Tunisian authorities have arrested four people allegedly directly linked to Wednesday’s attack apparently targeting tourists at a museum that killed at least 21 people. Five others suspected of having ties to the gunmen behind the raid, have also been detained, the presidency said in a statement. Forty seven others were[…]
Tunisia’s president has promised to wage a “merciless war against terrorism” after gunmen killed 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians in a daylight attack on a museum. As the international community denounced Wednesday’s assault on the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, which also left more than 40 people wounded, President[…]
Gunmen opened fire Wednesday at a leading museum in Tunisia’s capital, leaving at least eight dead and six wounded, including foreign tourists, authorities said. It was the first attack on a tourist site in years in Tunisia, a shaky young democracy that has struggled to keep radical violence at bay.[…]
The Islamic State radicals group launched a major assault on Kurdish forces in north-eastern Syria overnight, with “dozens” of fighters killed on both sides, a monitoring group said Wednesday. About 1,000 Islamic State fighters moved on Kurdish positions near the town of Ras al-Ain on the Turkish border, the Syrian[…]
Four people including a policewoman have been taken into custody over suspected links to the attacks that terrorized Paris in January, police and security officials said Monday. One man – who was already jailed in another case – had ties to Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed a policewoman on[…]
The Congress of the People was “disturbed” by the malicious and senseless attacks on Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, the party said on Saturday. “It is our view, when an office such as… the public protector is under attack, then we must know that our democracy is seriously under threat,” spokesman[…]
A large explosion struck a Syrian intelligence building in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, setting off heavy clashes between insurgents and government troops, two activist groups said. The Aleppo Media Center and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the massive blast hit a branch of the[…]
A top leader of Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch has claimed responsibility for last week’s attack on Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo when two masked gunmen killed 12 people, including much of the weekly’s editorial staff and two police officers. Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or[…]
Freedom of speech is to be respected, but does have limits when it borders on what could be perceived as hate speech, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) said on Saturday. “If someone criticises your place of work, your car, your shoes, these things are fine — but when someone insults,[…]
A young Frenchwoman of North African origin, she opted to wear an Islamic veil, though she said the pious choice of attire cost her a job as a cashier. She has accused the U.S. of killing innocent Muslims, and was photographed wielding a crossbow. Never convicted of a crime herself,[…]
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