Legislators in the Philippines have voted overwhelmingly to extend martial law to deal with an Islamist insurgency in the restive island of Mindanao. Militants linked to so-called Islamic State have been occupying parts of Marawi, a city in the south, since May. President Rodrigo Duterte said the extension was necessary to crush the insurgency, but … Read more
A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday among civilians fleeing the Old City of Mosul, where increasingly desperate jihadists are mounting a bloody last stand. The carnage came just over a day after the Islamic State group blew up the mosque where its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed himself “caliph” three years ago, as well … Read more
A rare white tiger involved in the 2008 killing of a zoo worker has been put down after suffering from skin cancer and joint degeneration, the Singapore Zoo said Thursday. Omar, who would have turned 18 in September, or the equivalent of 88 in human years, had been suffering from skin cancer for the past … Read more
Men, women and children stand in separate lines in the scorching sun baking west Mosul’s Baghdad Square for a turn in one of the two white mobile clinics. For these Iraqis, displaced by fierce fighting as government forces close in on the Old City where Islamic State group jihadists are still entrenched, free medical care … Read more
The Iraqi forces that retook east Mosul from jihadists last month have moved on to their next battle, leaving a security vacuum that has residents complaining of a job half-done. The traffic jams in the streets and the crowds swarming the shops of the eastern neighbourhoods that the Islamic State group controlled only weeks ago … Read more
Dozens have starved to death in beseiged Madaya The town of Madaya in Syria has been under siege for more than a year. Cut off from regular supplies of food, medical supplies and electricity, many of its residents are suffering from severe malnutrition. The situation is so desperate that Save the Children says some are … Read more
Ilhan Omar, a former refugee, was just elected to Minnesota’s house of representatives. A Somali-born former refugee who made history by becoming the first Somali legislator in the United States has told the BBC that campaigning against the profiling of black Muslims will be one of her priorities. Ilhan Omar, 34, was elected to serve … Read more
Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef, the 36-year-old Yemen citizen, and one of the two prisoners discharged by the United States from the Guantanamo Bay Prison to Ghana, is a one-time fighter for Osama Bin Laden, according a December 28, 2007 report by the United States Department of Defense. Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, … Read more