Author Archives: Lisa Lundquist

Canada

| October 23, 2014

Ottawa shooting suspect taught two young men about Islam while living at homeless shelter, witnesses say

Canada

| October 23, 2014

Prime Minister Harper called yesterday’s shootings in Ottawa at the War Memorial and Parliament Hill a terrorist attack, and vowed to strengthen Canada’s antiterrorism laws. The attacker, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, was shot dead by security officials after he had fatally shot a Canadian soldier and fired shots inside Parliament. It is still unclear whether Zehaf-Bibeau, who […]

United Kingdom

| October 23, 2014

Prime Minister Cameron met with security chiefs today to implement heightened security measures around Parliament and other British institutions following yesterday’s attack on the Canadian parliament in Ottawa. Lawyers for the Muslim Brotherhood claimed that an unpublished UK government report clears the group of alleged links to terrorism. A woman arrested yesterday for suspected terrorist […]

Canada

| October 22, 2014

Canada prime minister calls shootings at Parliament, war memorial terrorism

Canada

| October 22, 2014

Hit-and-Run That Killed Canadian Soldier Is Called Terrorist Attack

Denmark

| October 22, 2014

A court acquitted 10 men who had been jailed for raising funds for a Denmark-based Kurdish TV station that were sent to the Kurdistan Workers Party. Danish military aircraft began targeting the Islamic State in Iraq on Oct. 20. Although more than 100 people have left Denmark to fight in Syria and Iraq, authorities have […]

United Kingdom

| October 22, 2014

Police arrested a woman in Bedfordshire and a man in London, both on suspicion of jihadist activity linked to Syria; the cases were said to be unrelated. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Hogan-Howe said that 500 Britons have traveled to Syria to fight. Police have made over 218 terrorism-related arrests this year; 16 people have been charged […]

Canada

| October 22, 2014

Authorities placed parts of central Ottawa on lockdown after gunfire erupted at the National War Memorial and Parliament Hill; a soldier was shot dead at the War Memorial. One gunman, Michael Joseph Hall a.k.a. Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Muslim convert, was killed, and others are being sought. Officials have not yet disclosed the nature of the […]

Iraq

| October 21, 2014

Islamic State imposes new rules on education in Syria, Iraq

Canada

| October 21, 2014

Renewed war on terrorism brings new challenges to Canadian police

Canada

| October 20, 2014

Martin Couture-Rouleau a.k.a. Ahmad Rouleau, a Muslim convert from a Montreal suburb, was shot and killed by police after running down two Canadian soldiers in the parking lot of a suburban mall. Described by the police as “radicalized,” Rouleau had previously posted jihadist propaganda online.

China

| October 20, 2014

A Western news report emerged that Uighur attackers armed with knives and explosives stormed a farmers’ market in Kashgar prefecture in Xinjiang province on Oct. 12, where they killed at least 22 ethnic Han merchants and policemen. Chinese news outlets have not reported the attack.

Iraq

| October 15, 2014

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

Iraq

| October 15, 2014

Gruesome photos may show ISIS using chemical weapons on Kurds, report says

United States

| October 14, 2014

US and coalition forces carried out 22 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, all in Kobane except for one in Deir al Zour; today’s strikes were the most intense targeting yet by the coalition in Kobane. US forces also carried out one airstrike in Iraq against the group. President Obama met with coalition partners […]