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UK journalist faces Thai jail for carrying protective gear to Iraq
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
Tony Cheng, who works for Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, was detained at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport late Monday night under a law that has been heavily cri...
Fear, confusion as Philippine Muslim city burns
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
Marawi, a lakeshore city of minarets that is the centre of culture for the mainly Catholic Philippines' Muslim minority, is nearly empty after gunmen wielding b...
Egypt hits jihadists after attack on Christians kills 28
May 26, 2017 (AFP)
Assailants in three pick-up trucks attacked the bus as it was heading for the Saint Samuel monastery in Minya province, more than 200 kilometres (120 miles) fro...
Duterte threatens martial law for all of Philippines
May 24, 2017 (AFP)
Duterte declared martial law on Tuesday for the southern region of Mindanao -- which makes up roughly one third of the country and is home to 20 million people ...
Islamist militants take Catholic hostages in Philippines: Church
May 24, 2017 (AFP)
President Rodrigo Duterte imposed martial law across the southern region of Mindanao on Tuesday after the militants, who have declared allegiance to the Islamic...
NATO must 'step up' after Manchester attack: Stoltenberg
May 24, 2017 (AFP)
Terrorism will be top of the agenda at Thursday's meeting in Brussels which comes amid sharp divisions over joining the US-led coalition against the Islamic Sta...
Duterte declares martial law in southern Philippines
May 23, 2017 (AFP)
The announcement, made by his spokesman at a press conference in Moscow where Duterte was on an official visit, fulfils an often-repeated warning by the preside...
US forces kill seven Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen raid: Pentagon
May 23, 2017 (AFP)
The raid took place in Marib Governorate in the early hours of Tuesday local time and was conducted with the support of Yemeni authorities. "During this operati...
Pentagon plans to 'annihilate' IS fighters
May 19, 2017 (AFP)
The move to encircle then kill as many jihadists in place as possible -- rather than letting them exit a city and targeting them as they flee -- reflects an inc...
NATO chiefs recommend joining anti-IS coaltion
May 17, 2017 (AFP)
The issue is top of the agenda at a NATO summit in Brussels next week, with US President Donald Trump pushing the allies to take on a greater role in combatting...
No US involvement in deal with IS fighters: Pentagon
May 12, 2017 (AFP)
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces had independently cut a deal with the jihadists that let a group of about 70 of them leave Tabqa, an important city by a ...
Dramatic terror drill ahead of China visit
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
Special paramilitary forces armed with heavy weaponry exchanged gunfire with police acting as terrorists, who steamed into a carnival with a van in one scenario...
Anti-IS coalition meets in Denmark to assess campaign
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
Though officials warn that military action will continue for some time, they are generally upbeat about the progress and quickening momentum of the fight. After...
Turkey to play role in Raqa fight: Mattis
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
His remarks come weeks after Turkey launched air strikes against a key US-backed Kurdish militia ground force, drawing an angry response from Washington. "Our i...
Boko Haram's Shekau rejects air strike injury claims
May 04, 2017 (AFP)
The jihadist chief was said to have been wounded and one of his deputies killed when two air force jets bombarded fighters at Balla village, on the edge of the ...
IS attack kills dozens at Syria camp
May 03, 2017 (AFP)
The violence left at least 46 people dead and came as another surprise IS attack on Tuesday killed 10 soldiers in Iraq, to the south along the border. As the to...
Boko Haram leader Shekau 'injured in air strike'
May 03, 2017 (AFP)
Two Nigerian Air Force jets bombarded fighters who had gathered for prayers in Balla village, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Damboa, on the edge of the Samb...
US-led strikes against IS have killed 352 civilians: Pentagon
May 01, 2017 (AFP)
The tally from the Combined Joint Task Force did not include findings from an investigation the coalition said it had launched into one allegedly particularly d...
Spain's Guernica marks 80th anniversary of bombing
Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)
At 4:30 pm (1430 GMT) -- the moment the bombing began 80 years ago -- representatives of victims associations laid floral wreaths at a monument in the Zollo cem...
Nations urged to 'banish evil of chemical arms'
Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)
UN chief Antonio Guterres led praise at a solemn ceremony in The Hague for the work of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to mark t...
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