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Islamist attack in Burkina Faso

At least 160 civilians, including volunteer anti-terrorism fighters, were killed in northern Burkina Faso last Friday in the deadliest Islamist attack in the country since 2015, plunging the country once more into mourning.
Baghdad attack: resurgence of Islamic State?

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a double suicide attack in Bagdad last week that killed over 30 people. This first major attack in the capital for years suggests the possible resurgence of Islamic State, as Wassim Nasr explains.
Al Jazeera: Christchurch one year on

On 15 March 2019, an Australian neo-Nazi shot 51 men, women and children in two mosques in Christchurch. A year on, the scarred community awaits the conclusions of a governmental inquiry due in April. Many victims still struggle with trauma.
Shooting in Hanau: 'We aren't safe anywhere'

A day after a gunman killed nine people with an immigrant background in Hanau, the western German city is grappling with anger, fear and mourning.
Human Rights Watch: Egypt's war crimes in North Sinai

A recently published Human Rights Watch report based on two years of investigation documents crimes including mass arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings and possibly unlawful air and ground attacks against civilians in the North Sinai.