The Syrian Filmmaker Documenting Jihadi Family Values

“I learned to speak directly to the eyes,” says Talal Derki. He’s sitting on a couch in a rented condo in Park City, Utah, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. With tattooed arms, a well-trimmed goatee and penetrating green eyes, the 40-year-old Syrian filmmaker projects an intensity and sincerity that must’ve helped convince a jihadi […]

French jihadi wives captured by Kurds want to face trial in 'real country'

Lawyers representing a group of French jihadi wives being held captive by Kurdish fighters in Syria have filed a complaint for not letting the women face trial at home, on the grounds that Syrian Kurdistan is not a “real country.” A group of around 40 radicalized French women, along with their children and several men, […]

Jihadi kickboxer who ‘considered’ attack on Vatican jailed for 6 years in Italy

A Moroccan kickboxer, his wife, and two other Moroccans have been jailed in Italy over links to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). The jihadi sportsman allegedly “considered” staging an attack on Vatican. Competitive kickboxing champion Abderrahim Moutaharrik was handed a six-year jail term while his wife Salma Bencharki was sentenced to five years in prison, […]