Tag: Extremists

WASHINGTON —  China and Pakistan expect the Taliban to fulfill pledges to crack down on foreign extremist groups in Afghanistan, but experts say these groups have already been "energized" by the Taliban’s takeover, posing new challenges for Pakistani and Chinese interests. Last week, during the 20th Shanghai Cooperation Conference ...

A few days after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a convoy of militants drove through the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria in cars bearing the group’s white-and-black flags, honking horns and firing their guns in the air.The celebrations by an al-Qaeda affiliate in a remote corner of war-torn ...

Religiosity has begun to define the Pakistani citizenry. Those who wield power see it as a positive trend that can achieve national cohesion. Unfortunately, instead of helping to inculcate better ethics and integrity, this phenomenon is encouraging a tunnel vision.The recent hounding of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on social ...

Issued on: 12/02/2021 - 21:34 REPORTERS © FRANCE 24 By: Sonia GHEZALI | Shahzaib WAHLAH | Solène CHALVON FIORITI On both sides of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, members of the Hazara minority, who practice Shia Islam, have become a prime target for various Sunni terrorist groups such ...

The recent three terrorist attacks in France point to a new generation of extremists perpetrated by religiously inspired individuals, operating individually and using generally simple weapons, requiring little skill.As France’s polarized debate that pits religious freedom against secularism continues, the European country’s problem with extremism has come back into ...

Is radical Islam up against western secularism? A somewhat longish context may be necessary. It would seem so from the fast-paced developments following the cold-blooded beheading of a Paris school teacher on October 16 by a Chechen refugee, Abdullakh Anzorov. The killer, who within minutes of the beheading of ...

On a cool winter’s day in early 2014, the American academic Nafees Hamid was invited for tea at the second-story at the Barcelona apartment of a young Moroccan man. It started well enough; they sat down at the kitchen table, chatting amiably in French while two acquaintances of the ...