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War on jihadists won't end unless West tackles root causes: experts
Dec 15, 2018 (AFP)
"Beyond the tactical victories on the ground, the current strategy is failing," said Katherine Zimmerman, who wrote a recent report for the American Enterprise ...
Islamic State not defeated, just transforming: experts
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
Also known as ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the group had long been ready to cede the territory it once held in its self-styled "caliphate," and...
France dismisses IS claim for Strasbourg Christmas bloodshed
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
The city reopened the market on Friday, with officials praising the massive public help and quick police reaction that led to the death of suspected shooter Che...
Civilians killed as Nigerian troops fight Boko Haram at flashpoint village
Dec 08, 2018 (AFP)
A soldier was injured in the fight, which happened in Jakana village, some 30 kilometres (nearly 20 miles) from the Borno state capital, Maiduguri. In July, jih...
Nadia Murad: from jihadists' captive to Nobel laureate
Dec 07, 2018 (AFP)
Murad, who was taken hostage by IS in 2014 but escaped, is the first Iraqi to receive the prestigious award. The 25-year-old won the Nobel in October alongside ...
US soldier gets 25 years in prison for backing ISIS
Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)
Ikaika Erik Kang, 35, whose sentence was part of a plea agreement, will also be under at least 20 years of supervised release after he completes his prison term...
US warns Russia over Syrian site of alleged chemical attack
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has accused armed groups of carrying out a "toxic gas" attack Saturday that left dozens of people struggling to breath...
Syria regime accuses armed groups of 'toxic gas' attack
Nov 25, 2018 (AFP)
Around 100 Syrians were hospitalised with breathing difficulties after the alleged chemical attack in the regime-held city of Aleppo on Saturday, state media an...
Russia, China fail to block chemical arms body's new powers
Nov 20, 2018 (AFP)
After a bitter war of words, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons voted against Moscow and Beijing's attempt to challenge a June decision to...
US puts aide to IS leader Baghdadi on terror blacklist
Nov 20, 2018 (AFP)
"ISIS is down but not out," Nathan Sales, the State Department's point man on counterterrorism, said in announcing that Hajji Abdel Nasir had been named a "Spec...
US 'war on terror' has killed 500,000 people: study
Nov 08, 2018 (AFP)
The report by Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the death toll at between 480,000 and 507,000 people -- but said the ...
Air Force taps METSS for chemical, biological weapons research
Nov 08, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, provides for policy and technology analysis, laboratory work, field studies and modeling to bett...
At Guantanamo, prisoners watch parade of US military guards go by
Nov 08, 2018 (AFP)
But while the facility in southeastern Cuba and the 40 inmates who remain there are not budging, the staff doesn't stay put for long. A continually changing ros...
US faces deadline for new Russia sanctions over nerve attack
Nov 05, 2018 (AFP)
The State Department on August 6 found that Russia had violated a 1991 US law that seeks the elimination of chemical and biological weapons. The determination c...
Hidden history: Radar probes mass graves from Khmer Rouge era
Nov 05, 2018 (AFP)
The pilot project is twinning technology and fieldwork to locate remains of victims of the Khmer Rouge, the ultra-Maoist regime whose quest to build an agrarian...
Brazil's next defense minister wants snipers to take out criminals
Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)
His comments came after the far-right governor-elect of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel, met with criticism after announcing he would deploy police snipers to sho...
French jihadist mothers in Syria face terrible choice
Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)
Like other Western nations which experienced a jihadist exodus to Iraq or Syria, France is grappling with how to handle citizens left in the war zone following ...
US transferring IS suspects from Syria to Iraq: HRW
Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)
The New York-based watchdog said the United States had transferred suspected members of the Islamic State group for trials in Baghdad. "The US should not be tra...
Poison gas: World War I's weapon of terror
Oct 29, 2018 (AFP)
World War I saw the first widespread combat use of modern chemical weapons, starting with the 168 tons of chlorine released by the Germans over the trenches nea...
Sri Lanka arrests navy officer over wartime murders
Oct 24, 2018 (AFP)
Lieutenant Commander K. A. Dayananda was taken before a magistrate and remanded in custody over the double murder, which investigators believe took place in Jan...
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