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July 11, 2017

Proposed ID System for Muslims in Northern Philippines Draws Flak

A measure being proposed in a northern Philippine province that would require minority Muslims to apply for identification cards is discriminatory and dangerous, local rights activists and legislators said Monday. Police officials and local leaders last week discussed the possibility of implementing this policy in Tarlac province, amid fears that fighting between government forces and […]

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A building in Marawi is set ablaze by air strikes

Asia

July 11, 2017July 11, 2017

Vietnam Failed Sailors Beheaded by Islamic Militants: Family, Neighbors

Vietnam’s government should have done more to bring home two Vietnamese sailors executed last week after being held for nearly eight months by Islamic militants in the Philippines, family and neighbors of the two men said Monday. Hoang Van Hai, Hoang Trung Thong and four other Vietnamese crew members of the cargo ship MV Royal […]

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Royal Air Force MR-2 Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey

Asia

July 10, 2017

Germany Starts Military Pull-Out from Turkey after Diplomatic Spat

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Germany began withdrawing military hardware from an airbase in Turkey Sunday after a diplomatic row with Ankara over whether politicians could visit troops stationed there. According to Der Spiegel, the German armed forces will begin pulling out from the Incirlik base in the south of the country around midday bound for an […]

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Iraqi Soldiers in Baqubah on a clearing mission

Asia

July 10, 2017July 10, 2017

Iraqi PM congratulates armed forces for victory in Mosul

PanARMENIAN.Net – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday, July 9 and congratulated the armed forces for their “victory” over Islamic State after nearly nine months of urban warfare, bringing an end to jihadist rule in the city, Reuters reports. Islamic State’s defeat in Mosul three years after taking the city is […]

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Asia

July 7, 2017

26 Egyptian soldiers killed or wounded in Sinai attacks

PanARMENIAN.Net – Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday, July 7 in attacks on several checkpoints in Sinai that included car bombings, the military said in a statement, according to AFP. The military said it killed 40 assailants as it clashed with extremists in North Sinai, where the Islamic State group is leading […]

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Keraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, Jakarta

Asia

July 7, 2017

Indonesia: Police To Drop Probe into Alleged Hate Speech by President’s Son

Indonesian authorities say they have found nothing criminal in a vlog post by President Joko Widodo’s youngest son, after a police report alleged that he had insulted religion and spread hate speech in a video uploaded on his YouTube account in May. In the video, Kaesang Pangarep, 22, criticizes behavior of some Muslims during protests […]

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Turkish Land Forces KFOR soldiers in riot training

Asia

July 6, 2017July 6, 2017

Turkey Detains 12 at Human Rights Meeting

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkish police detained 12 people, including the Turkey head of rights group Amnesty International, Idil Eser, and other rights activists at a meeting on an island near Istanbul, media said on Thursday. They had gathered at a hotel on Buyukada island, just south of Turkey’s largest city, when they were taken to […]

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Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, Myanmar

Asia

July 6, 2017

One Rohingya Dead, Six Injured in Attack by Buddhist Mob in Myanmar’s Rakhine

Authorities in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state tightened security in the state capital after a Buddhist mob attacked and killed one Rohingya Muslim man and injured six others in the latest act of sectarian violence to rock the restive state, local police said on Wednesday. A group of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists threw bricks at the Rohingya […]

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