Washington has condemned as “terrorism” the killing of a Palestinian by suspected Jewish settlers, in language that appears to reflect US frustration with surging violence in the occupied West Bank under Israel’s hard-right government, Reuters reported. Israeli police detained two settlers following Friday’s attack near the village of Burqa. According to Palestinians,[…]
LOCAL A right-wing leader has been sentenced to two life terms and 21 years in prison by the Mpumalanga High Court for plotting to carry out terror attacks. Harry Johannes Knoesen, 63, carried out his plans as a leader of the National Christian Resistance Movement, also known as the “Crusaders”.[…]
Qatar’s foreign affairs ministry has retracted its “violence and terrorism” statement about the Soweto tavern massacre after backlash online. This after Qatar called the mass shooting, which left at least 16 people dead and several wounded, an “act of terrorism”. In a statement, which has since been deleted, Qatar said[…]
Saudi Arabia has said it “rejects any attempt to link Islam with terrorism, and condemns the offensive cartoons of the Prophet” amid an escalating row between France and some Muslim-majority nations over Paris’s support for the right to caricature the Prophet. Its government also called for “intellectual and cultural freedom[…]
State prosecutors in India have submitted draft charges accusing 19 people of a “conspiracy to assassinate” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as well as acts of terrorism and other crimes, alleging ties to leftist guerrillas. Prosecutors in the state of Maharashtra filed charges on Wednesday asserting the group was behind a[…]
The South African Muslim Network (Samnet) has expressed frustration at mainstream media’s inconsistency and apparent bias in handling issues relating to terrorism and religious extremism after four people allegedly involved in a terror plot were arrested and charged with contravening the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorism and Related Activities[…]
Kidnapped and sold into slavery at 14, one former Yazidi sex slave finally had the chance to confront her brutal Islamic State captor in a heartwrenching moment that has gone viral. Her story also had a disturbing European twist. Standing before her abuser, Ashwaq Haji Hamid demanded answers, while the captured[…]
Syria became a testing ground for the US as it refines its tools to safeguard global hegemony, President Bashar Assad told RT’s Afshin Rattansi in an exclusive interview. He also explained what many Syrians are fighting for. Washington sees its former dominant role slipping away and is trying to preserve[…]
Twelve soldiers in southeastern Niger were killed and eight wounded in an overnight attack by gunmen likely belonging to extremist insurgent group Boko Haram, the defense ministry said on Wednesday. Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to carve an “Islamist caliphate” out of northeast Nigeria, and has carried out[…]
The Department of Defense has published drone footage of the US special forces raid that allegedly killed the leader the Islamic State terrorist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as well as additional details of the mission. Central Command chief General Frank McKenzie described the operation at a Pentagon press briefing on[…]
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