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U.S. Treasury sanctions 3 in Africa for financing Islamic State
Jul 23, 2024 (UPI)
Named in the sanctions are two South Africans -- Abubakar Swalleh and Zayd Gangat -- and Hamidah Nabagala, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are a...
Iraq hangs 10 convicted of 'terrorism': security and health sources
Jul 22, 2024 (AFP)
Courts have handed down hundreds of death and life imprisonment sentences in recent years to Iraqis convicted of "terrorism", in trials rights groups have denou...
Scores of ISIS operatives killed in Iraq, Syria in first half of year, CENTCOM says
Jul 17, 2024 (UPI)
CENTCOM said 44 ISIS operatives were killed and 166 detained in the first half of 2024. Military officials said in a statement the effort to defeat ISIS and pre...
Swedish court to rule on top Syrian officer war crimes charges
Jun 20, 2024 (AFP)
Former brigadier general Mohammed Hamo, 65, who lives in Sweden, is accused of "aiding and abetting" war crimes. If convicted, he could get a life sentence. The...
Retired Peruvian soldiers sentenced for raping rural women and girls in 1980s
Jun 20, 2024 (AFP)
The sentencing ended five years of hearings in the first case in the South American country to address sexual crimes committed by soldiers. The guilty verdicts ...
U.S. designates Iran-aligned Ansar Allah al-Awfiya as terrorist organization
Jun 18, 2024 (UPI)
The U.S. State Department sanctioned the Iran-backed group as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization along with its 46-year-old secretary general,...
U.S. sanctions 'extremist' Israeli group that blocks aid trucks from entering Gaza
Jun 14, 2024 (UPI)
According to a State Department release, people representing Tzav 9 have for months attempted to block roads and used violence to prevent aid trucks from reachi...
France racing to build giant army camp for Paris Olympics security
Jun 13, 2024 (AFP)
Row upon row of temporary barracks have risen up where a fairground in eastern Paris once stood, green army bunk beds and massive mess halls for 4,500 troops re...
Three Iraqis remember IS horrors in Mosul a decade on
Jun 06, 2024 (AFP)
Under their self-declared "caliphate" stretching across swathes of Syria and Iraq, they committed beheadings, torture and enslavement, turning life into living ...
Decade after IS horrors, Iraq's Sinjar remains in ruins
Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)
The area near the Syrian border still bears the scars of the fighting that raged there in 2014 -- bullet-riddled family homes with pancaked roofs and warning si...
French police foil 'Islamist-style' attack on Paris Olympics
May 31, 2024 (UPI)
Authorities said the 18-year-old Chechan national planned to target the Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium in St. Etienne, where soccer matches are scheduled for the sum...
U.S. Central Command finds 2023 U.S. airstrike in Syria killed civilian, not terrorist
May 02, 2024 (UPI)
A CENTCOM statement said, "The investigation determined U.S. forces misidentified the intended Al Qaeda target and that a civilian, Mr. Lufti Hasan Masto, was s...
Kremlin rejects US claims Russia used 'chemical weapon' in Ukraine
May 02, 2024 (AFP)
The US State Department said Wednesday that Russia used "the chemical weapon chloropicrin" against Ukrainian forces. "As always, such accusations sound complete...
Iraq repatriates 700 people from Syria camp
Apr 29, 2024 (AFP)
More than 43,000 Syrians, Iraqis and foreigners from at least 45 countries are held in the squalid and overcrowded camp in Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria. A...
France charges IS official's ex-wife with crimes against humanity: report
Apr 28, 2024 (AFP)
A woman identified as Sonia M., the former wife of the jihadist group's head of external operations Abdelnasser Benyoucef, was charged on March 14, Le Parisien ...
Hamas chief Haniyeh to visit Turkey this weekend: Erdogan
Apr 17, 2024 (AFP)
"The leader of the Palestinian cause will be my guest this weekend," Erdogan, an outspoken critic of Israel, told lawmakers. While Erdogan did not say where he ...
Top Syrian officer faces war crimes charges in Swedish court
Apr 15, 2024 (AFP)
Former brigadier general Mohammed Hamo, 65 who lives in Sweden, is accused of "aiding and abetting" war crimes and could get a life jail sentence. The war betwe...
Police probe killer's targeting of women in Sydney mall attack
Apr 15, 2024 (AFP)
Videos shared on social media showed unshaven itinerant Joel Cauchi pursuing mostly female victims as he rampaged through the vast, crowded Westfield shopping c...
Former Syrian general faces war crimes charges in Swedish court
Apr 15, 2024 (AFP)
Sixty-five-year-old former Syrian brigadier general Mohammed Hamo, who lives in Sweden, stands accused of "aiding and abetting" war crimes during Syria's civil ...
About 2,000 foreign troops to help France secure Paris Olympics
Apr 12, 2024 (AFP)
"We have something like 2,000 foreign police officers, gendarmes and troops who will be joining the protection system for the Olympic Games," Sebastien Lecornu ...
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