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UN News
April 4, 2018
The attack reportedly killed and injured a number of
soldiers belonging to the mission, known as AMISOM. The Council underscored its full support to AMISOM in delivering their mandate to reduce the threat posed by the
terrorist group
Al-Shabaab and armed opposition groups in
Somalia, and paid ...
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The Express Tribune
April 4, 2018
The Hill (blog)
April 4, 2018
The thwarted attack "proves the true intentions of the
terrorist organizations in
Gaza, that are trying to disguise their murderous intentions by provocative actions against the security fence. Their sole purpose is to provide a cover under which
terrorists can carry out attacks against
Israel," Prime ...
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Economic Times
April 4, 2018
Dawood Ibrahim figures in UNSC's list of
terrorists ... Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, wanted in
India as the mastermind of the 1993
Mumbai bomb blasts and accused of
crimes such as match-fixing and extortion, figured in the
UN Security Council's updated list of
terrorists and
militant groups.
Stuff.co.nz
April 4, 2018
An Indonesian-based group, Jamaah Anshrout Daulah (JAD) and a Philippines-based entity, Maute Group, are now designated terrorist entities under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002, Jacinda Ardern said. "JAD and Maute Group have been responsible for planning and conducting violent terrorist actsÃÂ ...
TASS
April 4, 2018
ANKARA, April 4. /TASS/. Separating terrorist groups from the armed opposition in Syria is crucial for protection of civilians, says a joint statement signed by Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Hassan Rouhani of Iran at talks in Ankara on Wednesday. The document isÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
April 4, 2018
Terrorist attacks Trumps at Mar A Lago -- police on scene," said an April 2 headline on The Trump Talks, a pro-Trump website. Facebook users flagged the post as being potentially fabricated, as part of the social network's efforts to combat online hoaxes. We found that what actually happened at a TrumpÃÂ ...
News18
April 4, 2018
New Delhi: The United Nations Security Council updated its consolidated list of terrorists and individuals on Wednesday and named Dawood Ibrahim and ... a day after the US designated Milli Muslim League (MML), the political front of Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud Dawa, as a foreign terrorist organization.
Economic Times
April 4, 2018
ISLAMABAD: The UN Security Council's updated list of terrorists and militant groups has 139 entries from Pakistan alone, including outfits like Mumbai ... The terrorist entities that were allegedly based in Pakistan, worked from there or had links to Pakistani individuals, include Jaish-e-Mohammed, AfghanÃÂ ...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 4, 2018
Russian security services prevented a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg thanks to Turkey's help, Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov stated on April 4. A terrorist attack was planned last year on New Year's Eve in St. Petersburg, Bortnikov said at the Moscow International SecurityÃÂ ...
UNIAN
April 4, 2018
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine in Lviv region says earlier reports about a burned Polish bus in Lviv was not an April Fool's joke, adding that "terrorists have been detained." SBU press secretary in Lviv region Oleh Oleksandrov said that the attackers had been under constant surveillance from the veryÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
April 4, 2018
Unlike the Middle East, Latin America has experienced no interstate war since 1995, no international terrorist attacks since 1994, and no proliferation of weapons of mass destruction since 1945. There are no longer successful separatist or irredentist armed groups. No major political party based on religionÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
April 2, 2018
The Austin bomber didn't meet those markers. He wasn't inspired by foreign terrorists. He gave no hint of racial supremacy or political zealotry on the video confession he left behind. The reluctance of Austin police to call him “terrorist” put the department at odds with political activists accusing them and theÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
March 28, 2018
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi Military Intelligence announced on Wednesday arresting two terrorists and destroying five tunnels used by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, a move which comes as part of security efforts to completely eliminate terrorism in the country. In a statement, a copy of which wasÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
March 28, 2018
Turkey will take initiative should terrorist PKK-linked People's Protection Units (YPG) not leave Syria's Manbij, a statement released upon the meeting of National Security Council (MGK) reiterated late Wednesday. The meeting was chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and lasted for four hours andÃÂ ...
HuffPost
March 28, 2018
and defense attorneys for accused terrorists are seeking to capitalize on that reality. This is happening as the president is trying to neuter a special counsel probe that's already resulted in multiple charges against and guilty pleas from a variety of his associates. The government, meanwhile, will have to dealÃÂ ...
TheTower.org
March 28, 2018
Just days after the United States Congress passed the bipartisan Taylor Force Act into law, the Palestinian Authority published its 2018 budget, which includes $355 million allocated to payment of terrorists and their families, Palestinian Media Watch reported Wednesday. The Taylor Force Act would reduceÃÂ ...
Insurance Business
March 28, 2018
The terror in Texas is over as the man suspected of planting explosives in Austin and San Antonio was killed on March 21 after an explosive device detonated in his vehicle as authorities attempted to make an arrest. The five attacks targeted people at their homes, on a public trail, and at a FedEx distributionÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
March 28, 2018
The strike conducted Saturday was the first known American attack against the al-Qaida affiliate in Libya, where the United States launched a large air campaign against Islamic State terrorists in 2016 to back forces fighting for the Government of National Accord to retake the northern city of Sirte. It was theÃÂ ...
The Express Tribune
March 25, 2018
If you thought that the judicial and law and order agencies were the mortal enemies of the terrorists that seek to harm us all you would be wrong. Indeed in many instances ... And none of this is new news. All of which begs the question as to just how far the state is committed to breaking the terrorist hold.
Anadolu Agency
March 25, 2018
Turkish troops have also been continuing efforts to search and destroy hand-made explosives and mines planted by the terrorists in Afrin. Operation Olive Branch was launched on Jan. 20 to clear YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorist groups from Afrin in northwestern Syria amid growing threats from the region.
Al-Arabiya
March 25, 2018
The only way to answer the terrorists is with love. This is all they hate. This is the worst thing for them. Calling for violence and revenge would be just being like them,” Bachiri said. Since the attacks, Bachiri said he encountered many difficulties on his way back to normality. He had worked for the BrusselsÃÂ ...
Newsweek
March 25, 2018
... called a group of anti-war students “terrorists” Saturday in response to demonstrations at one of the country's top universities. Erdogan also announced an investigation into protests that happened at the public Bogazici University while speaking in Samsun province. “We won't give these terrorist youth theÃÂ ...
Haaretz
March 24, 2018
WASHINGTON - The Taylor Force Act, legislation that cuts American funding for the Palestinian Authority over its payments to convicted terrorists and their families, officially became a law on Friday evening, after President Donald Trump signed a large budget bill that the act was a part of. The PA protestedÃÂ ...
The Nation
March 24, 2018
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) foiled a major terror bid on Pakistan Day and arrested four terrorists with arms and explosives here on Friday. The CTD sources said that on an intelligence tip-off, a team of the CTD conducted operation in suburbs of Multan. During the operation, four terrorists wereÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
March 24, 2018
The ongoing trial of a radical Indonesia ideologue has revealed a disturbing fact: the 2016 Jakarta attacks that killed four innocent by-standers was directed by a death row terrorist inmate whose verdict was handed-down 13 years ago. Australian embassy bomber Iwan Darmawan Munto, alias Rois,ÃÂ ...
Houston Public Media
March 24, 2018
So was Conditt a terrorist? Law enforcement officials have avoided using the word because for something to officially be considered terrorism, the fear and terror stoked by violence needs to have an aim. “Even though the words are enormously similar, there's a vast difference between being terrorized andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 24, 2018
The history of Christian-identifying terrorist groups such as the Klu Klux Klan shows how the violence of Christian terrorists continually flies below this nation's radar. Thinking about Stephon Clark getting shot 20 times while unarmed in his backyard and about the reluctance of many to name Mark AnthonyÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
March 24, 2018
But when a terrorist takes his own life after claiming victims, justice feels shortchanged. That isn't a new tactic, no matter how one defines terror. And, given that the suspect is white, we already know the routine. Even as I type this, we are learning about the interior of Mark Conditt's personal life. Thanks toÃÂ ...
NPR
March 24, 2018
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to NPR Code Switch reporter Gene Demby about why people seem reluctant to call him a terrorist. ... of this suspect by this police chief fits into this larger idea that white perpetrators of these kinds of attacks are portrayed if not sympathetically then at least not as terrorists.
New York Times
March 23, 2018
There is also a perceived bias against people who are not white or Christian when it comes to deciding on who is a terrorist, said Victor Asal, a professor and a director of the Project on Violent Conflict at the University of Albany who focuses on terrorists and insurgents. “The distinction between what isÃÂ ...
TheStranger.com
March 23, 2018
If the Austin bomber had been brown or Muslim, and if his first victims had not been people of color, the US media would have immediately described the criminal as a terrorist and made him their top story. This is so obvious that one sounds dumb just saying it. But many Americans did not hear about theÃÂ ...
ABS-CBN News
March 21, 2018
MANILA - Former lawmaker and leftist leader Satur Ocampo has sought the dismissal of his inclusion in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) plea tagging several individuals as terrorists. In a 40-page petition filed at the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19 on Tuesday, Ocampo denounced his inclusion onÃÂ ...
Dallas News
March 21, 2018
"Whatever you call it, technically under federal law or anything, it is clearly a terrorist act," Carter told The Dallas Morning News in an interview Tuesday." It has accomplished what the terrorist wants to accomplish — to cause people fear." "We're not standing by. We're not going to allow that to continue."ÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 21, 2018
Less than two years after being celebrated in Ukraine for her defiance toward Russian captors as a prisoner of war, opposition lawmaker Nadia Savchenko is defending herself against accusations that the former military aviator was planning a terror attack on the Ukrainian parliament. UkrainianÃÂ ...
Papermag
March 21, 2018
Austin police announced this morning that Mark Anthony Conditt, the man suspected of orchestrating a series of Austin bombings that killed two and injured five, is dead. The 24-year-old blew himself up in his car while being chased by the police, the New York Times reports. Since March 2nd, Conditt has been orchestratingÃÂ ...
TheTower.org
March 21, 2018
Germany has rejected a key United States demand to designate the Lebanon-based Shiite militia Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety as part of talks to rein in the nuclear program in Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported for Fox News on Tuesday. Two sources familiar with the ongoingÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
March 21, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that an electronic fence along the Israel-Egypt border has saved the Jewish state from terrorist attacks or what he believes would be worse -- a tide of African migrants. "Were it not for the fence, we would be faced with... severe attacks by Sinai terrorists,ÃÂ ...
Al-Manar TV
March 20, 2018
A police source told SANA that the death toll raised to 35 persons martyred and nine others were injured, of which a woman and child, in a terrorist attack with rocket shell on Lashkoul in the outskirts of Jaramana city. The source added that terrorists positioned in their last enclaves of Eastern Gouta fired aÃÂ ...
Inquirer.net
March 16, 2018
This refers to a news article titled, “Palace: 'Terrorist' tag on UN special rapporteur based on intel” (3/10/18). Victoria Tauli Corpuz, UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, is not a terrorist. She is an indigenous peoples human rights activist. The Philippines is recognized all over the worldÃÂ ...
The Local Italy
March 16, 2018
... by terrorists during Italy's 'Years. Aldo Moro. Photo: AFP. AFP. news@thelocal.it ÷ @thelocalitaly. 15 March 2018. 17:37 CET+01:00. On March 16th, Italy marks the anniversary of the death of two-time former prime minister Aldo Moro, who was kidnapped and later killed by the Red Brigades terrorist group.
EURACTIV
March 16, 2018
Cutting sources of funding for terrorism and terrorist networks is also vitally important. On 26 February 2018, a European Parliament report recommended a number of different measures that can be taken which the EU and its member states should take on board. This includes stepping up the monitoring ofÃÂ ...
WPLG Local 10
March 16, 2018
MIAMI-DADE, Fla. - A Sweetwater Police Department detective was in a meeting when a pedestrian bridge connecting to Florida International University collapsed Thursday in Miami-Dade. Sweetwater Mayor Orlando Lopez said he was proud of Officer Juan Llera who was ready for the worst when he ranÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
March 16, 2018
As Turkey's counter-terrorist operation in Afrin, Syria nears the district center, Turkish Armed Forces planes have dropped flyers telling locals in Kurdish and Arabic about the operation and the terrorist YPG/PKK that Turkey is fighting, the Turkish military said on Friday. “We are here for your peace andÃÂ ...
BBC News
March 15, 2018
A man suspected to have attended a terrorist training camp has been arrested. The 25-year-old was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences at an address in Nuneaton, Warwickshire Police said. Officers are continuing to search an address in the town while the man is questioned. The arrest was carriedÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
March 14, 2018
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops killed on Wednesday seven Islamic State (IS) terrorists and seized a large cache of explosives and weapons in different parts in western Iraq. In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alghad Press, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said, “Troops of the Anbar OperationsÃÂ ...
Gatestone Institute
March 14, 2018
The plaintiffs in the case alleged that Idris and other Palestinian terrorists had killed and wounded Americans with the PLO's support. In addition, in what has come to be known as the Palestinian Authority's (PA) "pay-to-slay" policy, the plaintiffs also alleged that terrorists and their families were receivingÃÂ ...
AV Club
March 14, 2018
The hijacking of Air France Flight 139 and the hostage crisis and spectacular rescue operation that followed made global headlines in the summer of 1976, and within months had spawned two competing all-star-cast American TV movies and a gung-ho Israeli feature that earned the B-movie king MenahemÃÂ ...
TheStranger.com
March 14, 2018
Clock-Out Lounge, a brand-new Beacon Hill live-music venue helmed by former Chop Suey talent buyer Jodi Ecklund and ex-Showbox general manager Denise Burnside, is bringing the Texas "drag terrorist" to the Emerald City for Clock-Out's inaugural performance. You read that correctly: Beacon Hill isÃÂ ...
