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ISIS remains a global threat as it adapts, shows resilience: UN expert
The Christian Post - Washington D.C.
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August 25, 2025
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Monday, August 25, 2025 A member of the Iraqi forces walks past a mural bearing the logo of the Islamic State group in a tunnel that was reportedly used as a training centre by the jihadists, on March...
Australia’s deportation deal with Nauru to cost $2.5b
Michael West Media
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September 3, 2025
Australian taxpayers will be slugged $2.5 billion over 30 years to deport hundreds of former immigration detainees to Nauru under a “secret” deal. The Albanese government signed a memorandum of understanding with Nauru, offering more than $400...
Imran Khan’s desperation does not help him anymore
Dispatch News Desk Pakistan
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September 7, 2025
DND Report Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, infamous for repeatedly attacking the statehood of Pakistan, once again used his X handle to suggest that Pakistan should face a situation similar to 1971, when the country lost its eastern wing—what is...
Personnel File, September 10, 2025
The Times-Tribune - Pennsylvania
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September 3, 2025
Army Heritage Center Foundation John L. Gronski, Army Heritage Foundation (SUBMITTED) Scranton native retired Army Maj. Gen. John L. Gronski has joined the Carlisle-based foundation’s board of directors. Gronski is a veteran of the Iraq War,...
Winners of Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani Endowment Prize announced
The Peninsula
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September 3, 2025
Director of the Department of Research and Islamic Studies Sheikh Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Ghanem Al Thani addressing a press conference in Doha yesterday. Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has announced the winners of the...
Fighting escalates between Yemen and Israel as Gaza ceasefire remains elusive
5Pillars
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August 28, 2025
Israel and Yemen exchange attacks Thursday amid escalating violence between the two sides as Yemen’s ruling Houthi AnsarAllah group vows to keep launching strikes until the killing and starvation of Gaza ends. An IDF military statement claimed the...
Ayman Soliman, ex-hospital chaplain detained by ICE, given trial date for asylum case
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Ohio
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A former hospital chaplain detained by immigration authorities will have his asylum case trial begin in December. Ayman Soliman has been detained since July after his asylum status, granted in 2018, was revoked. The U.S. government alleges Soliman...
‘Not telling the truth’: Albanese accused of misleading parliament over secret ISIS brides plan
Sky News Australia
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September 4, 2025
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of failing to tell the truth about a secret government plan to bring ISIS brides back to Australia. Hundreds of women from western countries have left their homelands in...
How Johnnie Moore, evangelical PR guru, became the face of Gaza’s embattled aid effort
Religion News Service
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August 27, 2025
(RNS) — Johnnie Moore, the face of the embattled Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the new nonprofit commissioned to distribute food aid in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, has long said he believes Christians are called to do great things for God and to...
Iranian president, cabinet pay tribute to martyrs of Israel’s war
Tehran Times
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August 25, 2025
TEHRAN – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and members of his cabinet paid tribute to the martyrs of the Islamic Revolution, the Iran-Iraq war era and the recent war with Israel at Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in Tehran on Monday, marking the start...
How’s life under the occupation?
The Westside Gazette - Florida
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September 3, 2025
By Kary Love The US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan as illegally as Putin invaded Ukraine, a bad place to begin “democracy building.” It taught its young troopers how to take over neighborhoods, conduct door-to-kicked-down-door searches and seizures...
Why The US Navy Shot Down A Passenger Jet
Grunge
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September 2, 2025
On July 3, 1988, during the waning days of the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes was patrolling the Persian Gulf to protect shipping when it fired on an Iranian aircraft. As immediately became clear, the plane that the Vincennes had...
When a CIA agent recruited a Sufi mystic to spy
The Print
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September 3, 2025
Hunkered down at a freezing mountain outpost on a wind-blasted ridge in northeastern Iraq, Tom Sylvester had recruited a Sufi sheikh and his tribe of flesh-piercing mystics to help America spy on Saddam. For once, at long last, the CIA had...
Estonians lead Finland’s deportation statistics for criminal cases
Helsinki Times
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September 3, 2025
New figures from the Finnish Immigration Service show that Estonia leads the nationality breakdown of foreign nationals ordered to leave Finland due to criminal convictions this year. Between January and July 2025, Migri issued 136 deportation...
Historic al Nuri mosque reopens eight years after it was destroyed by IS
Sky News
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September 1, 2025
The historic al Nuri mosque has been reopened in the heart of Mosul's Old City in Iraq, eight years after it was destroyed by Islamic State (IS) militants. The mosque was where then-IS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi declared the so-called "caliphate"...
Australia's 'secret' deportation deal with Nauru to cost taxpayers $2.5billion
Daily Mail
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September 3, 2025
By AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 | Updated: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 Australian taxpayers will be slugged $2.5 billion over 30 years to deport hundreds of former immigration detainees to Nauru under a...
Vets Rock
Fort Worth Weekly - Texas
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September 3, 2025
If he weren’t already well-known as one of Fort Worth’s best frontmen for his work with indie-rockers Cut Throat Finches, Sean Russell might have a high profile based on his compassionate activism. Lately, Russell has shown this with efforts to...
Syria Kurds say they thwarted escape bid from camp for IS families
Yahoo News
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Syrian Kurdish forces said Wednesday they thwarted an escape attempt by more than 50 inmates of Al-Hol camp, which holds people suspected of ties to the Islamic State (IS) group. Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have run camps hosting...
Exclusive'Lessons learnt' from rebuilding Mosul’s Al Nuri Mosque, Unesco says
The National News
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Speaking from Mosul after the reopening of its historic sites on Monday, Unesco’s Qu Xing told The National that after six years of reconstruction, “valuable lessons for heritage-led recovery can certainly be replicated” in war-torn areas....
NCCAL launches 8th Arab Children’s Theater Festival
Kuwait Times
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September 3, 2025
KUWAIT: The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) inaugurated the 8th Arab Children’s Theater Festival on Monday with a special opening show titled “Stop”, featuring glimpses of international tales and iconic stories that have...