Islamic Extremists

8 extremists arrested in connection with St Petersburg subway bombing

Eight members of extremist cells have been arrested in connection with last week's deadly bombing on the subway in St. Petersburg, Russia's intelligence chief said on Tuesday.

Berlin Christmas attack: Germany monitored suspect Anis Amri for months

German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin — and even kept him under covert surveillance for six months this year before halting the operation.

We are concerned about potential Islamic State spurt in Bangladesh: US

The slaying in Bangladesh of a US Agency for International Development employee has intensified US concern that the strategically located South Asian country with traditions of religious tolerance is under threat from Islamic extremists.

Pentagon chief heads east as US tries to maintain Asia focus

Islamic extremists grab parts of Iraq and Syria. Yemen slides into civil war. Iran's nuclear program strains US relations with Israel. Ukraine fights Russian-backed separatists.

Gunmen kill 17 at Tunisian museum, hostage situation ends

Tunisia's official news agency TAP says shots have been fired at the country's leading museum, adjacent to the national Parliament building.

Russian Opposition leader Nemtsov a possible 'sacrificial victim,' say investigators

Maybe it was Islamic extremists who killed Boris Nemtsov. Or someone offended by his love life.

Nairobi mall attack is 'an offense against sense of right': John Kerry

Secretary of State John Kerry calls Saturday's assault on a shopping mall in Kenya's capital "an enormous offense against everybody's sense of right and wrong."

Suspected Islamic extremists bomb ancient Libya shrine

An official says the attackers implanted explosives inside the shrine known as Sidi Mohammed al-Andalousi and detonated them from a distance early on Thursday.