World Nov 23, 2020
Ten years ago, a wildfire of revolts in the Arab world touched off an unlikely series of events that swelled, then dashed many hopes, and irrevocably changed the region.
World Aug 19, 2020
A man has caused a series of motorway accidents in Berlin injuring six people, including three seriously, in what German prosecutors Wednesday described as a suspected Islamist attack. Police said the man caused three accidents on the Autobahn 100 in the Tempelhof-Schoeneberg district shortly before ...
Asia Pacific Mar 25, 2020
Unidentified gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 25 people before security forces killed all of the attackers, the government said. Sikhs have been the target of attack by Islamist militants before in South ...
World Mar 15, 2020
Syria's brutal civil war enters 10th year
by Tony Gamal-Gabriel
Syria's brutal conflict entered its 10th year Sunday with President Bashar Assad's regime having consolidated its hold over the war-wracked country with a decimated economy where foreign powers flex their muscle. When Syrians took to the streets on March 15, 2011, they could scarcely have ...
World Mar 7, 2020
Afghan gunmen attack 'apostate' political rally, killing dozens
Dozens of people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a political rally in Kabul on Friday, the deadliest assault in Afghanistan since the U.S. signed a withdrawal deal with the Taliban. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, highlights a glaring lack of ...
World / Crime & Legal Feb 24, 2020
Syria's Kurds renew appeal for aid to put captive Islamic State fighters on trial
Syria's Kurds on Sunday renewed their appeal for international aid to put on trial thousands of captured members of the Islamic State group, including Western nationals. Almost a year since the March 2019 fall of the last IS bastion in Syria, the victorious U.S.-backed and ...
World Feb 13, 2020
Islamic State-linked attacks kill five Nigerian security personnel on heels of weekend massacre
Jihadis aligned with the Islamic State group have killed five security personnel in three attacks in northeast Nigeria, sources said Wednesday. In the first incident, truckloads of fighters from the Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) group attacked a military post in Tungushe, a village near ...
World Feb 11, 2020
Jihadis kill at least 30, abduct dozens in northeast Nigeria
Jihadis killed at least 30 people and abducted women and children in a raid in northeast Nigeria's restive Borno state, a regional government spokesman said on Monday. The attack Sunday evening targeted the village of Auno on a key highway linking to regional capital Maiduguri. The ...
World / Social Issues Feb 7, 2020
Syria's Kurds hand over 35 Islamic State-linked orphans to Russia
Syria's Kurds Thursday handed over 35 Russian orphans linked to the Islamic State group to their home country in the latest such repatriation of parentless children, an AFP correspondent said. The boys and girls were handed over to a Russian delegation in the town of ...
World / Crime & Legal Feb 4, 2020
French police shoot knife-wielding barracks intruder following attack warning
Police shot and wounded a man armed with a knife after he attacked officers inside a police barracks in eastern France on Monday. Shortly before the knifeman struck the police facility in Dieuze, near Metz, the local police operations center received warning that an atrocity ...
World / Crime & Legal Feb 4, 2020
U.K. to overhaul early release practice in terror sentences after London knife attack
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday he wanted to overhaul the automatic early release of terror convicts after a stabbing attack in London claimed by Islamic State. Sudesh Amman, 20, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, was shot dead by undercover armed police ...
World Jan 30, 2020
Mali will increase the size of its army by about 50 percent in a recruitment drive this year aimed at uprooting jihadist groups, Prime Minister Boubou Cisse said on Wednesday. The plan is to hire 10,000 new soldiers in the coming months to "allow our ...