French President Francois Hollande insisted Thursday that any anti-Muslim or anti-Semitic acts must be “severely punished,” as he sought to calm rising religious tensions after his country’s bloodiest radical attacks in decades. With 120,000 security forces deployed to prevent future attacks, nerves jumped overnight when a car rammed into a[…]
A lawyer for the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority told a jury in an opening statement Tuesday that the groups are not to blame for seven terror attacks in Israel from 2001 to 2004. Attorney Mark Rochon said the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers and gunmen[…]
Firebombs and pig heads thrown into mosques. Veiled women subjected to crude insults in the street. The Internet awash with threats against Muslims. Europe’s Muslims are feeling the heat of a fierce backlash following last week’s terror attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. A climate of fear is taking[…]
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is due to publish a cartoon of the Islam’s Prophet Muhammad on the cover of its first issue since assailants killed 12 people at its offices. The newspaper Liberation hosted Charlie Hebdo’s staff as they prepared the new issue. More than three million copies[…]
As many as six members of a terrorist cell involved in the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man who was seen driving a car registered to the widow of one of the gunmen, police officials said Monday. Two French police officials also told The Associated Press[…]
The Muslim Judicial council has spoken out in condemnation against the recent attacks in France, more particularly on French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo last Wednesday. Spokesperson Nabeweyah Malick said that as the MJC they condemned in the fullest sense the killing of 12 innocent French nationals, amongst them several journalists[…]
The South African government on Friday joined the international community in condemning the deadly attacks carried out by Boko Haram on 16 villages in Nigeria. The department of international relations said the attacks on innocent civilians were a contravention of international human rights and a crime against humanity. “In this[…]
Police negotiators are trying to launch a dialogue with the Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects believed to be holed up in an industrial building north of Paris, French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says. “The priority is to resolve this crisis in the most serene way possible, which means without violence,”[…]
Defying frequent attacks by armed groups across his country, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has given a speech following a wave of recent Taliban activity, pledging that Afghanistan “will never surrender”. In a televised speech on Sunday, Ghani called on all religious, political and social leaders to condemn the violence. At[…]
A series of attacks across Afghanistan have killed more than a dozen people, including 12 workers clearing land mines in the country’s south and seven Afghan soldiers in Kabul. The largest attack on Saturday targeted the Shorab camp in Helmand province, where the demining workers were based, Afghan police spokesman[…]
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