One recalls the supposed discovery in 2011 of silver mines in the impoverished Sejnane region in the north, where Salafists attempted to set up a caliphate. In reality, the few mines in that area ...

A concerted effort to undermine the king by Islamists in Cairo, Damascus, and Ramallah working with the local Muslim Brotherhood and more radical Salafists would pose a substantial threat ...

Shortly after the fatal knife attack in Villach, investigators classify the attacker as an Islamist. The 23-year-old Syrian ...

Ahmad confirmed that the manipulation happens in Nigeria too. “Even among some outwardly pious salafists who claim to follow ...

It eschews local, customary variations of Islamic practice, which enhances a sense of interconnectedness among salafists living in far-flung places. And it is imbued with the aura of authenticity ...

He instead depended for backing on television channels owned and operated by his movement and allied Islamist movements, including the ultra-orthodox Salafists. Nevertheless, those television channels ...

Pundits like Thomas Friedman claimed that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was a reformer committed to liberalization. In reality, the Saudi kingdom remains unflinchingly authoritarian, ...

The regime had allowed the Salafists networks to grow, partly due to Hussein’s increasing Islamisation of the country, but also because a mortally weakened regime was unable to restrain them. Efforts ...

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Vienna [Austria]: A 23-year-old man allegedly stabbed five passersby in southern Austria's Villach on Saturday, leaving a ...