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Terrorist Attack in Sweden Kills Pedestrians
April 7, 2017 By Faith Matters

Terrorist Attack in Sweden Kills Pedestrians

A truck drove into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing three people and wounding eight in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack. Part of central Stockholm was cordoned off and the area was evacuated, including the main train […]

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Pakistan says kills 100 ‘terrorists’ after suicide shrine attack
February 18, 2017 By Faith Matters

Pakistan says kills 100 ‘terrorists’ after suicide shrine attack

Pakistani security forces killed dozens of suspected militants on Friday, a day after Islamic State claimed a suicide bombing that killed more than 80 worshippers at a Sufi shrine, the biggest in a spate of attacks this week across the country. The bombing at the famed Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in southern Sindh province was […]

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Twenty dead, more than 100 wounded, in Pakistan police academy attack
October 25, 2016 By Faith Matters

Twenty dead, more than 100 wounded, in Pakistan police academy attack

Gunmen stormed a Pakistani police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta late on Monday night, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 100, officials said. Some 200 trainees are stationed at the facility, officials said, and some had been taken hostage. Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister of Baluchistan province, of which […]

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Relative of Charlie Hebdo attacker investigated for Islamist ties
August 27, 2016 By Faith Matters

Relative of Charlie Hebdo attacker investigated for Islamist ties

A relative of one of the militants who attacked French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015 has been put under formal investigation for Islamist ties and remanded in custody, a judicial source said on Saturday. The source said Mourad Hamyd was suspected of trying to travel to Syria to join Islamic State. […]

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