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The Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen is an ongoing armed conflict between the Yemeni government, the United States and their allies, and al-Qaeda -affiliated cells in Yemen. It is a part of the Global War on Terror . Government crackdown against al-Qaeda cells began in 2001, escalating steadily until 14 January 2010, when Yemen declared open war on ...
al-Qaeda, broad-based militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s and became one of the world’s most notorious terrorist organizations after carrying out the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Map of 2,872 terrorist incidents in the contiguous United States from 1970 to 2017. KEY: Orange: 2001–2017; Green: 1970–2000 Terrorism deaths in the United States In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious ...
Police - Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, Security: In the early 21st century, terrorism, particularly the September 11 attacks in the United States, profoundly affected the nature of policing.
The FBI says it is investigating the shooting as “potential domestic terrorism” and that the gunman acted alone. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is “doing well ...
An Iraqi court issued a death sentence to a wife of the late brutal Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, for alleged crimes against Yazidi women.
Etymology and literary origins. The term jihad is derived from the Arabic root jahada, meaning "to exert strength and effort, to use all means in order to accomplish a task".In its expanded sense, it can be fighting the enemies of Islam, as well as adhering to religious teachings, enjoining good and forbidding evil. The peaceful sense of "efforts towards the moral uplift of society or towards ...
