ISIL and the Taliban – Featured Documentary Raising its black flag over the rugged mountainous regions of Afghanistan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has emerged as a new threat to the war-ravaged country as it battles the Taliban for supremacy. Raising its black flag over the rugged mountainous regions of Afghanistan,…… Read More
Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American blogger and writer, was killed in Bangladesh on Thursday. Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed Banna, also a blogger, were invited to a book fair at Dhaka University. While returning from the same book fair, two attackers stopped their rickshaw near the Teacher-Student Centre of the University around 9:30 pm. The…… Read More
Close-circuit television footage from Kingsbury Hotel in Sri Lanka’s Colombo shows the exact moment of the blast on Easter Sunday. The CCTVs captured the suicide bomber checking into the hotel a day earlier. He can be seen exiting his room on Easter morning and minutes later the cameras capture the explosion. 253 people were killed…… Read More
Nearly three years ago, so-called Islamic State fighters swept through northern Iraq, where the country’s oldest ethnic minority were living – the Yazidis. Many of the men were shot, while the women and children were kidnapped, taken as hostage and raped. The Victoria Derbyshire programme’s reporter Fiona Lamdin has spent a couple of days with…… Read More
On Sky News Breakfast with Kay Burley on Monday November 21: – At least five people killed and more than 40 injured after a car ploughed into a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin; – The Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth talks about the proposed ‘stealth’ changes to social care; – And the…… Read More
In Bangladesh headlines are dominated by violence: Secular bloggers murdered by islamic extremists, government opponents disappear, the Hindu minority is under attack. The country that wants to reconcile democracy and Islam appears to be finding it harder and harder to strike a balance between the two. Bangladesh was born in blood. The Bangladeshi government claims…… Read More
Police in Bangladesh said they raided a militant hideout Tuesday and killed nine suspected jihadists who appeared to be affiliated with a group that carried out an attack on an upscale cafe in Dhaka that left 22 people dead earlier this month. Photo: Getty Images Subscribe to the WSJ channel here: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy More from the…… Read More
WATCH NOW: Embedded with Al-Qaeda in Syria – http://bit.ly/2ynOxnn The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has…… Read More