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BANGKOK- Thai police have rescued hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from a remote camp in a raid prompted by a investigation into human trafficking, police officials said on Monday. Police detained 531 men, women and children in Sunday’s raid at a camp near the town of Sadao in the southern province ...

The Syrian army on Monday killed a number of terrorists in several provinces and sustained its advance in Aleppo, maintaining its control over the north of Aleppo airport area, according to SANA. A military source told SANA that the army eliminated armed terrorist groups in the neighborhoods of al-Rashideen, Karm al-Maysar ...

Three al-Qaeda-affiliated militant groups have declared war on Lebanon. In a single day, the trio delivered the opening salvo of their Lebanese campaign, issuing threats in what appeared to be coordinated statements. Three prominent terrorist groups, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, and the Islamic State of Iraq ...

Militants from al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have beheaded two Syrian citizens with sword in their Raqqa base, as they continue executing and punishing people based on their own ruling system. Syrians in Raqqa have been suffering from extremist crimes and strict rules imposed by ISIL militants ...

A senior British police official has warned that anyone travelling to Syria from the UK will be detained after returning home. There is a “huge concern” about those who travel to Syria to fight alongside the militants against the Syrian government, Manchester’s police chief Peter Fahy said on Saturday. Referring ...

The new mayor of largest American city of New York has boasted before members of influential pro-Israeli lobby group AIPAC that being “a defender of Israel” is part of his “job description. Bill de Blasio, who was sworn into office on January 1, made the remarks during an unannounced speech ...

Shia cleric Sayyid Alim Musawi of Imambargah Safdar Hussain, was gunned down by unknown attackers in Dhaki Munawar Shah area on Monday. Sources said that the Shia cleric was on his way to the local mosque for evening prayer when he was targeted by unknown assailants riding on bikes. Sayyid ...

At least six people were killed on Saturday when three mortar bombs hit a Shiite Muslim village near the Iraqi city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) Northeast of Baghdad, police said.  A woman and a child were among the victims, five of whom belonged to the same family, the ...

GAZA STRIP (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot dead one Palestinian and injured another on Friday during a protest east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. Spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qidra, said that 20-year-old Bilal Samer Oweidah died after being shot dead in the chest by ...

An official of the Israeli regime has proclaimed that Tel Aviv is contemplating the replacement of the al-Aqsa Mosque in al-Quds (Jerusalem) with a temple. The Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction Uri Ariel called on Friday for the construction of what he claimed as “the Third Temple” to replace ...