Tag: islamist

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended a state of emergency declared after twin church bombings in April by jihadists, in ...

Gunmen have stormed a tourist resort in Mali popular with Westerners and two people are dead, the country’s security minister ...

Gunmen have stormed a tourist resort in Mali popular with Westerners and two people are dead, the country’s security minister ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he was not seeking an "escalation" in the Gaza Strip after his government ...

Hamas this week marks 10 years since taking power in Gaza with the Palestinian enclave at risk of conflict and ...

Eleven people were killed when Boko Haram gunmen and suicide bombers launched a rare combined attack inside the strategic northeast ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte offered large bounties Monday for the leaders of Islamist fighters holding parts of a southern city ...

Eight watchdogs, including Human Rights Watch, on Friday denounced Egypt's adoption of a contentious new law to regulate non-governmental organisations. ...

Fifty years after Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, its policies in the West Bank and Gaza are at the root ...

Egypt's president has signed into law a contentious new bill to regulate non-governmental organisations, the official gazette said on Monday, ...

Friday's attack on a bus carrying Egyptian Copts, which killed at least 28 people, was the latest in a wave ...

Egypt's government, already accused of muzzling freedom of expression and opposition to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has blocked access to ...

A group of heavily-armed militants from a group linked to Isis have reportedly stormed a city in the Philippines and ...

A former Egyptian presidential candidate and rights lawyer who challenged the government for handing over islands to Saudi Arabia was ...

Palestinians vote in municipal elections on Saturday, but only in the West Bank and not the Gaza Strip, illustrating the ...

Suspected militants have killed three police officers and wounded five others in an attack in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the ...

Algeria, where legislative elections are to be held on Thursday, has major oil and gas reserves but faces a financial ...

Unidentified gunmen attacked an Egyptian police convoy near the main ring road around Cairo, killing three officers and wounding five ...

Four suspected Islamist fighters blew themselves up at a hideout in Bangladesh, ending a 24-hour standoff, police said Friday. Police ...

The two church bombings that killed dozens in Egypt this month targeted unity among Muslims and Christians in the most ...