Jihad

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, May 8 (Reuters) - Leading Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi paid a high-profile visit to Gaza on Thursday, giving a boost to the Islamist group Hamas that runs the enclave, but also laying bare Palestinian rivalries....

May 8 (Reuters) - TOP STORIES ----------- MOSCOW/BEIRUT - Russia and the United States agreed to seek new peace talks with both sides to end Syria's civil war, but opposition leaders were sceptical on Wednesday of an initiative they fear might let...

* Jihadist recruiting behind bars a worry amid Mali crisis * Overcrowding, intelligence lapses, lack of chaplains weigh * Petty offenders easily lured into radicalism By Alexandria Sage VILLEPINTE, France, May 7 (Reuters) - In France, the path to...

An American Muslim man was standing in a parking lot the other day when a passing motorist shouted something familiar at him. "Go home!" The Boston Marathon bombing offered new fuel to people who have difficulty distinguishing, not just between...

Ahmad Tounisi leaned forward on the courtroom bench, intently following the judge's detailed observations as he ruled on whether Tounisi's son should be released from jail while awaiting trial on terrorism-related charges. U.S. District Judge Edmond...

The rebels of Christian Caryl's "Strange Rebels" are a motley lot. They include Margaret Thatcher, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers, Pope John Paul II, Deng Xiaoping, and the Afghan insurgents who fought back against the Soviet invasion...

Prosecutors fighting the release of an Aurora teen accused of signing up to fight for a terror group in Syria filed an appeal today calling him an advocate of "violent jihad" who "wanted to die killing others." In the 16-page appeal, the U.S. attorney'...

The following blog is unverifiable — but apropos: On April 20 the Czech Ambassador wrote: We are not Chechnya. The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two different countries. The Czech Republic is in Central Europe; Chechnya is a part of the Russian...

A U.S. District judge today ordered that an Aurora teen continue to be detained on terrorism-related charges, reversing a decision a day earlier by a magistrate judge to allow him to go home to his family on 24-hour confinement. U.S. District Judge...

* Worries that radical Islamists would succeed Assad * Israel has exacting "red line" on chemical weapons By Dan Williams LOD, Israel, May 3(Reuters) - The dilemma Israel faces in trying to formulate a strategy on Syria two years into its civil war...

May 02 (TheWrap.com) - Kevin Smith is criticizing an article published in the LA Times on Thursday for reporting opinions about his career and internet activity as fact. Can Hollywood's star machine master Reddit's 'Ask Me Anything'?" "NOT mad at all...

SeaWorld's tax breaks Scott Maxwell's column, "Tax breaks for SeaWorld shift burden to you," on Wednesday bashing SeaWorld for not paying current income taxes is a great illustration how the uninformed press is ruining our country with misleading...