- FDD's Reuel Marc Gerecht discusses the terrorist attack in the Sinai and Syrian peace talks on Foreign Edition with Mary Kissel, The Wall Street Journal Opinion
quoting Samuel Tadros via The Atlantic
A mosque attack that killed more than 300 people in Egypt stands out for its ruthlessness, but not for the sinister targeting of the faithful.
At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a crowded market in northeastern Iraq on Tuesday. The attack struck Iraq’s multi-ethnic Tuz Khormato district, which was previously under control of Kurdish forces before Baghdad ousted the peshmerga from disputed areas last month following the Kurds’ controversial independence referendum in September. Read More
A suicide bomber set off explosives on Tuesday during morning prayers in a small, crowded mosque in northeastern Nigeria in a deadly attack that comes amid a raft of similar assaults on rural communities in the region. - New York Times
Bedouin leaders in the Sinai Peninsula have issued a rare call for solidarity with the Egyptian army to fight against Islamic extremism in response to a Friday attack that killed more than 300 Muslims at a local mosque. - Wall Street Journal
After militants massacred 305 people at a packed mosque on Friday in a stunning assault on a sacred place, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi responded as he knows best. - New York Times
Since at least 2016, Islamic State militants have targeted Sufis, who practice a mystical form of Islam that includes the veneration of saints, often at their tombs. - New York Times