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Turkey: tit-for-tat attacks continue along Syrian border

A soldier has been killed and another wounded in Turkey by cross-border gunfire near the border town of Kilis. BREAKING – Local sources: Armed

Italy

Terror suspects arrested in Italy and Spain

Italian police have arrested two men suspected of spreading threatening online messages in support of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or

Turkey

Suruç: Turkish officials identify attacker

On Monday this week, the square outside the Amara Cultural Centre in the Turkish town of Suruç, was thronged with well-wishers. They had gathered to

Iraq

At least 32 dead in explosions across Iraq

Bomb attacks across Iraq have killed at least 32 people. The deadliest was a car bomb in a mainly Shi’ite area of Baghdad, which killed 16 people

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Kenya

Kenya: Westgate shopping mall reopens ahead of Obama visit to Nairobi

Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi has reopened to the public, nearly two years since al Shabaab gunmen went on the rampage in the aisles, in

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia arrests more than 400 suspected ISIL militants

Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 400 people suspected of belonging to the so-called Islamic State group. The Interior Ministry said that the

Nigeria

Nigeria: Dozens of Eid shoppers killed in Gombe market blasts

Women and children are among around 50 people reported dead and dozens more injured after twin explosions at a packed market in Nigeria. Nobody has

Egypt

ISIL says it launched missile attack on Egypt navy ship

Militants who have sworn allegiance to ISIL said on Thursday that they attacked an Egyptian naval ship in the Mediterranean near the coast of Israel

USA

Five dead, including the suspect in shootings at US Navy buildings

Four US Marines and a suspect are killed and two people injured in gun attacks at Navy buildings in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

France

France remains on high alert after arrests of would-be jihadists

France remains on high alert after four people with links to jihadists were arrested earlier this week. The country’s interior minister Bernard

France

French security forces foil a suspected terror attack on a military base

Security forces in France have arrested four people they suspect of planning an attack on a French military base. It’s believed they have links to

Afghanistan

Top ISIL commander Hafez Saeed 'killed in US air strike'

Afghanistan’s top ISIL commander has been killed by a US air strike in the east of the country, officials claim. Hafez Saeed would be the fourth

Culture news

The pen is mightier than the sword as art battles extremism in Pakistan

Gauher Aftab is a Pakistani comic artist and his latest three-part work ‘The Guardian’ deals with one of the major issues of our time, extremism. The

Yemen

Yemen rocked by deadly car bombs

Yemen has been rocked by deadly car bombs a day after an airstrike and fighting between rival froces killed almost 200 people across the country. The

United Kingdom

London bombings of 2005 a 'threat we still face'

On the morning of 7th July, 10 years ago in London bombs were detonated on a bus and three underground trains. Britain has been commemorating the 52

Kenya

Al Shabaab kills quarry workers in Kenya gun attack

The Islamist group Al Shabaab says its gunmen were behind an overnight attack that killed at least 14 people, mostly quarry workers, at a residential

Kenya

Al Shabab gunman kill quarry workers in northeast Kenya

At least fourteen people have been killed and several others wounded in a gun attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya.

Nigeria

Nigeria: Scores killed in Jos in attacks blamed on Boko Haram

Emergency services rushed to retrieve the injured after suspected Islamist militants killed at least 44 people in attacks on a restaurant and mosque

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'Atomic detectives' scientists that keep us safe from radioactive criminality

Futuris reporter Denis Loctier looks at the work of the ‘atomic detectives,’ scientists that keep us safe from the risk of radioactive criminality

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