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Failed Foley Rescue Reveals Challenges Faced By U.S. Intelligence
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View ArticleBrooklyn Man Fights In Syria. Is He A Threat To The U.S.?
Mocha Hookah is a little Middle Eastern restaurant and cafe on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn where you can pick up a shawarma gyro sandwich and a falafel platter and still get change back from your $20...
View ArticleFor Islamic State, Hitting The U.S. May Not Be A Top Priority
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently talked about the militants associated with the Islamic State, the group also known as ISIL or ISIS. He made them sound 10 feet tall."ISIL is as sophisticated and...
View ArticleAl-Qaida's Khorasan Group Led By Hard-Core Fighters
While the al-Qaida offshoot known as the Khorasan Group only burst into the public consciousness in the past week, the group has been on the radar of counterterrorism officials for a while, and...
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Khorasan Group Composed Of Al-Qaida Veterans
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View ArticleProminent Muslim Sheik Issues Fatwa Against ISIS Violence
In a speech before the U.N. General Assembly laying out a blueprint for the global battle against the group that calls itself the Islamic State, President Obama called on the world to take a stand...
View ArticleAl-Qaida Reasserts Itself With Khorasan Group
One of the first targets of U.S. airstrikes in Syria was an al-Qaida unit that American officials call the Khorasan Group. Because few outside the intelligence community had ever heard of it, some...
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'Charlie Hebdo' Gunmen Are Textbook Case Of Radicalization
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: This morning we're exploring the road to radicalization through the life of one man, Cherif Kouachi. He's one...
View ArticleFrench Prisons Prove To Be Effective Incubators For Islamic Extremism
Among the sweeping changes France is proposing in the aftermath of this month's terrorist attacks in Paris are new measures to fight Islamic radicalization in its prisons. It is an enormous problem...
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Paris Attacks Refocus Attention On Homegrown Terrorist Threats
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: All across Europe, there's new attention to homegrown terrorism. Thousands of Europeans have traveled to Syria...
View ArticleCIA Chief Says Governing Is Too Big A Job For ISIS
CIA Director John Brennan told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York today that the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS, is facing dissension in its ranks and is finding it...
View ArticleNational Guardsman, Cousin Arrested For Trying To Join Islamic State
An Illinois National Guardsman and his cousin were arrested for allegedly conspiring to provide support to the self-proclaimed Islamic State. One of the men wanted to go to Syria to martyr himself, and...
View ArticleTwo Women Arrested In Bomb Plot, American Al-Qaeda Member To Face Charges
Two women who were roommates in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been arrested in a homegrown terrorism plot. Separately, a man thought to be one of the highest-ranking Americans in al-Qaeda will face charges in...
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U.S. Counterterrorism Operations Kill 2 Hostages Of Al-Qaida
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: And al-Qaida is at the center of a pretty stunning announcement from the White House this morning. President...
View Article'Haqqathon' Takes Anti-ISIS Fight To Cyberspace
In Arabic, haqq is the word for truth.Last week in the United Arab Emirates, group of Muslim scholars held what they called a "haqqathon"– a hackathon meant to create new ways for Islamic scholars to...
View ArticleFor Next President, The Fight Against Extremism Will Hit Closer To Home
As candidates hit the campaign trail, NPR looks at four major issues the next president will face from Day 1 in office.This week, the FBI arrested a 20-year-old Texas man named Asher Abid Khan on...
View ArticleWho Are America's Suspected ISIS Followers?
More than two years after the self-proclaimed Islamic State burst on the scene, it is still difficult to quantify just how big the threat is in this country. Counterterrorism officials say nearly 200...
View ArticleThird Man Arrested In New York Pressure Cooker Bomb Plot
U.S. authorities have arrested a third New York man in connection with an alleged plot to detonate pressure cooker bombs in New York City for the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS.The latest...
View ArticleISIS Supporter Moved To Jail After Box Cutter Found In His Halfway House Room
There's been a setback for a Minnesota man who had been a test case for deradicalization in this country.Abdullahi Yusuf, 19, had pleaded guilty to charges that he intended to travel to Syria to join...
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