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For at least four years, thousands of children have been growing up in a camp in northeast Syria housing families of Islamic State group militants, raised in an atmosphere where the group's radical ideology still circulates and where they have almost no chance for an education.Fearing that a new generation of militants will emerge from al-Hol Camp, the Kurdish officials who govern eastern and northern Syria are experimenting with a rehabilitation program aimed at pulling children out of extremist thought.

Issued on: 16/01/2023 - 21:58 TotalEnergies has been accused of holding a stake in a firm which exploits a Russian natural gas field which produces fuel for Russian warplanes that have bombed Ukraine.Christophe Archambault, AFP/File picture A complaint against TotalEnergies by two associations for war crimes complicity for allegedly helping produce fuel for Russian warplanes that have bombed Ukraine has been shelved by prosecutors.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said he is affected by mental trauma after dealing with regular death threats, disasters and terror attacks.Speaking to The Guardian, Mr Khan said a number of events coming together caused a cumulative effect on his mental health, but affirmed he was not comparing it to the extreme level of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that refugees or people in similar situations to himself have experienced.

Left-wing activists are jealous of the Holocaust and want to replace it with slavery, a leading historian has said in a bizarre speech at the National Conservatism conference in London.David Starkey claimed that groups such as Black Lives Matter were attempting to destroy white culture and do exactly what was done to German culture because of Nazism and the Holocaust.

A team of archaeologists have discovered the remains of a lost Sumerian palace and temple in the ancient city of Girsu dating back at least 4,500 years to the third millennium BCE.The significant discovery in Tello in the south of Iraq, is the result of the Girsu Project, a joint initiative to save endangered heritage sites led by the British Museum, the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) of Iraq, and Getty.

For years, Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican-born cleric, promoted an extreme form of Islam that advocated killing nonbelievers.In Britain, his incitements sent him to prison in 2003.He was kicked out of Kenya in 2010.At home in Jamaica, he became an outspoken supporter of the Islamic State.Now, he has been convicted in New York of supporting terrorism, attempting to support terrorism and conspiracy, offenses that took place without him setting foot in the city or planning an attack there.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Shamima Begum's legal fight over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship is nowhere near over, her lawyers have said as they announced plans to appeal.

In the wake of today's special immigration appeals commission judgment about Shamima Begum's status, it is important to be clear about what has been decided.The ruling basically says that being a child trafficking victim doesn't mean the home secretary cannot strip you of citizenship.Begum was not on trial today, despite what the radio phone-ins and tabloid headlines would have you think.

Artwork by British street artist Banksy is seen at the bottom of a destroyed building in Irpin, near Kyiv, Ukraine.Banksy painted murals on buildings outside Kyiv that were damaged in Moscow's onslaught in the early weeks of the war.(Thibault Camus/AP)Ukrainian authorities have installed protective plastic panes over images created by renowned street artist Banksy in the Kyiv region, in an attempt to protect the art - which appeared late last year - from vandalism and weather damage.

The Taliban governor of Afghanistan's Balkh province, known for fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists, was killed in a suicide attack at his office on Thursday, officials said.The killing, a day after he met top government officials visiting from Kabul, makes Mohammad Dawood Muzammil one of the highest-ranking figures killed since the Taliban stormed back to power in 2021.

The Government is bringing a Court of Appeal challenge against a tribunal's conclusion that a UK entry ban could not be imposed on an Irish former soldier convicted of membership of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group.Lisa Smith, 41, an ex-Defence Forces member, was found guilty in May last year of IS membership but cleared of a separate charge of financing terrorism after a nine-week trial at Dublin's Special Criminal Court.

The winner of Nigeria's presidential election, Bola Tinubu, is a divisive figure in Africa's most populous country.Mr. Tinubu is revered by some as a political wizard and the man who turned around the fortunes of Lagos, Nigeria's labyrinthine megacity.His supporters are hoping he can repeat that performance on a national level.

WASHINGTON U.S. Special Operations commandos killed a senior Islamic State leader in an early-morning helicopter raid in a remote area of northern Somalia on Thursday, U.S. officials said.The Pentagon identified the leader as Bilal al-Sudani.American officials said he was operating in Somalia but that his influence as one of the terrorist group's top financial operatives extended across Africa, into Europe and even to the ISIS branch in Afghanistan that carried out the August 2021 bombing at Kabul's international airport that killed 13 American service members.

DAKAR, Senegal More than 60 women and girls who had been abducted last week in the West African nation of Burkina Faso were freed on Friday, the national broadcaster said.The kidnappings took place outside two villages near the northern city of Arbinda as the women were foraging for wild fruits and leaves.

Assailants attacked a convoy of buses transporting oil workers on Friday in an area of eastern Syria where the terrorist group Islamic State has been active, killing at least 10 people, according to state media outlets and groups that monitor the ongoing conflict in the country.No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which was in an area controlled by the Syrian government.

WASHINGTON  For the second time in just over a week, U.S. Special Operations forces carried out helicopter raids against the Islamic State in eastern Syria, this time capturing six operatives including a senior official who the military said was involved in plotting and enabling terrorist attacks.The Pentagon's Central Command, which oversees U.S. troops in Syria, said in a statement on Tuesday that the main target of three pre-dawn raids over the past 48 hours was a senior Islamic State Syria provincial official known by the nom de guerre al-Zubaydi.

The Duke of Sussex has denied boasting about killing 25 Taliban while serving as a soldier, as he cautioned against very dangerous spin about his memoir.Protests were sparked by Spare, which on Tuesday became the UK's fastest selling non-fiction book, due to Harry writing he had engaged in the taking of human lives while serving as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.

Attack in Paris A member of the Kurdish community stands on top of a car during clashes with police officers near the scene of Friday's deadly shooting in central Paris.Lewis Joly, AP Furious Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police in central Paris on Friday after three people were shot dead in a suspected racist attack on a community centre that revived the trauma of three unsolved murders many blame on Turkey.

34 minutes ago34 minutes ago The two leaders spoke over the phone in a further sign of their increasing closeness.Turkey has tried to remain a middleman amid tensions between Russia and NATO.The Turkish and Russian leaders held a phone call on Sunday in which they discussed several key areas of cooperation that increasingly put Turkey at odds with its NATO allies.