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Downing of jet in Iran reveals Islamic Republic's wider woes
The Ukrainian jetliner stood ready for takeoff at Iran’s main international airport bound for Kyiv, packed with passengers and so many bags on one of the cheapest routes to the West that the ground crew rushed to unload some luggage to make its weight for flight. Nearly an hour late, Tehran air traffic controllers finally cleared Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 for takeoff, carrying a newlywed couple, Iranian students bound for universities in Canada and others seeking a better life abroad. The plane would be shot down only minutes later by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Islamic leaders make ‘groundbreaking’ visit to Auschwitz
Muslim religious leaders joined members of a U.S. Jewish group at Auschwitz on Thursday for what organizers described as “the most senior Islamic leadership delegation” to visit the site of a Nazi German death camp.
Islamic leaders make 'groundbreaking' visit to Auschwitz
Islamic State group says it beheaded Christian prisoners in Nigeria
Islamic State says it beheaded Christian captives in Nigeria
Islamic State says it beheaded Christian captives in Nigeria
Who is the Islamic State group's new boss?
Just days after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid by US special forces in October, the Islamic State group announced the name of the man who has replaced him as leader. “We don’t know much about him except that he is the leading judge of IS and he heads the Sharia (Islamic law) committee,” said Hisham al-Hashemi, an Iraqi expert on the jihadist group. “The organisation was taken by surprise by the brutality of Baghdadi’s elimination,” said Jean-Piere Filiu, an Arab world specialist at Paris’ Sciences-Po university.
