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Libya calls for international air strikes against IS
Aug 25, 2015 (AFP)
Libya's foreign minister on Tuesday renewed a call for the lifting of an arms embargo and for international air strikes to help tackle the Islamic State group w...
France investigators question train gunman
Aug 25, 2015 (AFP)
French investigators Tuesday had hours left to question a Moroccan gunman who opened fire on a crowded train, only to be overpowered by a group of Americans and...
Turkey ready for anti-IS strikes: Pentagon
Aug 25, 2015 (AFP)
Turkey is now ready to fully participate in coalition strikes against the Islamic State group and may do so within days, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Department o...
Disagreement among experts over bioweapons threat
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
Amid continued difficulties around assessing bioweapons threats, especially given limited empirical data, Crystal Boddie and colleagues took another route to ga...
Turkey must do more to fight IS: Pentagon chief
Aug 20, 2015 (AFP)
Turkey should play a full part in the US-led air campaign against the Islamic State group and take better control of its border with Syria, the US defense secre...
Guantanamo should be shut before Obama leaves: Pentagon chief
Aug 20, 2015 (AFP)
The US military prison in Guantanamo Bay should be shut down before President Barack Obama leaves office, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Thursday, saying the...
IS 'mafias' made $11 mn per month in Iraq province: inquiry
Aug 19, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State jihadist group made $11 million per month from "organised crime" in Iraq's Nineveh province before seizing it and capital city Mosul, a parlia...
IS says American suicide bomber carried out Iraq attack
Aug 19, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State jihadist group said Wednesday that an American was among four suicide bombers who carried out attacks against Iraqi security forces in the Bai...
Hong Kong says avoid Bangkok, others urge caution after bombing
Aug 18, 2015 (AFP)
Hong Kong warned its residents on Tuesday to avoid travel to Bangkok while other governments in Asia advised citizens to be extra vigilant, after a bombing in t...
Pentagon studies transfer of Guantanamo inmates to US sites
Aug 17, 2015 (AFP)
The Pentagon said Monday it is studying the cost of moving inmates from Guantanamo to military jails in South Carolina and Kansas, as the White House seeks to c...
Chemical watchdog 'concerned' by Iraq attack reports
Aug 17, 2015 (AFP)
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Monday voiced "serious concern" over reports that the Islamic State group has used chemical weapons ...
Chile tackles army silence on dictatorship crimes
Aug 17, 2015 (AFP)
Chile launched a special unit within the army Monday to help investigate abuses committed by late dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime and uproot pacts of silence...
Tunisian woman killed by soldiers looking for armed group
Aug 16, 2015 (AFP)
A woman was killed and a man wounded in western Tunisia late on Saturday after soldiers opened fire on their car fearing they were armed, a defence ministry spo...
IS truck bomb kills at least 54 in Baghdad market
Aug 13, 2015 (AFP)
A truck bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 54 people in a Shiite-majority area of Baghdad Thursday, the deadliest single attack in Iraq'...
Nigeria gives military three months to end Boko Haram attacks
Aug 13, 2015 (AFP)
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari swore in a new set of military chiefs on Thursday, ordering them to end Boko Haram's bloody six-year Islamist insurgency wi...
Foreigners executed by IS militants: a factfile
Aug 12, 2015 (AFP)
The jihadist Islamic State group (IS) on Wednesday said it has beheaded Croatian hostage Tomislav Salopek, 31, abducted on July 22 in Egypt while working for a ...
US jets launch first anti-IS Syria strikes from Turkey
Aug 12, 2015 (AFP)
US warplanes Wednesday carried out their first air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, kicking off a key new ph...
Obama to host anti-IS coalition summit
Aug 12, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama will host a summit in New York next month of leaders of the international coalition fighting Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq...
Caucasus Islamist leader killed in Russian raid
Aug 11, 2015 (AFP)
The leader of a Caucasus Islamist group in Russia's restive Dagestan region has been killed in a mountain raid that included air strikes, Russian security servi...
Maldives frees adventurers after US military base scare
Aug 11, 2015 (AFP)
Seven foreigners detained in the Maldives on suspicion of illegally attempting to travel to a US military base in neighbouring Diego Garcia have been freed, the...
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