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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump condemned as “horrible and cowardly” a bomb and gun attack Friday that killed more than 200 people at a mosque in Egypt and called his counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to offer condolences. “The world cannot tolerate terrorism, we must defeat them militarily and discredit the extremist ideology that forms the basis of their existence!” he wrote on Twitter. A bomb explosion tore through the Rawda mosque […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines on Friday expressed its condolences to Egypt following the deadly terrorist attack in a mosque that killed over 200 and wounded others. “We join the people and the government of Egypt and the rest of the world in mourning the loss of many innocent lives in the tragedy,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said. Cayetano also condemned the attack, which Ambassador Leslie Baja said took place at the Al-Rawdah […]
By Samer Al-Atrush Agence France Presse Armed attackers on Friday killed at least 235 worshippers in a bomb and gun assault on a packed mosque in Egypt’s restive North Sinai province, in the country’s deadliest attack in recent memory. A bomb explosion ripped through the Rawda mosque frequented by Sufis roughly 40 kilometers west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish before gunmen opened fire on those gathered for weekly Friday prayers, officials said. Witnesses […]
Announcement comes as Malaysia makes public arrest of 20 terrorists funding militants in the Philippines The Philippines Anti-Money Laundering Council and Australia’s financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC will lead an alliance between Southeast Asian countries and Australia aimed at choking financing for militant networks, Canberra said Wednesday, as Malaysian authorities revealed 20 militants who were financing terrorists in the Philippines had been arrested. Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan said the South East Asia Counter Terrorism Financing Working Group was […]
by Ali Choukeir and Sarah Benhaida Agence France Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Its “caliphate” has imploded, its de facto capitals in Iraq and Syria have fallen, and hundreds of its fighters have either surrendered or fled. The Islamic State jihadist group may not be dead yet but its dream of statehood has already been buried, analysts say. No one in IS “will now think of imposing ‘the territory of the caliphate’,” said Hisham al-Hashemi, an Iraqi […]
(Eagle News) — Three men who police said plotted to attack Metro Manila during the recently concluded Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit were arrested by authorities in Quezon City, the police said on Friday. Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa said suspects Abdulgaffar Jikiri alias Abu Bakar Jikiri, 19; Alim Sabtalin, 19; and Sadam Jhofar, 24; were apprehended by joint Quezon City Police District and National Bureau of Investigation-counter-terrorism division elements in Salam […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said leaders who attended the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit and Related Meetings “vowed to work closely” to fight terrorism. “We have agreed on so many things to enhance the defense of our country. But, unfortunately, these are the things which I cannot really talk about in public,” Duterte told reporters in a press conference after he officially handed over chairmanship of the regional bloc to Singapore. […]
(Eagle News) — A Malaysian who fought alongside terrorists in Marawi is the new Islamic State emir in Southeast Asia. This is according to Philippine National Police Chief Roland dela Rosa,who spoke in a press conference on Monday. “(Amin Baco) is not only leading the remaining stragglers (in Marawi), but also the whole Southeast Asia,” De la Rosa said, citing information provided by Mohammad Ilham Syahputra, who was arrested in Marawi last week. De la Rosa said […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has expressed its condolences to the families of the eight victims of Tuesday’s truck attack on a New York bike path, as the Philippine government advised Filipinos in New York City to remain calm yet vigilant. The eight dead in the IS-inspired attack in New York included a Belgian woman and five Argentinian friends celebrating the 30th anniversary of their graduation from a prestigious polytechnical secondary school in the city of […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Eight people died when an assailant acting in the name of the Islamic State group drove a pickup truck along a New York City bike path Tuesday in the city’s worst terror attacks since September 11, 2001. The following is an outline of what is known so far about the attack. – What happened – Shortly after 3 pm, a man identified as Sayfullo Saipov, 29 and […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov spent weeks planning to conduct an attack in the name of the Islamic State group, police said Wednesday, after eight people were killed in New York’s worst attack since September 11, 2001. Authorities say Saipov, an Uzbek immigrant who moved to America in 2010, used a rented pickup truck to mow down pedestrians and cyclists along a mile-long stretch of a bike path on Lower’s […]
by Cecil Morella Agence France-Presse BALO-I, Lanao del Sur (AFP) — Cradling her baby in a muddy tent camp, Jamalia Pindaton has no idea if she can return home to Marawi in the southern Philippines after the end of a five-month war launched by Islamic State supporters. More than 350,000 people from in and around Marawi, the mainly Catholic Philippines’ Islamic capital, were displaced because of the conflict, which ended on Monday when soldiers killed […]
