Egypt sentences 69 to prison for church attack: judicial sources
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Waheed Ahmed, the son of Rochdale councillor Shakil Ahmed, leaves hospital after a medical checkup and fingerprinting in Hatay province, Turkey. Photograph: Anadolu Agency
Helen Pidd, northern editor, and Caroline DaviesAn imam in Rochdale has warned that the “tentacles of Isis” are spreading far and fast through the Muslim community as it emerged that a local Labour councillor’s son was among nine people from the town arrested on the Turkish-Syrian border.
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A church commemorating the Coptic victims of the Islamic State was attacked in the southern Egyptian province of Minya Friday, in the latest incident of violence against the Christian minority. Copts are pictured here outside a church in Minya's al-Our village, Feb. 16, 2015.Reuters/Asmaa Waguih
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Over 100 Christians arrested for lynching 2 in Pakistan
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Pakistani protesters take cover during clashes with police on Monday. Christian protesters clashed with police a day after Taliban bombers killed more than a dozen people in suicide attacks on two churches in the city.
Over 100 Christians have been arrested for allegedly being part of a mob that lynched two men after Taliban suicide attacks on two churches in Pakistan's biggest Christian colony that killed 17 people.
Confirming the arrests, a senior investigation officer said that more than 100 Christian protesters were arrested. They are currently being investigated by the police to determine their role in the protests.
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Fears British medics crossed into Syria
At least nine British medical students and doctors are feared to have travelled to Syria to work in areas controlled by Islamic State (IS).
The students are believed to have travelled to Syria more than a week ago
At least nine British medical students and doctors are feared to have travelled to Syria to work in areas controlled by Islamic State (IS).
The group - all in their late teens or early twenties - had been studying in Sudan.
Some of their relatives, who have travelled to the Turkish Syrian border, told the BBC they are gravely concerned about their welfare.
They are believed to have travelled to Syria more than a week ago.
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Abdelhakim Belhadj, Washington's Al Qaeda Ally Now Leading ISIS in Libya
By Eric Draitser
Global Research, March 10, 2015
The revelations that US ally Abdelhakim Belhadj is now leading ISIS in Libya should come as no surprise to those who have followed US policy in that country, and throughout the region. It illustrates for the umpteenth time that Washington has provided aid and comfort to precisely those forces it claims to be fighting around the world.
According to recent reports, Abdelhakim Belhadj has now firmly ensconced himself as the organizational commander of the ISIS presence inside Libya. The information comes from an unnamed US intelligence official who has confirmed that Belhadj is supporting and coordinating the efforts of the ISIS training centers in eastern Libya around the city of Derna, an area long known as a hotbed of jihadi militancy.
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Dozens of suspected militants killed in Egypt’s North Sinai: sources
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt’s military killed dozens of suspected Islamist militants in an operation in Sinai, security sources said on Wednesday, while state media reported the kidnapping of a businessman in the region.
Apache helicopter gunships killed 18 suspected militants after they destroyed four vans in North Sinai, security sources in the remote but strategic region said.
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Bishoy Armia Bolis (Formerly Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy) solicitor's face official obstruction in lodging an appeal
Bishoy Armia Bolis (Formerly Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy solicitor, Mr Akram Gobrial is facing obstruction and intransigence from minor figure in the Egypt Legal system which will result in failure to take the case against Bishoy to the cassation court.
So far the lawyer travelled 4 times to Minya governorate to obtain the court ruling against the 1 year sentence for Bishoy alleged " activities which harm public interest, spreading false rumours, and possessing a camera" which working as correspondent for Tarek TV channel.
The legal system in Egypt is sound at the high level but such obstruction from minor figures in the system, such as court clerks would hinder justice. We ask the Attorney General to stop events which make mockery of justice system and reflects badly on Egypt's image.
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Imran Khawaja, British Jihadi Who Faked His Own Death, Is Jailed For 12 Years
Armed British police officers stand on guard near the French Institute and French School in the South Kensington area of London, on the same day the new edition of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo went on sale in France, with copies expected to arrive at vendors to be sold in London on Friday, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) | ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON (AP) — A British jihadi who faked his death in an attempt to secretly return to England from Syria was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison.
Imran Khawaja, who joined a faction aligned with the Islamic State group and attended an extremist training camp in Syria for six months, had appeared in the group's online propaganda videos — including one in which he posed with a man's severed head.
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Charlie Hebdo Protestors Ransack Christian School in Pakistan, Demand Closure
Security said to be lax just weeks after massacre at school in Peshawar
Pakistan Correspondent
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 29, 2015 (Morning Star News) –
Among several protests across Pakistan against a French satire magazine’s cartoons of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, hundreds of Muslims in a terrorist-infested northwestern province on Monday (Jan. 26) stormed a Christian school, demanding its closure.
Some 300 protestors from local schools and colleges entered the premises of Panel High School for Boys in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, after jumping its outer walls and forcing open the gates, principal Fredrick Farhan Das told Morning Star News by phone.
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Attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula by militants with possible ISIS ties leave at least 26 dead
Militants with possible Islamic State ties struck more than a dozen army and police targets in the restive Sinai Peninsula with simultaneous attacks involving a car bomb and mortar rounds on Thursday, killing at least 26 security officers.
An Army spokesman immediately blamed former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood of orchestrating the attack, which killed 25 Army soldiers and one policeman.
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UK Jihadi Who Faked Death Admits Terror Offences
The 27-year-old posed with a severed head while he was in Syria, before trying to slip back into Britain unnoticed.
A British jihadist who faked his death faces years behind bars after admitting a string of terror offences following his return from Syria.
Imran Khawaja, from Southall in west London, spent six months in the war-torn country last year and attended a terror training camp.
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Belgian anti-terror raid in Verviers leaves two dead
Two suspected jihadists have been killed in an anti-terror operation in eastern Belgium, officials say.
A third person had been arrested in the raid in Verviers and weapons are reported to have been recovered.
Prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt told reporters police had targeted a group returning from Syria who had been about to launch attacks in a matter of hours.
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Largest Islamic Body in the World Calls for More Anti-Free Speech Laws in Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack
By Patrick Poole
Last week’s terror attack targeting French magazine Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris has sparked a global conversation about the nature of free speech, with the “Je Suis Charlie” hashtag in support of the murdered Charlie Hebdo staff going viral and becoming the most used hashtag in the history of Twitter.
But this afternoon, the UN representative for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ufuk Gokcen, was expressing another view with respect to free speech.
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