The US has confirmed that it has sent weapons to Somalia's UN-backed transitional government....
AFP | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
A group of alleged Islamists recently arrested in Morocco planned to attack Jewish interests in the country, a court source said Thursday, citing the ...
BBC | Posted 06.18.2009 | World
Hardline Islamist militants have captured a strategically important town north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, eyewitnesses say....
McClatchy | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
A growing number of U.S. intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials have concluded that there's little hope of preventing nuclear-armed Pakistan f...
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 05.16.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Apr 15 (IPS) - The U.S. programme of drone aircraft strikes against higher-ranking officials of al Qaeda and allied militant organisati...
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
Afghan president Hamid Karzai has met his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, to discuss ways to combat Islamist extremists in both countries....
New York Times | Robert Mackey | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
In spirit, the attack on the Pashtun poet's shrine in Pakistan seems to echo one of the Afghan Taliban's most infamous acts of cultural cleansing: the...
The Telegraph | David Blair | Posted 03.23.2009 | World
Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, who goes by the nom de guerre Dr Fadl, helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda and then led an Islamist insurgency in Egypt in the 199...
Foreign Policy | Jeffrey Gettleman | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
In more than a dozen trips to Somalia over the past two and a half years, I've come to rewrite my own definition of chaos. I've felt the incandescent ...
New York Times | Jane Perlez | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
When the envoy Richard C. Holbrooke arrives here Monday looking for ways to stop a runaway Islamist insurgency that is destabilizing Pakistan, he will...
Nathan Gardels | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
Dealing with Hamas or the Taliban doesn't mean that if Obama talks to them they will roll over. It means that the use of force alone cannot work and that ignoring them won't make them go away
Richard Bennet | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
Perhaps as a result of a decrease in the amount of aid given to Bosnia, ethnic tension is on the rise and many have even forecasted the possibility of renewed violence.
The Globe and Mail | ADAM ENTOUS and ALASTAIR MACDONALD | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
HEBRON, West Bank -- Forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Western-backed Palestinian president, are rounding up suspected Islamist activists and allegat...
Reuters | Posted 12.29.2008 | World
NEW DELHI, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Several of the Islamist militants who attacked Mumbai this week visited the city a few months ago and lived there for a ...
BBC NEWS | Posted 07.26.2009 | World