Tag: Islamists
UK clerics teach same ‘extremist ideas’ as taught in Pakistan: US...
WASHINGTON D.C: A Leading American think tank, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has expressed concern over the growing threat of religious extremism in the United Kingdom, according...
Army’s role in focus as Islamists end blasphemy blockade
ISLAMABAD: When hardline Pakistani Islamists signed an agreement with the government on Monday to end a crippling blockade of the nation’s capital, the text...
Fleeing offensives, where are IS militants now off to?
Beirut: The Islamic State group is under attack across the remaining parts of its self-proclaimed caliphate, but what happens to its thousands of fighters...
Boko Haram militants claimed 400 lives since April, says Amnesty
A spurt in attacks by Boko Haram Islamists has claimed nearly 400 lives since April in Nigeria and Cameroon, double the figure of the...
Islamists attack Radiohead fans in Turkey
British rock group Radiohead on Saturday condemned “violent intolerance” after Islamists brutally attacked customers at an Istanbul record store attending an album release party,...
Two killed as villagers, Islamists clash in Bangladesh
Thousands of Bangladeshi villagers clashed on Monday with members of a religious group, leaving two dead people and scores injured, an official said.
Villagers rallied...
BD’s move to drop Islam as official religion: Islamists threaten to...
Hardline Islamist groups in Bangladesh on Thursday threatened large-scale protests if a court moves to scrap Islam as the official state religion of the...
Iraqi forces enter city besieged by Islamists
Iraqi security forces backed by Shiite militias and US airstrikes have reportedly entered the northern town of Amerli, where Islamic State (IS) militants have...
Bangladesh charges 13 Islamists over deadly 2001 attack
A Bangladesh court on Thursday charged 13 Islamists with murder over a 2001 bomb blast at a political rally in Dhaka that left five...
Islamists planning imminent attack in Norway
Militant Islamists with fighting experience in Syria may be planning an attack in Norway in the coming days, police said on Thursday, as they...
Libyans vent anger at Islamists after activist’s shooting
Protesters attacked offices of Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood and the headquarters of a liberal coalition on Saturday after demonstrations sparked by assassinations in the eastern...
UK soldier beheaded in London street by men ‘chanting Allah Akbar’
British Prime Minister David Cameron has called a meeting of his government's emergency Cobra security committee after the killing of a British soldier in...
Egyptians hand Islamists narrow win in constitution vote
Egyptians voted in favour of a constitution shaped by Islamists but opposed by other groups who fear it will divide the Arab world’s biggest...
Islamists rally behind Mursi as Egypt’s rifts widen
Tens of thousands of Islamists demonstrated in Cairo on Saturday in support of President Mohamed Mursi, who is racing through a constitution to try...
Egypt Islamists hurriedly approve new constitution despite protests
Islamists approved a draft constitution for Egypt early Friday without the participation of liberal and Christian members, seeking to pre-empt a court ruling that...
Somali comedian who poked fun at Islamists shot dead
Gunmen assassinated a well-known comedian and musician who poked fun at Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents in the Somali capital, police and colleagues said Tuesday,...
Egypt probes Islamists over Tahrir clash
Egypt’s state prosecutor has asked the general intelligence service and interior ministry to provide possible evidence in a probe of Islamists over clashes with...
