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US transfers Guantanamo prisoner to Morocco: Pentagon
Jul 19, 2021 (AFP)
"The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Abdul Latif Nasir from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Kingdom of Morocco," a Pentago...
Kosovo and NMacedonia repatriate dozens from Syria camps
Jul 19, 2021 (AFP)
Since the March 2019 fall of the Islamist group's last stronghold in Syria, local Kurds have been calling for the repatriation of thousands of foreign women and...
France honours Europe's anti-jihad troops on Bastille Day
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
The traditional parade on France's national day returned to the Champs-Elysees after a one-year hiatus caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Roughly 80 French and Eu...
Jihadist-hit Burkina to install 900 surveillance cameras
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
The "Smart Burkina" system is being installed at 220 locations in the capital Ouagadougu and 80 locations in the second-largest city of Bobo-Dioulasso, Security...
Ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt confronts captors 13 years later
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
She and other victims participated in a meeting with ex-combatants organized under Colombia's 2016 peace accord, which ended decades of civil war between the go...
Murals and memories: How Bosnian Serbs revere war criminal Mladic
Jun 04, 2021 (AFP)
Mladic, who will hear the decision of his final appeal against his conviction next Tuesday, prosecuted Bosnia's 1992-1995 civil war with ferocity against civili...
Online support for extremist groups Boogaloo, IS evolved in similar ways
May 19, 2021 (UPI)
For the study, published Wednesday in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists looked at the mathematical patterns that defined early support for the Boogaloo...
French soldiers warning of 'civil war' told to quit
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
"The most reasonable step is certainly to leave the institution in order to freely express their ideas and convictions," General Francois Lecountre said in a le...
US government announces clampdown on 'ghost guns'
May 07, 2021 (AFP)
The department said that from 2016 to 2020 it had recovered more than 23,000 firearms that did not display serial numbers, usually made from core parts and kits...
DARPA Selects Teams to Defend Against Chemical, Biological Threats from Inside and Out
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
DARPA recently awarded contracts to the following performers, FLIR Systems, Leidos, and Charles River Analytics, to develop lightweight materials and adaptable,...
Mideast states made 'chilling' use of executions amid pandemic: Amnesty
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
The London-based rights group said it recorded 483 executions in 18 countries worldwide last year, a decrease of 26 percent from the 657 recorded in 2019 and th...
Syria stripped of rights at chemical weapons watchdog
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
A majority of member states of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) backed the rebuke after a probe found Damascus carried out three ...
Suspected jihadists storm Nigeria army base
Apr 19, 2021 (AFP)
Jihadists from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) rolled up in a dozen gun trucks at the garrison town of Dikwa late Sunday and dislodged troops aft...
Syria used chemical weapons in 2018 attack: OPCW probe
Apr 12, 2021 (AFP)
The report is the second by an investigations team set up by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which has new powers to apportion ...
Amnesty's new boss: unrelenting scourge of rights abusers
Apr 07, 2021 (AFP)
Callamard, 58, comes to the London-based rights group after almost half a decade as the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions which saw her gain a...
Eisenhower strike group launches missions against Islamic State
Mar 31, 2021 (UPI)
Missiles were launched by Carrier Air Wing 3 against Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria from the strike group's position in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea...
French strike in Mali killed 19 civilians in January: UN
Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)
The French air force struck near the remote village of Bounti on January 3, in circumstances that sparked controversy in the war-torn Sahel state. Residents of ...
US heading anti-jihadist intelligence sharing op: Le Monde
Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)
The "Gallant Phoenix" project, created in 2016, is being headed by the United States and located at a US army base in Jordan, the daily said. It seeks to collec...
Covid hits Swiss army bio warfare centre
Mar 24, 2021 (AFP)
Some 59 soldiers tested positive for the British variant of the virus at the NBC 77 training school in Spiez in central Switzerland, while a further 87 have bee...
'Caliphate' or not, Islamic State expands its reach
Mar 19, 2021 (AFP)
At their apogee, the extremists controlled a territory the size of Britain covering large swaths of Syria and Iraq, where it waged one of the most brutal campai...
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