Global Jihad

Indian recruits for global jihad: PM Modi should start deradicalisation effort

The case of Mumbai-based 23-year-old Arif Majeed who died alongside IS jihadis in Iraq has punctured the commonly held belief that it’s only the impoverished, illiterate, socially marginalized Muslim youth who join terror outfits or become easy prey to their recruiters.

Islamic State militants behead Kurdish prisoner, post video to 'warn' US

The jihadist Islamic State group has posted a video of the execution of a captured Kurdish fighter, in a warning to Iraqi Kurdish leaders to end military cooperation with Washington, a monitoring group said.

UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon slams 'brutal' killings by Islamic State

Ban added his voice to the growing concerns, telling a United Nations conference on the Indonesian resort island of Bali: "All major faiths value peace and tolerance."

Iraqi college student takes sabbatical: To fight against Islamic State

"I can study any time, but by fighting Islamic State, I am helping secure freedom and security" for Iraq's Kurds.

Malaysian PM says Islamic State actions are against Prophet's teachings

Islamic State is an al-Qaeda splinter group and it has seized hundreds of square miles in Iraq and Syria.

Indian Islamist group issues call to Indian Muslims to join Iraq, Syria jihad

The group is reportedly inspired by the success of the Islamic State and aims to start a full-blown insurgency in India.

Daft and dangerous: Muslim scholar's plan for a militia to fight global jihad

But apparently he is a big cheese in Islamic circles.An influential theologian and author of numerous scholarly tomes in Urdu and Arabic, Nadvi is Dean of the Faculty of Shariah at Darul Uloom Nadwa, Lucknow, whose reputation as a premier institution of Islamic teaching ranks in the same class as Darul Uloom, Deoband.

As educated youth go missing in Kashmir, fears of a new jihad

Just last week a youth demonstrating against a militant's killing was shot dead. Such killings are only leading to more anger amid educated youth, say experts.