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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Sunday accused regional rival Shiite Iran of exporting extremist Islamic movements to the world and vowed to eliminate the Islamic State group. “The Iranian regime has been the spearhead of global terrorism since the (Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini revolution” in 1979, King Salman said in a speech to leaders including US President Donald Trump. “We did not know terrorism and extremism until the Khomeini revolution reared […]
(PNA) — Twenty bandits were “killed” as the Philippine Air Force’s newly acquired FA-50 fighter jets pounded and destroyed a camp of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Sumisip, Basilan province, military officials said. Lt. Col. Andrew Bacala Jr., Army’s 4th Special Forces Battalion commander, on Friday said the fighter jets “delivered deadly payload, inflicting heavy casualties to the ASGs.”“The ASGs were shocked. They abandoned most of their personal belongings and left unfinished meal at […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Lawmakers expressed their support for the implementation of a national identification system in order to counter terrorism. Compostela Valley 2nd District Representative Roel Gonzaga said the system will facilitate the identification of individuals. He said it will also be easier to trace individuals who have committed violations of the law. https://youtu.be/ZjL5GC4FYIM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The heads of United States intelligence agencies offered a pessimistic assessment Thursday of the security situation in Afghanistan, where the US government is planning to send more troops to combat resurgent Islamic extremists. “The political and security situation in Afghanistan will also almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in the military assistance by the US and its partners,” Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said at […]
(Agence France Presse) — Three suspects in last month’s bombing in the Saint Petersburg metro have been charged for their involvement in a “terrorist act,” Russian investigators said Thursday. Russia’s Investigative Committee said suspects Bakhram Ergashev, Ibragimzhon Ermatov and Makhamadyusuf Mirzaalimov have also been charged for possession of illegally used explosives. Seven other suspects in the April 3 attack, which killed 15 people, will be charged in the near future, the committee said. The Imam Shamil […]
(Agence France Presse) — A man arrested near the British parliament last month was involved in bomb-making in Afghanistan in 2012, it was alleged Wednesday as he appeared in court on terrorism charges. Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali, 27, was arrested not far from Prime Minister Theresa May’s office on April 27, in possession of three knives, London’s Westminster Magistrates Court heard. He is charged with preparing terrorist acts relating to that incident, and faces two […]
by Nathalie ALONSO / Gregory DANEL Agence France-Presse PARIS, France – A dozen people have been arrested in France and Belgium in connection with the weapons used in the deadly 2015 terror attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris, a source close to the probe said Wednesday. Claude Hermant, a suspected arms dealer and former mercenary in the 1990s Balkan wars, was taken into custody along with the other suspects in raids that began Monday, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malacañang has ordered the Philippine National Police to double its vigilance and be alert against the Abu Sayyaf after the relationship between a police official and an Abu Sayyaf member came out in the open. Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said the relationship between Police Superintendent Cristina Nobleza with Abu Sayyaf bomb expert Renierlo Dongon constituted a national security nightmare. “The arrest of PSupt. Maria Cristina Brugada Nobleza, who was assigned at […]
(Agence France Presse) — Four gunmen have been killed in Bohol as President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the military on Sunday to kill remnants of the Abu Sayyaf behind a foiled mass kidnapping attempt there. Authorities said the dead suspects and three others on the run were stragglers from a boatload of the gunmen who sailed to the central island of Bohol this month as part of a plot to kidnap tourists. The raid had signalled […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Paris’ Champs-Elysees boulevard looked more like a combat zone than the tourist and shopping mecca it is on Thursday night (April 20) after a drive-up-and-shoot attack in which a police officer was killed. Hundreds of police officers armed with machine guns, helmets or balaclavas and bullet-proof vests swarmed over an area of Paris popular with, but suddenly bereft of, late night shoppers, cafe customers and dance club revellers. Witness Chelloug, a […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said he had ordered government troops to “not take prisoners” once they find the members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf who are on the run after the incident in Inabanga, Bohol last week. “When I said to the Abu Sayyaf…they went there maybe to kidnap..And I told the Navy, if you see (them), the boat, blast them off. Do not give me prisoners. I don’t need them,” he […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday offered a P1-million bounty for each member of the Abu Sayyaf still on the loose after a recent clash with government troops in Bohol that left at least nine dead. “Ang anim na scouring, kung saan sila makalanding, I have a one million (peso) offer. Per person ako,” Duterte, who attended a security briefing in the province, told reporters. “..Ang order ko is dead or alive,” he added, […]
