Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)
AQIS (Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent) is based in Pakistan and Afghanistan and formed from a collection of pre-existing Islamist groups in 2014. It mainly targets Muslims living in India and Pakistan, but also releases English-language media.
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Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more
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Black flags are inspired by descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad's battle flag, which was reportedly a black flag with white lettering on it. Therefore, many Islamist extremist groups adopt various interpretations of this image to use as... Read more
Syed Rizwan Farook a…
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik are domestic terrorists who committed a mass shooting at the San Bernardino Inland Regional Center on December 2, 2015. The attack killed 14 and injured 22. The husband and wife reportedly... Read more
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