Mali’s 10-hour siege
27 including five attackers dead in biggest
hostage standoff:
Soldiers in Mali’s capital shot their way into a
Radisson Blu hotel and liberated dozens of captives after a 10-hour
siege by Islamist gunmen that left 27 people dead, including five
attackers, ending one of the biggest hostage standoffs in recent
years.
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Paris attacks:
The unanswered questions
French officials now say, the cousin of the
presumed ringleader of last week’s Paris attacks did not blow
herself up in a police raid as previously thought. They say the
suicide bomber was a man, not Hasna Ait Boulahcen,
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Syria’s rebellious women
These women, fighting against both the Assad
regime and ISIL, don’t fit into any easy political narratives:
The real surprise is that there should be any
surprise. Watching the film series titled Syria’s Rebellious Women,
it should be obvious that this is the case: that there are women
actively involved in the war, on the ground.
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