French energy giant Total on Monday confirmed it is suspending work on a massive $20 billion gas project in northern Mozambique following the latest jihadist assault on a nearby town last month.
Muslim Migrant Who Stabbed Gay Couple Has No Regrets, Court Hears
26 Apr 2021
A Syrian Muslim migrant who attacked a homosexual couple with knives, killing one, has no regrets, a German court has heard.
Abdullah al HH, as the migrant is referred to in the press, wanted “to live according to the strict interpretation of the Qur’an” and turned to the Islamic State, a psychologist told the Dresden Higher Regional Court, according to a
The Syrian revealed his thoughts to the psychologist, such as his belief that it was legitimate to kill “unbelievers”, while serving the short sentence he received in 2018 for obtaining instructions on how to build a suicide bomb vest.
France s Macron attends funeral of Chadian president Idriss Déby
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23/04/2021 - 12:23 French President Emmanuel Macron greets Chairman of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat after a meeting with African leaders of the Sahel countries as part of the funerals of Chad President Idriss Deby, in N Djamena, Chad, April 22, 2021. REUTERS - POOL Text by: David Coffey with RFI 2 min French President Emmanuel Macron was among foreign dignitaries in N Djamena on Friday to attend the funeral of Chad s leader Idriss Déby, who was killed this week in fighting with rebels. Advertising Read more
Macron, Guinean President Alpha Condé and several other African heads of state attended Déby s funeral, as the rebels called a temporary ceasefire to allow the ceremony to take place.
15 Apr 2021
A statement from the Afghan jihadist organization the Taliban condemned President Joe Biden on Thursday for delaying the withdrawal of American troops from the country, noting the administration of President Donald Trump agreed to leave the country by May 1, but Biden would keep troops there for another four months.
In remarks on Wednesday, Biden announced that all U.S. troops would leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the American homeland that initially prompted President George W. Bush to invade the country. The Taliban has close ties to al-Qaeda and American intelligence officials believed al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden may be hiding in Afghanistan at the time; U.S. forces ultimately found him in neighboring Pakistan.
US State Department’s Report on Nigerian Violence Leaves Out Jihad
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Claims of a Christian genocide in Nigeria were discounted by the Department of State’s recently published 2020 Country Report which cites land disputes and farmer-herder competition not jihadism as the driver of mass homicides in Nigeria’s North West states. The 17,000-word report posted March 30, 2021 spares just 200 words to explain close to 1,000 brutal murders in Nigeria’s Middle Belt during the last year.
“Land disputes, competition over dwindling resources, ethnic differences, and settler-indigene tensions contributed to clashes between herdsmen and farmers throughout the north-central part of the country,” according to “2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria.”