Tag - terrorism

 
 

TERRORISM

WORLD
Dec 5, 2015
Turkish soldiers 'training Iraqi troops' near Mosul
Several hundred Turkish soldiers have been deployed to provide training for Iraqi troops in an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is under Islamic State control, a Turkish security source said Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 5, 2015
U.S. delays request for bigger Turkish air role against Islamic State until tensions with Russia ease
Since Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet on Nov. 24, the United States has quietly put on hold a long-standing request for its NATO ally to play a more active role in the U.S.-led air war against the Islamic State group.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2015
The climate-terror connection
Where climate change threatens to lay waste to the environment, fanatics have banded together to lay waste to civilization.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 3, 2015
Cameroon forces capture regional Boko Haram chief, free 900 captives
Cameroon's army captured a regional Boko Haram chief and freed 900 hostages during a three-day operation near the country's border with Nigeria, the government said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 3, 2015
Al-Qaida-linked forces take two south Yemen towns; MSF hospital hit in airstrike
Al-Qaida fighters retook on Wednesday two southern Yemeni towns they briefly occupied four years ago, residents and local fighters said, exploiting the collapse of central authority in Yemen in its eight-month war.
WORLD
Dec 1, 2015
Elusive Iranian general denies rumors of his demise in Syria
The commander of foreign operations by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has shrugged off reports of his death or injury in fighting in Syria, an Iranian news agency said Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2015
Rethink the war on terror
Doing the same things over and over in the war on terror will only produce the same result: failure.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2015
When no one knows the killer in their midst
Families and friends of the perpetrators of the Paris terrorist attacks professed no inkling that anything unusual was afoot — a phenomenon that repeats itself time and time again in extremist attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 29, 2015
'Voice' may have had a bigger role in Paris terrorist attacks
The voice that claimed Islamic State was responsible for the deadly Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks is known to many in the small French provincial town of Alencon.
WORLD
Nov 28, 2015
China police bust online gun ring, seize 1,180 guns
Police in China, where gun possession by ordinary people is illegal, have busted an online gun selling operation, seizing 1,180 guns and more than 6 million bullets, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2015
Ideology of shared prosperity under fire
Significant blocs of humanity are ignoring or repudiating the West's faith in the power of shared prosperity, turning instead to nationalism or radical Islam.
WORLD
Nov 28, 2015
Paris attack ringleader planned more strikes, mocked open borders: sources
The ringleader of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transportation system in France, according to sources close to the investigation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 27, 2015
Brussels ratchets alert level down notch; raids turn up nil; white powder at mosque just flour
Belgium lowered the security threat level in Brussels on Thursday, ending six days on maximum alert, but the prime minister warned that the risk of a Paris-style attack remained serious.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 26, 2015
Tunisia shuts Libya border, confirms suicide bomber blew up bus in Islamic State attack
Tunisian authorities said on Wednesday a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with plastic explosive blew up a presidential guard bus a day earlier, killing at least 12 troops in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 26, 2015
Amid U.S. global travel alert, Obama assures Americans they can safely take Thanksgiving trips
President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans they are safe as millions of people traveled on Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holiday, with security heightened at airports, New York City's parade festivities and other venues after the Paris attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 26, 2015
Pope shrugs off terror fears, starts Africa tour in bid to bridge Christian-Muslim divide
Pope Francis called on Wednesday for ethnic and religious reconcilation at the start of his first tour of Africa, where he will address a fast-growing Catholic population and seek to heal Christian-Muslim divisions.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Nov 25, 2015
In an age of global terrorism, what should we tell the children?
As parents, should we shelter and protect our children from the horrors of terrorism, or does that promote the very ignorance it thrives on?

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