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Ali Harbi Ali guilty of murdering MP David Amess in terrorist attack

Twenty-six-year-old stabbed long-serving Conservative after being fuelled by Islamic State propaganda

The Guardian - UK

In north Syria, business hub hopes to drive recovery from war

In an industrial zone in northern Syria's rebel-held city of Al-Bab, Abu Omar al-Shihabi's smelter churns out iron bars he says can compete with any produced in Syria and beyond.

Reuters

Islamic State morphs and grows in Pakistan, Afghanistan

A ruthless Islamic State affiliate, known as Islamic State in Khorasan Province or IS-K, emerged in eastern Afghanistan in 2014

The Independent UK

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Iraqi man alleging 35 family members were killed by Australian airstrike denied compensation

Man applied to Australian government for act of grace payment over Mosul strike targeting Islamic State in 2017

The Guardian - AU

Paris attacks accused lose ground as their own witnesses fail to deliver

Two witnesses appeared on Thursday at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in and around Paris. Both the Belgian investigating judge, Isabelle Panou, and an anonymous French anti-terrorist police officer…

Radio France Internationale

Ali Harbi Ali tells court he did not feel shame after killing David Amess

Old Bailey hears defendant say he killed Tory MP because he had voted for military campaign in Syria

The Guardian - UK

MP murder accused tells jury: ‘I killed him to stop him harming Muslims’

Ali Harbi Ali, 26, denies the murder of Sir David Amess during a constituency surgery in October last year.

The Independent UK

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El Shafee Elsheikh trial: Hostages of ‘sadistic’ IS terror cell forced to sing sick parody of Hotel California

Hostages of a “sadistic” Islamic State terror cell were forced to sing a sick parody of the Eagles song ‘Hotel California’ retitled ‘Hotel Osama’, a journalist has told a US court.

Evening Standard

Court hears US hostage’s emotional letter to father as IS trial continues

Peter Kassig, who was later killed, described paralysis and hope and offered words of comfort to his family

The Guardian - US

Witnesses describe hostages' despair at Brit's terror trial

Jurors at the terrorism trial of British national El Shafee Elsheikh are hearing emotional testimony as the trial stretches into its second week in a Virginia courtroom

The Independent UK

Sister: Gunmen took 83-year-old nun from bed in Burkina Faso

A Louisiana official for an order of Catholic nuns says 10 gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived

The Independent UK

French priest renowned for uncovering massacres warns of ‘Buchas everywhere’

Over the past two decades, Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, has been identifying World War II atrocity sites, uncovering evidence of overlooked massacres. After doing similar work with the Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, he is now back in Ukraine, collecting…

France 24

Indonesian jails activist lawyer over Islamic radicalism

A former Indonesian human rights lawyer who joined an Islamic hard-line group has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of incitement with the aim to establish a caliphate in a secular country

The Independent UK

Zelensky claims Russia troops are ‘cutting out civilians’ tongues’ and want to make Ukrainians ‘silent slaves’

Volodymyr Zelensky likened actions of Russian forces to those of Islamic State

The Independent UK

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The Times of India

Gorakhpur temple attack accused acted like IS-inspired 'lone wolf': UP ATS

LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (UPATS) sleuths said on Tuesday that Gorakhnath temple attack accused Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi seemed to be inspired by the lone wolf attack pattern of the Islamic State (IS). The ATS sleuths interrogated Murtaza after finding several IS videos in his laptop.

Bangkok Post

Mines kill, injure over 500 children in Iraq

At least 519 children have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance in Iraq in the past five years, UN agencies have warned.

The Independent UK

300 killed by Mali's army and foreigners, says rights group

An international rights group says Mali's army and foreign soldiers suspected to be Russian recently killed an estimated 300 men — some of them suspected Islamic extremist fighters but most civilians — in Moura in central Mali

Reuters

U.S. calls reports of many killed in Mali 'extremely disturbing'

The United States is following "extremely disturbing accounts" of large numbers of people killed in a village in central Mali, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Sunday.

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Reuters

Mali says military operation in Moura area kills 200 militants

Mali's military said it has killed over 200 Islamist militants in an operation in the centre of the West African country, the latest clash in a month of escalating violence.

The Guardian - US

How the Islamic State trial could change the future of US terrorism cases

As a Virginia jury hears horrific allegations, experts say the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh sets an important precedent

Evening Standard

Islamic State hostages ‘forced into brutal prison fights by captors known as The Beatles’

An aid worker held by the Islamic State “Beatles” says he and fellow prisoners were forced to take part in “Royal Rumble” fights during 14 months in captivity.

The Independent UK

Report: US military must do more to avoid civilian deaths

A new report says the U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants

The Guardian - UK

Islamic State hostages were forced to fight each other, US court hears

Aid workers and journalists subjected to constant abuse, Federico Motka says at trial of El Shafee Elsheikh

Reuters

U.N. peacekeepers deployed to northeastern Mali amid spate of killings

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Mali has deployed two units to the African country's tri-border area with Burkina Faso and Niger to respond to a spate of civilian killings, it said on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Surviving hostage relates ordeal in Islamic State captivity

A hostage who survived more than a year as a captive of the Islamic State is testifying about the beatings and torture inflicted on him by his captors

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