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Thousands demonstrate in Czech Republic against migrants
Thousands of people protested against migrants in towns around the Czech Republic, a week after the UN slammed the country's treatment of new arrivals as "degrading".
29 October 2015
Pentagon chief expects more anti-IS raids after captives freed
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said he expected more raids targeting the Islamic State group similar to the mission that freed dozens of captives but left an American commando dead in Iraq.
24 October 2015
Germany's PEGIDA condemned over 'concentration camp' speech
Germany's xenophobic PEGIDA movement drew widespread condemnation from lawmakers and Jewish groups after a speaker at an anti-refugee rally used Nazi-era rhetoric.
21 October 2015
A year on, Germany's PEGIDA radicalised by refugee influx
They gather in the dark, wave German flags and vent their fury at foreigners they fear are overrunning their homeland -- next week Germany's anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement turns one year old.
17 October 2015
Nazarbayev congratulates Kazakhstanis on Eid al-Adha
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has congratulated Kazakhstanis on the Kurban Ait holiday.
28 September 2015
'Something was going to happen,' pilgrim feared before tragedy
Sirens wailed and helicopters hovered overhead as dozens of ambulances brought in victim after victim from a stampede that killed more than 700 in the holy Saudi valley of Mina.
25 September 2015
Trump under fire for failure to rebut anti-Muslim backer
Democratic presidential candidates joined the White House in slamming Donald Trump for failing to challenge a questioner who wrongly claimed President Barack Obama was a Muslim and not a US citizen.
19 September 2015
Netanyahu seeks UK support against 'militant Islam'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought Britain's cooperation to "turn back the tide of militant Islam" as he met Prime Minister David Cameron in London.
11 September 2015
Australian PM says IS militants worse than Nazis
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was slammed by Jewish groups after saying that Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria were worse than Nazis.
03 September 2015
Kazakhstanis to rest on September 24 for Kurban-ait
Kazakhstanis are getting one day off for the Kurban-ait holiday in September,
03 September 2015
Pakistan claims killing of major Al-Qaeda commander in country
Pakistani security forces have killed a senior Al-Qaeda commander and detained his wife in an overnight raid on his hideout in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.
03 August 2015
Suicide bomber kills 31 in Turkey attack blamed on IS
A suspected Islamic State suicide bomber killed at least 31 people in an attack on a Turkish cultural centre where activists had gathered to prepare for an aid mission in the nearby Syrian town of Kobane.
21 July 2015
Afghanistan territory used by terrorist from Central Asia, China and Russia: Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai
Terrorists from Central Asia, China, Russia and other countries use the territory of Afghanistan, said the President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.
16 July 2015
Tens of thousands pray at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa for Ramadan
Tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers streamed through Jerusalem's Old City to one of Islam's most revered sites as Israel eased restrictions for the fasting month of Ramadan.
20 June 2015
Hate and extremism 'not Islam', says French PM
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stressed there was no link between extremism and Islam.
16 June 2015
German anti-Islam movement seeks electoral anchor as rallies dwindle
Germany's anti-Islam PEGIDA movement has its sights set on gaining a political foothold when its eastern stronghold city of Dresden goes to the polls.
05 June 2015
France's Le Pen hails Egypt's battle against 'extremism'
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday praised the fight against "extremism" launched by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
01 June 2015
Hollande says world must respond to threat to Palmyra
French President Francois Hollande said the world must respond to Islamic State jihadists' seizure of Palmyra.
22 May 2015
Obama says US not losing against Islamic State
US President Barack Obama has described the loss of key Iraqi territory to Islamic State as a tactical setback, while insisting the war against the jihadist group is not being lost.
22 May 2015
Turkey urges action against 'IS threat' at NATO talks
Turkey called for determined action from NATO member states against the "significant" threat posed by Islamic State jihadists.
13 May 2015