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Police in Nigeria have freed more than 180 women and children from a house in the north of the country where they had been held by a radical Islamic sect.

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Two allied Islamist insurgent groups — al-Shabab and the Islamic Party — launched an offensive after the return of an exiled insurgent leader in April that has killed hundreds of Somalis and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the council last week that the violence has worsened the humanitarian crisis in the country, with at least 3.2 million people — 43 percent of Somalia's population — requiring food and other aid.

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The July 17 attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton killed nine and wounded 53, including Indonesians and foreigners. Police have yet to identify the perpetrators but suspect that Malaysian-born Top, who heads a splinter group of radical Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah, may have helped plan the attacks.

http://www.reuters.com/article/featu...is/idUSLQ19074

BAGHDAD, July 26 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded nine others just outside a funeral tent in western Iraq, police said on Sunday.

The bomber detonated an explosive vest outside the funeral near Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, for a police officer who was killed in another bomb attack.

Just a day earlier, a car bomb outside a political party's offices in Falluja, in the mainly Sunni Muslim Anbar province, killed five people and wounded 21 others.

http://www.reuters.com/article/featu...s/idUSLR230840

OSH, Kyrgyzstan, July 29 (Reuters) - Sipping tea in a dim, smoke-filled teahouse in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, Rakhmatillo Ibragimov says the goal of his life is to restore Islamic rule in former Soviet Central Asia.

"They call us terrorists. That's because they are afraid of us," he says with a bashful smile that contrasts with the sharpness of his words. "The more they oppress us the stronger we become. We don't want bloodshed. We want justice."

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SALE, Morocco — A man accused of leading a terrorist network was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for plotting terror attacks in Morocco, holdups in Europe, large-scale money laundering projects and arms trafficking.
Abdelkader Belliraj, a 51-year-old dual Moroccan-Belgian national, had faced the death penalty. He maintained his innocence throughout the proceedings.
He was charged along with 34 co-defendants.
In addition to the charges he was tried on, Interior Ministry officials said publicly after his arrest they suspect Belliraj of having taken part in several murders in Belgium, a robbery in Luxembourg, combat training in Iran or Lebanon and meeting with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan a few days before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Belliraj's co-defendants included opposition Islamist politicians, a university professor, a police superintendent, and a Moroccan journalist working for Al-Manar, the television channel run by Lebanon's hardline Hezbollah group. The 34 co-defendants were handed sentences ranging from 30 years in prison to one-year suspended sentences.

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MANILA, July 25 (Reuters) - The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group ordered its armed units to halt attacks on military targets on Saturday, a top guerrilla leader said, paving the way for the revival of peace talks stalled since August 2008.

"Effective today, we are suspending our military actions in all areas where our armed units are operating," Mohaqher Iqbal, head of the rebels' peace panel, told Reuters by telephone from a guerrilla base on the southern island of Mindanao.

On Thursday, the government ordered a unilateral truce in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic country to convince the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to return to negotiations to end 40 years of conflict that has killed 120,000 people.