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Afghan special forces reportedly killed or wounded 31 Taliban jihadis affiliated with al-Qaeda in eastern Afghanistan this week, including Chinese and Chechen militants.

Police in Chechnya, a majority-Muslim region of Russia, have relaunched a campaign to arrest suspected gay and lesbian Russians, killing two and arresting over 40 others in the past month according to a report published Monday.

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Two policemen have been shot dead in Dagestan, a Muslim-majority autonomous republic in the Russian Federation.

MOSCOW (AP) – Four gunmen attacked a Russian Orthodox church in the mostly Muslim Russian province of Chechnya on Saturday but were killed by security forces in a clash that also left two policemen and a churchgoer dead. The attack underscored security challenges in Russia as it prepares to host the World Cup next month.

PARIS (AP) – French police on Monday were questioning the parents and a friend of a 20-year-old man who attacked passers-by with a knife in Paris, amid questions about how France’s radical watch list is used. Khamzat Azimov, a French

Homosexual Chechens are fleeing the region to escape hideous abuses at the hands of national security forces.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, wrote a social media post on Friday praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for “consistently defending the interests of the Islamic nations and peoples” while the United States and its allies “are bringing wars and destruction to the Muslim world.”

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Investigators in the Muslim-majority Russian province of Chechnya are reportedly investigating one the many incidents allegedly involving the torture of gay men held in government-run “concentration camps” in the autonomous region.

Historian Christian Osthold, who is an expert in the history of Russia and Chechnya, claims that “dangerous” Chechen migrants have taken over the Islamist scene in Brandenburg with many having links to Islamic State.

Hundreds of families of Russian Islamic State recruits are fighting long bureaucratic battles to convince Moscow to allow them to return, the Los Angeles Times reported. Around 3,400 Russian Muslims, most of whom originate many from the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan,

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Three Chechen asylum seekers have been arrested after a 22-year-old Italian was beaten to death at a nightclub in Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava.

Chechnya’s president responded reports alleging that gay men are being tortured in the country by saying that there is no torture taking place because there are no gay men in Chechnya.

Islamist gangs are using violence and intimidation to enforce Shariah law in parts of Germany, particularly against Chechen and Chechen-origin women in Berlin, according to reports.

MILAN (AP) — Italian authorities have arrested a 38-year-old Chechen accused of fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria and participating in a deadly attack on foreign and Russian journalists in Chechnya, prosecutors disclosed Saturday.

MILAN (AP) – Italian authorities have arrested a 38-year-old Chechen accused of fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria and participating in a deadly attack on foreign and Russian journalists in Chechnya, prosecutors disclosed Saturday. Prosecutors told a news

More than 600 demonstrators descended upon the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv on Friday to protest the persecution of gay men in Chechnya.

Authorities from the predominantly Muslim Republic of Chechnya, an autonomous province in Russia, have threatened parents of gay children, warning them, “Either you kill them, or we we will,” reports France24, citing testimony from one of the victims of alleged concentration camps for homosexuals operated by the local government.

Gay men are reportedly fleeing what they describe as a brutal and deadly campaign against them by authorities in the Muslim-majority Republic of Chechnya, an autonomous province in Russia.

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said Monday that the United States will not ignore alleged reports coming from the mostly Muslim Russian Republic of Chechnya that homosexual men were being rounded up, detained, and in some cases tortured or even killed.

Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper has asked the Kremlin for protection after Chechen clerics threatened “retribution” for a report on the torture and murder of gay men.

The United States and the West in general must protect itself from Muslim “barbarians as vigorously as they (Muslims) protect their society, their way of living, their way of thinking,” Michael Lucas, a gay pornographic film actor and director, charged in a radio interview.

“More than 100 men” confirmed or suspected of being homosexual in the overwhelmingly Muslim Republic of Chechnya, an autonomous province within the Russian Federation, have been sent to a “concentration camp” where they are being tortured and killed, report various news outlets, citing the independent Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta and LGBT community activists.

A Russian newspaper claims the government in Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov has been rounding up over a hundred gay men and putting them in “concentration camps”.

Director Joss Whedon took to Twitter Thursday to express his fear that President Donald Trump’s administration may mimic the Chechnyan government and begin massacring gay people.

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French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has urged Russia and the West to join forces against terrorism during a visit to Moscow, after ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack which killed six men in Chechnya. According to German state broadcaster

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Migrants from the Russian region of Chechnya have increased dramatically in June and German security services worry that Islamists may be among them. The number of Chechen asylum seekers entering Germany is on the rise and according to officials in Hamburg

Abu Omar al-Shishani, who the Pentagon described as Islamic State’s “minister of war”, was killed in combat in the Iraqi city of Shirqat, south of Mosul, a news agency that supports the militant group said on Wednesday.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin officially endorsed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov to continue leading the country, but reminded him to respect Russian laws.