On Sunday, March 8, five hundred Christians were killed—slaughtered with machetes by Fulani Muslims in the Nigerian state of Plateau. The latest in religious clashes that the state has seen in recent months, the bulk of the attacks this time were in three farming villages (Dogo Nahawa, Zot, and Rastat) near the town of Jos, with reports claiming around 75 houses burned.
The Iranian girls' soccer team have been kicked out of this year's first Youth Olympics because of a FIFA ban on playing in Islamic head scarves.
King Abdullah of Jordan has joined the Arab world’s saber-rattling against Israel and warned that the status of Jerusalem could blow up into another war. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he also stated that Jordan was better off economically before it made peace with Israel in 1994.
The Obama administration has cancelled airport security restrictions on 14 terror-related countries, including American Muslim allies such as Saudi Arabia. Instead, the United States is relying on "real-time†intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks in the air.
Militants using a car bomb and firing weapons attacked the U.S. consulate in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday hours after a suicide bomber killed 43 people elsewhere in the northwest, officials said.
Hamas is suffering a financial crisis due to the three-year-old international ban on transferring funds to the terrorist authority. Successful lawsuits obligating Hamas to pay out millions of dollars in compensation for terror victims have compounded its financial problems.
Gaza terrorists fired a mortar shell at Israeli population centers Saturday evening. The shell exploded in an uninhabited space within the Sha'ar HaNegev local authority.
Sudan's first multiparty elections in decades have been thrown into disarray by allegations of government violations and opposition threats of a boycott. The disputes wreck hopes of transforming a conflict-plagued nation and could instead end up fueling violence in Darfur and the south.
A suicide bomber killed two policemen and wounded a third near the police headquarters of a town in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia on Monday, officials said.
Fears of a terror attack during the UK General Election have been further fueled by reports that the Al-Qaeda has urged British fanatics to build DIY cruise missiles to attack passenger jets.