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Veteran educator, civil rights activist to speak at annual Kidd Literacy Conference (New Mexico State University)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
Vivian Maria Vazquez, professor of education at American University in Washington, D.C., and Sylvia Mendez, whose parents filed the landmark 1946 court case of Mendez v ... Sylvia Mendez was an assistant nursing director of the Pediatric Pavilion and served for 33 years as a nurse at the Los Angeles University of Southern California Medical Center....

US strike targets Syrian al-Qaida leader

Edit Stars and Stripes 05 Apr 2016
Abu Firas al-Suri, a spokesperson for Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaida affiliate currently fighting in northern Syria, was the object of the attack ... According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the airstrike targeted al-Suri, his son and a number of Uzbek fighters that belong to Jund al-Aqsa, an Islamist group that has aligned with al-Nusra....

Drone Warfare Under the Obama Administration

Edit Huffington Post 05 Apr 2016
On April 1, at the University of Pennsylvania, C.I.A ... at war with the Shabab, or Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)? This rather important question was spotlighted by Charlie Savage in the New York Times of March 15 ... on Congressional deliberation but on an executive branch decision that such a group is an associated force of Al Qaeda or ISIS....

U.S. Airstrike Targets Meeting of Senior al-Qaida Leaders in Syria (US Department of Defense)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
As one of the top leaders of al-Qaida's Somalian affiliate, the press secretary said, Dhoore was a member of al-Shabaab's security and intelligence wing and was heavily involved in high-profile attack planning in Mogadishu, Cook said ... DoD's assessment of al-Shabab activity is ongoing, Cook said, and the department is working with the African Union Mission in Somalia, or Amisom, and U.S....

Al-Nusra Front spokesman killed as army pushes anti-IS advance

Edit Topix 05 Apr 2016
Air strikes have killed several Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front members including its spokesman and regime forces ... Abu Firas al-Suri, whose real name was Radwan Nammous, fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan where he met Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the founding father of global jihad, Abdullah Azzam, before returning to Syria in 2011....

Suicide attacks near Baghdad kill at least 10

Edit Topix 05 Apr 2016
This image posted on the Twitter page of Syria's al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front on Friday, April 1, 2016, shows a Nusra Front tank firing at Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen in the northern village of al-Ais in Aleppo province, Syria ... by militants led by al-Qaida's Syria branch - known as the Nusra Front - on the northern village of al-Ais....

Lekhwiya set for Al Nassr challenge (QFA - Qatar Football Association)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
Lekhwiya will be without suspended midfielder Mohamed Musa when they take on Saudi Arabia's Al Nassr in Group B of the 2016 AFC Champions League on Tuesday in a game coach Djamal Belmadi says his side must win ... 'Lekhwiya are one of the strongest teams in Qatar and we will be playing against one of the champions which means that the match will be ......

Police believe former Australian soldier joined Taliban and is now in Syria

Edit The Guardian 05 Apr 2016
In November, after a decade-long investigation, the Australian federal police moved to issue an arrest warrant for the Queenslander, on charges of joining al-Qaida linked militants and fighting in the Syrian civil war ... How a Queensland man went from Australian soldier to al-Qaida militant ... In the interview he said his path to Afghanistan began with a picture of the Chechen militiaman Ibn Al-Khattab that he encountered online....

Department of Defense Press Briefing by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook in the Pentagon Briefing Room (US Department of Defense)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
Separately, the Department of Defense has confirmed that Hassan Ali Dhoore, a senior leader of Al-Shabaab, Al Qaida's affiliate in Somalia, was killed as a result of a U.S ... In addition to being part of Al Qaida, Hassan Ali Dhoore was a member of Al-Shabaab's security and intelligence wing, was heavily involved in high-profile attacks -- attack planning in Mogadishu ... Of course, Al Nusra has its ties to Al Qaida....

Giulio Regeni murder: Family in Italy expects Egypt answers

Edit BBC News 05 Apr 2016
The Egyptian inquiry has come in for so much criticism that the editor of state newspaper al-Ahram has spoken of "naive stories" that have hurt Egypt's reputation ... Giulio Regeni's death has brought international attention to the crackdown on dissent by Egyptian authorities since many believe that the murder could be linked to his research into the role of unions in the post-Mubarak era for his PhD at Cambridge University....

Biology Professor Mark Laubach Receives Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award (American University)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
'Each has contributed immensely to the university, to the lives of students and colleagues, and to his or her respective disciplines ... History Professor Eileen Findlay graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she held a Jacob Javits fellowship ... His four collections of poetry were published by the University of ......

Airstrike in Syria kills al-Nusra spokesman

Edit Topix 05 Apr 2016
An airstrike in Syria has killed the spokesman for al-Nusra Front , according to a monitoring group. Abu Firas al-Suri the voice of the al Qaeda affiliated militant group, died Sunday, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ... ....

Clintons, Conan at Berkeley, but student commitment’s the star (University of California - Berkeley)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
University of California - Berkeley). A parade of luminaries took part in Clinton Global Initiative University this weekend - from Bill and Chelsea Clinton and U.S ... 'This is the mission of universities.' ... University of California - Berkeley issued this content on 04 April 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....
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