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ISLAMIC STATE

COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2016
Combating the terrorist threat
While the threat of terrorism in Britain is real, people should remember the chance of falling victim is remote and carry on with their normal lives.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 9, 2016
Refugee reluctance clashes with labor realities as asylum seekers, banned from working, build Japan's roads
Mazlum Balibay paves Japan's roads, digs its sewers and lays its water pipes — all for a country that doesn't want him.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 8, 2016
Anti-social media: Online chats give away plan for rocket attack on Singapore
It was the social media chatter that gave him away, although changing his profile picture on the Line messaging app to a banner pledging "Indonesian support and solidarity for ISIS" probably didn't help.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2016
Washington is letting the Russians win in Syria
The U.S. can only hope that Assad regime forces will somehow be defeated at Aleppo. That, judging by events on the ground, is a thin thread to hang on to.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2016
This is the world that the invasion of Iraq left behind
The Chilcot report detailing British culpability in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq reminds us that we're still dealing with the terrible consequences of that reckless decision.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 6, 2016
Kerry presses on with Russian cooperation talks on Syria despite Aleppo setbacks
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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 6, 2016
Singapore calls for vigilance after alleged rocket attack plot foiled
Singapore called for heightened vigilance Saturday, a day after Indonesian police arrested a group of men they believed were plotting a rocket attack on the wealthy city-state with the help of a Syrian-based Islamic State militant.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2016
The radical post-modernism of Islamic State
Islamic State's strategy to destabilize liberal societies is working.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2016
Abe, families attend memorial service for Bangladesh terror victims
Relatives and friends bid farewell at a memorial service in Tokyo to the seven Japanese victims of last month's terrorist attack in Bangladesh, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other government officials in attendance.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 2, 2016
Cabby starts life term at mental hospital over attempted beheading in London subway
An Islamic State-inspired taxi driver who tried to behead a London Underground passenger has been sent to a high-security mental hospital to begin a life sentence.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 2, 2016
Ohio man pleads guilty to plotting jihad bomb, gun attack on U.S. Capitol
An Ohio man on Monday pleaded guilty to plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol with guns and bombs and faces up to 30 years in prison.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 1, 2016
As its territory shrinks, Islamic State group increasingly looking to global attacks
The Islamic State group, losing territory and on the retreat in Iraq and Syria, has claimed credit for a surge in global attacks this summer, most of them in France and Germany.
WORLD
Aug 1, 2016
Islamic State calls on its members to carry out jihad in Russia
In a nine-minute video posted on YouTube on Sunday, the Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2016
Chance of Japan becoming terrorist target cannot be ruled out: police
The National Police Agency said Friday that it cannot rule out the possibility of Japan becoming a target of terrorist attacks at a time when people expressing support for the Islamic State group had been spotted on the internet in the country.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2016
Missing Bangladeshi helped extremists enter Japan en route to Syria
A Bangladeshi who was a former associate professor at a Japanese university is suspected of helping two extremists travel to Turkey via Japan last year, it was learned Friday.
WORLD
Jul 29, 2016
U.S. admits its airstrikes killed 14 civilians in Iraq, Syria between last July, April
Six U.S. airstrikes against al-Qaida and Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria killed 14 civilians and injured another between July 28 last year and April 29 this year, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 29, 2016
Islamic State video of church attacker Paris was tipped off to urges all Muslims to destroy France
Islamic State's affiliated news agency Amaq on Thursday released a video purportedly showing one of the two men who attacked a church in northern France this week urging all Muslims to destroy the country.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2016
Bangladesh delays closing bid on huge Japan ODA project over security concerns
The Bangladeshi government has postponed the closing bid for a large-scale project funded by Japan's official development assistance in the wake of the terrorist attack on a restaurant in Dhaka earlier this month that left 20 hostages, including seven Japanese, dead, sources said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2016
The jihadi-inspired wave of 'lone wolf' attacks
A veteran al-Qaida leader is a major inspiration of the 'leaderless jihad' strategy that is now wreaking havoc and spreading fear in the West and in the Middle East.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 26, 2016
Trump says he would consider alliance with Russia to 'knock the hell out of' Islamic State
Republican nominee Donald Trump said Monday that if elected U.S. president he will weigh an alliance with Russia against Islamic State militants but rejected any suggestion Russian President Vladimir Putin might be trying to help him win.

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