The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly ignorant. The extremist group could hardly have hoped for better....

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq ; Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( Zaman Al WAsl )- Whenever the name of Abu al-Qaqa’ or “Mahmoud al-Aghasi” is mentioned, I remember my meeting with him about 12 years ago in one of the Arabic Capitals he used to visit to give a speech to supporters, as one...

A fireman of Algerian origin, Faisal helped evacuate thousands from the Stade de France during the Paris attacks, guiding panicked football fans to safety as suicide bombers blew themselves up outside. Now he fears the November 13 massacre across the French capital will deepen...

A new report says Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic insurgents have become the world's deadliest extremist group, edging out the Islamic State group to which it is affiliated. The Global Terrorism Index says deaths attributed to Boko Haram increased by 317 percent in 2014 to 6,644 compared...