Rasa - Human Rights Watch (HRW) disclosed that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has permitted “systematic” torture in detention centers, a practice likely amounting to a crime against humanity.

Rasa - Rights advocacy group Amnesty International said Tuesday that a spurt in attacks by Boko Haram militants claimed nearly 400 lives since April in Nigeria and Cameroon, double the figure of the previous five months.

Rasa - ISIL's repeated defeats and failures in Iraq and Syria have left the terrorist group a shrinking room to hide and recruit forces and it is much likely to transfer forces to safe regions in North Africa, an Arab media outlet said on Sunday.

Rasa - Al-Azhar’s watchdog for combating violence condemns the terrorist attack on the Shiite mosque in Afghanistan calling it a terrorist action “which aims to create a religious and ethnic divide.”

Rasa - Libyan authorities arrested a leader and mosque preacher of the ISIL terrorist group who later confessed to be a Mossad officer.

Rasa - Four members of a Muslim group have been handed life sentences for taking part in alleged terrorism-related activities.

Rasa - United Nations aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council there are early signs of genocide in Central African Republic where Muslims have been facing frequent attacks.

Raa - The one-time deputy leader and a senior commander of Somalia’s al Shabab has called on for others to quit the Takfiri terrorist outfit following his defection to the government side in Mogadishu.