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"militancy" Definitions
  1. the fact of using, or being willing to use, force or strong pressure to achieve your aims, especially to achieve social or political change

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Political divide fuels militancy Bangladesh has seen growing Islamist militancy since 2013, in reaction to a crackdown by the secular government against the main Islamist party -- the Jamaat e Islami.
But I understand every time the militancy [of PC culture].
Despite unending persecution, Rohingya militancy hasn't been seen for decades.
However, the shadow of militancy still hangs over the region.
Indeed, evidence shows that religion increases militancy among Israeli Jews.
I understand that militancy emerges from deep frustration at inequities.
Mr. Chu has had a firsthand taste of that militancy.
It's Ramadan, typically a time of renewed militancy among extremists.
The bombings underlined the country's continued challenge in fighting militancy.
Western powers see Cairo as a bulwark against Islamist militancy.
But experts on Islamic militancy in Bangladesh worry that some of these makeshift schools, which have received funding from both local and Middle Eastern extremist groups, could become centers of religious radicalism or Rohingya militancy.
Two of the attackers had links to Islamist militancy, officials say.
Presumably, Russian agents wanted to stoke fears of rising black militancy.
Rabat is also a key intelligence-sharing partner on Islamist militancy.
The region is convulsed by conflict, Islamist militancy and mass displacement.
These two views of love eschewed violence yet insisted on militancy.
At least several thousand of these names are associated with Islamic militancy.
"They were criminals who morphed into militancy," Banlaoi said of the Mautes.
Militancy in the oil-pumping Niger Delta has only made matters worse.
Persistent Islamic militancy and Mr. Kadyrov's own Islamization campaign are glossed over.
Iran blames Saudi Arabia, a long standing U.S. ally, for Islamic militancy.
"Our target is to ensure zero militancy in the area," he said.
Explosions of worker militancy have been a recurring pattern throughout American history.
But critics have said India's move could push more Kashmiris toward militancy.
In 2013, an official army doctrine reportedly accorded unprecedented importance to internal militancy.
The issue of local militancy has haunted successive governments in India for decades.
Pakistan has been facing a deadly Islamist militancy for more than a decade.
Iran's intervention in Syria is about a much bigger struggle against Sunni militancy.
Aside from economic problems, Egypt faces an Islamist militancy in its Sinai Peninsula.
But there is a more positive way to see this migration from militancy.
Mali, a former French colony, has long been an incubator for Islamist militancy.
India accuses Pakistan of promoting militancy in Kashmir, a charge that Islamabad denies.
Hamas has governance duties in the Gaza Strip, in addition to its militancy.
This attitude led to Meir Kahane and a very ugly strain of militancy.
Kremlin critics say that poverty and corruption help feed Islamist militancy in Dagestan.
Regulation and reform of madrassas, religious schools that foster militancy, has been half-hearted.
And just like Wakandan history, Black elitism runs deep and stings in its militancy.
"Central Asia Is Seen as Breeding Ground of Militancy," announced the New York Times.
As for madrasa graduates who turn to jihadist militancy, a senior commander is adamant.
Opposition leaders accuse the government of using militancy as an excuse to stifle dissent.
Bahrain accuses mainly Shi'ite Iran of stoking militancy in the kingdom, which Tehran denies.
The arrests were the latest in a crackdown on militancy by Muslim-majority Malaysia.
Burkina Faso is struggling to stem the overflow of Islamist militancy from neighbouring Mali.
Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun borderlands have been a hotbed of Islamist militancy in recent decades.
Another senior police officer said no evidence linking Naqib to militancy had been found.
Formerly pacific places imbibed the militancy that emerged from this form of extremist ideology.
In recent decades, electric guitars have carried Tuareg sentiments of militancy, protest and lament.
It accuses mainly Shiite Iran of stoking militancy in the kingdom, which Tehran denies.
Beijing has said the measures are needed to stem the threat of Islamist militancy.
But the militancy is changing, and Sameer Tiger embodied the new homegrown rebel movement.
Islamabad bristles at the suggestion it is not doing enough in the war against militancy, saying that since 2001, Pakistan has suffered more than the United States from militancy as casualties at the hands of Islamists number in the tens of thousands.
They included at least six online critics of religious militancy who were hacked to death.
"The current resurgence of militancy is an unnecessary distraction to the current administration," they said.
The World Bank warned militancy could derail Bangladesh's path to becoming a middle-income country.
Much of the country's Islamist militancy is based in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan.
But many ordinary Pakistanis see the refugees as a source of crime, unemployment and militancy.
Senior police officials later conceded after an investigation that Mehsud had no ties to militancy.
However, Chinese and Australian academics have noted that pro-Beijing militancy is on the rise.
Think only of the Balkan fighting of the 1990s and the struggle with Islamic militancy.
The attack is seen by many as a turning point in Pakistan's war against militancy.
He said Merkel and Trump agreed to expand their cooperation in combating terrorism and militancy.
India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring militancy in Kashmir, Hindu-majority India's only Muslim-dominated region.
Homegrown militancy has spread, and India has responded by killing hundreds of young Kashmiri fighters.
Concerns have risen in recent years about a resurgence in homegrown militancy and terrorism financing.
Friends who did not live up to her standards for militancy against fascism were dropped.
Michael T. Flynn, who shares Mr. Giuliani's belief that Islamist militancy poses an existential threat.
Some Rakhine villages have set up security teams to protect against the spread of militancy.
The election comes as the West increasingly pressures Islamabad to crack down on homegrown militancy.
Mr. Sinwar is known as a hard-liner more closely associated with the group's militancy.
Morocco promotes itself as an oasis of religious tolerance in a region torn by militancy.
Aside from the Islamist threat, far-left and far-right militancy has also not let up.
Defence Minister Fikri Isik said on Twitter that Turkey would redouble its efforts to fight militancy.
ASEAN members have pledged greater cooperation and intelligence sharing to combat the threat of Islamic militancy.
But recent years have seen a resurgence in home-grown militancy, largely inspired by Islamic State.
Already critical of the president's approach to fighting Islamist militancy, Mr Flynn proceeded to get mad.
There was no evidence of any link to Islamist militancy and he was not a refugee.
Chevron briefly closed the facility in the spring due to militancy Nigeria's restive southern delta region.
Indonesia has seen a resurgence in homegrown militancy in recent years, largely inspired by Islamic State.
Mindless militancy was for Trotskyists, like the ones who reigned at the Cowley plant, near Oxford.
Unfortunately, the scourge of Sunni militancy in the Middle East is likely to last for decades.
The Pentagon hopes to continue using the Kurds as a bulwark against Islamist militancy in Syria.
Trump sees Malaysia, a majority Muslim nation, as an ally in its fight against Islamic militancy.
He said the party leaders also agreed to initiate a program aimed at preventing Islamist militancy.
Indonesia, which is the world's biggest Muslim-majority country, is grappling with a resurgence in militancy.
China, during the 1960s, courted U.S. Maoist-inspired groups, including the Revolutionary Union, that embraced militancy.
Haftar casts himself as a bulwark against Islamist militancy who wants to restore order to Libya.
Modi's team "requires a strategy to deal with the changing nature of the militancy," said Joshi.
He rejects scholars' assessment that Islamic militancy is an outgrowth of poverty, poor governance and war.
"I think that's a marvelous new militancy that has to do with courage, vision," he said.
The other was "Zealotism," which meant militancy against Rome and a strict adherence to Jewish law.
Both ran for office calling for a wholesale crackdown on Islamist militancy and the drug trade.
Her handling of a nuclear deal with Iran and Islamic State militancy were disasters, he argued.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the attacks will not weaken Pakistan's resolve in fight against militancy.
Iran also accuses its arch foes, Washington and Riyadh, for promoting Islamist militancy in the region.
The regime was as repressive, anti-Zionist, and supportive of Islamist militancy as it ever was.
I listened to Dead Prez, not for martial arts, but for Black radical militancy in music.
Bouhlel is known to police for petty crime and violence but is not suspected of Islamist militancy.
"I think you'll see some growing militancy from these folks…as they feel more power," Gleason predicted.
Pakistan denies sheltering militants and accuses Washington of not respecting Pakistan's sacrifices in the war on militancy.
In recent years, the country has become an important partner in the Western campaign against Islamist militancy.
Some critics fret that the money will instead be used to fund terrorism and Shia militancy abroad.
Houthi militancy, which began in the 1990s, was principally motivated by regionalism rather than sectarianism per se.
Australia has alleged that he actively recruited Australian men, women and children and encouraged acts of militancy.
Western diplomats believe some seminaries in the Quetta area have long been fertile ground for Islamist militancy.
There was definitely a uniform and an air of militancy in what was or was not acceptable.
Many Colombians are uneasy about this, arguing that it rewards militancy as an entry point into politics.
Qatar, however, said last month that charges of support for Islamist militancy "hold no foundation in fact".
It wants to prevent Islamist militancy growing in Yemen and regards the country's ports as strategically important.
Muslim countries are eager to play a bigger role in the fight against Islamist militancy, he said.
Is its democracy robust enough to include extremist candidates who support militancy, or should they be limited?
He presided over an enormous rise in unemployment and a spike in militancy in India-ruled Kashmir.
Analysts say this has helped fuel militancy and a general sense of alienation, especially among young Kashmiris.
Last, but by no means least, a strong labor market is the optimal time for labor militancy.
"There's a significant propaganda factor to this," said Mokhtar Awad, a militancy expert at George Washington University.
New Delhi has long accused Islamabad of sponsoring a separatist movement and militancy in the Himalayan region.
Facing rising fears of Islamic militancy, Europe has increasingly regulated face veils over the past few years.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, has experienced a spike in Islamist militancy in recent months.
Radio Wehrwolf has a vast cache of podcasts discussing neo-Nazi militancy and embracing deep hatred of minorities.
It's the kind of troubling behavior that has long plagued underfunded militaries battling against militancy in West Africa.
Russia views Assad as a bulwark against Islamist militancy, while the Obama administration is pushing for his departure.
Shi'ite-backed media, in turn, face criticism of coverage accusing Gulf countries of supporting Sunni militancy in Iraq.
For Harlon Carter, executive vice president and architect of the new militancy, Reagan's speech was a stunning vindication.
Mozambique has no history of Islamist militancy and authorities have been reluctant to ascribe the attacks to Islamists.
Pakistan has been politically stable for several years and has been strongly focused on addressing militancy and corruption.
Besides the fiscal aid, many Albanians welcome Turkish influence as a counterweight to the spread of Islamic militancy.
The World Bank has warned previously that militancy could derail Bangladesh's path to becoming a middle-income country.
Russo-Israeli coordination has merely scotched the snake of Iranian militancy but it has certainly not killed it.
Including Tuesday's arrests, Spain has detained 24 people so far this year with suspected links to Islamist militancy.
Gandhi resorted to emergency rule to survive a political crisis, Mr. Modi's regime thrives on Hindu majoritarian militancy.
Another explanation for the cease-fire was evident in a new police report on militancy in south Kashmir.
Communist militancy also emerged as one of the few political forces prepared to resist the threat of fascism.
Mubarak was a stalwart U.S. ally, a bulwark against Islamic militancy and guardian of Egypt's peace with Israel.
Oregon is a powder keg of militancy right now, and its fuse is now burning bright and hot.
Consider the raft of recently declassified United States government assessments of Islamic militancy going back nearly 40 years.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Saturday that her administration is determined to put an end to militancy and terrorism.
Iranian authorities did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and Tehran has denied any support for Bahraini militancy.
Despite their militancy, their efforts are pretty hard to condemn purely as "terrorism," though many have made that claim.
Militancy in the Sinai increased dramatically after the army toppled President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013.
Both groups have been trying to raise their profile in Bangladesh by taking advantage of growing Islamist militancy there.
Barkindo said the government was trying to resolve militancy in the Niger Delta through talks, but did not elaborate.
Police have accused JMB of several attacks over the past 18 months that have ratcheted up fears about militancy.
All the people who carried out fatal attacks inspired by Islamist militancy in the United States since the Sept.
Police officers are on the front lines of Pakistan's battle against militancy, often targeted by Islamist and insurgent groups.
Security officials say no known militant groups operate in South Africa, which has seldom been associated with Islamist militancy.
Simultaneously, the nonmilitary approach used by Osinbajo, which includes promises of development money, has undercut the case for militancy.
Some are also critical of military trials and a seeming unwillingness to pinpoint the roots of militancy in Pakistan.
Mali has long faced a separatist movement in the north and is also battling a rise of Islamist militancy.
More than 100,000 Islamic scholars and clerics on Saturday issued an edict against militancy in the name of Islam.
But the bishops' militancy also reflects the church's new demographic reality, as Hispanics become increasingly central to its future.
American labor militancy has always been about more than pay, with workers seeking respect and fairness in the workplace.
In January, he led more than 100,000 Islamic clerics in signing a fatwa, or religious ruling, that condemned militancy.
Michael Flynn, a retired lieutenant general who sees Islamic militancy as an existential threat, will be national security adviser.
Militancy in the Sinai increased dramatically after the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 in the Arab Spring.
Michael T. Flynn, a retired intelligence officer who believes that Islamic militancy is an existential threat to the West.
The Edhi mortuary is in Sohrab Goth, an impoverished area that until recently was an urban hotbed of militancy.
The growing labor militancy making headlines has its roots in slow, grinding efforts by workers all over the country.
More than 100,000 Islamic scholars and clerics on Saturday issued a fatwa against militancy in the name of Islam.
"The older generation normalizes militancy," said Raffaello Pantucci, a specialist in researching terrorism at the Royal United Services Institute.
Ethiopia is East Africa's biggest and fastest-growing economy and a Western ally in the fight against Islamist militancy.
Indonesia has had some major successes tackling militancy inspired by al Qaeda's attacks on the United States in 2001.
Africa's most industrialized country has a significant expatriate and tourist population but has seldom been associated with Islamist militancy.
Beijing says it needs the measures to stem the threat of Islamist militancy, and calls them vocational training centers.
There was no evidence of any link to Islamist militancy and the suspect was not a refugee, Reul said.
It is hard to believe that all this new militancy could be coming from the KPRF's veteran leader, Gennady Zyuganov.
All the people who had carried out fatal attacks inspired by Islamist militancy in the United States since the Sept.
Season 3 was showcased by an armada of models, who stood in a stoic militancy, not unlike his first show.
Egypt has struggled to combat a wave of Islamic militancy since the 2013 military overthrow of an elected Islamist president.
The 2014 assault in Peshawar, in particular, seemed to galvanize fragmented public opinion about how to deal with jihadist militancy.
But even then, French forces were being sucked deeper into a years-long battle to quell Islamist militancy in Mali.
But even in the face of those horrific terror attacks, YouTube continues to be a bastion of white nationalist militancy.
In a brief televised address, he said the war against Islamist militancy both abroad and at home would be long.
There's no doubt that Argento and Rose McGowan are both imperfect victims; their militancy undermined by later allegations and actions.
A bulwark against Islamist militancy, Jordan has made peace with Israel and absorbed waves of Palestinian, Iraqi and Syrian refugees.
That appears to have become compounded with the West's war with Islamist militancy in general and Islamic State in particular.
Officials deny mistreating Muslims there, instead saying they are putting some people through "vocational" style courses to prevent militancy spreading.
"He has no connection with militancy," she told reporters earlier on Wednesday after meeting her husband for the last time.
All in all, WHO is pushing a blinkered agenda of anti-tobacco militancy that is driving the illicit cigarette market.
It is likely to raise questions over President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's repeated promises to stamp out militancy in Egypt.
Hamas' inflexible militancy, while perhaps inspirational to some, resulted in three disastrous wars with Israel in less than 10 years.
But Mr. Malik said India's statements reflect the Modi government's focus on militancy, almost to the exclusion of other issues.
They see the move of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as empowering the very militancy they are confronting.
The threat has been driven by Russia's military involvement in Syria and separatist militancy in its disputed Northern Caucasus region.
Ethnically-charged violence is common throughout the central states and militancy is a constant threat in the oil-rich southeast.
But like many scholars describing the Saudi impact on religion, she said that militancy in Pakistan also had local causes.
Algeria is a pivotal partner in the Western-led campaign against Islamic militancy in North Africa and the Sahel region.
Despite these facts the United States and European patrons played down the regime's authoritarianism and militancy, and continued backing it.
Imran H. Sarker, convener of the BOAN online activist group, said Samad was an outspoken critic of injustice and militancy.
Pakistan has been plagued by militant violence since it joined a U.S.-led campaign against Islamist militancy after the Sept.
Uzbekistan, with around 32 million people, is by far the most populous, and has a long history with Islamist militancy.
As a young man, he attended the tumultuous protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention and felt pushed toward militancy.
They include protecting Russian citizens there — although it is unclear there are many — and countering the spread of Islamic militancy.
Tensions over different work rules in Ingersoll gave the factory a reputation for labor militancy during the joint-venture years.
"The militancy of his nostalgia is what makes the reactionary a distinctly modern figure, not a traditional one," he adds.
While militancy in the Indian-administered part has waned since the 1990s, public sympathy for the separatist cause remains strong.
Netanyahu and other Israelis accuse it of contributing to Palestinian militancy and allowing its facilities to be used by militants.
Since 2013, Malaysia has detained more than 300 people with suspected links to Islamic State in its crackdown on militancy.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, battling escalating Islamist militancy, appealed for cooperation from parents whose children had left home without explanation.
Sharif's opponents have accused him of tolerating militancy in return for peace in his province, a charge he strongly denies.
Derna has a history of Islamist militancy and is where Islamic State set up its first presence in Libya in 2014.
Two assailants, a Syrian asylum seeker and a refugee from either Pakistan or Afghanistan, had links to Islamist militancy, officials say.
Modi has promised a strong response and says he has given the military a free hand to tackle cross-border militancy.
Those nominations suggest Trump is setting up his administration to take a hard line confronting Islamist militancy and curbing illegal immigration.
Sisi is a former military commander elected by a landslide in 2014 and presents himself as a bulwark against Islamist militancy.
But Russia's military modernisation, Islamist militancy and electronic warfare on computer networks have underscored Europe's heavy reliance on the United States.
Jordan has been relatively unscathed by the uprisings, civil wars and Islamist militancy that have swept the Middle East since 2011.
China has rejected all accusations of mistreatment in Xinjiang, but also says it has to crack down on separatism and militancy.
And so long as there is extremism, the likelihood of radicalization -- and its violent byproducts of militancy and terrorism -- is strong.
The Uighur people from China's far west are a Muslim minority and Chinese authorities accuse some of being involved in militancy.
He points to soaring attendance at funerals for slain guerrillas and to a disturbing trend towards militancy among the better educated.
In mid-May, the Parliament passed the immunity-lifting measure, an act that is likely to push more Kurds toward militancy.
This personal militancy made for a radical periodical; Trotter was forever making his own beliefs the basis of the Guardian's coverage.
Morocco, which is almost entirely Muslim, has promoted itself as an oasis of religious tolerance in a region torn by militancy.
But there might be deeper reasons that Chairman Kim is reversing the country's militancy toward the United States and South Korea.
Such a loss would bolster claims by the American-led coalition that the Sunni militancy is on the run in Iraq.
Africa's most industrialized country has a large expatriate community and attracts many tourists, and has seldom been associated with Islamist militancy.
His view of the threat posed by Islamist militancy has hardened in the two years since he was forced into retirement.
In recent years, many of its members have moved to Karachi as their region has struggled with militancy and military reprisals.
Although Kattankudy's Islamic organizations are horrified by Mr. Zaharan's militancy and have eschewed violence, most have campaigned for years against Sufis.
If this weekend marked a breakthrough, perhaps the best symbol was the increased militancy -- in their speeches, on their signs, etc.
Yet despite all of the threats of retaliation, there are real signs of growing militancy and solidarity in the work force.
Singh has played an active role in anti-militancy operations in Kashmir for which he received a gallantry award in 2019.
American policies have contributed to metastasizing Al Qaeda into a diffuse global movement and intensified radical militancy in the Muslim world.
Seun Kuti, Fela's son, plays fervid dance music with his band, Egypt 80, frequently singing messages of social and political militancy.
Sessions's militancy about it appears to have more to do political opportunism than his responsibilities as the nation's top law enforcer.
Labour says spending cuts under a decade of Conservative-led governments have made it harder to fight militancy and reintegrate prisoners.
In a moment of heightened labor militancy in the tech industry, Silicon Valley bosses will likely be pleased with the ruling.
Most notably, Mr. Gorka derides the notion that Islamic militancy might reflect worldly grievances, like poor governance, repression, poverty and war.
Underlying the militancy is a mixture of pressures facing the workers and their employers, including rising living costs and sluggish sales.
"If you genuinely want Pakistan to be cleansed of militancy than the militant ideology needs to be addressed vigorously in the country."
Beijing has said its measures in Xinjiang, which reportedly also include widespread surveillance, are aimed at stemming the threat of Islamist militancy.
The Strasbourg attack was the latest in a succession of attacks linked to Islamist militancy in France going back to March 2012.
Authorities have yet to say if the attack, unusual for Jordan, was driven by Islamist militancy, tribal grievances or some other cause.
Intended to find a mean between militancy and non-violence, the sermon could have chilled the movement or spun it into anarchy.
The crash has called into question Egypt's campaign to eradicate Islamist militancy and damaged its tourism sector, a cornerstone of the economy.
And, it's perfectly conceivable that people might be talking for decades about that time Beyoncé brought black militancy to the Super Bowl.
The violence comes amid international concern about rising Islamist militancy in Bangladesh and the growing influence of Islamic State in the country.
Authorities have said the couple were inspired by Islamist militancy, and called it the deadliest such attack on U.S. soil since Sept.
Police earlier said the gunman was a deranged Iranian-German who was fixated with mass killings but not inspired by Islamist militancy.
And so far 2017 has seen a spate of attacks, mainly off Nigeria and linked to resurgent militancy in the Niger Delta.
Particularly since the 22014/173 attacks, the Putin government has cast Russia as a Christian bulwark against the threat of Islamist militancy.
Harits Abu Ulya, a expert on militancy who knows Bahrun Naim, the militant named by Indonesian authorities, said he expected more attacks.
"Thank you for coming out today with your joy and your militancy," Tom Morello, a guitarist with the group, told the crowd.
Few analysts gave either candidate much chance of beating Mr. Sisi, who retains broad support for his tough policies against Islamist militancy.
But holding two million people hostage is not the way to fight Hamas, and the suffering only nurtures more rage and militancy.
The intolerance of the traditional gatekeepers might have spurred a kind of militancy from thinkers (and fans) who've rarely been allowed in.
On Thursday, The Global Times, a state-run tabloid, suggested that China could retaliate by supporting the anti-Indian militancy in Kashmir.
And reopening Lordstown has becoming a rallying cry for the union rank and file, fueling militancy that has ended in picket lines.
The crash has called into question Egypt's campaign to eradicate Islamist militancy and damaged its tourism industry, a cornerstone of the economy.
Of the 104 total polio cases in Pakistan, 75 has been reported from the northwest Pakistan, a region plagued by Islamist militancy.
"Previously, due to the whole issue of militancy, quotas were not an issue," said Gail Anderson, research director at consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
Macron has repeatedly called for "collective action" to tackle crises ranging from the environment, Islamist militancy and nuclear proliferation to anti-Semitism.
China has long worried that militancy in Afghanistan could spill over into its violence-prone Xinjiang region, home to the Muslim Uighur people.
According to India's Ministry of Home Affairs, 90 districts across 11 states are currently affected by some form of Naxal or Maoist militancy.
Either way, the government does seem to be pursuing with vigour the directive of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to "root out militancy".
Doundou was a former livestock farmer who had turned to militancy a decade ago to secure weapons to protect his increasingly large herds.
Philippine officials said security agencies are "doing everything" to address the surge in militancy in Muslim-majority areas of the mostly Catholic country.
Over the past few decades, Riyadh has tried, in succession, to quash an anti-royalist revolution, Marxism and al Qaeda militancy in Yemen.
In Wani's case, the security crackdown appears to explain his path towards militancy, and raises the possibility that other Kashmiri youths may follow.
The former Defense Intelligence Agency chief has made it clear few options are off the table when it comes to fighting Islamist militancy.
Sunday's ruling came amid rising concern over the growth of Islamist militancy in the Muslim-majority South Asian country of 160 million people.
He founded his sect in 1983 in Punjab to promote "self awakening and global peace" amid a period of militancy and armed conflict.
The Republican nominee has proposed a ban on immigration from countries where vetting would be difficult, such as nations faced with Islamic militancy.
Experts argue that over the long term, defeating ISIS and groups like it requires an effort to discredit jihadist militancy as an ideology.
Despite such populist militancy, however, Mr. Malema has also now found success with a different kind of activism — initiating the Constitutional Court case.
At the same time, human rights groups say, he argued against separatism and expressed concern about growing militancy among Uighurs in the region.
The North African neighbors usually have strong security and economic ties with Algeria coordinating with Tunisia to combat Islamist militancy in the region.
Derna, which has a history of Islamist militancy, was an early bastion for Islamic State fighters returning from Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Phrasing it this way captures a very different, very dire political terrain, one that requires a higher level of militancy to effectively counter.
The profiles of these men offer a snapshot of a militancy undergoing a metamorphosis, as links develop between domestic and international terrorist groups.
The attack overshadowed the last day of campaigning for Sunday's presidential election first round, bringing raw issues surrounding Islamist militancy to the fore.
Militancy: There was also interest in whether Hamas would soften its language on the use of violence in the pursuit of its objectives.
Five individual activists told Reuters the detainees are being held on security charges including separatism, Islamist militancy or being agents of Saudi Arabia.
Hisham al-Hashemi, who advises the government on combating Islamist militancy, told Reuters there were probably 4,000 Islamic State fighters still in Mosul.
Armed militancy is not confined to West Africa and its spread has been aided in many areas by poverty, corruption and state violence.
And militancy experts said the nakedly sectarian attack offered alarming proof that Egypt's hydra-headed Islamist insurgency is growing in complexity and ambition.
The conflict between the forces of the two factions has wrecked the country's economy, fueled migrant smuggling and militancy, and disrupted oil supplies.
The conflict between the forces of the two factions has wrecked the country's economy, fueled migrant smuggling and militancy, and disrupted oil supplies.
Over the years, Mubarak tinkered with reform but shunned major change, presenting himself as Egypt's sole protection against Islamic militancy and sectarian division.
After some major successes tackling Islamist militancy in the last two decades, there have also been a resurgence of attacks in recent years.
Molins confirms the attacker is Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, known to police for petty crime and violence but is not suspected of Islamist militancy.
That could lead to greater union militancy and power as unions fall over each other to show they're the most committed worker advocates.
Since its 2011 revolt to oust ruler Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has struggled with Islamist militancy at home and across the border.
But Indian security forces said they were carrying out major anti-militancy operations on their side on Kashmir and had shot dead two militants.
The Trump administration hopes the sanctions will force Iran not only to curb its nuclear program but also halt militancy in the Middle East.
The interior ministry portfolio will play a key role in implementing the reforms as well as fighting militancy and dealing with dissent at home.
Most shops in San Cristobal, a traditional hotbed of anti-government militancy, were closed on Thursday, with long lines at the few establishments open.
That militancy has led to the murders of secular bloggers and gay rights activists, as well as Hindu priests, over the past two years.
More of it is the politics, the "militancy"—they don't talk about how it was just me and my sons.... My sons were scholars.
Since its formation in 2012, the ultra-nationalist group has campaigned against halal certification, the burqa, mosque construction, Islamic conversion and alleged Islamic militancy.
Union militancy turned voters against the Labour government, bringing Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives to power in 1979 on a mandate of curbing strikes and inflation.
He later completed the full transition from militancy to mysticism through Sufism, a strand of Islam that emphasizes a direct, personal connection to God.
Resettling them in stable places would increase the chances they would live peacefully, officials argued, rather than face persecution or drift into Islamist militancy.
Muhammadu Buhari, who took office last May, has made it a priority of his presidency to defeat Islamist militancy in Africa's most populace nation.
Militancy has been rife over the past decade in the Delta, one of the country's poorest areas despite generating 70 percent of state income.
Since its 2011 revolt to oust ruler Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has struggled with Islamist militancy at home and over the border.
Since the late 1980s, when the militancy was born, the azadi cry has been heard on the streets whenever there has been a protest.
"We have to wait and see that the militancy effects are out and the infrastructure is rebuilt and we're back to production," he said.
Altintas, who also shouted slogans associated with Islamist militancy after shooting ambassador Andrei Karlov, was killed minutes later by members of Turkey's special forces.
Yes, it required ignoring Trump's militancy, his desire to "bomb the hell out of ISIS," to grab Iraq's oil, to build up the military.
Militancy on the left can "become a justification for those in power and allies on the right to crack down," Professor Ben-Ghiat said.
The commander, former Senior Superintendent Rao Anwar, had long been prominent in the fight against militancy in the northern neighborhoods of Karachi he oversaw.
An initial claim of responsibility by Hasm, a small Islamist group that emerged last year, was discounted by militancy experts who questioned its authenticity.
"The militancy of residents caught them by surprise," said Ma Ngok, an associate professor of political science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, has seen a resurgence in militancy in recent years, with police frequently the target of attacks.
Let me be clear: What President Trump called "lots of beautiful military equipment" won't drain the swamps in which terrorism and extremist militancy fester.
"It shows a new focus on a soft targets for maximum carnage," said Mokhtar Awad, an expert on Egyptian militancy at George Washington University.
Juggling militancy with a desire for international recognition, Hamas last week unveiled a new document of principles that it said would guide the group.
MADRID (Reuters) - Three people from Pakistan were arrested in Spain on Friday, accused of promoting Islamist militancy through social media, the interior ministry said.
Coming of age in the 1960s and '70s, Thomas initially gravitated toward leftist militancy that put him at odds with his grandfather and brother.
Before he became army chief, military colleagues described him as a "moderate" who believed Islamist militancy was a threat as important as that of India.
Modi has sought votes on his tough response towards militancy and in recent days has evoked the deadly Easter Sunday bombings in nearby Sri Lanka.
Despite the long history of militancy and banditry in the area, it has taken the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia a long time to pool resources.
Issoufou, a Western ally in the fight against Islamist militancy in the region, is widely expected to win a second mandate in the presidential election.
Algeria, emerging from its own 1990s war with Islamist fighters that killed 200,000, has become an important partner in the Western campaign against Islamist militancy.
Then there is Islamist militancy, which spills back into Xinjiang; development might, as Li Keqiang, China's prime minister, put it, "wean the populace from fundamentalism".
Around 800 soldiers man a French military base in Abidjan, which serves as a logistical hub for regional operations against Islamist militancy in the Sahel.
Financial crises have shaken the world's sixth-largest nation repeatedly over the years, threatening the stability of a nuclear-armed state plagued by Islamist militancy.
He said the group seemed to represent his conservative religious views and that he became aware of its true nature and violent militancy only later.
But it has seen a rising tide of Islamist violence over recent years, in which online critics of religious militancy have been hacked to death.
A French military base in Abidjan, manned by around 800 soldiers, serves as a logistical hub for regional operations against Islamist militancy in the Sahel.
The government accuses Jamaat-e-Islami of supporting militancy in Indian-controlled Kashmir, which is at the heart of decades of conflict with Muslim Pakistan.
"Not for a generation has Britain faced industrial militancy intended to bring down an elected government," wrote London's right-leaning Times newspaper in an editorial.
But the three Bosnian women say the daughters and a sister whose return they seek — plus their nine children — have played no role in militancy.
Bahrain accuses mainly Shi'ite Iran of stoking militancy in the kingdom, a strategic island where the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet is based, charges Tehran denies.
Violence and militancy has hampered the oil giant while locals have felt exploited and unable to see the economic benefits of their region's oil wealth.
Her political opponents say the policy has allowed Islamist militancy to take hold in the country, while there is growing fear among the general public.
After several disastrous mergers and bail-outs, Triumph was moribund, no longer cool but more of a byword for oil leaks and trade-union militancy.
This political movement drew on support from middle-class voters who were angry about higher taxes and concerned about the growth of trade union militancy.
In the late nineteenth century, the United States, far from being an exception in the industrial world, rivaled the dysfunctional Russian Empire in labor militancy.
The report mapped out a range of security threats, including Islamist militancy and increased far-right violence, but highlighted the growing incidence of cyber espionage.
That's perhaps the most striking thing about the teacher rebellion: It is premised not on middle-class respectability but on working-class solidarity and militancy.
At the very least, they have exposed the enduring vulnerability of Europe to terrorism in an age of easy travel and communications and rising militancy.
He authorized the C.I.A. to carry out "signature strikes" aimed at people whose identities the agency did not know but whose activities supposedly suggested militancy.
Trump said he would move quickly to destroy Islamic State's militancy, but would resist interventionist policies in order to focus on nation-building at home.
Plus, it's refreshing as a viewer to be exposed to new languages, especially in light of the rise of language militancy in English-speaking countries.
In contrast to years past, when labor militancy killed stabs at an overhaul, the government has this time won the cautious assent of some unions.
"The United States should understand that militancy has no profit, and must abandon its policy of maximum pressure on Iran," he was quoted as saying.
The cause of racial justice lost champions in 2017, among them Roy Innis, whose Congress of Racial Equality, born in black-power militancy, moved rightward.
The government justified the move saying it was to prevent militancy and curb the spread of misinformation, but critics said it was to stifle dissent.
To answer yes would be to edge toward the very militancy that Mr. Williams had accused them of before he tried to take it back.
But as Mr. Duterte was warning about the dangers of Islamist militancy, his own military was playing down the threat from the Islamic State. Col.
Thus ideological militancy and more totalitarian-type rule by an absolute leader at home will also entail a less cooperative and more truculent China abroad.
Other Twitter accounts linked to Islamist militancy also carried photos of the same individual, and Islamic State supporters posted messages of praise for the attack.
Then at the same time you have Omar Hammami, who was a quite observant Muslim who drifted further and further toward fundamentalism, and then militancy.
Pakistan rejects accusations that it sponsors Taliban militants fighting U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan and says it is doing all it can to combat militancy.
Since 2013 Islamist militants killed or seriously injured 48 people in Bangladesh, including at least six online critics of religious militancy who were hacked to death.
In the days following, artists and activists have responded to the hotly-anticipated event of contemporary art, which opens May 17, with simultaneous excitement and militancy.
Many critics of Trump's Syria pullout have expressed worries it would lead the Islamic State militancy to regain strength and pose a threat to U.S. interests.
"It's not limited to people suspected of actual militancy or training or anything," said Berda, who has written a book about the bureaucracy of Israel's occupation.
This time around, the choice of Trump and Hillary Clinton betrays partisan militancy in one case and the power of archaic party machinery in the other.
The NRA then had recently reorganized around a militancy untypical of its first century of existence, centering on a newly individualistic reading of the Second Amendment.
Perhaps one day we will finally have the testimony of Balestrini's own life, his own I as an any and a we, his militancy and flight.
The brazenness of the assault, which lasted several hours, suggested a new brand of militancy in a country where low-level strikes on police are common.
MILITANCY OPERATIONS Cross-border shelling in the past few days has killed seven people on the Pakistani side and four on the Indian side of Kashmir.
The number of militant attacks has come down since Pakistan announced an anti-militancy plan after the assault on the Army Public School in December, 2014.
The militancy was born of a history of violence against black people, some African-American academics and activists said, in a country formed by armed rebellion.
Raheel Sharif, who is an influential because of his campaigns against homegrown militancy and has a deft ability to portray the military favorably in the media.
The United States has 800 soldiers operating in the largely desert nation, more than France, which has 4,000 in the wider Sahel tackling the Islamist militancy.
It said that of the 144 detainees transferred after President Obama took office in January 2009, seven were known to have engaged in post-release militancy.
But as rogue militancy waned and police and military abuses continued, Karachi's residents began to question if they were merely trading one despotic regime for another.
White leaders, including Smuts's government, were increasingly determined to institute comprehensive racial segregation; that, combined with a weakening economy, led to an upsurge of black militancy.
The increased militancy in the north has raised concerns among analysts that it could offer sanctuary for Islamic State militants fleeing defeat in Iraq or Syria.
"How do you propose to use this period to reduce the level of anger and levels of alienation and reduce the number of people joining militancy?"
Mexican muralism taught her the importance of expressing a political and social consciousness, but she softened the militancy that was common in the post-revolutionary era.
He is facing a challenge from former wartime defense chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 70, who has promised to ramp up national security and stamp out Islamist militancy.
His statement came as government forces were trying to quell fighting in Marawi, a city of about 200,000 that has become a hotbed of Islamist militancy.
Tehran has consistently denied those charges and itself has accused Riyadh of supporting militancy through its backing of Islamist rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
With Islamist insurgents controlling large swathes of territory and appealing to young men to join their ranks, creating jobs is crucial to Afghanistan's battle against militancy.
Scott's figures are female, powerful, thick, and devastatingly beautiful; she presents black women as sensual and sentient beings, contradicting common stereotypes with decadence rather than militancy.
I would have liked to think that the days of Black Arts Movement militancy were long gone, but it seems that for some, they are not.
This led to the government launching a National Action Plan (NAP) to counter militancy in the country, which, according to Masood, has been neglected and not implemented.
The two local jihadist outfits are, in part, creatures of Pakistan's disastrous policy of attempting to harness Sunni militancy to advance its own domestic and regional agenda.
The Indian government has insisted that its decision was intended to improve governance in Kashmir, which is also claimed by Pakistan, and to cut down on militancy.
This year, it has tried to keep the focus on its national security achievements and its promise of a muscular approach to Pakistan and home-grown militancy.
Poverty has exacerbated political militancy in Gaza, where Palestinians have held weekly rock-throwing protests at the border fence with Israel against U.S. President Donald Trump's Dec.
But it comes at a tense time, when French troops are being sucked deeper into a years-long battle to quell Islamist militancy in the Sahel region.
Police officials declined to comment on the activist's release from the Joint Interrogation Centre in Jammu, a facility used to detain and question people suspected of militancy.
Beijing has said its measures in Xinjiang, which are also reported to include widespread surveillance of the population, are aimed at stemming the threat of Islamist militancy.
While Pakistan says Kashmir is at their heart of their decades of rivalry, India says its main issue is the militancy that it accuses Pakistan of sponsoring.
"It's been 26 years since militancy peaked, but there is more anger and alienation among the youth now than then," says Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a separatist leader.
" A IDS and Its Metaphors ," Sontag's 1989 book and her next after "Under the Sign of Saturn," announced her return, if not to militancy, then to advocacy.
The right responded to anti-racist legislation with fears about black crime and militancy, while the left protested vehemently against the escalation of the war in Vietnam.
Tensions between Beijing and Washington have spiked over the past year amid an escalating trade war and growing concerns over Chinese militancy in the South China Sea.
Ledeen, who with Flynn co-authored a book about Islamic militancy, said the retired general is "a very talented man" who made major contributions to military intelligence.
Authorities in Sunni Muslim-ruled Bahrain have accused scores of people of militancy in a series of mass trials, saying the defendants are backed by Shi'ite Iran.
The New America think tank said all of the people who had carried out fatal attacks inspired by Islamist militancy in the United States since the Sept.
As the French sociologist Olivier Roy, the pre-eminent scholar of European jihadism, puts it, few terrorists "had a previous story of militancy," either political or religious.
The bottom line: U.S. economic coercion did not work in 1998, and it's unlikely to stop the Pakistan Army from supporting cross-border militancy in Afghanistan now.
Editorial The murder on Tuesday of the Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh, a fearless critic of rising Hindu-nationalist militancy, has all the hallmarks of a hit job.
A graduate of engineering college in the Indian state of Punjab, Mr. Musa embraced militancy after what his family members had described as "humiliation" by Indian forces.
Charles Manson, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Weathermen preoccupied Pettibon early on, as aspects of the ruined hippiedom and misfired far-left militancy that punk scorned.
It implies patience as well as militancy, the ability to say no over and over and over again, to refuse to cooperate until the whole system crumbles.
Since the 2011 revolt against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has seen a growing threat from Islamist militancy at home and from over the border.
Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim-majority country, is grappling with a resurgence in militancy and has detained hundreds of suspects this year under tightened anti-terrorism laws.
Saeed's groups disavow armed militancy inside Pakistan, but say they offer vocal and moral support for rebel fighters in Indian-administered Kashmir in the disputed Himalayan region.
The attack comes amid heightened concerns over religious tension in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, which has also seen a recent resurgence in homegrown militancy.
But Morocco's experience of battling militancy dates back at least to the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan war, when hundreds of Moroccans went to Afghanistan to fight Soviet forces.
The fresh anti-militancy drive was launched after a Kashmiri suicide bomber, a member of a Pakistan-based militant group, killed 40 Indian paramilitary police on Feb. 14.
However, Russia's 2014 annexation in Ukraine and the rise of Islamist militancy - not U.S. pressure - led to last year's increase in European spending, NATO diplomats and analysts said.
Even though he has not yet been inaugurated, Duterte apologized to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over Ridsdel's execution, vowing to crack down on militancy in his country.
It was that militancy from grassroots conservatives that made blunders like Romney's "20083 percent" gaffe — referencing the number of Americans who don't pay income tax — even more dangerous.
But the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, which defeated the PPP in the election of 2013, pledged to lift the moratorium to tackle a tide of crime and militancy.
Jordan has been relatively unscathed by the uprisings, civil wars and Islamist militancy that have swept the Middle East since 2011, but maintains a high level of vigilance.
Further up the West Coast, in the state of Washington, there is a similar spirit of exuberant militancy, honed by long experience and fired up by recent events.
Since 2006, the United States has provided nearly $200 million in military aid to strengthen naval forces of the three Southeast Asian countries to combat piracy and militancy.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former military chief who led Mursi's ouster, describes Islamist militancy as an existential threat to Egypt, an ally of the United States.
Flynn, one of Trump's closest advisers, was fired from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014, a move he has attributed to his outspoken views about fighting Islamist militancy.
As a child raised in an especially religious family, he studied at a Karachi madrassa known for its jihadist alumni and links to certain virulent strains of militancy.
As countries take immediate steps to improve policing at home, they also need to work on the longer range problem of ending the wars that are feeding militancy.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised a strong response to the attack and says he has given the military a free hand to tackle cross-border militancy.
Many magazines, not least of all The New Republic, succumbed to a similar politics of racist resentment in the face of black militancy and African-American cultural resurgence.
What seems to bother the government as much as the problems of cheap, plentiful and effective electronic secrecy is the new militancy companies are bringing to the issue.
In one post, he used a proverb to criticize the government's approach to rising militancy, likening it to raising a baby snake by feeding it milk and bananas.
More recently, the thick vegetation which extends for hundred of square miles has provided a haven for the militancy and helped thwart army attempts to eradicate the group.
Belgian warplanes have joined the coalition in the Middle East, but Brussels, home to the European Union and NATO headquarters, has long been a centre of Islamist militancy.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police arrested a man from Pakistan in Barcelona on Tuesday accused of promoting Islamist militancy via social media, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Kurram has been plagued by militancy over the past decade and was the location of many U.S. drone strikes targeting commanders from al Qaeda and other militant groups.
Several, he said, told him they had played down atrocities against the Rohingya and played up reports of Rohingya militancy, believing it was in the nation's best interests.
Far-right militancy is resurgent in Germany, in ways that are new and very old, horrifying a country that prides itself on dealing honestly with its murderous past.
Former paramilitary troops supportive of Mr. Rajapaksa have stoked anti-Muslim fears in eastern Sri Lanka, where many Hindu Tamils are upset about Islamic militancy in the country.
Algeria, steadily emerging itself from more than a decade of conflict with armed Islamist fighters in the 1990s, is a key Western ally against militancy in the region.
Beijing denies any mistreatment of the Uighurs or others in Xinjiang, saying it is providing vocational training to help stamp out militancy and separatism and teach new skills.
Since the start of anti-militancy operations by Pakistan in 2014, millions of residents have been displaced from their homes, forced to move to Peshawar, Islamabad and Karachi.
Egyptian officials have accused the Muslim Brotherhood of being behind Hasm, although most Brotherhood leaders are in prison and the movement has officially denied any ties to militancy.
Modi's Hindu nationalist ruling group views Israel and India as bound together in a common fight against Islamist militancy and long called for a public embrace of Israel.
Created in 1942, JeI participated in Indian elections for more than two decades before becoming engaged with separatist politics following the onset of militancy in Kashmir in 1989.
There are, too, hopes that his election will bring, once and for all, elusive peace and stability in the south, which for years has been rocked by Muslim militancy.
Ishfaq Elahi Chowdhury, a retired air commodore and security analyst, said Friday's attack on counter-terrorism forces was "a new dimension" in the fight against Islamist militancy in Bangladesh.
But in this case, it's the districts and areas of Chicago that are more on the margins of society, are less economically vibrant, that become the hotbeds of militancy.
Dreamcatcher exists on a fascinating intersection of bad Stephen King, 90s lunacy, and 2000s militancy, strung together in an ill-shaped talisman only useful for catching the strangest dreams.
All these factors could tilt Bangladesh toward Islamic fundamentalism if the Bangladeshi government and the secular community do not take immediate action against the growing trend of Islamic militancy.
Another senior security official told Reuters on the condition of anonymity that "some of the youth of the area are highly radicalized" and it is "a hotbed of militancy".
"Commander Chavez is a leader who transcended our time because of his democratic attitude, his militancy for the poor and his universal sense of humanity," Rodriguez wrote on Twitter.
The U.S. push is also part of President Donald Trump's demand that the Western alliance go beyond its core task of defending its territory and help stem Islamic militancy.
Duterte imposed martial law last week on Mindanao, an island of 22 million people where both Marawi and Iligan are located, to quell the unrest and wipe out militancy.
In Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, residents said they hoped the spirit of Eid would overcome fears about rising militancy in the country with the largest number of Muslims.
MEMBERS of Pakistan's security establishment who are charged with keeping order in Punjab, the country's biggest province, have in recent weeks trumpeted their successes against religious militancy and extremism.
Militancy has been rife over the past decade in the Delta, a southern region which is one of the country's poorest areas despite generating 70 percent of state income.
The US push is also part of President Donald Trump's demand that the Western alliance go beyond its core task of defending its territory and help stem Islamic militancy.
In a statement on Tuesday after a meeting of senior Israeli ministers known as the Security Cabinet, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed longstanding Israeli demands that Hamas abandon militancy.
It conferred eligibility only on female property owners age 30 and older, the culmination of years of campaigning and militancy by leaders such as Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst.
As educators head back to school, there are signs that the militancy of the teacher movement is spreading from red states to more traditional union strongholds on the coasts.
He became even more vocal after he was forced to retire by President Barack Obama, arguing that Russia was a necessary ally in a "world war" against Islamist militancy.
Tuesday's attack shines an uncomfortable light on Islamist militancy in the wider region of Central Asia that has supplied Islamic State in Syria and Iraq with thousands of fighters.
Underscoring the threat from Islamist militancy, officials said that Indonesians, Malaysians and Singaporeans were fighting in Marawi alongside the local militants, and that six foreign fighters had been killed.
The rebel commander's older brother, Dr. Shakir Rashid Bhat, 32, an orthopedic surgeon in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, tried to explain why his sibling had joined the militancy.
Thus the longest lasting damage they do occurs through their brainwashing of a captive audience: It is their way of carrying their militancy and chauvinism into the next generation.
Escalation against Iran is bound to deepen the insecure country's siege mentality; rising tensions will feed Iran's militarism and militancy; and squeezing Iran will diminish Mr. Rouhani's maneuvering space.
The militancy is minuscule — fewer than 300 armed fighters by most estimates — and much of the combatants' ideology turns on political differences with the Indian government, not religious ones.
Despotic regimes exploit this American fear of Islamist militancy and get away with brutal violence against dissenting populations of varying political and religious persuasions by projecting them as jihadists.
Catalan police records turned up nothing linking Es Satty, a Moroccan-born imam who was living in the small Catalan town of Ripoll, to Islamist militancy at the time.
The Tribal Areas went from being a base for Pakistan and American military operations against Soviet troops to a platform for Taliban militancy against the United States and Pakistan.
Gorakhnath Temple had a tradition of militancy: Digvijay Nath, the head priest until 13, was arrested for exhorting Hindu militants to kill Mahatma Gandhi days before he was shot.
Mattis, on a one-day visit to Pakistan, said the South Asian nation had made progress in the fight against militancy inside its borders but needed to make more.
Since 2003, almost 22,000 civilians and nearly 7,3003 Pakistani security forces have been killed as a result of militancy, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, which tracks violence.
The United States has 473 soldiers operating in the largely desert West African nation, more than France, which has 4,000 in the wider Sahel trying to tackle Islamist militancy.
In May 2018, Serraj and Hifter agreed on a roadmap aiming to restore order in Libya, where lawlessness has fueled Islamic militancy, human trafficking and instability in the wider region.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asian countries must step up their fight against religious militancy taking root in their region, including in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine State, Singapore's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Algeria is a key supplier of gas to Europe and has positioned itself as an important Western ally in efforts to tackle Islamist militancy in North Africa and the Sahel.
In recent months they have intensified their efforts to stifle the Islamic identity of Xinjiang's ethnic Uighurs, fearful that any public display of their religious belief could morph into militancy.
Clinton has called for a more inclusive environment within American society and for a joint effort between the U.S. government and Muslim countries to battle the spread of Islamist militancy.
Haftar has presented himself to foreign powers as a bulwark against terrorism and is popular among many in eastern Libya who credit him with ending a rise in Islamist militancy.
His government is fighting a stubborn Islamist militancy in the North Sinai and has also enacted painful austerity reforms over the last year that critics say have dented his popularity.
Hundreds of soldiers have been killed there since 2013, when Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a former army chief who is now president, seized power and vowed to crush Islamist militancy.
"I would categorize this as terror activity," Mary Bossis, an associate professor of International Relations at University of Piraeus and an expert on left-wing militancy, told MUNCHIES by phone.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police arrested a Moroccan man in Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta on Thursday, accusing him of promoting Islamist militancy via social media, the Interior Ministry said.
Malik had worked for the paper for the past three years in the restive town of Tral, which is a hotbed of militancy in a decades-old Kashmiri separatist movement.
Authorities are also concerned about smaller cells being formed by militants in Muslim-majority Indonesia, which is grappling with a resurgence in homegrown militancy, inspired in part by Islamic State.
King Abdullah, a Middle East ally of Western powers against Islamist militancy, has been among the most vocal leaders in the region in warning of threats posed by radical groups.
But Fortify Rights, an advocacy group in Southeast Asia, has said the videos are unusual and should not be taken as signs of widespread militancy among Muslims in the area.
Russia could find itself having to commit even more troops and resources to the campaign in Syria to combat the resurgent militancy that increasingly sees Moscow as a primary foe.
But Malaysia has shelved those plans for now as it looks to boost aerial surveillance that will be critical in its fight against militancy, a defense ministry source told Reuters.
"Mark my words: — Burhan's ability to recruit in to militancy from the grave will far outstrip anything he could have done on social media," he wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
Mali is struggling to contain militancy in its north, where rival militias frequently clash and Islamist groups carry out attacks on civilians, Malian soldiers, U.N. peacekeepers and French forces there.
"There's a whole separation of time which has changed attitudes of some people," he said, adding that in the face of common threats such as Islamist militancy, the EU-U.
The Kurds have bled and died for our cause, which is, jointly, their cause — to destroy ISIS, or any other Islamist militancy, and to live at peace with their neighbors.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former military chief who led the overthrow of Mursi, describes Islamist militancy as an existential threat to Egypt, an ally of the United States.
The president-elect also moved to install Michael T. Flynn, a retired lieutenant general who has said that Islamist militancy poses a global existential threat, as his national security adviser.
Mr. Sisi has built a strategic alliance with President Trump and has urged the American president to become more involved in the fight against Islamic militancy in the Middle East.
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - West African leaders have pledged $1 billion to combat the spiraling threat of Islamist militancy in the region, the head of the regional ECOWAS bloc said on Saturday.
The attack is the latest in a high-profile string of far-right crimes in Germany, which have raised concerns about the growth and increasing militancy of the extreme-right.
Since the fall, they've been designing the latest collection, their take on '90s hip-hop, inspired by the political militancy of the period, with a nod to the Guardian Angels.
President-elect Donald J. Trump offered Mr. Flynn the post of national security adviser, elevating the retired general and intelligence officer who saw Islamist militancy as a global existential threat.
"The attack on the mosque was almost certainly carried out by the El Arish group," said Ahmed Sakr, a former senior Sinai official and an expert on the militancy there.
Mali's government is struggling to contain militancy in its north, where rival tribal militias frequently clash and Islamist groups launch attacks on civilians, Malian soldiers, U.N. peacekeepers and French forces there.
The separatist insurgency has waxed and waned since the late 1980s, but began to pick up in the last five years as a fresh generation of Kashmiris was drawn to militancy.
On the day of his disappearance, Khan had spoken at a forum on militancy and posted comments on Facebook critical of the military and its suspected link to some Islamist hardliners.
The North African kingdom, an ally of the West against Islamist militancy, has been on high alert since 2014, when IS took control of large swathes of northern Iraq and Syria.
Experts worry that despite international assistance, particularly from France and the United States, regional cooperation and intelligence gathering are too weak to catch the spread of militancy or halt attack plans.
In an effort to contain militancy in the Niger Delta oil hub, Buhari also asked lawmakers to spend another 35 billion naira this year on an amnesty plan for former fighters.
The international community is closely watching the developments in Africa's second most-populous nation which has a booming economy and is a staunch Western ally in the fight against Islamist militancy.
Many experts believe that Indonesia, a vibrant democracy where the vast majority of Muslims practise a moderate form of Islam, is not likely to be tipped into a cauldron of militancy.
But he would still have wiggle room – and popular support – for pushing for a more hardline approach toward the estimated 7,000 former militants, which could nudge a minority back toward militancy.
Padilla said that, as well as the army, the government had a role to play in stamping out militancy in the south of the country through development and providing social services.
These have left Europe's military badly placed to deal with the fallout from political and sectarian strife in the Middle East, Russia's annexation of Crimea and the growth of Islamist militancy.
With its vast, loosely controlled desert expanses and porous borders, the Sahel has proved to be fertile soil for the rise of Islamist militancy in one of the world's poorest regions.
Authorities have said the couple — who were killed by police during a shootout — were inspired by Islamist militancy, and have called it the deadliest such attack on U.S. soil since Sept.
But Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose nationalist party sees Israel as an ally against Islamist militancy, has openly cultivated warmer ties, and is due to visit Israel later this year.
On Sunday, Mr. Sánchez also issued a defiant message on Twitter in which he warned that "soon the moment will come when the militancy will recover and reconstruct" its own party.
On top of that, public support for South Korea's auto worker unions, which have a reputation for militancy, has fallen as young workers battle to find increasingly rare full-time positions.
Ever since 1962, when "Silence in the Snowy Fields" established him as a poet of desperate sincerity, he has been a paragon of Jungianism against the brutality of capitalism and militancy.
But militancy experts questioned the claim's authenticity and said the attack was most likely carried out by Islamic State militants because it involved the use of heavy weapons and its location.
We gave up our militancy, developed inclusive tactics and tried to build a political force to thwart Nixon's policy of turning over the war to the South Vietnamese government, called Vietnamization.
For more than 25 years since its old central government collapsed, Somalia, one of the world's poorest nations, has lurched from one crisis to another: civil war, famine, piracy, Islamic militancy.
Indonesia, which is the world's biggest Muslim-majority country, is grappling with a resurgence in militancy and hundreds have detained under tighter new anti-terrorism laws since the beginning of 2019.
They avoided the civil wars which largely followed but face deadly bombing attacks by Islamic State and militancy by fringes of their Shi'ite Muslim populations they say is fuelled by Iran.
Convincing the FATF that it is making sufficient efforts to crack down on militancy will be harder with a controversial figure such as Shah in the cabinet, said PPP Senator Mustafa Khokhar.
But experts point to how they have previously failed to work together to prevent festering militancy and banditry from worsening, plagued as they are by mistrust, dormant territorial disputes and limited capabilities.
Turnbull last week signalled a drive to reform parole laws, including a ban on parole for violent offenders with links to militancy, following a deadly siege claimed by the Islamic State group.
Several incidents over the past year have jolted the Arab kingdom, which has been relatively unscathed by the uprisings, civil wars and Islamist militancy that have swept the Middle East since 2011.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan's foreign minister on Thursday described as "hollow allegations" comments by senior U.S. officials and lawmakers during his visit to Washington this week that questioned Islamabad's resolve in fighting militancy.
Thursday's attack was the latest in a series of incidents linked to Islamic State in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation this year, as concerns grow over a resurgence in homegrown militancy.
He will also use this tragedy to impress on Turkish voters that Kurdish and Islamist militancy can only be thwarted by transforming Turkey from a parliamentary system into a powerful executive presidency.
Washington and Islamabad have sharply different views on what constitutes success in Afghanistan, on how the Pakistani military should conduct its campaign against militancy, and on the nature of India's regional influence.
Turnbull last week signaled a drive to reform parole laws, including a ban on parole for violent offenders with links to militancy, following a deadly siege claimed by the Islamic State group.
Derna, which has a history of militancy, is a target for LNA forces, backed by neighbouring Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, as part of Haftar's self-declared war on Islamist militants.
The terrorist threat facing Southeast Asia is growing as foreign fighters return to the region, regional defense ministers said this month in a joint statement, pledging to boost cooperation to tackle militancy.
Concerns about militancy and potential attacks led Swiss voters to back a law last year extending the national spy service's authority to monitor internet traffic, deploy drones and hack foreign computer systems.
Sisi, a former armed forces commander who presents himself as a bulwark against Islamist militancy, convened an emergency meeting with his defence and interior ministers and intelligence chief soon after the attack.
Pakistan could expand its role as "the godfather of militancy" by increasing its support to militant groups aimed at Afghanistan and India, and Islamabad can torpedo future peace negotiations with the Taliban.
But Mr. Smith said the sight of heavily armed Rohingya men in Rakhine was highly unusual and should not be taken as a sign of widespread militancy among Muslims in the area.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump laid out a U.S. military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State militancy.
The case comes amid rising concerns over the growth of Islamist militancy in the South Asian nation, which saw a string of deadly attacks on secular writers, minorities and foreigners last year.
It was Pakistan's deadliest attack since the December 20013 massacre of 134 school children at a military-run academy in the city of Peshawar that prompted a government crackdown on Islamist militancy.
Islamist militancy poses an existential threat on a global scale, and the Muslim faith itself is the source of the problem, he said, describing it as a political ideology, not a religion.
Mr. Mattis and the other defense chiefs were expected to discuss Islamist militancy and other issues affecting the region, including North Korea's nuclear pursuits and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
But by then my generation was building its own African dreamscape, populated by KRS-One, Public Enemy and Poor Righteous Teachers; we were indoctrinating ourselves into a prideful militancy about our worth.
Awad noted that uncertainty over precisely who was behind the apartment bombing is to be expected given the complex and shadowy world of militancy in the Giza province where the blast occurred.
Wahhabism — a hard-line strain of Islam blamed for breeding militancy — proposed a direct path to God, albeit one that aimed to return the religion to the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
But while protests against Indian rule have grown in number and size, the armed militancy has become surprisingly small, partly because Pakistan is not providing as much support as it used to.
Egypt has faced a wave of Islamic militancy since the 2013 military overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who had been elected president, and the subsequent crackdown on his supporters.
India, however, has directly accused Pakistani military intelligence of long supporting militancy in Kashmir and the attack by Lashkar-e-Taiba militants that killed more than 160 people in Mumbai in 2008.
Saeed, arrested on the same charges, has been on judicial remand since July, a move welcomed by U.S. President Donald Trump who wants Pakistan to do more to crack down on militancy.
MANILA (Reuters) - The United States and Philippine navies held a joint naval patrol on Saturday in dangerous southern Philippine waters, amid rising international concern about Islamist militancy and piracy in the region.
Nor did the list include the European countries where disenfranchised Muslim communities have become hotbeds of militancy, leading to major attacks in Paris and Brussels in the name of the Islamic State.
Al Qaeda affiliate claims killing of Bangladeshi blogger On Saturday, 100,000 Islamic scholars launched a fatwa or a religious edict, saying that militancy and terrorism in the name of Islam is un-Islamic.
Last year, it resumed campaigning on its anti-militancy platform, holding workers' conventions and rallies in the province and the southern city of Karachi, which is home to more than 5 million Pashtuns.
The ruling comes as Indonesia struggles to rein in a rising tide of homegrown militancy, inspired in part by the extremist group Islamic State, with parliament approving tougher anti-terrorism laws last month.
" Even in King's biggest crossover moment, his "I Have a Dream" speech, he talked about the "marvelous militancy" of the movement, saying blacks "will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.
"The car bomb attack resembles the Besiktas attack in terms of its style," he told a group of reporters, adding the incident would not put Turkey off of its goal of fighting militancy.
That moment, along with Ali's embrace of Islam and pointed rejection of racial integration at the height of the civil rights era, helped endear the boxer to blacks, who reveled in his militancy.
But there has been a recent resurgence in militancy and authorities believe Islamic State has more than 22010,217 followers in Indonesia while about 217 Indonesians have left to join the group in Syria.
South Africa is racked by violent crime and social strife rooted in poverty and glaring income disparities, but it is seldom associated with the Islamist militancy seen on other parts of the continent.
A religious leader preparing to attend the prayer service when the attack took place, Farid-uddin Masud, had recently denounced militancy and led a drive to collect signatures condemning it as un-Islamic.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who had been expected to travel to London to meet investors on Tuesday, instead met Niger Delta state governors and military chiefs to discuss ways to end the militancy.
The destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11, for example, was unprecedented in scale and spectacle to the extent that it redefined Western thinking on the Middle East and militancy for years.
"This operation is one in a series of the battle of Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, which will not stop until we liberate all Libya," Islamic State's Tripoli militancy said in a statement.
That is more radical militancy than any #Resistance Twitter storm or Women's March, and it shows that a different kind of politics is possible in Appalachia, in the South, and across the heartland.
Rising through the ranks, he was tasked by Ariel Sharon, the general who became prime minister of Israel, to establish a special unit to combat militancy in the Gaza Strip in the 1970s.
The multi-sided civil war in Syria, raging since 2011, has drawn in regional and global powers, caused the world's worst humanitarian emergency and attracted recruits to Islamist militancy from around the world.
Some of the site's most ambitious pieces stretch to 22000,33 words, delving into legendary artists like Syrian singer George Wassouf, the music of Islamic militancy, and the history of drum machines and synthesizers.
The brief includes internal security, border management, running armed police forces and keeping the lid on militancy in the troubled region of Kashmir - all with the potential to ignite or exacerbate communal tensions.
Linking the port to western China would be a new 22020,20223-mile network of highways and rails through the most forbidding stretch of Pakistan: Baluchistan Province, a resource-rich region plagued by militancy.
The young men who have joined the Kashmir militancy grew up in a militarized land where they were routinely stopped and searched by security forces, and at times brutally beaten, their families say.
When a dishonest demagogue comes along and stirs up rabid support through manipulation and emotion (see above), the Founders had in mind that civility and reason, not anger, threats, or militancy, would prevail.
Mr. Awad, the militancy expert, said he had found evidence that Egyptian militants in the upper echelons of the central Islamic State leadership had established the network of cells in Egypt's main cities.
Over the course of two decades, Soleimani nurtured Shiite militancy from Baghdad to Beirut and strategized terrorism with a degree of finesse that bin Laden and Baghdadi could only ever have dreamt of.
It was not immediately clear if the blast was the result of an attack, but Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, has suffered a resurgence in homegrown militancy in recent years.
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, has seen a surge in homegrown militancy inspired by Islamic State, and has grappled with a series of small-scale attacks in the past two years.
Nigeria, along with OPEC peer Libya, was exempt from cuts due to militancy in its Delta region that slashed output from 21.8 million bpd to as low as 22015 million bpd last year.
And he had a substantial criminal record before his transition to Islamic militancy: First convicted as an 18-year-old for criminal damage, he went to prison twice for inflicting grievous bodily harm.
He has so far resisted U.N. pressure to accept a power-sharing settlement to stabilise Libya, using his leverage as an ally of the West in attempts to stem Islamist militancy in North Africa.
China is also worried about the spread of Islamist militancy from lawless ethnic Pashtun lands along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, in particular the danger of members of its Uighur Muslim minority being radicalized there.
It was the deadliest assault in Pakistan since the December 2014 massacre of 203 schoolchildren at a military-run academy in the city of Peshawar that prompted a big government crackdown on Islamist militancy.
It was the deadliest assault in Pakistan since the December 2014 massacre of 134 schoolchildren at a military-run academy in the city of Peshawar that prompted a big government crackdown on Islamist militancy.
Morocco sees itself as a partner to the West in the war on Islamic militancy, although hundreds of fighters from Morocco and elsewhere in North Africa have joined militant forces in Syria's civil war.
Gressel said the growing problem within the military reflected an escalation of right-wing militancy in German society at large, as the country grapples with a historic influx of migrants, predominantly from Muslim countries.
China has sought to bring Kabul and Islamabad together partly due to Chinese fears about the spread of Islamist militancy from Pakistan and Afghanistan to the unrest-prone far western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
Together with attempts by people linked to Islamic State to recruit and fund militancy in the country, the documents show the extremist organization has built deeper connections with Bangladeshi militants than was previously known.
The monasteries, located in remote desert areas, have had faint experience with the rise in Islamic militancy following the 2013 military ouster of former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi after mass protests against his rule.
Africa's most industrialized country is racked by violent crime and social strife rooted in poverty and glaring income disparities but is seldom associated with the Islamist militancy seen in other parts of the continent.
Security in Mali is bolstered by a deployment of French troops and a U.N. peacekeeping mission but despite this and years of peace talks, the country faces problems of banditry, unrest and Islamist militancy.
The Ferghana Valley, a fertile and densely populated strip of land that straddles Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, is considered to be the heart of Islamist militancy in Central Asia, whose main target is Russia.
A painstaking opinion poll published in 2010 by Chatham House, a British think-tank, revealed very low support in the valley for armed militancy, for joining Pakistan or for remaining a part of India.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar dismissed allegations of support for Islamist militancy on Friday after four Arab states, which cut ties with Qatar this week, blacklisted as terrorists dozens of people with alleged links to Qatar.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has struggled in recent months with a rise in Islamist militancy, which has come as ISIS has been squeezed out of its heartland in Syria and Iraq.
Tajikistan, the poorest country in the ex-Soviet region, is particularly vulnerable to militancy because of its porous border with Afghanistan, which has a long history of conflict between the government and jihadi groups.
Here are some facts about Islamic State in Libya: Islamic State drew on existing pockets of militancy in Libya, establishing its first major presence in Derna, an eastern city with a strong Islamist tradition.
Speaking at a meeting with Shell's upstream head, Andrew Brown, Buhari said he had instructed the chief of naval staff to reorganize and strengthen the military Joint Task Force to deal with the militancy.
As part of its campaign, Politico reports, Russia pushed ads that implied rising black militancy, including images of black women holding guns and text decrying police brutality, stoking anxiety about an armed #BlackLivesMatter uprising.
And it underscored the failure of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has justified his harsh crackdown on political freedom in the name of crushing Islamic militancy, to deliver on his promises of security.
Opinion Columnist I disagree with academic feminism a lot — with those vague oppressor stories about the patriarchy, with the strange unwillingness to admit inherited-gender differences and with the tone of faculty lounge militancy.
Last year, in a chilling heightening of militancy in Indonesia, parents and their children blew themselves up in coordinated attacks on churches and a police station in Surabaya, the second largest city in Indonesia.
"A lot of what has happened in the last three years has brought out militancy in people who thought they were quite moderate nationalists," said Diarmaid Ferriter, a history professor at University College Dublin.
"The narco trade fuels a lot of the valley's militancy because it brings in money," a senior intelligence officer, who requested anonymity to speak freely, tells me at an Indian army camp near Kupwara.
He said the risks of further escalation - including the spread of militancy, a revival of migrant flows to Europe, disruption of oil supplies, and regional instability - could help produce a deal among foreign powers.
Indonesia, which is the world's biggest Muslim-majority country, is grappling with a resurgence in militancy and hundreds of suspects have been detained under tighter new anti-terrorism laws since the beginning of 2019.
It was not immediately clear if the blast was the result of a sectarian attack, but Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, has suffered a resurgence in homegrown militancy in recent years.
Abbasi said it was "unfair" to blame Pakistan for all the troubles in Afghanistan, saying Washington should show more appreciation for Pakistan's losses from militancy and its role in hosting 3.5 million Afghan refugees.
Tunisia has struggled to contain Islamist militancy since its 2011 uprising, suffering three major attacks last year including one in which 38 foreign tourists were killed by a gunman on a beach in Sousse.
Despite those abuses, Mr. el-Sisi has been bolstered by strong support from Western and Arab leaders who view him as a bulwark against Islamist militancy as his forces fight an insurgency in Sinai.
A police officer said Indian authorities arrested about 300 JeI leaders and activists in recent days in a crackdown on militancy in the state after a suicide bomber killed 40 paramilitary police on Feb.
A pugnacious retired army general, Dagan took over the Mossad in 2002, when a Palestinian revolt was raging, international Islamist militancy was on the rise and world powers learned of Iran's secret uranium enrichment projects.
DUBAI, June 9 (Reuters) - Qatar dismissed allegations of support for Islamist militancy on Friday after four Arab states, which cut ties with Qatar earlier this week, put the emirate on a "terror finance watch list".
MANILA (Reuters) - Russia's top security official on Thursday offered the Philippines access to an intelligence database to help it fight crime and militancy, and training for the elite forces assigned to protect President Rodrigo Duterte.
Islamist militant groups, including Islamic State, have gained ground in the chaos, and Derna, a city of about 150,000 that straddles the coastal highway linking Libya to Egypt, has a long history with Islamist militancy.
"That is something ... we cannot accept because nobody's suffered more than Pakistan," Abbasi said, adding that tens of thousands of Pakistani have died from militancy that has inflicted damage worth $120 billion to the economy.
In recent months, Hasina has faced criticism that her political opponents are being swept up in the ongoing drive against militancy, corruption and drugs, which has also seen security forces accused of overstepping the law.
Morocco, a Western partner in the war against Islamist militancy, presents itself as a model of stability and gradual reform since 2011 in a region where jihadist violence and political turmoil have become the norm.
Many Tunisians are concerned about the rising cost of living, unemployment and the continued marginalisation of rural areas - factors that helped fuel the country's uprising and, more recently, Islamist militancy among some disaffected young men.
The complex, multi-sided civil war in Syria, raging since 2011, has drawn in most regional and global powers, caused the world's worst humanitarian emergency and attracted recruits to Islamist militancy from around the world.
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HARIPUR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan unveiled the remains of a 1,700-year-old sleeping Buddha image on Wednesday, part of an initiative to encourage tourism and project religious harmony in a region roiled by Islamist militancy.
It is a heartfelt - if a little naive - attempt at depicting the futility of war and the consequences of militancy, one that is uplifted considerably because it is narrated from the perspective of a child.
After initial blanket denials, however, Chinese officials have said some people guilty of minor offences were being sent to "vocational" training centers, where they are taught work skills and legal knowledge aimed at curbing militancy.
" Trump also criticizes U.S. policy stretching back to the administration under former President George W. Bush for "consistently" prioritizing "the immediate threat of Sunni extremist organizations over the longer-term threat of Iranian-backed militancy.
Critics of the kingdom say the government does not do enough to prevent the teachings of some of its ultra-conservative clergy from fanning militancy overseas as well as a domestic security threat at home.
More broadly, addressing Islamic militancy is a serious goal for Beijing because small groups of Uighur militants have launched violent attacks in China and at times allied   with the Pakistani Taliban, Islamic State and others.
Standing before a racially integrated Town Hall audience in New York, Ms. Hansberry, then 34, sought to counter the growing white liberal criticism of the racial militancy expressed by a younger generation of African-Americans.
Many of us who remained realized that a majority of Americans had turned against the war but they felt unable or unwilling to join us because our militancy required them to risk arrest or injury.
Of Bush-era transfers, 35 percent are confirmed or suspected of re-engaging in militancy; of Obama-era transfers, the combined figure is 12 percent, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Despite concerns over Russia and Europe – as well as Islamist militancy around the world including Africa and Asia – the Pentagon clearly believes the next war it must prepare for most would be in the Pacific.
LONDON (Reuters) - Police shot dead a man who stabbed two people on a busy street in south London on Sunday in what officials described as a terrorist incident believed to be related to Islamist militancy.
Trump announced hawkish picks for attorney general, national security adviser, and CIA director on Friday that suggest he is setting up his administration to take a hard line confronting Islamist militancy and curbing illegal immigration.
But Mr. Duterte said Friday that a yearlong extension of martial law was needed to ensure the "total eradication" of militancy in Mindanao, an impoverished region where various armed groups have been active for decades.
In a state where union activist Mother Jones brought militancy to mine workers, the Republican-controlled Legislature has continually eroded the rights of unionized workers, most recently through right-to-work legislation passed in 10.
After some major successes tackling Islamist militancy since 2001, there has been a resurgence in recent years, including in January 2016 when four suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a shopping area in the capital, Jakarta.
Friends said they could not rule out the possibility that his death was the result of a random criminal act, a botched kidnapping or Islamist militancy, though they acknowledged having no special insight into the investigation.
Some critics of the Trump administration fear it is prioritizing the fight against militancy and Iran over promoting human rights among American allies, but the foreign minister said the U.S. shift acknowledged the region's harsh realities.
Yet he appeared more measured in his view of the world than some of Mr Trump's other advisers, including Mr Bannon and Mr Flynn, who want to forge an alliance with Russia to fight Islamist militancy.
Indonesia itself has seen a resurgence in home-grown militancy, inspired in large part by Islamic State; a twin suicide bombing at a Jakarta bus station in May killed three police officers and injured several others.
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Since being chased out the region, the Taliban have carried out revenge attacks against anti-militancy activists and attempted to extort money from business owners in a region where Pakistan has stationed more than 4,000 soldiers.
Friday's bombings present a challenge for general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who describes Islamist militancy as an existential threat and himself as a bulwark against extremism in a region beset by violence and war.
The United Nations Security Council decided last week to add 2,500 peacekeepers to the mission in Mali in order to "move to a more proactive and robust posture" in the fight against militancy, the resolution said.
Support was fueled by impatience in Congress with Saudi Arabia over its human rights record, promotion of a severe form of Islam tied to militancy and failure to do more to ease the international refugee crisis.
His sermons were in colloquial rather than classical Arabic and his support base was largely among alienated youth in Al Awamiyah, a village in the Eastern Province surrounded by date farms and notorious for its militancy.
The LNA, which says it lost more than 5,000 men in the Benghazi campaign, has so far been unable to gain control over Derna, a city with a history of militancy further east along the coast.
By current standards, Washington funds about 70 percent of NATO spending and military analysts say Europe is now vulnerable to a range of threats, including Russia's military modernization, Islamist militancy and electronic warfare on computer networks.
He said he would meet on the sidelines of an African Union summit with the presidents of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mauritania, members of the G5 Sahel regional force created to combat Islamist militancy.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Australia issued a warning on Thursday about possible militant attacks being planned in Indonesia, only days after a similar warning for the Malaysian capital, another sign of rising concern over militancy in Southeast Asia.
Critics of the Saudi kingdom say the government does not do enough to prevent the teachings of some of its ultra-conservative clergy from fanning militancy overseas as well as a domestic security threat at home.
A failure to take these steps will only push more young Kashmiris into militancy, and make impossible a political solution that alone can bring an end to the desperation that has, once again, gripped the region.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has offered a military transport airplane, drone surveillance aircraft and use of combat training facilities to support the Philippines' fight against the rising threat of Islamist militancy, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.
India has attempted to justify its move in Kashmir by claiming that bringing the state deeper into the national fold will both tackle separatist militancy in the restive region and bring it greater development and prosperity.
Asked why Facebook was opening up now about policies that it had long declined to discuss, Bickert said recent attacks were naturally starting conversations among people about what they could do to stand up to militancy.
He is angry that the United States, under both Republicans and Democrats, keeps blundering into wars that seem only to make enemies of what should be natural allies, like Russia, in the fight against Islamist militancy.
Asif said Pakistan had suffered great losses from Islamist militancy - the government estimates there have been 70,000 casualties in militant attacks, including 17,000 Pakistanis killed - since Pakistan joined the U.S. "war on terrorism" after the Sept.
The numbers are important bellwethers for the 16-year war effort, one that has been marked by military setbacks and a Taliban militancy that has held on — and even gained ground — despite the group's technological disadvantage.
"Right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism are being fought relentlessly even in times of crisis," Seehofer said in a statement, adding that the group had engaged in "verbal militancy" against civil servants and their families.
There's been marvelous movements of struggle and militancy against white supremacy, and against forms of xenophobia, be it against Arabs, against Jews, against Muslims, or Dalit people struggling against Brahmin supremacy in India, and so on.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed on Monday to fast-track new legislation for autonomy in the country's most volatile region, advancing a protracted process to end decades of rebellion and thwart rising Islamist militancy.
The transcript of a speech by President Xi Jinping instructed officials to show "no mercy" in what the government portrays as a necessary clampdown on Islamist militancy following a string of violent attacks earlier this decade.
Meanwhile, Saudi media were given access to young men who had returned from fighting overseas whose stories of the brutal reality of life among jihadist groups were broadcast in an effort to dissuade others from militancy.
There are about 500 principal investigations of active plotters, 3,000 further people of interest on the radar and more than 20,000 others with vague links to militancy, and resources to keep tabs on suspects are limited.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said it would be counter-productive for the United States to sanction Pakistani officials or further cut military assistance, warning it would hurt both countries' fight against militancy.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh police have detained several top leaders of the country's largest Islamist party in a crackdown against the opposition that the government blames for inciting militancy but which says it is being unfairly targeted.
Morocco, an ally in the Western campaign against Islamist militancy, has suffered attacks itself in the past, most recently in 2011 in Marrakesh when an explosion tore through a cafe and killed 15 people, mostly foreigners.
Trump, the Republican front-runner who has been buoyed by Americans' worries about Islamic militancy, said on Sunday he believed that "profiling is something that we're going to have to start thinking about as a country".
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, has seen a recent resurgence in homegrown militancy and police said the family who carried out Sunday's attacks were among 500 Islamic State sympathizers who had returned from Syria.
India, which considers itself a victim of Islamist militancy and is trying to boost economic ties with Myanmar to counter China, said late last year that it shared Myanmar's concern about "extremist violence" by Rohingya militants.
Such concerns are only compounded by the sectarian lines along which the rivalry has become drawn, and the likelihood that hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran will translate into religious competition that fuels militancy across the world.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A patient shot a doctor in a university clinic in Berlin on Tuesday before killing himself, but there were "no signs at all" of a link with Islamist militancy, police in the German capital said.
The row erupted days after the first visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, in which he sought to galvanise fight against Islamist militancy and Iran, which Washington sees as a threat to regional stability.
Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, failing states on NATO's borders, and the spread of Islamic militancy have refocused governments on the need to defend home territory after more than a decade of NATO-led operations in Afghanistan.
But there has been a resurgence in militancy and authorities have said they believe thousands of Indonesians draw inspiration from Islamic State, while about 500 Indonesians are thought to have gone to Syria to join the group.
The U.S. military presence in Niger has expanded in recent years to an 800-strong force that accompanies Nigerien troops on intelligence gathering and other missions, reflecting U.S. concerns about rising militancy in West Africa's Sahel region.
The court ruling comes amid rising concern over the growth of Islamist militancy in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation, which saw a string of deadly attacks on secular writers, members of minorities and foreigners last year.
Pakistani officials bristle at what they say is a lack of respect from Washington for the country's sacrifices in the war against militancy and its successes against groups like al Qaeda, Islamic State or the Pakistani Taliban.
ALMATY (Reuters) - President Imomali Rakhmon seems set to strengthen his power by referendum on Sunday as Tajikistan, on the front line against militancy and crime from neighboring Afghanistan, sinks deeper into an economic crisis and simmering discontent.
RIYADH, May 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia will reinforce the partnership between the two countries in combatting militancy and in bolstering trade and commercial agreements, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Thursday.
The incident in Grasse, which does not appear to be linked to militancy, comes with France on high alert after more than 230 people were killed in the past two years by attackers allied to Islamic State.
Friendly phone calls, an invitation to the White House, a focus on Islamist militancy and what Trump calls "chemistry" set the tone for warmer U.S.-Egyptian ties that could herald more military and political support for Cairo.
Two dozen other candidates were contesting the presidency in a largely Saharan desert nation that has been fractured by a Tuareg rebellion and Islamist militancy across its north and central zones since the last poll in 2013.
Past efforts from the administration had sought to frighten potential jihadists with warnings that waging war against the West would get them killed, but officials concluded that the warnings actually served the opposite purpose of glorifying militancy.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is trying to regain its primacy over international militancy as Islamic State loses ground, a senior NATO official said on Tuesday, seeing a potentially increased risk to the West from the groups' rivalry.
The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld as constitutional President Rodrigo Duterte's imposition of 60 days of military rule on a southern island, a ruling that would reinforce unity in the fight against militancy, his spokesman said.
While the U.S. administration's current request does not negate the need for Pakistan to more effectively counter militancy from its territory, it does present an opening for the United States and Pakistan to improve its bilateral relationship.
If Mr. Modi doesn't condemn her murder forcefully and denounce the harassment and threats that critics of Hindu militancy face daily, more critics will live in fear of deadly reprisal and Indian democracy will see dark days.
PARIS (Reuters) - France and five West African states agreed on Monday to combine their military forces under one command structure to fight a growing Islamist militancy in the Sahel region, with Paris committing an extra 220 troops.
Stein continues: While planters and industrialists generally agreed upon naked force as the weapon against black militancy, it was the capitalists who pioneered in the encouragement of the Tuskegee approach because they had greater need for it.
When I raised the question of Islamist militancy in towns like Mantes-la-Jolie, he suggested it was an emotional reaction to racism, but also asserted the rights of Muslims to dress and behave as they liked.
The government in August revoked the constitutional autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, splitting it into two federal territories in a bid to integrate it fully with India and to rein in militancy.
That was initially a distinction with little real difference, but Saudi security forces cracked down on the protests, "leading parts of the movement to turn toward militancy," Cambridge-based Middle East scholar Toby Matthiesen wrote this summer.
Some of that is drama coming from outside the capital, whether in the form of the ongoing surge in grassroots militancy among red-state teachers or yet another surprisingly strong Democratic performance in a down-ballot election.
CLARK FREEPORT ZONE, Philippines (Reuters) - Australia on Tuesday announced the expansion of its security support to the Philippines, which will involve training in urban counter-terrorism, to fight the rise and spread of Islamist militancy in the region.
Seibert's comments were the first indication of discord over the issue between Merkel and Trump, who had highlighted common interests such as strengthening NATO and combating Islamist militancy in a joint statement after their 45-minute phone call.
UNITED NATIONS – U.N. experts say "predatory behavior" by armed groups in Libya is posing a direct threat to forming a national government and ending lawlessness that has fueled Islamic militancy, human trafficking and instability in the wider region.
In Washington, a senior Trump administration official said human rights would not take center stage in Riyadh, where Arab leaders are expected to discuss combating Islamist militancy and what they see as the growing influence of adversary Iran.
Both feature first-person protagonists who tell stories that serve also as historical accounts: of the militancy of the autonomist movement of 1977 in the former; of the Camorra and its ravages of the south in the latter.
The abrupt withdrawal from northern Syria cleared the way for a Turkish cross-border assault on Kurdish militia, forcing 160,000 people from their homes, according to the United Nations, and raising fears of a revival of Islamic militancy.
The row erupted days after the first visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, in which he sought to galvanize the fight against Islamist militancy and Iran, which Washington sees as a threat to regional stability.
A series of explosions and gunfire that rocked Jakarta on Thursday marks a new style of militancy in Southeast Asia as the Islamic State (ISIS) increasingly mobilizes local terror groups to establish a global Islamic polity, or caliphate.
But as elsewhere in Europe, the Bosnian authorities have been slow to address the families' pleas, their concern being the security challenges that might arise with the return of people from a war zone and environment of militancy.
Kenyatta, who faces another election next year, then played the global security card, saying this compromised Kenya's ability to fight Islamist militancy, a genuine concern in the wake of a major attack in 2013 on Nairobi's Westgate mall.
We are light years away from that 1999 moment, which preceded the growing strength of domestic militancy in Pakistan, the significance of transnational terrorist actors such as al Qaeda and ISIS, and the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan.
In Washington, a senior Trump administration official said human rights would not take centre stage in Riyadh, where Arab leaders are expected to discuss combating Islamist militancy and what they see as the growing influence of adversary Iran.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A high-profile British Islamist preacher who was sentenced to prison last year for inviting support for the Islamic State militancy was added to the U.S. global counter-terrorism list, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday.
Though the numbers of militants in the region has declined sharply since the 1990s, he became the face of a small, new homegrown militancy based in south Kashmir, his appeal apparently heightened by his educated, middle-class roots.
The unrest comes at a sensitive time, nevertheless, as the kingdom presents itself as a model of economic stability and gradual change and a safe haven for investment in a region torn by violence, Islamist militancy and upheaval.
Trump's stated intention of banning immigration by Muslims from countries that are a source of Islamist militancy has played well with many in India, a majority Hindu nation that has long been at odds with Muslim-majority Pakistan.
"We have seen how democratic and nationalist movements can be taken over by transnational terrorist groups," said Ali Riaz, a professor of politics and government at Illinois State University who studies Islamic militancy in Bangladesh and surrounding areas.
Salahuddin, who is from Badgam town in Indian-administered Kashmir, was an Islamist politician who turned to militancy after he lost an election for the Kashmir legislative assembly in 1987, which he says was "massively rigged" by India.
With its vast, loosely controlled desert expanses on the edge of the Sahara and its porous borders, the Sahel has proved to be fertile soil for the expansion of Islamist militancy in one of the world's poorest regions.
The move illuminated a government increasingly vexed by civilian protests, by a newly budding homegrown militancy in south Kashmir and by a series of video clips, distributed on social media, depicting confrontations between civilians and Indian security forces.
DAVAO, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine police blamed Islamic State-linked rebels on Saturday for a bombing that killed 14 people in President Rodrigo Duterte's hometown and dealt a blow to the firebrand leader's bloody crackdown on narcotics and militancy.
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Wednesday that he may declare martial law throughout the Philippines to deal with the threat of Islamist militancy, making the remarks one day after he imposed military rule on a southern island.
India turned its erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into a federally-controlled territory, tightening control in a shock move it said would rein in militancy in the region also claimed by neighbouring Pakistan, and promote its development.
India turned its erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into a federally-controlled territory, tightening control in a shock move it said would rein in militancy in the region also claimed by neighboring Pakistan, and promote its development.
Those include a more assertive Russia, Islamist militancy, war in the Middle East and North Africa that has put millions of refugees on the move, migratory pressures from sub-Saharan Africa and cyberattacks on economic and security networks.
In recent weeks, as international pressure has risen over Pakistan's ties to terror groups, Islamabad has scrambled to show it is taking action against them — closing nearly 200 religious schools and arresting dozens of individuals linked to militancy.
They had tried for years to co-opt Haftar, 248, into a political settlement that would stabilize the major oil and gas producer after almost a decade of conflict that had acted as a breeding ground for Islamist militancy.
European governments have been pushed into more funding for militaries by Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, failing states on NATO's outer borders, Islamist militancy and Trump's demands that allies take a bigger share of the cost of defending Europe.
China worries that militancy in Afghanistan could spill over into Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, where human rights advocates say Beijing is implementing near martial law restrictions, including political re-education camps for potentially millions of Uighurs.
He said the U.S. needed to respect Pakistan's contribution to the fight against Islamist militancy and raised the prospect of charging Washington for air transport flights that have been resupplying U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces in landlocked Afghanistan.
It is difficult to tell stories of people who did not expect the Nazis to go as far as they did, or of foreigners who doubted the seriousness of Hitler's militancy; tragic irony always threatens to overwhelm the text.
The report, written by journalist Cyril Almeida for the 'The Daily Dawn' -- one of Pakistan's leading English language papers -- on October 6, said the civilian government had clashed with military chiefs over the issue of homegrown militancy in Pakistan.
Some argued that the attack highlighted the success of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, in resisting Islamic militancy in recent years, as much as it raised concerns about inroads by groups such as the Islamic State.
"The trial of four al Qaeda terrorists accused of plotting to assassinate the late King Abdullah opened at the Special Criminal Court," the Arab News daily said, adding that the accused had been convicted earlier on other militancy charges.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump picked three conservative loyalists to lead his national security and law enforcement teams on Friday, underscoring his campaign promise to take a hard line confronting Islamist militancy and curbing illegal immigration.
The Mauritanian government - regarded as a key ally against Islamic militancy in the region - could not be reached for comment but has previously denied that slavery is widespread and says cases are rare and swiftly dealt with by authorities.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday warned its nationals in Pakistan of plans for a series of imminent "terrorist attacks" on Chinese targets there, an unusual alert as it pours funds into infrastructure projects into a country plagued by militancy.
Last month, AsiaOne reported that the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, formed a 600-person police unit specializing in technology to combat militancy and terrorism amid an increase in the number of attacks on publishers, different Muslim sects and foreigners.
Countless articles have been written on the sexual frustration of men in the Middle East — from the jihadi supposedly drawn to armed militancy by the promise of virgins in the afterlife to ordinary Arab men unable to afford marriage.
"In the short span of a generation, the face and focus of the Democratic Party nationally has shifted from a glorification of the working-class ethos to multiculturalist militancy pushed by the Far Left of the party," they argue.
Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, failing states on NATO's borders, and the spread of Islamist militancy have pushed European governments to focus more on boosting their home defenses after more than a decade of NATO-led operations in Afghanistan.
President Rodrigo Duterte has warned of the threat of a proliferation of festering Islamist militancy in the Philippines and an infiltration by the Islamic State militant group if offensives to drive its fighters out of Iraq and Syria succeed.
The deal, reached on Thursday, could unlock $15 billion more in international assistance over the next three years to help an economy hit by the plunge in oil prices since mid-2014 and a costly battle against Islamist militancy.
Egypt is fighting a wave of Islamist militancy, which began as attacks on security forces in remote regions of the Sinai, but is increasingly focusing on targets previously considered safe such as the tourist resorts on the Red Sea.
Business Insider's Alexandra Ma previously noted that multiple journalists on the ground in the region have reported local forces shooting at people with pellet guns and tortured people living in villages known to be hubs of anti-India militancy.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian fringe group on Friday celebrated the "victory" of U.S. presidential contender Donald Trump, hailing his friendship with diaspora Indians and backing his call to ban immigration by Muslims from countries hit by Islamic militancy.
Even the Freedom Party, which is riding a wave of Europe-wide nationalism due to fears about Islamist militancy and the huge number of Syrian refugees coming to the EU, is keen not to dampen the lucrative tourist market.
Shravan Kumar, whose wheat and mustard fields run along the barbed wire, urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to do more to end the frequent shelling, saying only a tough crackdown on militancy in Kashmir could "break Pakistan's back".
My grandfather and his brother fled Spain in the 1930s during Spanish fascism's terrifying rise to power—a historical event that welded together Catholic militancy, imperial nostalgia, and bourgeois conservatism into a regime that lasted into the late 1970s.
Michael T. Flynn, a retired career intelligence officer and registered Democrat who is advising Donald J. Trump, was already denouncing what he saw as the Obama administration's failure to tackle Islamist militancy and the many faults of Hillary Clinton.
King Abdullah, a Middle East ally of Western powers against Islamist militancy who has also safeguarded Jordan's peace treaty with Israel, has been among the most vocal leaders in the region in warning of threats posed by radical groups.
They have a historic militancy toward Turkey, but also an interest in preserving the power they have gained in Syria, said Dareen Khalifa, a senior Syria analyst with the International Crisis Group who has met with Mazlum in Syria.
King Abdullah, a Middle East ally of Western powers against Islamist militancy who has also safeguarded Jordan's peace treaty with Israel, has been among the most vocal leaders in the region in warning of threats posed by radical groups.
With a string of deadly Islamist attacks shaping the political discourse, Sarkozy has been scathing of Hollande's security record, urging France to get tough on immigration, crack down on Islamist militancy and halt the erosion of France's secular identity.
Militancy experts said it was unlikely that the Brotherhood would have financed an Islamic State operation, although there is broad agreement that the man accused in the bombing, Mr. Mostafa, was arrested at a Muslim Brotherhood protest in 2014.
Most such wartime prisoners appear to have settled into peaceful lives, but it may take time for it to become clear whether any particular one has successfully reintegrated into society or has drifted — or drifted back — into Islamist militancy.
"The Presidents also agreed that the widespread demonstrations in Iran were a sign of the Iranian regime's failure to serve its people's needs by instead diverting the nation's wealth to fund terrorism and militancy abroad," according to the readout.
The nearly 40-year war in Afghanistan has produced its own idea of the "tribal" in Pakistan's Tribal Areas — one that took the British colonial emphasis on "Pashtun" militancy and layered on top the American enemy, the Afghan Taliban.
Financial crises have shaken the world's sixth-largest nation repeatedly over the years, threatening the stability of a nuclear-armed state plagued by Islamist militancy, and while the IMF programme may help stabilise the economy, it will bring more hardship.
Speaking at an annual gathering of about 200 foreign and French ambassadors, Hollande outlined his foreign policy objectives for the year, saying France would not shirk its responsibilities in fighting militancy after two deadly attacks marked his country last year.
During his first visit to Corsica since his election last year, Macron attempted to tread a middle ground, condemning in strong terms past acts of militancy while playing up the need for better cooperation between the island and the mainland.
The United Nations is seeking to unite factions and militias that have competed for power since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and Western powers say the U.N. process is the only hope of bringing stability and stemming Islamic militancy.
In bin Laden's old heartland of Afghanistan, where the United States has been fighting jihadi militancy for the better part of 20 years — at a cost of $840 billion and more than 2,93 lives — the trends are in al-Qaeda's favor.
He also said the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, regarded in Riyadh as an important stand against perceived creeping Iranian influence in the wake of Washington's reduced engagement in the Middle East, had distracted from the fight against militancy.
"To think that we can have a destabilized Afghanistan and bring peace to Pakistan is just crazy," said Michael Semple, an expert on militancy at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen's University Belfast.
But with no clear successor in sight, renewed talk of Bouteflika's illness raises questions of how well Algeria, a key gas supplier to Europe and partner in the Western war on Islamist militancy, will move ahead and who might replace him.
The issue has also arisen in a handful of cases of US Muslims who have committed deadly terrorist acts — mosques wanted nothing to do with the burials, both because of the sin of murder as well as being associated with militancy.
Poverty and militancy in parts of the region would make it difficult to install large-scale solar or wind farms even if it were technically feasible, said Oli Brown, an energy and environment expert at London-based think tank Chatham House.
The militancy is a further challenge for a government faced with an insurgency by the Islamist militant Boko Haram group in the northeast and violent clashes between armed nomadic herdsmen and locals over land use in various parts of the country.
But to deal a lasting blow to the extremist Sunni militancy, also known as ISIS and ISIL, they believe that additional forces will be needed to work with Iraqi, Kurdish and Syrian opposition fighters on the ground in the two countries.
Costly crises European governments have been pushed into more funding for militaries by Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, failing states on NATO's outer borders, Islamist militancy and Trump's demands that allies take a bigger share of the cost of defending Europe.
Torture is not a criminal offence, despite politicians' promises to make it one, and martial law in the region, first imposed more than a decade ago, makes it easy for young men suspected of militancy to be held for weeks arbitrarily.
Marjan was on a police wanted list for his role in the attack on the cafe last July, which raised alarm over the rising threat of Islamist militancy and cast a shadow over foreign investment in the poor Muslim-majority country.
As India and Pakistan seemingly dial down hostilities that brought the arch enemies to the brink of another war, a massive crackdown on militancy in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region is killing both militants and security personnel in big numbers.
MANILA (Reuters) - Minority Muslims in the Philippines cast votes on Monday in a long-awaited referendum on autonomy, the culmination of a peace process to end decades of separatist conflict in a region plagued by poverty, banditry and Islamist militancy.
Plague of violence Militancy in the Sinai, in northeastern Egypt, increased dramatically after the army in 2013 toppled President Mohammed Morsy, and ISIS' Sinai affiliate has inflicted hundreds of casualties on Egyptian security forces since linking itself to ISIS in 2014.
Last week a 17-year-old refugee from either Pakistan or Afghanistan who had links to Islamist militancy attacked and stabbed four tourists from Hong Kong on a train near the Bavarian town of Wurzburg, about 80 km from Ansbach.
Arif Jamal, an expert on religious militancy, says the Barelvis are not as far down the militant path only because Pakistan and its ally Saudi Arabia deliberately kept them out of the state-backed jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
But Johnson effectively put his personal brand on the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, and the Party thus had to take on the baggage of the urban rioting and the militancy of groups like the Black Panthers.
In 1969, Milton Himmelfarb wrote an article in Commentary asking "Is American Jewry in Crisis?" where he used the New York teacher's strike to argue that the American "Establishment" had decided to sacrifice Jews in order to appease rising black militancy.
MANILA (Reuters) - A homemade bomb hidden under a motorcycle killed two people, one a child, and wounded 37 at a local street festival in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, security officials said, the latest unrest in a region prone to militancy.
In what The Los Angeles Times recently termed "the first act of mass militancy by Mexican Americans in modern California history," students demanded smaller classes, an end to corporal punishment, and the introduction of classes on Mexican-American history and culture.
Loathed by human rights groups, he has nonetheless been an effective friend of the United States and France, its former colonial ruler, in a region of the world where the West is deeply alarmed about the role of Islamist militancy.
While both al Qaeda and IS have recruited Malaysians, there has been no significant attack by either group inside the country since the specter of Islamist militancy loomed in the wake of al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on the United States.
The threat of a return to widespread Delta militancy comes as Nigeria grapples with an economic crisis caused by the collapse of oil revenues, on which it relies for around 90 percent of foreign earnings, as global crude prices fall.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Africa's arid Sahel, a fertile breeding ground for militancy and organized crime, has been neglected by donors who must tackle the region's displacement crisis to stem radicalization and refugee flows, a leading aid agency said on Friday.
He said he would discuss ways of redeploying forces to better combat Islamist militancy after meeting the presidents of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mauritania, members of the G5 Sahel regional force that also came under attack on June 29.
The militancy I felt as a young man grew from this tradition of remembering the riots without the real story of the riots, just as the distance I felt came from a political narrative whose imagery centered on whiteness and assimilation.
But the negotiation may have been complicated by recent terrorist attacks involving European citizens who have fought in Syria or been radicalized in Europe, and those assaults highlight the bloc's vulnerability to rising militancy in an age of easy travel.
Michael T. Flynn, potentially putting a retired intelligence officer who believes Islamist militancy poses an existential threat in one of the most powerful roles in shaping military and foreign policy, according to a top official on Mr. Trump's transition team.
"People are still reeling from the militancy, which has killed hundreds of civilians and soldiers," said a government official serving in the area, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as he is not authorized to speak with the news media.
However, critics of the Al Saud ruling family say it has not done enough to tackle sectarian intolerance, hatred of infidels and praise for the principles of violent jihad propagated by Saudi clerics, which they see as contributing to militancy.
Strikes and militancy have deep roots in the labor movement, but as journalist Sarah Jaffe in her book, Necessary Trouble, noted, Occupy had "added vigor" to labor campaigns throughout New York and had galvanized them to make bigger, bolder demands.
After invading the West Bank town of Jenin, a center of Palestinian militancy, and fighting from house to house for almost two weeks, the Israeli Defense Forces pulled back far enough to allow reporters to sneak in and observe the destruction.
The older Mr. Wani, 54, the principal of a government high school in the valley, said he was now focused on trying to keep his only surviving son, 16-year-old Naveed, from following his brother's deadly path into the militancy.
After British militants rammed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and went on the rampage through packed bars, stabbing revelers in June, Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain must be tougher on stamping out Islamist militancy and proposed regulating cyberspace.
On an array of issues — including the Iran nuclear deal, the utility of NATO, and how best to combat Islamist militancy — much of the information and analysis produced by American intelligence agencies contradicts the policy positions of the new administration.
The former U.S. ally and the autocratic leader, fought against Islamic militancy and maintained peace between Egypt, Israel and Palestinians within his nearly 30-year rule, before 18 days of street protests in 2011 resulted in his removal from office.
Battling an "alarming increase" in the spread of Islamist insurgency and terrorism, along socio-economic grievances, Burkina Faso topped the charts for risk, with EXX Africa analysts deeming the local security apparatus "ill-equipped to counter the threat" of rampant militancy.
Pakistan denies hosting militant sanctuaries, and Islamabad bristles at claims it has not done enough to tackle militancy, noting it has borne the brunt of violence in the so-called war on terror, suffering more than 217,22013 casualties since 214.7.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - West African and international powers are failing to tackle the spiraling threat of Islamist militancy in the Sahel region, which is spreading towards the Gulf of Guinea, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday.
His was the latest in a series of executions of senior opposition leaders that analysts fear may push even more people to join the rising tide of radical Muslim militancy in one of the world's most populous and poorest countries.
Aggressive use of military force plus unvarnished backing for unpopular and corrupt authoritarian regimes is the simplest approach to combating terrorism but also the one most likely to fuel new feelings of militancy and eventually a new generation of terrorists.
The European Court of Human Rights has said that "...no explanation has been forthcoming from the Russian Government..." For a while it worked, and the installation of a Chechen strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, led to the totalitarian suppression of a lot of the militancy.
The new interior minister has little experience compared to his uncle in fighting militancy as he takes the reins of an extensive policing and intelligence apparatus which critics say has been used to stamp out dissent both from Islamists and more secular activists.
That is happening even as a strain of black militancy, propelled by anger over the shootings of unarmed African-Americans, becomes more visible in popular culture (note Beyoncé and her backup dancers in Black Panther outfits at last year's Super Bowl concert).
The institutional purpose of the Sanders presidential campaign is to win the election, a purpose that Sanders fans endorse and that leads die-hard socialists like Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara into the unusual position of siding with the bosses against worker militancy.
Chishti pointed out that Mateen's militancy appears tied to the very things that have motivated many American mass shooters over the years: "He had mental illness, easy access to weapons, and easy access to rabid ideology on the internet," Chishti told VICE.
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council has given its backing to the holding of presidential and parliamentary elections in Libya in December, which could be a significant step in bringing stability to a country where lawlessness has fed Islamic militancy and instability.
The order is part of a crackdown on militancy and those who demand mostly Muslim Kashmir's secession, after a young man from the region last month rammed a car full of explosives into a convoy of paramilitary policemen, killing 40 of them.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Leaders from the Nigeria's Niger Delta called on Tuesday on President Muhammadu Buhari to pull the army out from the oil hub, order oil firms to move headquarters there and spend more on development to end militancy in the region.
PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was endorsed by some of France's top counter-terrorism experts on Wednesday, in a boost for the former economy minister who has been accused by his far-right rival of being weak on Islamist militancy.
But in a country with a fast-growing but still young broadcast media, Pakistani critics worry that rules intended to fight militancy will spill over into wider limits on criticism of the government or powerful military that could undermine a fragile democracy.
French strikes are not what they used to be, reflecting a cooling in national attitude to union militancy plus a change in approach by Macron who flagged his reforms well in advance to union leaders who have in turn seen their powers decline.
Egypt is fighting a wave of Islamist militancy against security forces which started in the remote regions of the Sinai, but is increasingly spreading closer to the capital and focusing on targets previously considered safe such tourist resorts on the Red Sea.
Karimov positioned himself as the protector of his nation against the threat of militant Islam, and Mirziyoyev's SNB spearheaded the fight against religious militancy - which included bans on beards and on the use of loudspeakers by mosques to call worshippers for prayer.
"Mark my words — Burhan's ability to recruit in to militancy from the grave will far outstrip anything he could have done on social media," a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir State, Omar Abdullah, posted on Twitter after the violence broke out.
So does the Peruvian ceramist Daniela Ortiz, who incorporates plenty of verbal and symbolic agitation—for example, against the colonialist legacy of monuments to Christopher Columbus—into her satirical, terrific painted pots and figurines, but with a charm that quite disarms militancy.
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The United States wants to continue support to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's war and will remain engaged in efforts to combat Iranian influence and Islamist militancy in the Arab state, a State Department official said on Sunday.
But he said the new president's greatest challenge would be to maintain America's leadership in a world in which radical Islamic militancy was threatening to metastasize into a "global jihadist movement," and hostile powers like Russia, China and Iran were seeking regional dominance.
WASHINGTON — As Iraqi and American troops prepare to try to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State, the Obama administration is describing the battle as the last major hurdle before declaring victory against the extremist Sunni militancy — in Iraq, at least.
But by the end of the first day of testimony, a broader but less clearly defined question hovered over the trial: What should the jury make of all of Mr. Pugh's inflammatory statements and his online interest in terrorist groups and Islamic militancy?
Related: The Islamic State is shrinking but it's still bigger than al-Qaeda ever was, CIA director says Many Iraqis consider Fallujah an irredeemable bulwark of Sunni Muslim militancy and regard anyone still there when the assault began as an Islamic State supporter.
On his watch as what the Nobel committee called Africa's foremost diplomat, Al Qaeda struck New York and Washington, the United States invaded Iraq, and Western policymakers turned their sights from the Cold War to globalization and the struggle with Islamic militancy.
Although the situation in Kashmir is better than it was decades ago — when India and Pakistan fought three wars over the region and a violent militancy gained strength in the early 1990s — I still check my car before opening the driver's seat door.
The government justified its actions by saying that the shutdown was to prevent militancy and stop the spread of misinformation, but locals in the region told BuzzFeed News that the reason for the cutting off access was to prevent dissent and open rebellion.
That movement has varying degrees of militancy, but generally asks the public to put aside its bias and learn something new — to not think of fat people as lazy; to not deny them medical care; to not exclude them from their basic rights.
Over the past several years, French troops have battled Al Qaeda's North Africa affiliate and other Islamist extremists in Mali and have helped African troops thwart Boko Haram, a violent militancy that has spilled from Nigeria to attack Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
Daily life in Kashmir has come close to a standstill since July, when Indian security forces killed the 22-year-old leader of the local militancy, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, who had attracted a broad following through videos he posted on Facebook and WhatsApp.
Other graduates of this and other branches of the center have also returned to militancy, including a man who blew himself up near a mosque last year, and 44 of 77 suspects in a deadly attack on a Shiite mosque the year before.
Since Monday, the Socialist government has been calling on Mr. Torra to condemn more forcefully acts of violence in Catalonia and also to demonstrate that he and other elected Catalan politicians are not supporting the new wave of militancy embodied by Tsunami Democratic.
PARIS (Reuters) - France must develop a "society of vigilance" in its fight against the "Hydra" of Islamist militancy, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, as he paid homage to the victims of a deadly knife attack at the headquarters of the Paris police.
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey's offensive on Kurdish-led forces in Syria has left its European allies incensed and fearing new jihadist militancy, but they are scrambling to form a coherent response beyond refusing to pay for any new humanitarian crisis on their doorstep.
These facts, however, may still not be enough for some people who insist on promoting the idea that Saudi Arabia is reaping what it has sown, as they claim that the Saudi built religious schools around the world that encourage militancy and extremism.
It is the latest in a series of high-tech initiatives in the city-state, some of which have stoked privacy concerns among rights advocates, aimed at improving efficiency and security as the threat of militancy in the region has ratcheted up.
Nevertheless, it was the first time the radical group has targeted the country with the world's largest Muslim population, and the brazenness of the attack suggested a new brand of militancy in a country more used to low-level strikes on police.
The killing of JuA chief Omar Khalid Khorasani was a major boost for Pakistan's anti-militancy campaign and is likely to help ease tension with uneasy ally the United States days ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
"The Presidents also agreed that the widespread demonstrations in Iran were a sign of the Iranian regime's failure to serve its people's needs by instead diverting the nation's wealth to fund terrorism and militancy abroad," the White House said in a statement.
The militancy is a further challenge for a government faced with an insurgency by the Islamist militant Boko Haram group in the northeast, as well as violent clashes between armed nomadic herdsmen and locals over land use in various parts of the country.
The occupants included Meir Ettinger, the alleged leader of the Revolt and a grandson of Meir Kahane, the slain American-Israeli rabbi considered the father of far-right Jewish militancy, and Akiva HaCohen, considered one of the architects of the Price Tag policy.
The repeat election is being closely watched across East Africa, which relies on Kenya as a trade and logistics hub, and in the West, which considers Nairobi a bulwark against Islamist militancy in Somalia and civil conflict in South Sudan and Burundi.
Some in the borderlands see parallels with earlier outbreaks of anti-Hispanic militancy in the United States, citing examples like the armed vigilantes patrolling the Arizona desert, the expansion of the Border Patrol, and calls for the mass deportation of undocumented Hispanic immigrants.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India banned a Kashmir-based Islamist political party called Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) for five years on Thursday, accusing it of supporting militancy in the disputed region that is at the heart of an escalating conflict with rival Pakistan.
Security forces retook a hotel in the city of Ouagadoudou on Saturday a day after jihadi al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed two dozen people from at least 18 countries, marking a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.
President Mahamadou Issoufou, a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militancy in the fragile Sahara region, is expected to win a second term; but critics accuse him of becoming increasingly authoritarian, especially after uncovering what he described as an aborted coup in December.
The US troop deaths were the first time many in Niger realized the country was hosting several US bases, let alone 800 troops — exceeding even the numbers deployed by former colonial power France, which has taken a lead in a burgeoning fight against Islamist militancy.
Read more: Myanmar's bloody purge of Rohingya has created an Islamist insurgency "This could become the new center of international militancy and terrorism which could completely destabilize the security of the neighboring region,"said ANM Muniruzzaman, a former major general with the Bangladesh Army.
SRINAGAR, India/MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - As India and Pakistan seemingly dial down hostilities that brought the arch enemies to the brink of another war, a massive crackdown on militancy in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region is killing both militants and security personnel in big numbers.
"Relentless monitoring" and co-optation of literary sites, outlets, and works became the US state-funded norm to counter, mollify, moderate, neutralize, and defuse resistance and thus keep any form of "armed militancy" (especially black or Third-World affiliated) at foreign bay (130-23).
His father, Muzaffar Ahmad Wani, the head of a secondary school in Kashmir, told The Indian Express that his son's inspiration to join the militancy had sprung from a beating he and his brother received at the hands of the security forces in 2010.
Security forces have shot at people with pellet guns and tortured people living in villages known to be hubs of anti-India militancy by beating them with sticks, giving them electric shocks, and filling their mouths with mud, multiple journalists on the ground have reported.
Just seven people were killed in Jakarta despite multiple blasts and a gunfight, and five of them were the attackers themselves, but the brazenness of the assault suggested a new brand of militancy in a country where low-level strikes on police are common.
WASHINGTON — Recent gains against the Islamic State in eastern Syria have helped sever critical supply lines to Iraq and set the stage for what will be the biggest fight yet against the Sunni militancy, the battle to retake Mosul, Pentagon officials said on Monday. Gen.
Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur told Le Soir newspaper that Cheffou, who said he was a freelance journalist, was "dangerous" and that he had been detained a number of times at a park where he sought to encourage asylum seekers camped there to turn to militancy.
Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu's comments come amid a resurgence of militancy in the southern region which produces most of the crude oil that Nigeria relies on for around 70 percent of national income, and days after Britain's foreign minister said local grievances need to be addressed.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani activist hunted by the Taliban vowed on Tuesday to keep up his struggle against militancy in the northern Swat Valley, just a day after he narrowly escaped a car blast that killed his father and a passenger.
But the underlying story of 2018 is that the growing labor militancy making headlines has its roots in slow, grinding efforts made in recent years by workers constantly denigrated by both major political parties and even written off by much of organized labor itself.
The campaign, which has moved south in recent weeks, seems likely to continue until Myanmar's government is satisfied that it has fully disarmed the militancy that has arisen among the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group that has been persecuted for decades in majority-Buddhist Myanmar.
The political and social stability of Morocco is closely watched by Western governments as it is the only country in North Africa where jihadist groups have failed to gain a foothold, and is an important partner against Islamist militancy in terms of intelligence-sharing.
KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom's ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Islam for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly Easter bomb attacks.
When asked what more Pakistan should do to fight militancy, Votel said he would keep conversations with his Pakistani counterparts private, but added that the freeing of the hostages was an example of the Pakistanis paying attention to something important to the United States.
He wrote: I now understood that, all told, the condition as a solitary bird, as an independent rebel that artists need to assume at times painfully, may also lie at the center of the freedom and hope that inspire so many ideas that turn to militancy.
American diplomats say Turkey has erected a version of China's Great Firewall around the consulate under the terms of a previously secret bilateral security pact with China, ostensibly intended to curb Islamist militancy among Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking minority from China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang.
Founded in Egypt in 1928 during the agitation against British rule, the Brotherhood has inspired political Islam across the Arab world under different names, and with various degrees of militancy—from Ennahdha, the "Muslim democrats" of Tunisia, to Hamas, the armed Palestinian movement that rules Gaza.
CAIRO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Friendly phone calls, an invite to the White House, a focus on Islamic militancy and what Donald Trump called "chemistry" have set the tone for a new era of warmer U.S.-Egyptian ties that could herald more military and political support for Cairo.
"Perhaps my seriousness and militancy in the face of tremendous resistance was misinterpreted as meanness, or that I was unloving or uncaring, when my true intent was to protect," she writes about the time in her life when she was insistent upon working outside of industry demands.
A few days later, Meir Ettinger, a grandson of Meir Kahane, the American-Israeli rabbi considered the father of far-right Jewish militancy, was also detained; Shin Bet said Mr. Ettinger is the leader of the Revolt, although it says the network has no strict hierarchy.
Still, let's be clear: Despite the counterterrorism triumphs over the last year, militancy has not been muzzled in Pakistan, a reality made painfully clear on Wednesday morning, when terrorists stormed Bacha Khan University in the town of Charsadda in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 19 people.
"If this election does bring a return to militancy in Nigeria's oil region and major infrastructure attacks, it would be a very material event for the oil market, with two OPEC countries (Venezuela and Iran) under U.S. sanctions and Saudi Arabia continuing to cut production," they noted.
"We will expose the BJP's failures, the number of security forces killed, the rise in militancy, and, most important, the elephant in the room that people are not talking about, is Modi's monumental failure in terms of putting Kashmir in a serious crisis," Congress' Jha said.
And in Muslim-majority Kashmir, a perennially vexed region, Mr Modi's government has hardened policies to tackle militancy, imposing direct rule from Delhi, threatening to end unilaterally Indian Kashmir's special legal status and endorsing, among other measures, the use of shotguns to blast stone-throwing youths.
And especially since 2003, when Qaeda attacks in the kingdom awoke the monarchy to the danger it faced from militancy, Saudi Arabia has acted more aggressively to curtail preachers who call for violence, cut off terrorist financing and cooperate with Western intelligence to foil terrorist plots.
In this episode from season three of our HBO show, that originally aired on June 12th of last year, Suroosh Alvi traveled to Saudi Arabia to see how America's staunchest Arab ally was defending itself—and how it may ultimately be fanning the flames of global militancy.
"I will stab anyone who comes to my house with polio drops," Khan growled, refusing to be filmed or photographed as he shopped in a fly-blown bazaar on the outskirts of Peshawar, a city scarred by years on the frontline of Islamist militancy in Pakistan.
Yousafzai flew into Swat on Saturday by helicopter during her first visit to Pakistan since the Pakistani Taliban - now on the run but still able to launch attacks - shot her in the head in 2012 over her advocacy for girls' education and opposition to Islamist militancy.
The latter group includes a few people accused of links to significant attacks, like the 1003 nightclub bombings in Bali, Indonesia, but for whom courtroom-admissible evidence is thin, and others who are not linked to any attack but who, officials believe, remain committed to Islamist militancy.
In a stormy career marked by radical rhetoric, shifting ideologies, legal and financial troubles and quixotic runs for office, Mr. Innis led CORE through changes that mirrored his own evolution from black-power militancy in the 1960s to staunch conservatism resembling a modern Republican political platform.
Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday a day after al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed at least 28 people from at least 18 countries and marked a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.
Militancy in the Niger Delta gives rise to criminality and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, where attacks on vessels and abduction of crew members disrupt interconnected shipping supply networks, not just for oil, but also for cocoa, metals, and other commodities destined for world markets.
Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday, a day after al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed at least 28 people from at least 18 countries and marked a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.
He also hailed allied gains against Islamic State militants in Syria and reiterated his plan to withdraw U.S. troops from that war zone, despite comments earlier in the day from a top U.S. general, Joseph Votel, that a U.S. pullout could prompt a resurgence in the militancy.
"A special unit to tackle crime and militancy will work in the short term, but we need state policing -- a structure that is closer to the people, which is part of what this administration is using to fish out Boko Haram militants in the northeast," Leye told CNN.
Add to the original program rampant crimes in no-go zones of major urban and suburban areas, horrendous terrorist carnage, insecurity of France's open borders and uncontrollable religious and social militancy of minority groups -- and you have a perfectly updated political platform of Ms. Le Pen's Front National.
However, he also raised the issue of sectarianism, for which he has chided Gulf states in the past on grounds it fuels Islamist militancy, saying "the prosperity and stability of the region depends on countries treating all their citizens fairly and ... sectarianism is an enemy of peace and prosperity".
In an interview with Cathy Caruth titled "The AIDS Crisis Is Not Over: A Conversation with Gregg Bordowitz, Douglas Crimp, and Laura Pinsky," in Caruth's anthology Trauma: Explorations in Memory, Crimp says: One of the unstated premises of my essay "Mourning and Militancy" (1989) was the incommensurability of experiences.
SRINAGAR, India/MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, March 3 (Reuters) - A s India and Pakistan seemingly dial down hostilities that brought the arch enemies to the brink of another war, a massive crackdown on militancy in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region is killing both militants and security personnel in big numbers.
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday a day after al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed at least 19723 people from at least 18 countries and marked a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.
The state premier of NRW and local politicians want the federal government to provide guidance about such campaign events, something that Merkel and Gabriel would like to avoid as they struggle to balance the broader issues at hand with Turkey, including migration and the fight against Islamic militancy.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has put on hold a $2 billion plan to replace its aging fleet of combat aircraft, looking instead to upgrade its aerial surveillance capabilities to confront the growing threat of militancy inspired by the Islamic State group, a source with knowledge of the matter said.
A week ago, community leaders from the restive region, the source of most of Nigeria's oil, met the president and asked him to pull the army out of the energy hub, order oil firms to move headquarters there and spend more on development to end militancy in the region.
The battle with the PKK - deemed a terrorist group by Ankara, the United States and European Union - is a deeply divisive issue in Turkey, with parts of the population saying the state is right to have no tolerance for armed militancy, particularly as it increasingly targets urban areas.
Even before that, reproductive rights activists struck a new note of militancy when they chained themselves last April to the pillars of the General Post Office to protest a 1983 constitutional amendment that equates the right to life of the unborn with the right to life of the mother.
"If farmers are pushed to look for another way of life, all the choices will basically be bad, whether it is smuggling, turning to extremism and militancy or migration," said Fadel al-Zubi, the Iraq representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), based in Baghdad.
A series of bombings that killed more than 150 people in one week in Baghdad, the highest death toll so far this year, cranked up the pressure on Abadi to do something about the city seen by many Shiite politicians as an irredeemable bulwark of Sunni Muslim militancy.
The initiative reflects what has become the defining priority for Mr. Esper: moving away from 1 years of counterterrorism deployments in places troubled by militancy and insurgency where thousands of American troops cycle through in an attempt to maintain minimal stability but without much prospect of definitive solutions.
While the crackdown in Rakhine began in response to the killings of police officers in October, human rights groups say the response has been disproportionate to the scale of the threat, especially because the area, along the border with Bangladesh, has never been a hotbed of Islamic militancy.
It is Trixi who clings to the idea of the Ertl family the longest, while Heidi repatriates and Monika — "the ex-depressive, the quasi-Bolivian" — sets out on a path into die-hard militancy with the National Liberation Army, becoming known as Che Guevara's avenger after killing Toto Quintanilla.

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