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Portugal military and paramilitary police officers arrested over 2017 arms theft

Senior figures in Portugal's military and paramilitary police forces were arrested over a theft from a military arms depot last…

Staff Writer With AFP

Tunisia: Two killed in land mine blast in jihadist hideout near Algeria border

Two people were killed in a land mine blast in Mount Chaambi in central Tunisia near the border with Algeria,…

Staff Writer With AFP

Fear and mourning in Afghanistan: Hazaras mark the festival of Muharram in fragile Dasht-e-Barchi

In Kabul’s largely Shia Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, Shadi Saif finds some from Afghanistan's persecuted minority community taking security into their own…

Shadi Khan Saif

UN investigates ‘credible’ reported Afghanistan airstrike that killed 9 from a single family

The UN said it was investigating reports that 9 family members had been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, but…

Staff Writer With AFP

Nigeria troops thwart Boko Haram attack on military base in Borno state

Nigerian troops repelled another attempt by Boko Haram to overrun a military base in northeast Nigeria, military and civilian sources…

Staff Writer With AFP

Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo launch deadly raid, kidnap 17

One person was killed and 17 were kidnapped in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a raid blamed on a…

Staff Writer With AFP

Iran blames ‘jihadist separatists’ for Ahvaz military parade attack

Iran's intelligence ministry blamed "jihadist separatists" for last week's deadly attack on a military parade in the southwestern city of…

Staff Writer With AFP

Yemen Houthis mass-produced mines and IEDs using Iranian components, CAR report finds

A Conflict Armament Research report has found that Yemen's Houthi rebels have standardized and mass-produced improvised explosive devices

Fergus Kelly

Speaking to and about extremists

De-radicalization practitioners need to be aware of the pitfalls of their language in the counter-narrative versus alternative narrative dichotomy

Linda Schlegel

Bodies of 3 Burkina Faso police found as search for abducted mine staff continues

Three police officers were killed in a northern region of Burkina Faso where they were hunting for three kidnapped mineworkers,…

Staff Writer With AFP