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Colombia's forgotten Alcatraz: the island prison of Gorgona
Dec 23, 2021 (AFP)
No one took the threat seriously but it did pique interest about a little known part of Colombia's history that could be compared to Alcatraz or Robben Island. ...
Six killed by IS in Syria's Al-Hol camp this month: monitor
Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)
The camp, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northeastern Syria, houses about 62,000 displaced persons, including relatives of ...
Iraq holds funeral for Yazidi mass grave victims of IS
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
After seizing swathes of Iraq in 2014, Islamic State group jihadists carried out horrific massacres, including in the northern region of Sinjar where the Kurdis...
Iraq takes back 100 IS fighters from Syria Kurdish forces
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
"This morning we collected 100 terrorists" held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters in Syria, General Abdul Amir al-...
US removes Colombia's FARC from terrorism list
Nov 30, 2021 (AFP)
"The Department of State is revoking the designations of the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FT)," Secretary of Sta...
US to remove Colombia's FARC from terror list
Nov 23, 2021 (AFP)
The decision comes on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the peace pact between the Colombian government and FARC, which led to their being disarmed and dissol...
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warns of elevated risk of attack on U.S.
Nov 15, 2021 (UPI)
His comments came as House Homeland Security Committee chairman Mark Green called the present "one of the most dangerous times in the history of the United Stat...
Belgium searches military barracks in far-right probe
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
The operation came in the wake of official shock over a radicalised soldier, Jurgen Conings, who in June sparked a huge month-long manhunt after he went missing...
Jury members urged clemency for tortured Guantanamo detainee
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
In the first-ever public account of torture by someone detained in the wake of the September 11 attacks, Pakistani national Majid Khan told the sentencing jury ...
German IS bride sentenced to 10 years over Yazidi girl murder
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
The tribunal handed the verdict to Jennifer Wenisch, 30, in one of the first convictions anywhere in the world related to the IS jihadists' persecution of the Y...
Court jails Serb former policeman for Kosovo killings
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
A court statement said had been part of a "large-scale and systematic attack" carried out in 1999 by Serbian police and paramilitary forces against the ethnic A...
Syria must admit chemical weapons inspectors: West
Oct 04, 2021 (AFP)
Britain, the United States and other allies also pushed Russia for clarity on last year's poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in which Western expert...
US names Al-Qaeda commander killed in Syria
Oct 01, 2021 (AFP)
The drone strike targeted a vehicle on the road from Idlib city to Binnish, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said two jihadist comman...
US plans to keep Al-Qaeda in check in Afghanistan with air strikes
Sep 30, 2021 (AFP)
Announcing the complete withdrawal of US troops in April, President Joe Biden vowed he would not allow a comeback of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, where Osama bin La...
U.S. F-16 fighter jets intercept Cessna during U.N. General Assembly
Sep 22, 2021 (UPI)
The Cessna 182, owned by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was being flown by a U.S. Army instructor pilot when it briefly entered the TFR area over the ...
Guantanamo 9/11 trial suspended amid Covid scare
Sep 17, 2021 (AFP)
An official of the Office of Military Commissions, which conducts the Guantanamo trials, said that the confirmed infection of a media reporter who was at the co...
Two Iraqi refugees in Portugal held on alleged IS link
Sep 02, 2021 (AFP)
The suspects, aged 32 and 34, are accused of "belonging to and supporting an international terrorist organisation" and are also under investigation by Iraqi aut...
Macron to attend Baghdad summit amid fears over IS
Aug 28, 2021 (AFP)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II are due at the Baghdad summit, while the foreign ministers of arch-foes Iran and Saudi Ara...
Global outrage over 'barbaric' Kabul airport attack
Aug 27, 2021 (AFP)
Here is a round-up of the reaction to Thursday's attack on a mammoth airlift operation put in place after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. - United St...
Karen Baker: Pentagon survivor who told the stories of 9/11 victims
Aug 24, 2021 (AFP)
As the second plane hit the World Trade Center, confirming that New York was under attack, Baker couldn't imagine that she would be in danger at the US Defense ...
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