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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's courtroom sketch. Photo ©Associated Press Tazhayakov avoided Tamerlan Tsarnaev: FBI Kazakhstani student Azamat Tazhayakov, accused of obstructing justice in the Boston bombings case allegedly avoided Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s brother Tamerlan considering him too religiously devout.
22 July 2014 11:38
Ethiopian bloggers, journalists handed 'terrorism' charges A group of Ethiopian bloggers and journalists detained for nearly three months have been charged with terrorism for having links to an outlawed group and for planning attacks, a judge said.
19 July 2014 11:12
Photo © Tengrinews.kz Air Astana changes routes to avoid crossing Ukrainian air space Kazakhstani airlines company Air Astana will change the routes of some of its flights away from Ukrainian airspace.
19 July 2014 00:15
Dzhokhar Tsarnayev's dorm room. Photo ©The Boston Globe. FBI agent testifies at Tazhayakov's hearing in Boston FBI agent Sara Wood testified against Azamat Tazhayakov at a federal court hearing in Boston.
18 July 2014 23:51
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov. Photo courtesy of inform.kz Tazhayakov did not take Tsarnayev's backpack: Wooldridge Boston Federal Court started hearings of the Azamat Tazhayakov case.
16 July 2014 02:59
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov. Photo ©REUTERS Prosecutors 'attempt to impress the public': Kadyrbayev-Tazhayakov case American attorneys and legal experts have criticized the prosecutors for bringing overly harsh charges against Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev who are accused of obstructing justice in the Boston bombings case.
16 July 2014 02:44
Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org NSA surveillance led to 100 arrests The US National Security Agency's electronic snooping led to "well over 100 arrests" and helped smash numerous terrorist plots, a privacy review panel said.
03 July 2014 12:30
Political scientist Yerlan Karin. ©Yaroslav Radlovsky ISIS, geopolitics of Iraqi crisis and Central Asian militants: interview Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) is recruiting Kazakhstanis and other Central Asians amid its expansion in Iraq and the big geopolitical game in the Middle East.
30 June 2014 17:06
China detains 29 Xinjiang 'terrorist suspects' China has detained 29 people described as "terrorist suspects" in its ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, state media said Thursday, as authorities crack down following several deadly attacks.
05 June 2014 10:28
Photo courtesy of inform.kz Lost in translation: Boston case student did not understand Miranda rights Kazakhstani student Dias Kadrybayev arrested in relation to the Boston bombings declared in court that due to his insufficient knowledge of English he was manipulated into making statements that discredited him and lead to his arrest.
04 June 2014 10:01
Tunisian police. ©Reuters/Anis Mili Four police killed in attack on Tunisia minister's home Four Tunisian police officers were killed in a "terrorist" attack overnight on the home of Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou in the west-central Kasserine region, a ministerial spokesman said.
28 May 2014 10:51
Nursultan Nazarbayev. Photo © Dmitry Khegai CICA adopts Shanghai declaration Participants of the 4th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) have adopted a Shanghai declaration.
23 May 2014 17:53
Twin Nigeria car bombs kill at least 118 Twin car bombings in central Nigeria killed at least 118 people and brought entire buildings down Tuesday, in the latest affront to the government's internationally-backed security crackdown.
21 May 2014 21:41
Abu Hamza. ©Reuters British preacher Abu Hamza guilty on US terror charges A New York jury convicted British hate preacher Abu Hamza on 11 kidnapping and terrorism charges Monday, opening the way for a judge to impose what will almost certainly be a life sentence.
20 May 2014 12:45
Illustration ©tengrinews Kazakhstan bans anonymous bank accounts A new law that prohibits opening of anonymous bank accounts has been adopted in Kazakhstan.
16 May 2014 00:31
More than 200 held in China terror video crackdown Police in China's Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have arrested more than 200 people over six weeks for "dissemination of violent or terrorist videos", state media said Monday, amid a wave of train station attacks.
12 May 2014 13:58
Russia withheld intel on Boston bombing suspect Russia declined to provide the FBI with information about one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects two years before the attack, The New York Times reported.
10 April 2014 14:24
Political Scientist Yerlan Karin ©ortcom.kz Portrait of Kazakhstani terrorist Kazakhstan’s political scientist Yerlan Karin studied the problem of terrorism in Kazakhstan and provided a detailed socio-demographic portrait of a typical local terrorist.
09 April 2014 21:51
Photo courtesy of graynews.net Kazakhstani militants in Syria The number of Kazakhstanis participating in military actions in Syria has been overstated.
02 April 2014 17:22
15 civilians killed in Nigerian 'suicide attack': military Fifteen civilians were killed in an explosion in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, after troops foiled what the military said was an attempted suicide attack by Boko Haram Islamist militants.
02 April 2014 11:41

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