Sentences with phrase «islamist militant»

A Nigerian defence official has indicated that the government will not use force to rescue the girls being held captive by Islamist militant Boko Haram.

According to Casely - Hayford, although much attention is being paid to the fact that Boko Haram is a terrorist group, security chiefs should also focus on Boko Haram as an Islamist Militant group who are imposing their religious views on their victims.

Islamist militant group, Boko Haram in April seized almost 276 girls in northern Nigeria.

The UN Security Council has announced that it has blacklisted the Islamist militant group Boko Haram after they kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria.

It also goes big on his description of the Islamist militant organisations Hamas and Hezbollah as «friends».

The former military ruler dominated the country's north - western states, which have suffered most from attacks by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

Nigeria has suffered from several attacks by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of people in its drive to establish an Islamic state.

The President, John Mahama who is also the ECOWAS chairman has summoned an emergency ECOWAS meeting to discuss the upsurge in the activities of Islamist Militant group, Boko Haram in Nigeria.

He assisted the Islamist militant group by identifying possible targets amongst journalists between 2007 and 2011.

The film was distributed on Twitter on Friday by the al - Kataib media foundation, an Islamist militant organisation, intelligence agency SITE Monitoring reported.

The abduction of the schoolgirls in north - eastern Nigeria in April 2014 by the Islamist militant group caused a global outcry — and prompted campaigns about girls» right to education.

Eighty - five Pakistani Christians were killed when Islamist militant groups with Taliban links undertook a double suicide bombing outside All Saints» Anglican...

The French counterterror operations launched in 2013 to roll back the Islamist militant uprising in the north of Mali has metamorphosed into a semi-colonial arrangement.

Spain's King Felipe led a minute's silence ceremony, one day after a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds in Barcelona, killing 1 people and wounding scores.

The witnesses said the girls were returned by people they thought were Islamist militant insurgents from the Boko Haram group.

Emergency rule has been in place since attacks on Paris last November in which Islamist militants killed 130 people.

Trump's directive, which he said was necessary to protect the United States from attacks by Islamist militants, barred people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days.

The United States has poured aid and personnel into Yemen in recent years as part of its war on Islamist militants.

France's foreign intelligence service is bolstering recruitment to counter Islamist militants and cyber criminals, but it is looking for computer wizards and linguists not would - be James Bonds.

Macron, in his remarks, called for the two countries to work together against Islamist militants, on North Korea and Iran, on «free and fair trade,» and on climate change.

Security chiefs, after attacks by Islamist militants, have already announced extra police for patrolling key areas on voting day on Sunday when a centrist politician meets a veteran from the far - right after a turbulent and at times angry campaign.

Egypt is a strategic U.S. partner because of its control of the Suez Canal and Sisi presents himself as a bulwark against Islamist militants in the region.

Trump has said his directive, issued last month, was necessary to protect the United States from attacks by Islamist militants, barred people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days.

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, told National Public Radio last month that air strikes could have the objective of targeting senior leaders among the Islamist militants, safeguarding infrastructure or «blunting attacks» by large numbers of militants, possibly to counter an assault on Baghdad.

Al Qaeda's North African branch said its attack on a beach resort in Ivory Coast on Sunday that killed 18 people was revenge for France's offensive against Islamist militants in the Sahel region and called for French forces to withdraw.

But the desire for encryption legislation among some intelligence and law enforcement officials gained new life after the Islamist militants attacks in San Bernardino and Paris late last year.

The company was paid almost $ 500,000 to interview people overseas to understand the mind - set of Islamist militants as part of an effort to counter their online propaganda and block recruits.

Unmarked Israeli aircraft have been pounding Islamist militants in the North Sinai.

Suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, in a twin attack bearing the hallmarks of Boko Haram and a day after US President Donald Trump pledged greater support to fight the Islamist militants.

Nine Christian families living in Rafah near Egypt's border with Israel left their homes on Friday after Islamist militants made death threats and gunmen attacked a Coptic - owned shop.

The Guardian: Somali comedian who mocked Islamists is shot dead One of Somalia's most popular comedians, known for his parodies of Islamist militants, has been shot dead in the capital, Mogadishu.

(CNN)- Islamist militants in Nigeria's restive north have taken the lives of 34 people since Christmas, including 27 Christians attending church services.

CNN: Nigerian forces kill 13 Boko Haram militants after church attacks Islamist militants in Nigeria's restive north have taken the lives of 34 people since Christmas, including 27 Christians attending church services.

Several Christian children are recovering from injuries after suspected Islamist militants attacked them... More

Kenya's border region has been tense since it sent troops into Somalia to pursue al - Shabab Islamist militants.

Thousands of Christians have been forced to leave their homes in Iraq because of an ultimatum given by Islamist militants last week.

So far, the United States has lagged far behind several European countries in its refugee aid efforts, largely due to the time - consuming screening procedure to block Islamist militants and criminals from entering the United States under the guise of being legitimate refugees.

The bodies were found with gunshots to the head in an area where kidnappings and assassinations are common and Islamist militants are active, Reuters reports.

Several Christian children are recovering from injuries after suspected Islamist militants attacked them on the outskirts of Kenya's capital.

Some observers, including the editorial staff of the Saudi Gazette, have expressed sympathy for Egypt's position, stressing Cairo's need to defend its territory from Islamist militants: «Egypt's curbs on movement through its crossing with the Gaza Strip is a security decision that had to be taken even though it has cut off imports of medicine and aid to the impoverished coastal enclave... Egypt had no other recourse but to seal the tunnels although it is not a decision without physical and political risks.

Last year, Claudia Roth, deputy speaker of the German parliament, expressed shock that NATO is allowing Turkey to harbour an ISIS camp in Istanbul, facilitate weapons transfers to Islamist militants through its borders, and tacitly support IS oil sales.

The 82 schoolgirls released by Boko Haram Islamist militants are currently inside presidential Villa Abuja and met with President Muhammadu Buhari.

The United States warned its citizens on Saturday of possible attacks by Islamist militants on U.S. facilities or shopping malls in South Africa during the upcoming month of Ramadan, but the South African government said the country was safe.

He was killed along three other US soldiers on Oct. 4 after his group was ambushed by more than 50 Islamist militants.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday claimed the military had routed Boko Haram in a key northeastern stronghold, a year after saying the Islamist militants had been «technically» defeated.

Nigeria is ready to talk to Islamist militants to negotiate the release of more than 200 abducted girls, cabinet minister Tanimu Turaki has said.

Boko Haram announce that they have kidnapped the family of seven, including four children aged 5 to 12, in retaliation for France's intervention against Islamist militants in Mali.

It is a detailed recreation of a terrifying time in American history as Islamist militants took 52 Americans hostage in support of the Iranian Revolution.

Graded into a sewage - runoff palette of watery fecal browns, Man Down poorly juggles three different timelines: one that follows a Marine (Shia LaBeouf) from training to Afghanistan, another set during a day - long meeting with a Marine Corps psychiatrist (Gary Oldman), and a third set in cheaply realized Red Dawn-esque post-apocalyptic future in which Islamist militants have taken over America after killing off most of the population with chemical weapons.

Islamist militants took advantage of the political chaos and occupied the north for nine months.