Isis

The Taliban who once sheltered bin Laden are back ruling Afghanistan.

The second day of hearings after an 18-month break due to the Covid-19 pandemic focused on a review of the judge's own potential biases.

The trial will last until May 2022, with 145 days for hearings involving about 330 lawyers, 300 victims and former president Francois Hollande

Conspiracy theories over 9/11 were the first to benefit from widespread internet access, spreading much faster than previous alternative interpretations of history.

The Taliban face a daunting challenge to transform from an insurgent group into a governing power, in a war-ravaged nation dependent on foreign aid.

After a 20-year war, the foes were within clear sight of each other, separated by just 30 metres.

The French leader was also due to meet the family of a Peshmerga fighter killed by IS

In recent years, the Islamic State's Afghanistan-Pakistan chapter has been responsible for some of the deadliest attacks in those countries.

At the market in the northern city of Kunduz, Taliban militants use loudspeakers to announce their new rules to residents.

While in 2001 it was clear that terrorism was enemy number one of the United States and its allies, tensions have since grown with Iran, Russia and above all China.

The attacks, which also injured 140 people, were carried out by a cell made up mostly of young people of Moroccan descent who grew up in Catalonia.

The United States then released a statement with more than 65 nations urging the Taliban to let Afghans leave the country

Blinken said the United States will also let in more Afghans who served as interpreters or in other support roles to forces of the US-led coalition

Afghan civilians, who have long taken the brunt of the fighting, are also watching the Taliban advance in fear.

In January, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a rare twin suicide bombing that killed 32 people -- also at a crowded market in Baghdad.

President Ashraf Ghani blamed the Taliban for all the "bloodshed and destruction," adding that his government will not "surrender" to the militants.

Indonesia has seen a string of attacks by Islamic extremists over the past two decades.

The United States is supposed to pull out all its troops by May 1 in an agreement that saw the Taliban agree to peace talks with the Afghan administration of President Ashraf Ghani.

Almost 10 years since the Arab Spring reached Syria on March 15, 2011, the judgement will be the first in the world related to the brutal repression of protesters by the regime in Damascus.

Since Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State group in late 2017, the coalition presence has been reduced to fewer than 3,500 troops, of whom 2,500 are American.

The Syrian Isis bride camp where Abukar was found is the same place where Bethnal Green schoolgirl Shamima Begum was discovered last year

The battle took place near Niaki, 180 kilometres (110 miles) east of central town Mopti, the armed forces said in a statement.

The Islamic State group on Thursday claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying it was to protest the cartoons printed by the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Twenty-three wounded people were in hospital Tuesday, with seven in a critical condition, Vienna's hospital association said.

The announcement came on the sixth anniversary of the killing by IS of James Foley, a journalist who worked for AFP and other news organisations.

A barista wrote "ISIS" on a Muslim girl's beverage order at a Starbucks in Minnesota

Captagon, a brand name, was originally for medical use but illegal versions have been dubbed "the Jihad Drug"

The death toll had risen from 59 after 10 more bodies were discovered in the countryside.

A Yazidi girl was held as a slave and allowed to die of thirst in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2015.

The attacker, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.