The diplomatic conflict between Qatar and a number of other Arab states over the support for terrorist groups shows the hypocrisy of Riyadh, which has been repeatedly spotted funding extremists, analysts told Sputnik. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Saudi accusations against the Persian Gulf Arab monarchy of Qatar for supporting Islamist terror groups are highly hypocritical and […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday, June 6 police were treating a deadly siege in the southern city of Melbourne as an “act of terrorism” after a claim by the Islamic State group that one of its fighters was the gunman responsible, Reuters says. Police shot dead gunman Yacqub Khayre, who […]
Southeast Asian governments are struggling to determine how many Islamic State-linked foreign militants are in the southern Philippines, a year after IS leaders urged followers who could not to travel to Syria or Iraq to go to Mindanao island instead. Philippine military officials have identified people from six other countries among more than 120 suspected […]
Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties both claimed victory on Monday in commune elections held over the weekend, with at least 20 days to go before an expected official count is tallied by the country’s top electoral body. Slightly more than 7 million Cambodians, or 89.52 percent of registered voters, turned out for commune council polls […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Gulf states on Monday, June 5 cut diplomatic ties with neighbouring Qatar and kicked it out of a military coalition, less than a month after US President Donald Trump visited the region to cement ties with powerhouse Saudi Arabia, AFP reports. In the region’s most serious diplomatic crisis in years, Qatar’s Gulf neighbours […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – There are about 1,200 Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) operatives in the Philippines, including foreigners of whom 40 are from Indonesia, the Indonesian defense minister told an international security forum Sunday. Speaking in Singapore amid a bloody standoff between Philippine troops and militants fighting under the Daesh flag in Marawi city, Indonesian Defense […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – More than 160 civilians walked out of the besieged Philippines city of Marawi just after dawn on Saturday, June 3, deceiving Islamist fighters they encountered by hiding the identity of the many Christians among them, Reuters said. The audacious exodus came after text message warnings that a major assault by Philippines aircraft and […]
A coalition advocating free speech and human rights is alerting the Indonesian public and authorities to a rash of cases where supporters of a hardline Muslim group have allegedly intimidated people for posting online content critical of the organization’s leader. This week the Anti-Persecution Coalition held a news conference to air concerns over cases of […]
