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Israeli jets strike Islamic Jihad targets in Syria and Gaza -Israeli military

Ari Rabinovitch and Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters
Posted at Feb 24 09:16 AM

JERUSALEM/GAZA - Israeli fighter jets launched air strikes on suspected Islamic Jihad positions in Syria, the Israeli military said on Monday, after the militant group and Israel exchanged rockets and air strikes around Gaza. Read more »

Nearly 3 million in need of aid in Niger: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 19 11:47 PM

In a statement, UNICEF cited "the risks posed by insecurity, malnutrition, recurrent disease epidemics and outbreaks, cyclical floods, droughts and displacement" as the causes behind a crisis threatening 2.9 million people, including 1.6 million children. Read more »

34 Palestinians dead as Islamic Jihad, Israel stop hostilities across Gaza Strip

Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams, Reuters
Posted at Nov 14 06:14 PM

Islamic Jihad said Israel had accepted its demand to stop both the targeted killing of militants and sometimes lethal army gunfire at weekly Palestinian protests on the Gaza border. Read more »

Red Cross: 22,000 missing in Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 13 01:34 AM

Nearly 22,000 people, mostly children, are missing as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria, the Red Cross said on Thursday.  Read more »

Indonesia police shoot suspected militant after station attack

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 18 11:03 PM

Indonesian authorities said Sunday they shot and arrested a suspected militant who attacked police officers at a station in the country's second-biggest city.   Read more »

Mozambican Catholic bishop slams gov't over jihadist attacks

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 23 08:33 PM

MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE - A Mozambican Catholic bishop has lambasted the government over what he said was its failure to curb a radical Islamist insurgency ravaging the country's north, claiming hundreds of civilian lives. Read more »

'Victims and perpetrators': Rehabilitating Indonesia's child bombers

Kiki Siregar, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 12 10:31 AM

The world's biggest Muslim majority nation is grappling with the growing global threat of 'family attacks' and also with how to reintegrate returning IS jihadists and their relatives as the extremist group's caliphate lies in ruins, a challenge faced by many nations including France and the United States. Read more »

'Victims and perpetrators': Rehabilitating Indonesia's child bombers

Kiki Siregar, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 04 01:32 PM

The world's biggest Muslim majority nation is grappling with the growing global threat of 'family attacks' and also with how to reintegrate returning IS jihadists and their relatives as the extremist group's caliphate lies in ruins, a challenge faced by many nations including France and the United States.  Read more »