Efforts by Canada's financial intelligence agency over the last three years uncovered activity related to homegrown terrorism, the bankrolling of international terrorist groups and attempts by Canadians to take part in extremism abroad.
Canada is closely monitoring developments after Iraq's parliament called for the expulsion of foreign troops from the country, a spokesman for Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said.
Demonstrators gathered in Montreal on Saturday, October 12, 2019, to protest Turkey's incursion into northeast Syria, warning of humanitarian disaster and U.S. strategic folly.
Canada's former commander in Iraq says the Islamic State may have been defeated on the battlefield, but the militant group remains alive and well as an insurgency and could still wield strong influence in the war-torn region.
The U.S. will continue to lead the fight against Islamic State militants in the Middle East, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted on Wednesday, February 06, 2019, — notwithstanding President Donald Trump's apparent impatience to get American soldiers out of Syria.
Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman from Iraq who was forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State, won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Congolese gynecologist and surgeon Denis Mukwege for "their efforts to end use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."
Security and justice officials from the Five Eyes countries plan to explore "more timely and detailed" information sharing to detect terrorists and extremist fighters.
Some of the women haven’t even told their own families about what they experienced at the hands of their persecutors, said associate deputy immigration minister Dawn Edlund.
The United Nations said on Tuesday it is "racing against the clock" to prepare emergency aid for endangered civilians in Mosul with an Iraqi army offensive looming to oust the Islamic State.
Aaron Driver had in the past provided glimpses into his journey from the "happy" Christian−born son of an Air Force corporal to an Islamic State sympathizer.