News
‘Lost year’ for education: Global lessons on how students can rebound
As an Afghan boy growing up in a refugee camp in northwestern Pakistan, Ismail Khan remembers his first lesson in the power of education – and its disruption. In 1996, when he was in 6th grade, protests by Islamic militants shut down schools and government offices in the area for about four months, forcing him and his siblings to stay home.
“Those kids whose parents were educated kept
Christian Science MonitorOct 23 2014
News
Pal says Ottawa gunman wanted to go to Middle East, seemed 'mentally ill'
The man who stormed Canada’s government complex Wednesday, killing a soldier and sending Ottawa into an all-out panic, was a small-time criminal who recently converted to Islam and desperately wanted to move to the Middle East, according to reports.
Fox News (Online News)Oct 13 2015
News
Afghan ISIS Branch Makes Inroads in Battle Against Taliban
At least three times a week, Malaika hikes up the mountain, past mulberry and pine trees, to a clearing where she can get cellphone reception. She calls her family to reassure them that the Islamic State fighters have not come for her yet.
New York Times (News)Oct 09 2015
News
Obama Administration Ends Pentagon Program to Train Syrian Rebels
The Obama administration has ended the Pentagon’s $500 million program to train and equip Syrian rebels, administration officials said on Friday, in an acknowledgment that the beleaguered program had failed to produce any kind of ground combat forces capable of taking on the Islamic State in Syria.
New York Times (News)Jan 14 2015
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Qaeda Group in Yemen Claims Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Attack
Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen formally claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the deadly assault a week ago at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people, saying that the target was chosen by the Qaeda leadership and referring to attackers as “two heroes of Islam.”
New York Times (News)Jun 12 2014
News
U.S. Embassy Prepares for Possible Evacuation as Militants Take Control in Iraq
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is preparing contingency plans to evacuate its employees if necessary now that one of the deadliest Islamic militant groups in the region has taken control of large swaths of Iraq, a U.S. official told TheBlaze.
The BlazeDec 07 2015
News
Obama tries to calm fears about ISIS attacks, calls for gun control measures
President Obama tried to reassure Americans on Sunday night that he has the right plan to defeat the Islamic State using a rare prime-time Oval Office address to urge the public not to take revenge on Muslim Americans in the wake of the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since 2001.
Washington TimesDec 07 2015
Opinion
OPINION: Obama speech: Reassurances about ISIS fall flat in Oval Office address
In the wake of the worst terrorist attack in America since 9/11, President Obama could have used his Oval Office address on Sunday night to announce different policies than the ones that have obviously failed to keep America safe from radical Islam.
Guest WriterSep 23 2014
News
US widens bombing campaign to IS strongholds in Syria
The Pentagon said Arab allies assisted overnight strikes in Syria. Islamic State bases were the main target, but the US said it also struck at a separate al-Qaeda affiliate suspected of plotting terror attacks on Western targets.
Christian Science MonitorDec 03 2015
News
Workplace Violence or Terrorism? CA Massacre Probe Unfolds
A day after a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, authorities are trying to figure out why a couple would embark on a deadly killing spree.
Was it workplace violence or Islamic-inspired terrorism or both that left 14 people dead and more than a dozen injured?
CBN