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Sweden tries sole surviving jihadist over Jordan pilot burnt to death
AFP, Published on 04/06/2025
» STOCKHOLM — A jihadist, jailed over the Paris and Brussels attacks in 2015 and 2016, goes on trial in Stockholm on Wednesday for his role in the 2014 capture and subsequent killing of a Jordanian pilot burned alive in Syria.
Israel chasing an impossible dream in Gaza
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/05/2025
» A zombie dream has taken over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, or at least the extreme right part of it, which is the tail that wags the rest. It is the dream that was once called "transfer" and is now known as "relocation". In its broadest form it includes the expulsion of all Arabs from the lands now controlled by Israel.
US diplomats visit Syria to meet new rulers
AFP, Published on 20/12/2024
» WASHINGTON - US diplomats have arrived in Syria to speak directly to the new Islamist-led rulers, hoping to encourage a moderate, inclusive path and to find clues on missing Americans, the State Department said Friday.
Israel-Hamas battles heighten fears for people trapped in Gaza hospital
AFP, Published on 12/11/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES): Intense fighting raged around Gaza's biggest hospital Sunday where doctors said thousands of Palestinians were trapped in dire conditions, as Israel pledged to help evacuate babies from the crippled facility.
'All dead': the Munich Olympics massacre 50 years ago
AFP, Published on 02/09/2022
» PARIS - September 5, 1972: Palestinian gunmen storm the Olympic Village at the Summer Games in Munich and take a group of Israeli athletes hostage, triggering a standoff that ends in a massacre.
Egypt tries man over murder of student who refused advances
AFP, Published on 27/06/2022
» AL MANSURAH (EGYPT) - A trial began Sunday for an Egyptian man accused of stabbing a woman to death in a public street after she rejected his advances -- a case that has sparked widespread outrage.
3 foreigners nabbed in relation to dead Russian woman
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 02/06/2022
» PHUKET: Police have arrested three foreigners who were with a Russian woman before she fell to her death from a condo in Patong early on Tuesday.
Foreigners held in death of Russian woman
Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 01/06/2022
» PHUKET: Police have arrested three foreigners who were in the room with a Russian woman who fell to her death from a condominium building in Patong on Tuesday, holding them on drug charges while the investigation continues.
Islamic State 'Beatle' guilty of all charges in US hostage deaths
AFP, Published on 15/04/2022
» ALEXANDRIA (UNITED STATES) - El Shafee Elsheikh, a member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles," was found guilty of all charges on Thursday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.
Islamic State 'Beatle' guilty of all charges in US hostage deaths
AFP, Published on 15/04/2022
» ALEXANDRIA (UNITED STATES) - El Shafee Elsheikh, a member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles," was found guilty of all charges on Thursday in the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.