The Growing Threat of Islamic Extremism in the Mid-East and Africa

US journalist Steven Sotloff beheaded as British hostage's life threatened

Another US journalist has been beheaded at the hands of an apparently British jihadist on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq, who also threatened to kill a British man. Read more

Christian Beaten, Tortured and Killed by ISIS for Refusing to Convert to Islam

A Christian man in Iraq has reportedly been beaten, tortured, and killed by terror group ISIS for refusing to renounce his faith and convert to Islam. Read more

Islamists want to ‘wipe out’ Christian presence in northern Mali

It’s not only in the Middle East that the advance of Islamist jihadists is exercising the international community. While attention has been focused on Northern Iraq and Syria, the French government has been bombing Islamist militant positions in Africa to stop the emergence of jihadists in the Sahel. Now on 1st Sep, peace talks about the future of northern Mali start again between the government and mainly Tuareg armed groups. Read more

After kidnapping schoolgirls, Boko Haram takes aim at churches in northeast Nigeria

Five months after Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls in Nigeria’s Borno State, the Islamic extremist group has begun occupying churches in the country’s northeastern region, church officials there said. Read more