Palestinian security force kills Islamic Jihad gunman in rare internal clash A local armed group, the Tulkarm and Nour Shams Camp Brigades, claimed the dead man, Ahmed Abu al-Foul, as its member with affiliation to the largely militant group Islamic Jihad ... AM UTC Middle ... 05/1/2024 - 9:48 pm | View Link
Sentencing postponed for Minnesota man who regrets joining Islamic State group A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria, and now expresses remorse for joining a “death cult,” will learn Wednesday how much prison time he faces. 05/1/2024 - 11:57 am | View Link
Islamic State group says it was behind a mosque attack in Afghanistan that killed 6 people The Islamic State, in a statement posted on its Telegram website, said one of its members attacked a “Shiite temple” with machine-gun fire, claiming responsibility for an attack that targeted members ... 05/1/2024 - 9:49 am | View Link
Phones, Islamic books and currency exchange. Some businesses are making money out of Taliban rule The Taliban takeover three years ago has sent Afghanistan's economy into a tailspin. Billions in international funds were frozen, and tens of thousands of highly skilled Afghans fled the country and ... 05/1/2024 - 5:56 am | View Link
The Islamic State group says it was behind a mosque bombing in Afghanistan that killed 6 people The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting targeting members of the country's minority Shiite community inside a mosque in western Afghanistan that killed six people. 04/30/2024 - 7:26 pm | View Link
When Kabul fell to the Taliban, returning the country to the fundamentalist group’s control after two transformative decades, scores of Afghan women were compelled to flee. Those who remained faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire to their degrees.
While the Taliban forced many Afghan women to abandon their workplaces and universities, some chose to fight back.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
The British royal family is celebrating Princess Charlotte’s 9th birthday with a new portrait taken by her mother, Kate Middleton.
The image—shared to the official Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) accounts of the Prince and Princess of Wales on Thursday morning—shows Charlotte in a garden, smiling beside a pink flower bush.
It’s been more than 50 years since Columbia University became the site of student demonstrations amid unrest over the Vietnam War, but the spirit of protest on campus remains strong.
Late Tuesday night, dozens of protestors sieged Hamilton Hall—the iconic site of numerous student occupations over the course of history—and unfurled a banner to reveal the building’s new name by protestors: “Hind’s Hall.” The designation was in honor of six-year-old Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli troops in Gaza.
(CHICAGO) — For five days, the shouts of student protesters and supporters rang out from Northwestern University’s Deering Meadow as they joined demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war unfolding on college campuses nationwide.
But the meadow on the suburban Chicago campus fell silent hours after student organizers and the school announced an agreement late Monday to curb protest activity in return for the reestablishment of an advisory committee on university investments and other commitments.
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By Tuesday, only two unoccupied tents remained, surrounded by abandoned folding chairs, cases of bottled water and other supplies.
By quickly defusing the protests in Evanston and avoiding the longer standoffs that happened on other campuses, the agreement at Northwestern offered an example of successful negotiations between anti-war demonstrators and administrators.
For Pia Hollenstein, the long-awaited ruling at the European Court of Human Rights for a case brought against the Swiss government by her group, KlimaSeniorinnen, came at an inconvenient time. At 73, the retired nurse and former Parliamentarian from St. Gallen is an avid climber, and on the day of the verdict, she was planning to hike the Grisons Alps.