By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 28 March 2007 Pakistani security forces are on high alert after female students from an Islamist school in the capital kidnapped the alleged owner of a local brothel. Student protestors later seized two police officers spar...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 21 March 2007 Judges sentenced Islamic militant Hasanuddin to 20 years in prison for masterminding the grisly beheadings of the three teenage Christian schoolgirls three years ago, buying the machetes used to kill them...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 22 January 2007 One of the top leaders of the Somali Islamist movement is reportedly in U.S. and Kenyan custody in Nairobi, three weeks after Somali government and Ethiopian troops ousted the Islamic Courts Union from power. VOA...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 01 January 2007 Somalia's interim governments says it has captured the Islamic Movement's Women wait to be brought at a funeral of a family that died from an unknown explosion in Mogadishu, 31 Dec 2006 last stronghold, followin...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 13 November 2006 Troops in the semi-autonomous and secular region of Puntland in Somalia have reportedly been placed on full alert, after they failed to stop Somali Islamists from capturing a town Sunday near Galkaayo. ---- Pun...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 June 2006 The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs has called on Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts to stop taking territory in volatile Somalia. The official also expressed concerns that Somalia poses a...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 14 June 2006 In Somalia, fighters loyal to the Islamic Courts have captured the town of Jowhar, one week after taking control of the capital Mogadishu. This comes on the heels of lawmakers approving a peacekeeping mission f...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 08 June 2006 After months of fighting against an alliance of secular Somali factional leaders to seize Mogadishu, an organization called the Union of Islamic courts says it is now in control of the capital. The union is already...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 20 May 2006 Palestinian intelligence chief Tareq Abu Rajab is wheeled by Israeli paramedics into a hospital in Tel Aviv Israel has assassinated a top Palestinian militant in...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 01 March 2006 A senior Islamic militant has been killed in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, a Jewish settler was killed by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank. Palestinians gather...