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Egypt to hold mass trial of suspected Islamic State militants
Egypt’s public prosecutor is to bring nearly 300 suspected Islamic State militants before the country’s military judiciary in one of the biggest trials of alleged violent extremists in recent years. The accused include members of Isis’s networks in Egypt and Saudi Arabia who plotted to kill the Egyptian...
Baghdad Suicide Bomb Kills 6; Province Takes on Militants
A suicide bomber targeted a police checkpoint in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least six people. South of the Iraqi capital, a provincial council approved a decision allowing authorities to demolish homes of convicted militants and banish their families from the province. The Baghdad attacker, who...
Bangladesh police kill nine suspected militants in raid
Police in Bangladesh have killed nine suspected Islamist militants after a gun battle in Dhaka, officials said. Police were searching the residential area of Kallyanpur when they were attacked by handmade bombs. Bangladesh has seen a string of deadly attacks on secular writers, bloggers, and member of religious minorities....
Hostages freed as Bangladeshi forces slaughter ISIS militants in cafe siege
ISLAMIC State jihadis have stormed a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka leaving at least two dead and thirty injured following a tense hostage situation. Hundreds of Bangladeshi police officers laid siege on the building, with officials confirming they had freed twelve hostages, including four foreigners. The fate of...
Tunisia kills militants near Libya border
Tunisian security forces have killed 28 militants after they launched a cross-border raid from Libya, the government says. Fighting followed an attack on an army base and a police station in the eastern town of Ben Guerdane. Seven civilians and nine members of the security forces were also killed in the clashes, according to...