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An example of political kidnapping occurred in September 2014, in the Philippines. The German Foreign Ministry reported that the Islamist militant group Abu Sayyaf had kidnapped two German nationals and was threatening to kill them unless the German government withdraw its support for the war against ISIS and also pay a large ransom. [267]
Several national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist. The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and former national governments, and inter-governmental organizations.
Shīʿa Islamist and militant group with Jihadist paramilitary wing. Hezbollah was largely formed with the aid of the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers in the early 1980s in order to spread the Islamic revolution outside of Iran. [74] [75] Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (commonly known as ISIS, ISIL, IS, or Daesh)
Of the 67 groups currently on the list, at least 22 are Islamic militant groups, including nine ISIS factions. ... The Houthis, a militant group waging a civil war in Yemen, were also deslisted in ...
Researchers found that "terrorist attacks" by Islamist militants receive 357% more media attention than attacks committed by non-Muslims or White Americans. Terrorist attacks committed by non-Muslims (or where the religion was unknown) received an average of 15 headlines, while those committed by Muslim extremists received 105 headlines.
List of Islamist terrorist attacks. The "black flag of jihad" as used by jihadist militants since c. the late 1990s. According to Fondapol, a French think tank, between 1979 and May 2021, at least 48,035 Islamist terrorist attacks took place worldwide, causing the deaths of at least 210,138 people. During this period, each Islamist attack ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - The 19-year-old Austrian suspected of masterminding a planned attack on a Taylor Swift concert had vowed allegiance to the Islamic State militant group's leader, authorities said ...
Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād[ 22] ( Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad '), [ 23] is an Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and ...