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IT Ministry reveals 17 terror acts planned using messaging app Telegram, including plan to assassinate Ahok

Indonesia’s IT Ministry today released data from the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) as evidence of 17 terror plots in which the perpetrators used recently banned in Indonesia messaging app Telegram as a means of [...]
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Hamas building buffer zone along Gaza-Egypt border

Hamas began constructing a security buffer zone between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Wednesday in an attempt to improve relations with Cairo. […]
Iraq, Syria & Islamic State

Ramadan TV drama on Islamic State stirs mixed reactions

Large audiences are hooked on a no-easy-viewing drama — "Al Gharabeeb Al Soud" ("Black Crows"), depicting the life of women under the Islamic State. […]
Asia

Jihadi mum’s: mothers as terror influencers

Women have always been a quiet force to be reckoned with in uprisings worldwide. But, until recently, most studies focused on their roles as suicide bombers and combatants. Terrorism research is now seeing a notable [...]
Asia

China Flexes Military Muscle in Hong Kong During Xi Jinping Visit

The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has presided over Hong Kong’s biggest military parade since the British handover in a tub-thumping show of strength that observers said was intended to intimidate members of the former colony’s [...]

Hundreds Flee Mosul as Iraqi Forces Squeeze Extremists

July 2, 2017 0

Hundreds of civilians fled Mosul’s Old City on Friday as Iraqi forces slowly squeezed the last pockets of Islamic State resistance, and the U.N. warned that the “intense and concentrated” fighting put innocent lives […]

Asia’s Deadly Pirates

June 30, 2017 0

Despite genuine improvements in maritime security by Asian littoral states in recent years, Asia remains the global number one hotspot for piracy on the high seas, according to reports from global maritime watchdogs and […]

Trump Weighs Military Options Against North Korea

June 30, 2017 0

President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in were meeting for the first time Thursday on the way forward against the growing North Korea threat that a top White House official said demands […]

Postcard From Seongju’s Anti-THAAD Protest

June 30, 2017 0

In late May, at the peak of harvest season, workers busily inspect and pack compact, yellow chamoe melons inside a farmer’s warehouse in the remote central mountains of South Korea. Here Ryu Ji-yong, president of an […]

Petraeus to Australia: Don’t Follow the Tweets; Follow the Money, the Troops

June 29, 2017 0

Australia will either lead or play a very significant role in the campaign against Islamic State terrorists in the Southern Philippines, says David Petraeus, former coalition commander in Iraq and then in Afghanistan. Interviewed […]

IT Ministry reveals 17 terror acts planned using messaging app Telegram, including plan to assassinate Ahok

by da76 in ASEAN 0

Indonesia’s IT Ministry today released data from the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) as evidence of 17 terror plots in which the perpetrators used recently banned in Indonesia messaging app Telegram as a means of [...]