Austria’s government is facing backlash for launching an “Islam Map” website that shows the locations of more than 600 mosques and Muslim associations across the country. The map is intended to “to ...
Policymakers and media people—as well as anyone interested in the Middle East, Islam, terrorism, and related issues—need to be talking about al-Jazira. I am not talking here about the Qatar-based ...
Judging from the comments on Twitter, a lot of people are panicking over the map that’s appeared on ABC News, purporting to show ISIS’ “five-year expansion plan” for conquering vast territory. Let’s ...
A decade after wars redesigned the political map of the Balkans, there is mounting concern over the growing influence of radical Islam in the region. From Bosnia to Kosovo, large amounts of money have ...
President Obama in his Ramadan speech Aug. 13 praised Muslims’ contributions to American history and culture by saying: “Islam has always been part of America.” America has a rich history with Muslims ...
As this animated map shows, the extremist group now known as the Islamic State has made major gains since early last year with the declared goal of establishing an Islamic empire, or caliphate, in ...
The self-proclaimed caliphate stretches from the newly conquered towns along the Syrian-Turkish border, through its de-facto capital of Raqqa, in northern Syria, across the obliterated Iraqi border ...
Islamic State militants have been steadily losing ground in Iraq since last the summer, but it is still too early to say the Iraqi government and the U.S.-led coalition are winning the fight, a ...