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Indonesian Police Steamroller Alcohol Before Ramadan
Indonesian police Wednesday used a steamroller to crush thousands of bottles of alcohol and torched a huge stash of...
Jewish Hardliners Ejected From Jerusalem Mosque Compound
A group of hardline activists were removed from the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem on Wednesday...
Gunmen In Philippines Take Hostages, Including Priest
Islamist militants battling security forces in a southern Philippine city have taken hostages, including a local...
Police Criticised For Tactics In Deadly Sydney Cafe Siege
Police underestimated the threat posed by a self-styled Islamic cleric during a Sydney cafe siege and took too long to...
Anti-IS Coalition Trains Policemen In Syria’s Raqa
Dozens of young men gathered Tuesday in a school yard in northern Syria to take the oath at a police graduation...
Former Pentagon Chief Gates Warns of More IS Attacks
Former US defense secretary Robert Gates warned Tuesday that the West can expect further attacks like the suicide...
Five Dead In Syria Car Bomb Attacks Claimed By IS
Five people were killed on Tuesday in two car bomb attacks targeting minority neighbourhoods in Syria and claimed by...
Jakarta Governor Dropping Appeal ‘for Sake of Nation’
The wife of Jakarta's Christian governor told a tearful press conference Tuesday her husband had withdrawn his appeal...
Kabul Probes ‘terrorist’ Attack On Foreign Guest House
Kabul police said Monday they were investigating a "terrorist" attack on an international guest house that left a...
Hamas Says Trump Smeared Palestinian ‘resistance’
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas accused US President Donald Trump on Monday of smearing the name of Palestinian...
Tensions Deepen Between Saudi, Iran, US After Trump Visit
The yawning gap between Tehran and Washington has grown even wider with US President Donald Trump's latest efforts to...
Jakarta’s Christian Governor Appeals Blasphemy Conviction
Jakarta's jailed Christian governor Monday appealed his conviction for blaspheming Islam, his legal team said, as the...
Blasts At Syrian Rebel Base Kill 14 Fighters
Ahrar al-Sham blamed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for the attack Ahrar al-Sham blamed the Islamic...
Southern Yemenis Stage Independence Rally
Thousands of Yemenis who back southern secession demonstrated in second city Aden on Sunday as a self-proclaimed...
Turkey Canceled My Passport Over My Political Views
Turkish NBA player Enes Kanter said he was stopped at an airport in Romania on Saturday after his travel documents were...
Trump Slams Iran In First Foreign Speech
US President Donald Trump made a 30-minute speech on Sunday in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on his first foreign...
Saudi King Slams Iran As ‘spearhead of Global Terrorism’
Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Sunday accused regional rival Shiite Iran of exporting extremist Islamic movements to the...
Bangladesh ‘militants’ Surrender After Facebook Plea
Five young Bangladeshis accused of being Islamist militants surrendered to authorities Sunday, an official said, after...
Blacklised Hezbollah Official Says Trump Administration ‘crazy’
A Hezbollah leader blacklisted this week by the United States and Saudi Arabia on Sunday branded the administration of...