An overview of events and conditions around the world featured in the September/October 2021 issue of Beyond Today.

For the last three years a Somali radio station run by the al-Shabab militant Islamist group has held a knowledge and Koran-reciting contest for children ages 10 to 17 during the month of Ramadan.

We’ve reviewed a few facts as evidence that 9/11 could have been much worse. To those who believe in a miracle-working God, the facts of that day are evidence of countless miracles.

For decades, Saudi school children have been taught anti-Semitic and anti-American propaganda.

Where will the next big terrorist strike occur?

The world is at war. It's not the long-envisioned nuclear exchange, but don't count nuclear weapons out. This is a shadowy war of principle, one the United States, Britain and their allies are ill-equipped to win.

The advisory includes a laundry list of possible attack scenarios.

Australia is a key target in a new wave of attacks being planned by al Qaeda.

Ever since the "underpants bomber" attempted to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight over the city of Detroit, I had expected people to avoid the flight, the one I almost always catch when returning from visits to Ghana.

With the world's financial markets in meltdown, you might wonder, why should we care about what happens in Syria? It's a poor country with a small military and is not a crucial factor in the world market or a significant...

Al-Qaeda keeps on keeping on.

Where does terrorism come from? The Bible clearly identifies the single most influential author of terrorism.

Political correctness is still making it difficult for people in the West to understand fully the seriousness of the threat from radical Islam.