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Engaging with Islamists: what makes us think it will ever work?

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More than 100 killed in Central African Republic clashes

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France music festival goes on despite Brussels attack

France's annual music festival, where groups play on street corners and in cafes nationwide, will go ahead despite several attacks on police in past weeks and Tuesday evening's terrorist incident in Brussels, the French government spokesman said.

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France music festival goes on despite Brussels attack: spokesman

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Bangladesh Muslims protest against justice goddess statue

Thousands of supporters of a conservative Islamist group have protested in Bangladesh against a statue of the goddess of justice erected outside the supreme court.

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Bangladesh terror cafe reopens in new location

A Bangladesh cafe has reopened, six months after Islamic extremists killed 22 people during a hostage siege.

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Over 5,000 arrested as Bangladesh cracks down on extremists

Police in Bangladesh said on Sunday that they have arrested more than 5,000 criminal suspects in the past few days as they continue a nationwide crackdown to try and stop a growing wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists.

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Critics blast Obama for bizarre silence on Islamist terror amid spreading threat

Critics continue to blast U.S. President Barack Obama for what they call a bizarre refusal to link radical Islam with terrorism, even as multiple terror groups are on the march in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

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Egypt court sentences 7 Islamists to death over killing policemen

​An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced seven defendants to death over murdering 25 policemen in Egypt's North Sinai province last year, official MENA news agency reported.

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Egypt army kills 15 militants in Sinai

​Egypt's army on Thursday killed 15 suspected militants in a security raid and arrested 25 others suspected of being members of the extremist Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group, security source told Xinhua.

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Libyan PM rejects negotiation with Islamist armed group

​Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al- Thinni has ruled out any negotiations with the Islamist armed alliance Libya Dawn, saying the government will launch new assaults to wipe it out.

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Lebanon not to compromise on safety of abducted soldiers

​The Lebanese government stressed on Thursday that the safety and lives of the soldiers and policemen held captive by Islamist militants following the clashes with Syrian Islamist gunmen in the border town of Arsal is not for compromise.

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France's Hollande rules out cooperation with al-Assad to fight ISIS

​French President Francois Hollande on Thursday refused to forge cooperation links with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to stem threats of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) fighters who controlled parts of northern Syria and Iraq.

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5 Libyan Islamist militants killed in airstrikes by unidentified warplanes

Several unidentified warplanes bombed Islamist militants in Libya's volatile capital of Tripoli on Monday, killing five and injuring several, according to sources.

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Egypt bans Brotherhood members from running in elections

An Egyptian court on Tuesday banned members of the Muslim Brotherhood from running in the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, the official MENA news agency reported.

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Egypt court lists Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis as terrorist group

An Egyptian court on Monday ruled that the al-Qaida-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis be listed as a terrorist organization, state-run Nile TV reported.

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Qaida-inspired group claims killing of Egypt's senior security official

A Sinai-based militant group said late Tuesday that it carried out the assassination of a senior Egyptian interior ministry official near his house.