Terrorist Update
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Indo-Pacific Terror Threat
BENARNEWS Photos by AFP/GETTY IMAGES Terrorist threats in Southeast and South Asian countries declined in 2021, a Singapore think tank said in its annual threat assessment published in January 2022,…
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Nations Need to Counter terrorism Threats Elevated by COVID-19, Duterte Says
FORUM Staff The urgency of confronting the deadly coronavirus prompted governments worldwide to shift resources toward dealing with the global pandemic, but Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte reminded leaders not to…
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Ex-Businessman Facing Murder Charges in Mumbai Terror Attack
The Associated Press A former businessman imprisoned for aiding terrorist groups was arrested in the United States in June 2020 to face murder charges in India over the 2008 Mumbai…
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Indonesia Remains Vigilant on terror
Indonesia has sentenced two leaders of an al-Qaida-linked group behind the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people. The accused were convicted on terror charges related to sending…
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China’s ‘war on terror’ uproots families
The Associated Press For decades, the Uighur imam was a bedrock of his farming community in China’s far west. On Fridays, he preached Islam as a religion of peace. On…
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Anti-terror upgrade
Japan takes reactors offline in bid to harden defenses Japanese utilities face hundreds of millions of dollars in extra fuel costs in 2020 as they buy extra liquefied natural gas…
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Standing in Solidarity
India, Sri Lanka to step up anti-terrorism efforts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage in June 2019 to the more than 250 Sri Lankans killed in the Easter suicide…
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Terror Group’s Leader Killed
Philippines uses DNA test to identify pro-ISIS militant Philippine officials in April 2019 confirmed that a leader of an alliance of pro-Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants was…
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Southeast Asia boosts fight against ‘real and present’ Militant Threat
Agence France-Presse | Photos BY AFP/Getty Images Southeast Asian nations seeking to combat the threat of militancy have agreed to share intelligence, Singapore’s defense minister said, as he warned of…
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North Korean charged in crippling Sony hack, WannaCry virus
Story and photo by The Associated Press Authorities charged a computer programmer working for the North Korean government with devastating cyber attacks that hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment and unleashed the…
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