The Daily Beast China’s Uighur Terror Attack Masked attackers stabbed over 160 people at a train station over the weekend in Kunming—and Beijing is blaming the violence on Uighurs from its restive Xinjiang province. | Kunming, in southwest Chi... (photo: Creative Commons / adifromusa) 2014 Kunming Attack Kunming Railway Station Photos Terrorism in China Wikipedia: 2014 Kunming attack Al Jazeera Ukraine's identity rift As the Ukrainian crisis swiftly drifts from a domestic popular uprising to a large scale geopolitical conflict, one has to study the history of the country and its relations with its neighbours to ful... (photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti) EU Geopolitics Photos Ukraine Crisis Wikipedia: 2014 Ukrainian revolution Top Stories Otago Daily Times Turkish PM behaving like a cornered rat It's a ''treacherous attack'' and a ''dirty conspiracy'', claimed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose image as a devout Muslim and an honest man is the key... (photo: AP / Burhan Ozbilici) Conspiracy Erdogan Photos Turkey Wikipedia: Recep Tayyip Erdoan Times Union State media says Syrian army killed 175 rebels BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian army troops killed 175 rebels in an ambush Wednesday south of Damascus, state media reported, a major attack targeting mostly al-Qaida-linked fight... (photo: AP / SANA) Islamists Rebels in Syria Photos Syrian Army Syrian War Wikipedia: Syrian Civil War Sun Star Dozens killed in Nigerian school attack DAMATURU, Nigeria -- Islamic militants set fire to a locked dormitory at a school in northern Nigeria, then shot and slit the throats of students who tried to escape thro... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba) Boko Haram Attacks Insurgency in Nigeria Photos Terrorism in Nigeria Wikipedia: Islamist insurgency in Nigeria Swissinfo Afghan Taliban kill 19 soldiers, suspend prisoner swap attempt | Reuters | February 23, 2014 - 09:57 | By Mohammed Anwar | ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban killed 19 soldiers in an assault on Sunday in a re... (photo: US Army / Sgt. Joseph Watson) Afghan War Al Qaida Photos Taliban Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present) CNET Fatwa forbids Muslims from traveling to Mars The Mars One project plans to send a crew of colonists to the Red Planet in about 10 years, but Muslims may have to defy a religious edict to make the trip. by | Mars One... (photo: Public Domain / Yaohua2000) Fatwa Mars One Photos Space Wikipedia: Mars One The Guardian Gaza's fragile ceasefire threatened by border clashes as Hamas weakens Palestinian militants challenge an Islamist movement sidelined from Kerry talks, and enfeebled by tunnel closures and blockade | Israel says 43 missiles have been fired f... (photo: US DoS) Gaza Hamas Palestine Photos Wikipedia: John Kerry Sun Star 115 killed, 1,500 buildings razed in Nigerian town BAMA, Nigeria -- The latest attack by suspected Islamic extremists in Nigeria's northeast has left 115 people dead, more than 1,500 buildings razed and some 400 vehicles ... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba) 2014 Boko Haram Attacks Abubakar Shekau Photos Religion in Nigeria Wikipedia: Islamist insurgency in Nigeria Scoop Gordon Campbell on Commerce Commission supermarket inquiry Friday, 21 February 2014, 10:32 am | Column: | Gordon Campbell on the Commerce Commission supermarket inquiry, Kiev and Tunisia | by Gordon Campbell | If you were a harri... (photo: AP / Coke Whitworth) Commerce Photos Politics Trade Wikipedia: Gordon Campbell The Times Of India Schism between Sunni and Shia has been poisoning Islam for 1,400 years - and it's getting worse The war in Syria began much earlier than is generally recognised. The conflict actually began in the year 632 with the death of the Prophet Mohamed. The same is true of t... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar) Arab Spring Mideast Peace Photos Syrian War Wikipedia: ShiaSunni relations Deutsche Welle Will Germany inch away from military restraint? German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made recent reference to Germany's new foreign policy approach, albeit in a rather hushed manner. In an interview published as a video... (photo: European Community / EC) EU Germany Military Photos Wikipedia: FranceGermany relations
