Islamic State
22 Nov
A recent seminar was held in the Swedish town of Uppsala, co-hosted by the Sweden-based Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), the University of Pretoria’s Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) in South Africa, and the Dakar-based Trust Africa.
16 Oct
A convicted British Islamic State member allegedly linked to the notorious "Beatles" cell which staged grisly killings and beheadings pleaded guilty to terror charges in a UK court on Monday.
2 Aug
Ancient Yoruba of South-Western Nigeria have an adage: esin iwaju ni ti eyin wo, ti n ’fin sa ere. A rudimentary translation is that one’s inspired by life’s best performer, not the worst.
19 Jun
A notorious armed group suspected of massacring at least 41 people at a Ugandan school has received funds from the so-called Islamic State (IS), according to a UN report seen by AFP on Monday.
31 May
German prosecutors said Wednesday they had arrested seven people accused of collecting money to send to the Islamic State group in Syria. The four Germans, a German-Moroccan dual national, one Kosovar and a Turkish citizen, were accused of belonging "to an international network that supported the terrorist activities of the Islamic State in Syria through…
8 May
One of India's biggest states on Monday banned a movie critics accused of stoking communal hatred and propaganda against Muslims but defended strongly by the ruling right-wing Hindu government.
7 Apr
More than 30 people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province earlier this week in attacks attributed to a rebel group affiliated with the Islamic State jihadist group, the United Nations said Thursday.
11 Mar
Attacks in eastern Syria killed 12 oil field workers and a Kurdish fighter, a war monitor said Friday, a day after Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced an offensive against jihadists.
27 Dec 2022
Israeli authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a suspect in Jerusalem twin bombings that killed two people last month, charging that he identified with the Islamic State group. Aslam Farouh, 26, an Arab with an Israeli residency card, lived between Kufr Akab, a neighbourhood of Jerusalem, and Ramallah, said the Shin Bet domestic security agency…