Jihad

Fourth U.S. drone victim influenced by Sept. 11, war

WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors. But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...

Tags: Islam, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, FBI

At least 26 killed in simultaneous car bomb attacks in Niger

NIAMEY, Niger — Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing 26 people and injuring...

Tags: Explosions, Niger, Nuclear Weapons, Suicide, Wars and Interventions

Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed

WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...

Tags: Yemen, U.S. Department of Justice, Police Investigations, White House, U.S. Department of State

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls

OK, so Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands accused of blowing up three people, injuring 282 more and shooting to death an MIT campus police officer. He's also got fans, or more accurately, he's got fangirls, thousands of them. These besotted double-X chromosome-...

Tags: Media Industry, Twitter, Inc., Mother's Day, Social Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Syrian soldiers warned daily of sectarian dangers, defectors say

MARAAT NUMAN, Syria — Each morning, after saluting the Syrian flag and before the warplanes take off, soldiers at army bases across Syria are given political orientation. During the lectures, conscripts and career officers alike are repeatedly...

Tags: Rebellions, Iran, Free Syrian Army, Science and Technology, Unrest, Conflicts and War

Setting Times stories to music: From Nirvana to Yo La Tengo

By Kari Howard The stories I read spark musical connections every day. It’s a bit more rare when the walk to work does. But one of my favorite moments this week came when I was strolling down Broadway past Grand Park in downtown LA, a section...

Tags: Nintendo Company Ltd., Wrestling, Judaism, Islam, Angelina Jolie

Early terrorist in U.S. condemns today's jihad

WASHINGTON — Long before Sept. 11, the war on terrorism and two pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon, a young Muslim from Egypt walked into the ballroom of a New York City hotel and shot to death an outspoken Jewish rabbi. El Sayyid A....

Tags: Islam, Judaism, Long Island, Punishment, Justice System

FBI chief concedes lapses on accused Boston bomber

WASHINGTON — The head of the FBI said Thursday that there were lapses in tracking accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's visit to Russia last year, saying that U.S. security officials failed to act on "text" alerts to a U.S. Customs agent about...

Tags: Police Investigations, Travel Alerts, Robert Mueller, Justice System, FBI

Russians monitored calls of Boston suspect's mother, U.S. says

BOSTON — Russian authorities secretly wiretapped a conversation between a man believed to be one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and his mother in 2011 discussing the idea of jihad, a U.S. counter-terrorism official said Saturday. The...

Tags: High Blood Pressure, Terrorism, Police Investigations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice System

'Lone wolf' terrorists get what they want in global spotlight

If late bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev attacked the Boston Marathon with an aim to draw attention to Muslim suffering in Chechnya, his ancestral homeland, he succeeded. Or if, as alleged by some who knew him, he was angered by U.S. military...

Tags: Islam, Faisal Shahzad, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tamerlan Tsarnaev

In Boston bombing, Muslims hold their breath

Shereef Elnahal is a native of Virginia, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year internal medicine resident who helped triage explosion victims with ruptured eardrums and major limb injuries on Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...

Tags: Harvard Medical School, Islam, Internists, Internal Medicine, Hospitals and Clinics

Rockets fired at Israeli resort city of Eilat

JERUSALEM -- At least two rockets landed in the Israeli town of Eilat on Wednesday morning, police said, and residents of the Red Sea resort community reported a number of explosions as well as an air raid siren. No injuries were reported. A battery...