The Taliban is waging a deadly crackdown on members of Afghanistan's small community of Salafists, an ultraradical Islamic sect. The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Taliban and its ...

It has been over 20 years since the American-sponsored Afghan mujahideen stunned the world by forcing the invading Red Army to withdraw, a major falling domino in the Soviet collapse. Now Jack Devi… ...

What the Taliban regime is doing to Afghan women is beyond cruel. But hatred and sexism alone do not explain their ideology, which is based on their twisted interpretation of Islamic law.

In Egypt and Tunisia, Salafis move from prisons to parliaments by John Thorne 11/29/2012. Share this: ...

This flavour of Salafism was followed by Egypt’s Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) and spawned present-day Islamist movements, including the Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood and Afghan Mujahidin. Here ...

The Evolution of the Salafi-Jihadist Threat. Current and Future Challenges from the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and Other Groups. Photo: ... Afghan­istan, and So­malia. These findings suggest that there ...

As the Taliban asserts authority in Afghanistan and U.S. troops pull out, people around the world are discussing what happened and wondering what it means for their countries and global security.

But to their critics, the Salafis are religious fanatics who are trying to drag the region back to 7th-century Arabia. Africa. Egypt's Salafis Emerge As Powerful And Controversial Political Force.

Jihadi-Salafis’ excommunication (takfir) of the rulers of the Muslim world as apostates (murtaddun) and unbelievers (kuffar) and their contention that jihad may thus be waged against them, which ...

KABUL, For months, Afghan and international media have been reporting the appearance of the Islamic State (IS) across many parts of Afghanistan. Some have speculated that the hardline militant group, ...

Clerics and tribal leaders in an eastern Afghan province want authorities to rebuild and expand madrasahs, or religious schools, to prevent local youth from seeking Islamic education abroad. They ...