beheadings
How Terrorists Slip Beheading Videos Past YouTube’s Censors
Other jihadi propaganda on the video-sharing platform may be visually more low-key, but are just as insidious in their own ways.
Saudi Arabia Kicked Off the New Year With 47 Executions, Including a Top Shiite Cleric
Most of the 47 were Sunni Muslims convicted of al Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia, but four, including prominent cleric Nimr al-Nimra, were Shiites.
Saudi Arabia Hit a 'Grim New Milestone' for Beheadings in 2015
Saudi Arabia reportedly carried out 158 executions in 2015, more than twice as many as the previous year and the most in the country since 1995.
Poet Ashraf Fayadh Is Appealing the Death Sentence Handed Down by a Saudi Court
Ashraf Fayadh friends and family say that the poet—who is accused of apostasy and writing love poems that were allegedly anti-Islamic—is formally fighting his sentence.
Saudi Arabia’s Art Scene Is Horrified by the Death Sentence Given to Poet Ashraf Fayadh
News of his upcoming execution has made international headlines, but the harsh court ruling just underscores how hard it is to be an artist in Saudi Arabia.
9,000 Years Ago, Someone Chopped Off This Person's Head and Hands
It's the oldest evidence of ritual decapitation in Brazil.
Syrian Rebels Behead Captured Islamic State Fighters
Rebels say they held off an Islamic State advance near the Turkish border before displaying the heads of dead IS fighters to jubilant residents. (Warning: graphic photos)
Severed Heads Found in Tijuana Might Signal a Renewed Cartel Turf War
The five beheading victims coincide with narco-messages hung in public that suggest the Jalisco New Generation cartel is pushing north, challenging the hold of the Sinaloa cartel on the border.
What Going to School with Jihadi John Taught Me About Radicalization
White, middle class teachers aren't the right people to quell extremism.
Japan vs. the Islamic State
In the wake of the Islamic State beheadings of Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, VICE News reports from Japan, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to re-militarize the pacifist nation has inspired protests from the left.
Boko Haram's New Execution Video Imitates Those of the Islamic State
The production marks a change for the terror group, which had earlier distributed less sophisticated videos that typically showed rambling speeches from the group's leader, Abubakr Shekau.
Islamic State Threatens to 'Conquer Rome' in Gruesome Video That Shows 21 Beheadings
A video released Sunday by the militant group purportedly shows the murder of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians who were kidnapped earlier this year in Libya.