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Jordan vows 'earth-shattering' response to pilot murder
Feb 04, 2015 (AFP)
Jordan vowed to begin executing death-row Islamic extremists at dawn on Wednesday, an "earth-shattering" response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pil...
UAE pulled out of IS air war after pilot capture: US officials
Feb 04, 2015 (AFP)
The United Arab Emirates withdrew from coalition air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria after the capture of a Jordanian pilot since murdered by t...
Japan police to run Tokyo Marathon to boost security
Feb 04, 2015 (AFP)
Tokyo police officers will take part in the city's marathon this month among regular runners, the force said Wednesday, as Japan ramps up security after Islamis...
Jordan king vows harsh response to IS after pilot murder
Feb 04, 2015 (AFP)
King Abdullah II vowed Jordan will take tough action after hanging two convicted militants Wednesday in response to the burning alive of one of its pilots by th...
US asks for $8.8 billion to fund fight against IS
Feb 02, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama has requested $8.8 billion to fund the fight against the Islamic State group in his 2016 budget unveiled Monday. A total of $5.3 billi...
Norway banishes 'hate preacher' to remote village
Feb 02, 2015 (AFP)
A court in Oslo on Monday authorised police to banish Iraqi Kurd "hate preacher" Mullah Krekar to a remote Norwegian village. The mullah, 58, who has been livin...
Nigerian army repels fresh Boko Haram assault on key city
Feb 01, 2015 (AFP)
Nigeria's military on Sunday repelled a Boko Haram assault on the key city of Maiduguri as violence raged across the country's northeast just two weeks before n...
Iraqi Kurdistan tourism in tatters as IS war drags on
Feb 01, 2015 (AFP)
Billboards still read "Welcome to Arbil, 2014 Arab Tourism Capital," but most of the visitors Iraq's Kurdistan region welcomed last year were people made homele...
Two US defence contractors shot at in Saudi: employer
Feb 01, 2015 (AFP)
A US defence contractor said Sunday that two of its American employees came under fire in the latest attack against Westerners in Saudi Arabia. It was the secon...
Hostage crisis poses stark test for pacifist Japan
Feb 01, 2015 (AFP)
The apparent beheading of two Japanese hostages by Islamic State militants poses a stark diplomatic test for pacifist Japan, underscoring how Tokyo's image as a...
Iraq Kurdish forces retake oil field, villages from IS
Jan 31, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdish forces repelled a major attack by the Islamic State group in Kirkuk province that killed a top officer Friday, while violence elsewhere left at le...
Jihadists shoot down Syria warplane: monitor
Jan 30, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State group has shot down a Syrian regime warplane that was bombing opposition-held areas, killing the pilot, a monitoring group said on Friday. Jih...
Air strike kills IS 'chemical weapons expert': US
Jan 30, 2015 (AFP)
A US-led coalition air strike killed a chemical weapons specialist with the Islamic State group in Iraq who once worked for Saddam Hussein, US military officers...
Detecting chemical weapons with a color-changing film
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
In today's world, in which the threat of terrorism looms, there is an urgent need for fast, reliable tools to detect the release of deadly chemical warfare agen...
IS suffers 'devastating' blows but biggest fighting still ahead
Jan 28, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State group has suffered "devastating" blows in Syria's Kobane and on several Iraqi fronts, but analysts warn such victories in the fight against th...
Kobane in ruins after Kurds drive out IS
Jan 28, 2015 (AFP)
Pulverised buildings, heavily armed fighters roaming otherwise deserted rubble-strewn streets: the ferocious battle for Kobane has left the Syrian border town i...
Women joining IS militants 'cheerleaders, not victims'
Jan 28, 2015 (AFP)
Western women who join Islamic State militants are driven by the same ideological passion as many male recruits and should be seen as potentially dangerous chee...
'Huge' effort needed to fight Boko Haram: US commander
Jan 27, 2015 (AFP)
Turning the tide against Boko Haram will require a "huge" international effort, a top US military commander warned on Tuesday, taking a swipe at Nigeria's respo...
Scores of foreign fighters among Kobane dead: US
Jan 27, 2015 (AFP)
Large numbers of foreign fighters are among the jihadists killed in the battle for the Syrian town of Kobane, a senior US official said Tuesday, saying the conc...
Kurds expand fight against IS after retaking Syria's Kobane
Jan 27, 2015 (AFP)
Kurdish fighters battled the Islamic State group in villages around Kobane on Tuesday, a day after expelling the jihadists from the strategic Syrian town on the...
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