Nigeria boasts the largest economy in Africa. It’s also one of the continent’s most-troubled countries. That topped the agenda, as President Muhammadu Buhari met with U-S President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
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The only surviving member of the Islamic State cell that killed 130 people in Paris appeared in public Monday for the first time since his arrest and rejected the legitimacy of a Belgian court by refusing to rise or answer questions at his trial.
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The attack targeted a mosque frequented by Sufis, members of Islam’s mystical movement, in the north Sinai town of Bir al-Abd.
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Saipov legally emigrated from Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic and predominantly Sunni Muslim nation north of Afghanistan that is estimated to have produced hundreds if not thousands of supporters for the Islamic State group.
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President Donald Trump is demanding lawmakers end the program that brought the terror suspect to the U.S. Trump is also calling for tighter scrutiny of the immigration system.
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The video shows the same man running toward soldiers who were rushing to Marseille Saint Charles train station. The soldiers fatally shot him and both of the women died of their injuries.
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For hundreds of years, the ethnic Kurds have dreamed of a homeland. Now, for those who live in Iraq, this may be their best chance. Monday’s referendum goes forward despite mounting international pressure to call off the vote.
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The Iraqi military is claiming victory in the town of Tal Afar, a place that has served as a stronghold for ISIL. The army has regained control of the town, pushing the insurgents further north. CGTN’s Tony Cheng reports from Erbil.
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Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani hailed the U.S. for its support in what he called a “joint struggle” against terrorism. It comes as the White House signaled it would shift tactics in its effort to defeat the Taliban, as part of America’s longest war. CGTN’s Roee Ruttenberg reports.
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The concept is simple, but are they enough? Cities around the world prepare for the worst-case scenario with concrete barriers being used to protect people in public spaces.
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Iraqi officials are investigating reports of prisoner abuse in Mosul. Video footage of soldiers torturing ISIL militants was originally dismissed as fake. Authorities have now said circumstantial evidence has given them new cause for concern.
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It’s the question on the minds of many counter-terrorism experts: is ISIL Caliph Al-Baghdadi alive or dead?
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The truce was brokered by U.S., Russian and Jordanian diplomats last week and announced at the G-20 summit on Friday.
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The Iraqi military is closing in on ISIL forces in Mosul’s Old City. The number of militants in Mosul has dropped from thousands to hundreds. As insurgents are packed in, so are civilians and ISIL militants aren’t the only thing they need to look out for.
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A suicide bomber was involved in the first car bombing near the office of the provincial police chief in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed at least 11 people and wounded 20.
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With ISIL surrounded in the old city of Mosul, Iraqi forces are preparing for a major offensive to retake their final enclave
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At the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, a suicide bombing and gunfire unfolded as terrorist attacked Iran’s capital of Tehran. Earlier, at Iran’s parliament building, more gunfire echoed through the streets and more bloodshed.
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This month marks five-years since the start of the pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the five detainees accused of involvement in the terrorist attacks on America in September, 2001.
This week they returned to court.
As another week of pretrial hearings wraps up the 23rd session in five years.
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Several ISIL caves and ammunition caches were destroyed by the giant bomb, which terrified villagers on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with its “earsplitting blast.”
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The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, also known as the “mother of all bombs,” in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday against a series of caves used by Islamic State militants, the military said.
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U.S. Central Command said coalition aircraft were given the wrong coordinates by their partner forces, the predominantly-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, for a strike intended to target ISIL militants south of their Tabqa stronghold.
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Coalition forces have nearly seized the al-Nuri mosque, the site where ISIL leader al-Baghdadi proclaimed a caliphate nearly three years ago. Christians have been a target for ISIL during that occupation.
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As the fast-moving investigation led to more arrests and searches, police revealed that the attacker, Khalid Masood, was born Adrian Russell Ajao in southern England in 1964.
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The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death on the grounds of Parliament.
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It’s been exactly one year since terrorists struck in Brussels. The three coordinated suicide bombings killed 32 people, and more than 300 were hurt. ISIL claimed responsibility for the attacks. CGTN’s Mariam Zaidi reports from Brussels.
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President Trump made some big promises while running for office, one being to eliminate the threat of ISIL. Two months into his administration, some advances have been made but geopolitical issues have held back progress. CGTN’s Nathan King reports from Washington, D.C.
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Iraq’s military and police have battled their way into the heart of western Mosul. More than half of the city is now controlled by Iraqi forces. But there’s growing speculation that ISIL leaders and operatives are trying to sneak out of the city with fleeing civilians.
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An investigation by the Associated Press reveals that the U.S. military effort to counter online ISIL recruiting was beset with incompetence, cronyism and flawed data that multiple people with direct knowledge of the program say it’s having little impact.
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The Tunisian man suspected of attacking a Christmas market in Berlin was killed early Friday in a shootout with police in Milan during a routine patrol, ending a Europe-wide manhunt.
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A car bomb tore through a gas station south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 56 people, including 20 Iranians, in an attack claimed by ISIL.
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An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition on Wednesday “disabled” a fourth bridge across the Tigris River in Mosul, leaving only one intact crossing in the northern Iraqi city and further disrupting the Islamic State group’s supply lines.
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Iraqi forces fought their way into two villages near Mosul on Monday as the offensive to retake the extremist-held city entered its second week. A rights group urged a probe into a suspected airstrike that hit a mosque, killing over a dozen civilians.
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U.S. President Barack Obama, who is in Manhattan to attend the UN General Assembly, sought to reassure Americans following a series of bomb-related incidents over the weekend.
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The only surviving suspect in last November’s attack on Paris refused to speak to a judge Thursday for a third time, in frustration at 24-hour video surveillance of his prison cell.
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Two people were in custody Wednesday after a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was found with seven gas canisters inside, and its license plates removed.
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Twin bombings near the Afghan Defense Ministry have killed at least 24 people, including two security force generals, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.
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A string of bombings, including a suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group, struck in and around several Syrian cities on Monday, killing at least 43 people, mainly in government-controlled areas.
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Northwest Pakistan was rocked by two attacks just hours apart.
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A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden truck near the gate of Somalia’s presidential palace in the capital on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, police say.
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Somalia’s security forces Friday morning ended an overnight siege of a beach restaurant by al-Shabab gunmen in which eight people were killed.
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A brazen, hours-long militant attack on the American University of Afghanistan ended early Thursday after at least 13 people were killed and dozens were wounded in the assault on the sprawling campus on Kabul’s outskirts, a government spokesman said.
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Five years after Somalia’s former president declared Mogadishu free from al-Shabaab, the terrorist organization continues to strike in and outside Mogadishu.
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Authorities say a Washington, D.C.-area transit police officer has been charged in an FBI sting with attempting to support the Islamic State group.
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After a series of terror attacks, Europe is on edge. What’s driving the assaults and what is the political fallout?
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If the claim is successful, it will set a major precedent for Facebook and other social media platforms. CCTV’s Stephanie Freid reports.
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Two attackers took hostages inside a French church during morning Mass on Tuesday near the city of Rouen, killing an 86-year-old priest.
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Turkish officials and local media have released a number of accounts tying those arrested for the attempted coup to Fethullah Gulen.
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Bereaved families on Sunday began burying those who died in a suicide bomb attack on a peaceful demonstration in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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A suicide bomber attacked a security check point in northern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 20 people, Iraqi officials said.
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