Bangladesh, Other Countries Brace for Possible Return of IS Fighters

Bangladesh will bar citizens who left to join the Islamic State in Syria, authorities told BenarNews on Tuesday, as Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines took divergent steps in preparation for the possible return of their nationals after U.S.-backed forces demolished the extremist group’s last territorial pocket over the weekend. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), […]

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US Citizen Tortured in Saudi Arabia

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An American citizen was tortured while in custody in Saudi Arabia, according to a report by the New York Times. Walid Fitaihi described being dragged from his room in Riyadh’s Ritz Carlton hotel, where he was being detained, then told a friend he was “blindfolded, stripped of his underwear and bound to […]

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