Tag: Islamist

A British court on Thursday jailed nine Islamists inspired by slain Al-Qaeda lynchpin Anwar al-Awlaqi for planning terror attacks on targets including the London...

Kuwaitis were casting ballots Thursday in a snap vote to elect the fourth parliament in less than six years, with pollsters predicting a solid...

Yemeni troops killed five fighters on Tuesday from an Islamist group that has controlled the capital of a southern province since May, a local...

In Cairo’s leafy Zamalek district, liberal Egyptians trickled into polling stations from the morning to salvage a victory in run offs on Monday for...

Bangladeshi police arrested over 600 members of the country’s largest Islamist party on Tuesday, a day after protests demanding the release from jail of...

Members of a radical Nigerian Islamist sect shot dead three policemen and a civilian after breaking into the house of one of the officers...

Militants from a radical Islamist group that fought deadly battles with the Lebanese army in 2007 escaped from the country's main jail on Saturday,...

A Bangladeshi court said on Thursday there was enough evidence to prosecute an Islamist leader on charges of war crimes such as genocide, murder...

Bangladeshi prosecutors have filed war crime charges against an Islamist leader, accusing him of genocide, murder and rape during the country’s 1971 liberation struggle,...

The radical Islamist cleric Omar Bakri said on Monday that with the death of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, the Arab world had "lost...

MOSCOW - The Chechen Islamist rebel leader who is Russia's most wanted man has issued an appeal for recruits for a "total war" against the Russian state, in a new video message posted on Thursday. "A total war is in progress, fight the enemy where ever you can," Doku Umarov said standing alongside two other militants in a snow-covered forest in a video posted on militant website hunafa.com.
As well as repeating calls for women to join the rebellion, Umarov called on Russian

ANKARA - Necmettin Erbakan, the mentor of political Islam in Turkey and the country's first Islamist prime minister, died after a protracted illness Sunday, aged 84, aides said. "Turkey has lost one of its most valuable people... Let him rest in peace," Erbakan's long-time associate Oguzhan Asilturk said on NTV television.
Erbakan, who in recent years headed the small Felicity Party, was hospitalised in Ankara in early January due to what was announced as a foot infection, NTV

DUSHANBE - Tajikistan has sentenced eight members of radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir to between six and 18 years in prison, accusing them of "anti-state activities," a court official said on Saturday.
"Among the accused are both rank-and-file members as well as one of the local regional leaders who received an 18-year sentence," a court official in the Central Asian country's capital Dushanbe told AFP. They have been convicted of "organising and participating in a criminal

LAGOS - A website purported to belong to an Islamist sect has claimed responsibility for Christmas Eve bombings in central Nigeria that left dozens dead, but police on Tuesday cast doubt on the claim.
"O nations of the world, be informed that verily the attacks in Suldaniyya (Jos) and Borno on the eve of Christmas was carried out by us, Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, under the leadership of Abu Muhammad, Abubakar bin Muhammad Shekau (May Allah preserve him)," a

STOCKHOLM: The far-right Sweden Democrats on Tuesday demanded a debate in parliament on Islamic extremism following the weekend's twin blasts in Stockholm that probably aimed to wreak carnage among Christmas shoppers.
"The Sweden Democrats demand a current debate in parliament about violence-prone Islamic extremism," said the party, which won its first parliamentary seats in September.
"The party proposes that the debate, due to large public interest, be held as soon as

WASHINGTON: The US on Wednesday added Pakistan's Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, a charity associated with a banned militant group, to its official list of blacklisted terror organizations.
The US State Department said that the Falah-e-Insaniyat (FeF) had been dubbed an "alias" of the militant Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is already on the State Department's list of "designated foreign terrorist organizations".
Daniel Benjamin, the State Department's coordinator for