Search results for ‘al-qaeda’
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Yemen: Saudi Arabia proposes five-day ceasefire
Saudi Arabia propose a five-day humanitarian truce in Yemen after weeks of airstrikes – but say the ceasefire depends on the Houthi militia also agreeing to lay down arms.
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Islamic State video claims to show Yarmouk capture
This video appears to show Islamic State militants moving into the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk on the edge the Syrian capital of Damascus.
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Al-Shabaab Kenya college attack: at least 70 dead
Gunmen storm the Garissa University College compound in Kenya near the border with Somalia, killing at least 70 people in an attacked claimed by al-Shabaab.
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Syria crisis: Islamic State gains ground in Damascus
Islamic State fighters take control of large parts of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus – a sign that the brutal jihadi group’s is trying to open a new front in the Syrian capital.
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Yemen: a war with many fronts and many forces
Why have Yemen’s rebel Houthis sided with the country’s former president, who for so long fought them, against the current government? And how are the Islamic State group and Iran involved?
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Syria conflict: Islamist rebels ‘capture’ Idlib
Syrian rebels, including the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusrah Front, claim to have seized control of Idlib – capital of Syria’s northwestern province.
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Inside Osama Bin Laden’s Afghan compound
A series of newly released images show the late Osama Bin Laden inside his Tora Bora compound in the Afghan mountains.
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Cage: human rights advocates or apologists for terror?
A Muslim group is under fire after claiming that Mohammed Emwazi or ‘Jihadi John’ turned to violence after being harassed by the British security services. What do we know about Cage?
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Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State
The leader of the Nigerian Islamist group says his fighters will obey Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-styled “caliph” whose followers have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria.
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Mohammed Emwazi to Jihadi John: what have we learnt?
A week ago very few people had heard the name Mohammed Emwazi – but after being named as Islamic State “executioner” Jihadi John, his life has been under the microscope. What have we learnt?
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Security services and the road to radicalisation
It has been commented on that – like the Woolwich killers the British security services had a file on Mohammed Emwazi. Here, Channel 4 News Africa reporter Jamal Osman describes his own experiences.
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How west London became an extremism hotbed
Mohammed Emwazi grew up in Shepherd’s Bush and Queen’s Park, areas of north west London that have had a long and uncomfortable history of radical extremism. Channel 4 News looks back.
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Syria: ‘hope’ but ‘no illusions’ over Aleppo ceasefire
The Syrian government has said it is willing to suspend its aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the northern city of Aleppo so a local ceasefire can be tested, a UN mediator says.
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Lars Vilks: the artist with the target painted on his back
Lars Vilks escaped unhurt from a shooting at a Copenhagen cafe yesterday. It is the latest in a string of alleged attempts on his life after he published sketches of the prophet Mohammed.
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‘There are no barrel bombs’: Assad’s Syria ‘facts’
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began his interview with the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen by saying: “We need to talk about facts” – but very little else he said was grounded in reality.