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11:47am, 27th April, 2019

Children killed during Sri Lanka gunbattle between troops and Islamist militants

As darkness fell in Sainthamaruthu village on Sri Lanka's east coast on Friday, troops and police prepared to storm a concrete shack that local residents had told them was a safe house for a band of Islamist militants.

Fifteen dead in Sri Lanka after overnight gun battle with suspected Islamist militants

12:25am, 27th April, 2019

World

Fifteen dead in Sri Lanka after overnight gun battle with suspected Islamist militants

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people.

Fifteen killed in Sri Lanka in shootout with suspected Islamist militants

11:23pm, 26th April, 2019

World

Fifteen killed in Sri Lanka in shootout with suspected Islamist militants

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people.

Partner of French Islamist who stabbed prison guards dies after police raid

5:45pm, 5th March, 2019

World

Partner of French Islamist who stabbed prison guards dies after police raid

The partner of a French prison inmate was killed by police on Tuesday after they stabbed two guards in an attack the government called a terrorist incident.

French armed police capture suspected Islamist who stabbed jail guards

2:39pm, 5th March, 2019

World

French armed police capture suspected Islamist who stabbed jail guards

Elite French police using stun grenades captured a prison inmate who on Tuesday stabbed two guards before barricading himself in a room used for family visits, in an attack the government called a terrorist incident.

Islamist bomb targets Mogadishu hotel, killing at least 10

3:07pm, 28th February, 2019

World

Islamist bomb targets Mogadishu hotel, killing at least 10

A suicide car bombing targeting a Mogadishu hotel by the Islamist group Al Shabaab on Thursday killed at least 10 people and destroyed buildings in the Somali capital's busiest street, police said.

Catherine Deneuve's new film explores Islamist radicalisation

4:40pm, 12th February, 2019

Entertainment

Catherine Deneuve's new film explores Islamist radicalisation

Tolerance and non-judgemental understanding may be the best way to try to save radicalized young Europeans who want to go and join militant Islamists in Middle Eastern conflicts, veteran French actress Catherine Deneuve said on Tuesday.

'Radical Islamist' groups are top U.S. terrorist threat: Bolton

2:40pm, 4th October, 2018

World

'Radical Islamist' groups are top U.S. terrorist threat: Bolton

Radical Islamist terrorist groups are the top cross-border threat to the United States and its interests abroad, White House national security adviser John Bolton said as he presented a U.S. counterterrorism strategy that also focuses on Iran.

Tony Blair - world's strategy for countering Islamist extremism flawed

5:18pm, 12th September, 2018

UK

Tony Blair - world's strategy for countering Islamist extremism flawed

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will warn on Thursday that the threat from Islamist militants is growing and the current approach for tackling the threat will fail unless there is a global strategy to tackle the roots of extremism.