Tag: Terrorism
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AUSTRALIA | Gov’t to prohibit secret service torture
The Australian government has bent to public pressure by proposing a specific prohibition on secret service officers torturing suspected terrorists. The government had planned to indemnify ... -
UK | Wife of latest hostage issues plea to militants
The wife of a British aid worker held hostage by the Islamic State group has issued a statement pleading for the militants to release him and ... -
TERRORISM | Australian police raids thwart beheading plot
Police said they thwarted a plot to carry out beheadings in Australia by supporters of the radical Islamic State group by detaining 15 people and raiding ... -
INDONESIA | 4 suspected militants are China Uighurs
Four suspected Islamic militants arrested in Indonesia over the weekend are members of China’s ethnic Uighur minority community and were trying to meet Indonesia’s most wanted extremist, authorities ... -
ISLAMIC STATE TERRORISM | Beheading spurs coalition conference
Newly outraged by the beheading of yet another Western hostage, diplomats from around the world are in Paris pressing for a coherent global strategy to combat ... -
TERRORISM | Report: Islamic State attracting SE Asian fighters
Islamic State is attracting a growing number of militants from Southeast Asia to fight in Iraq and Syria, raising the risk they will return to ...
