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The Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the army to take action before the Philippines is contaminated by the ISIS disease. MANMAN DEJETO, AFP, Getty Images

Report Reveals Using Charity Funds in Terrorist Activities

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 11, 2016 | World

Nusa Dua, Indonesia-Charities that send financial aid to trouble spots sometimes have the funds “hijacked” by militant groups to carry out attacks, an international counter-terrorism meeting, which was launched in Indonesia warned on Wednesday. A report by Indonesian...

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Opinion: Nadia Murad – The Story That Shames Us

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 10, 2016 | Opinion

A young girl, members of her family, girls from her village and from Iraqi Yazidi villages were kidnapped by ISIS fighters who gang raped them. All of this was done in the name of Islam and under its banner at a time when there are still a handful of extremists among...

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Major General Mansour al-Turki

Saudi Arabia Collaborates with Germany in Investigating Attacks

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 8, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has confirmed it is cooperating with German investigators to track Islamist militants behind bomb and axe attacks in Germany in July. Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior Spokesman Major General Mansour Al-Turki said Saudi and German security experts had...

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Speaker of the Council of Representatives Ahmed bin Ibrahim al-Mulla. Asharq Al-Awsat

Arab Human Rights Forum: ‘International Community Should Halt Iranian Terrorism’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 8, 2016 | Middle East

Manama-Human Rights activists stressed in the first edition of the pan-Arab Forum on Iranian threats to Arab human security, which was held in Manama, Bahrain, on Saturday, that Arabs have become prone to sectarian threats that target their right to live a secure and...

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Iraqi Shi’ite fighters from the Popular Mobilization units deploy in the city of Baiji, north of Tikrit. AFP

When Militia Turns into Army

by Salman Al-dossary | Aug 7, 2016 | Opinion

Two days after the leakage of an official ministerial order issued by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, which states that the Shiite militia, known as the Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), will officially become part of the Iraqi army and will play a...